The iPhone OS 3.1.3 which was released yesterday has already been jailbroken, to a point, at least. The exceptions to the jailbreak are the iPhone 3GS (boo!), newer iPod touch second generation (non-MC), and any iPod touch third generation.
redsn0w 0.9.4 has been confirmed by brave souls to work on the non-excluded models above. [...]
The Prius is not listed among the models that Toyota recently recalled (and temporarily stopped selling) for sticking accelerator pedals, but according to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, it has its own acceleration problem. At the same time, on Wednesday, reports of Prius brake problems on that same model year emerged.
Steve Wozniak was speaking at [...]
Those who hacked their Nexus One to allow multi-touch no longer need that hack. Google has released a ROM update for the Android powered phone which, among other things, enables multi-touch on the device.
The changes now allow Nexus One users to pinch-to-zoom mechanism in the phone’s Browser, Gallery and Maps applications. The ROM [...]
One of the problems with the Nexus One has been the lack of direct phone support for those who purchased unlocked phones. Google doesn’t have phone support for any of its services, and thus, has none for the Nexus One, either. That could be changing, however.
A job post on Google’s site for a [...]
All of you out there still running the Windows 7 release candidate (RC), start looking forward to the shutdown of that OS. It won’t totally expire until June 1st of this year, but you will start getting nagged every few hours starting on February 15th.
Then, on March 1st, users will begin seeing bi-hourly shutdowns [...]
I’ll put the PSA at the top of this post: if you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPod touch, don’t update to iPhone OS 3.1.3. At least, don’t do so until a new jailbreak is available.
The latest release of the iPhone OS is a minor update. Many of the changes are security-focused. [...]
Hot on the heels of one study that found that users are still using way-too-easy passwords (like the most popular, 123456), a new study by Trusteer shows that nearly three-quarters of users use online account password to access other websites, and that nearly half use both their online banking user ID and password to login [...]
Apple is very proud of its achievements, and in Q4 of 2009, the iPhone achieved something it hadn’t done since Q4 of 2008. The device lost market share.
The iPhone’s share of the worldwide app phone (nee smartphone) sales market slipped to 16.6 percent, down from 18.1 percent in Q3 of 2009. It’s not [...]
It’s not like a Zune Phone will redefine cell phones like the iPhone did, but there are Zune fans, and a Zune Phone has been rumored for some time. Now a report from Spanish tech blog MuyComputer says its 100 percent confirmed to be introduced at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) later this week.
Updated [...]
Wikileaks, which has been shuttered by litigation previously, now finds it self shut down by that all too familiar reason: lack of money.
The site’s mission statement is to allow whistleblowers to anonymously release government and corporate documents, “an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis.” It’s done that in the [...]