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Jailbreak your iPhone 4
The iPhone Dev Team released a jailbreak for iPhone4 over the weekend, authored by Comex. For a taste of free-ishdom, go to the site with your iPhone and let it do its work. A jailbreak is simply the ability to run apps and use themes and tweaks not approved by Apple. Jailbreaking doesn't slow down your device or use any extra battery, and is [...]
How a 15-year-old kid tricked Apple with a disguised iPhone tethering app
Fifteen-year-old Nick Lee tricked Apple with a very simple iPhone application: Handy Light. On the surface it looked like any other $0.99 flashlight application. But, secretly, it was a lot more useful. On the surface, Handy Light just allowed you to make your iPhone's screen go blank with a color of your choice. You opened it, clicked a [...]
RIM CEOs: Apple’s attempt to draw RIM into self-made debacle is unacceptable
Yesterday, Nokia released a statement about antenna design in response to being called out by name in Apple's iPhone 4 antenna press conference. Early this morning, RIM followed suit. In a statement signed by co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, RIM gave Apple a quick and concise corporate tongue lashing... Apple's attempt to draw RIM into [...]
Apple’s letter about the iPhone4 antenna issue
Apple PR has issued a letter responding to the slew of complaints regarding the faulty antenna and signal strength display on the new iPhone4. As Brian of Gizmodo points out, it reads a bit like an Onion article: Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally [...]
Apple to offer iPhone on the Verizon Wireless network
Bloomberg is reporting that Verizon will begin offering the iPhone in January. That's according to their two unnamed sources "familiar with the plans," although no more details were provided. It's in line, though, with the last several months of rumblings. The timing is notably slightly different from the WSJ's previous report of a [...]
AT&T iPad hack discoverer arrested
Last week, hacker Andrew Auernheimer uncovered a flaw at AT&T's website which may have compromised the privacy of thousands of iPad users. This week, he was arrested on drugs charges. From CNET... Andrew Auernheimer, 24, was being held in Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville, Ark., according to Lt. Anthony Foster of the [...]
AT&T security breach exposed 114k Apple iPad users
If you own a cellular Apple iPad, an AT&T web address has exposed your personal info to anyone wily enough to ping it, reports Ryan Tate at Gawker. Your email address, and a tracking ID unique your SIM card, were open to any who may have discovered the hole before it was closed. According to the data we were given by the web security group [...]
Steve Jobs defends conditions at Chinese factory where 10 workers have jumped off the roof
Wow, they had to build a net around the whole damn building. LOL. Apple boss Steve Jobs has spoken out for the first time about a string of suicides at one of the firm's Chinese factories. Since January this year 10 young workers have killed themselves by jumping from the roof of the factory building at Foxconn in southern China. Jobs [...]
Google to employees: “Mac or Linux… but no more Windows”
We first heard rumors of this policy change a couple of months ago, but now it's made the papers: the Financial Times is reporting that Google is phasing out the use of Windows internally, as employees are migrated to either Linux or Mac OS X on machine turnovers or new hires. The policy change was precipitated in large part by the security breach [...]
HOWTO: Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.1.3 with Spirit
Spirit jailbreak is now officially available for all iDevices. This untethered jailbreak tool supports iPhone 3.1.2 as well as iPad 3.2 operating system. Hacker has also been confirmed that Spirit jailbreak is safe for latest iTunes 9.1.1 version. Jailbreaking process is very easy provided that one must use following guide to understand important [...]
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
There has been some interesting news from the tech sector this week. The Apple vs. Adobe vendetta gets even nastier, with a public letter from Steve Jobs explaining why Adobe's Flash multimedia format will not ever be allowed into the garden of pure ideology that is the iPhone/iPad fork of OSX. Secondly, Hewlett-Packard are buying Palm, [...]
What if I had bought Apple stock instead?
Currently, Apple's stock is at an all time high. A share today is worth over 40 times its value seven years ago. So, how much would you have today if you purchased stock instead of an Apple product?
iPad killer?
Well, well... what is this? We just got our hands on what looks like an internal HP Slate presentation given to cool down some of the iPad hype amongst HP employees, and it just happens to have specs and pricing details on the elusive Windows 7 tablet... (more...)
iPhone SMS database hacked in 20 seconds
It's a story tailor-made for the fear-mongering subset of news media. This week, a pair of gentlemen lured an unsuspecting virgin iPhone to a malicious website and, with no other input from the user, stole the phone's entire database of sent, received and even deleted text messages in under 20 seconds, boasting that they could easily lift personal [...]
Apple sues HTC for alleged infringement of 20 iPhone patents
The suit was officially filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission and in a U.S. District Court in Delaware. Apple announced the lawsuit in a press release. "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it," said Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. "We [...]
Coolest iPhone app ever!
$2.99... talk me out of it. This is much cooler than the "I AM T-PAIN" app.
Apple Bans “Android” from App Store Descriptions
Apple has a fairly infamous track record when it comes to the language it allows in its App Store. Words like "boobs" and "booty" are out. Now "Android" is apparently the latest in a long line of deadly words. According to one developer, Apple has requested that the name of Google's mobile operating system be removed for an app description. The [...]
Adobe hits back at Apple
They were a bit upset that all the promotional clips for the iPad showed Flash operating on the webpages. Apple has since apologized and edited the marketing pics. Luckily, Flash has been dying for months.
