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YouTube videos expose iPhone security flaws

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:05:14 +0000

A security expert has claimed that some data on the iPhone is vulnerable to hackers, including deleted voice mail and email, using YouTube videos to spread the word on what he sees as security flaws.

Jonathan Zdziarski, an iPhone developer and forensics [...]

Got ’surplus’ iPhones? Rack ‘em up in a server farm

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:49:59 +0000

Assuming you’ve five Apple handhelds lying about with nothing better to do, this is just the stuff — a supremely cool waste of time and resources that will guaranty your 15 minutes of fame among the geekerati.

Dvice (via +D Mobile, Japan) brings us the news from Japan of an [...]

iPhone 3GS vs Flip Mino, Ultra HD: Street video slap down

Ronald O Carlson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:47:32 +0000

Which handheld mobile video recorder will rule the streets? There is no question which device offers better quality, but that’s hardly the only factor to consider in this wireless, mobile world where citizens are capturing the stories and images that define our times—from now on the broadcast is the revolution.

The world [...]

How to: Troubleshoot, restart a frozen, crashed iPod nano

Ronald O Carlson — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:34:22 +0000

This morning my daugher came to me distraught, iPod nano in hand. It had crashed with the words “Connect to Power” fixed on the screen.

She had tried docking it on our iHome and dock-equipped Sony home stereo to no avail. She even tried toggling the “Hold” switch twice, which didn’t help [...]

iPhone 3GS users cause 400% spike in mobile YouTube uploads

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:42:41 +0000

We’re all well aware of how iPhone users dominate the use of the mobile Internet. Now, there’s a new statistic that deepens the trend, and it’s so cutting it simply bleeds.

Quoting Google promulgated YouTube user data, Washington Post reports that the uploading of mobile video increase 400 percent in a [...]

iPhone 3G S OpenGL performance rocks

Ronald O Carlson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:52:11 +0000

Apple has said their new handset is up to 2.5 times faster than the old one. For once, it looks like Cupertino’s marketing mavens were actually being conservative. Whether you’re benchmarking or just doing a visual comparison, there can be little doubt what the “S” stands for.

Tap Tap Tap, developer [...]

iPhone OS 3.0: Hands on with the original iPod touch [u]

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:20:24 +0000

Is Apple’s über update worth $10 for a user of an original touch? That of course depends on what you use the device for and what you’re hoping to gain.

Yesterday’s OS 3.0 upgrade wasn’t cheap—ten bucks is a bunch of lunch for a work at home dad—and took a surprisingly long [...]

Doom Resurrection coming to the iPhone next week

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:39:22 +0000

Even as the open-sour effort to bring the original Doom to the iPhone trundles toward an eventual release this Summer, id Software’s John Carmack has announced an all-new version just for Apple handhelds is coming next week, promising jaw-dropping visuals and gameplay.

The Mirror (U.K.) reports that Doom Resurrection, a new [...]

Is Hulu coming to the iPhone / Touch?

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:22:18 +0000

It’s only a rumor, but it is growing fast and it says that the content of the wildly popular video site Hulu is coming soon to the iPhone and iPod Touch as a downloadable application.

Hulu is a website that [...]

More fun [and games]: iPod touch marketing refreshed

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:28:54 +0000

When Phil Schiller et al put on their iPhone OS 3.0 dog ‘n’ pony show last month, they let it be known that, in addition to 17 million iPhones the company had sold, they had also moved in neighborhood of 13 million iPod touches by the end of last last year. [...]