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EU Joins Fray Over Missing Flash On Apple Devices

August 11, 2010

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 on [...]

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Podcast Episode #030

August 6, 2010

PDF Security Hole Allows JailBreakMe.com to Work App Store Apps Just as Vulnerable as Android Apps Is This What the New iPod Touch 4 Will Look Like? The State of Twitter Clients Off Topic:

iPad Cases: Marware Eco-Vue for iPad Battery Chargers The Magic Trackpad rocks Twitter usage

Twittelator for iPad Twitterrific for Twitter Osfoora HD TweetDeck for iPad

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The state of twitter clients

August 5, 2010

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 [...]

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Is this what the new iPod touch 4 will look like?

August 5, 2010

HardMac.com claims to have pictures of a new case for the iPod touch 4 that happens to have an iPod touch 4 in it. The picture shows the same design for the iPod touch 4 as that of the current iPod touch.

This doesn’t really make sense. It would make more sense to have the new [...]

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PDF Security hole allows jailbreakme.com to work

August 4, 2010

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 jailbroken [...]

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App Store Apps just as vulnerable as Android apps

July 30, 2010

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 wild [...]

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Podcast Episode #029

July 30, 2010

Of Mice and Magic Magic Trackpad Turns out to be Real Yet Another Ridiculous Lawsuit Jailbreaking is Legal U.S. Government to Explicitly Allow iPhone Jailbreaking [Updated x2] Apple looking into iOS 4 and iPhone 3G issues Android App Steals Data It Took Longer Than I Expected

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It Took Longer Than I Expected

July 29, 2010

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. … [...]

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Apple looking into iOS 4 and iPhone 3G issues

July 29, 2010

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 there [...]

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Android app steals data

July 29, 2010

VentureBeat.com has an interesting article about an Android app that was downloaded several million times that collected browsing history, text messages, the phone’s SIM card number, subscriber identification, and even voicemail passwords.

Normally I wouldn’t even bother bringing up such an article. However, this pretty much highlights the need for some sort of vetting in the [...]

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