EU Joins Fray Over Missing Flash On Apple Devices
The latest news in the conspiracy that Apple is trying to take out Adobe by not allowing flash on it’s iOS devices is that the European Union is joining the investigation. AppAdvice.com has the article about this. I’m a little confused here. Since when is it illegal for a company to decide what software goes [...]
The state of twitter clients
I have to say that I’m really disappointed in the state of Twitter clients for the iPad. I have quite a few; Twittelator for iPad, Twitterrific for Twitter, Osfoora HD, HootSuite, and TweetDeck. Yet, last night when I needed to do a specific task, I wound up using Twitter (previously known as Tweetie 2) for [...]
PDF Security hole allows jailbreakme.com to work
Update (2:30PM): Apple says it is investigating… Good idea Apple! Thanks to an unpatched hole in Adobe’s PDF file format, the jailbreaking community has been given a gift. Super easy jailbreaking. Just point your iPhone/iPod touch/iPad’s Mobile Safari to jailbreakme.com, slide the “Slide to jailbreak” slider and in less than 5 minutes, your device is [...]
App Store Apps just as vulnerable as Android apps
The biggest hacker convention of the season called “Black Hat Technical Security Conference” has come and gone and some interesting facts have bubbled to the surface. A mobile security company called “Lookout” has started a little project they call the “App Genome Project“. The App Genome Project was created to identify security threats in the [...]
It Took Longer Than I Expected
While it took longer than I expected, the adult (i.e. porn) industry has started taking advantage of Apple’s FaceTime application. So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn’t take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist. … In at least [...]
Apple looking into iOS 4 and iPhone 3G issues
The Wall Street Journal has an article that talks about Apple looking into issues with iOS 4 and the iPhone 3G. There are a lot of users complaining that their iPhone 3G’s went from being a dream to use to being a nightmare ever since upgrading to iOS 4. I can state from experience that [...]
Jailbreaking is Legal
According to the EFF (and just about every other tech blog in the known universe), the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office have ruled jailbreaking is legal. When one jailbreaks a smartphone in order to make the operating system on that phone interoperable with an independently created application that has not been approved by [...]
iPhone 4 news updates
So a ton of news has been happening with the iPhone 4 and Apple this week. First, in response to Apple showing videos of other smart phones having “weak spots”, the CEO’s of the smart phones manufacturers who were highlighted and even a few that were not, chimed in to say that Steve Jobs was [...]
Apple press conference results
So the much touted Apple press conference has taken place and the ultimate result is that Apple will be giving out cases when someone buys a new iPhone 4 until September 30th. Anyone who already bought Apple’s Bumper case will be given a full refund. There was a bunch of info released in the press [...]
iPhone signal strength myth
So, Apple released an update to it’s latest iOS 4 OS. iOS 4.01 really has only one change and its to change the values that the bars represents next to the AT&T on iPhones. Some people think that this will fix the “grip of death” that the iPhone is experiencing now. It won’t. It just [...]
