iPhone OS 4.0 Could Make iPad a Business Thin Client
Jennifer LeClaire, Mobile Tech Today, 4/6/2010 Apple’s upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 update could pull business users to the new iPad. Expected to include multitasking, iPhone OS 4.0 would make the iPad a true thin client for enterprises. The iPad is still missing a camera, but iPhone OS 4.0 may pave the way for future iPads [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: IM, JailBreak, Skype, WiFi
iPad jailbroken already, using leftover security flaw
Casey Johnston, Ars Technica, 4/5/2010 The iPad, scarcely two days out of the gate, has already been jailbroken. By Sunday afternoon, one day after its launch, MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev-Team announced that he had cracked the iPad using security flaws that were left over from the previous iteration of the iPhone OS, iPhone 3.1.3 [...]
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Palm OS on an iPhone – there’s an app for that
Bill Ray The Register, 3/24/2010 But not in the iTunes App Store Palm OS obsessives StyleTap have created an iPhone emulator, but you’ll have to give Cydia $50 and jailbreak your handset to run it. The legions of iPhone users desperate to run their Palm OS apps can finally relax, because StyleTap can now deliver [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian · Tagged with: JailBreak
Where Android beats the iPhone
Peter Wayner, ComputerWorld, 3/3/2010 Can Google Android phones compete with the Apple iPhone? A few weeks ago, Google loaned me a Nexus One smartphone for experimentation, and I’ve spent the time since downloading applications and writing my own code. The good news is that the platform is not only competitive but is often a better [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP) · Tagged with: API, JailBreak, Linux, SDK
Push Doctor Fixes Push Notification Issue On Hacktivated iPhone For Free
iPhoneHacks, 3/3/2010 One of the known issues with a hacktivated iPhone running iPhone OS 3.0 or later is that the Push Notification feature doesn’t work. The iPhone Dev Team had released a fix to resolve the issue back in July, but it had a major flaw. There is finally some good news for all those [...]
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Jailbreaking in the iPhone 3.0 era
Mel Beckman, ComputerWorld, 3/1/2010 In a few short years, Apple has established the iPhone as the mobile platform to beat. Each successive firmware update opens new, and often unmatched, features for users and developers to explore. Many of these features, however, find their roots outside Apple’s walled-garden approach to the iPhone, as the jailbreak community [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, API, AT&T, Bluetooth, FCC, Flash, JailBreak, MMS, Push, SDK, Skype, VoIP, WiFi
Hordes of new threats ahead for mobile networks
John Leyden, The Register, 2/24/2010 Faked femtocells will eff up your ess Malware on smartphones is just the first in a series of new security threats for mobile networks ushered in by the embrace of internet technologies, according to mobile phone encryption firms. Dr Bjoern Rupp, chief exec of GSMK CryptoPhone, warns that criminal gangs [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian · Tagged with: 3G, Femtocell, GSM, JailBreak, Linux, Malware, WiFi
All the Smartphone OSes: A Beginners’ Guide
Gizmodo, 2/21/2010 Windows Phone Series 7 is here, and it’s like nothing we’ve seen from Microsoft—or anyone else—before. But how does it measure up? And where does every other smartphone OS stand? iPhone OS 3.x The third major release of the iPhone’s software, and the second since the platform got its App Store, iPhone OS [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), WinPhone · Tagged with: JailBreak, Linux
F0recast: Tool To Find Out If Your iPhone Is Tethered Jailbreak, Unlockable And Can Downgrade Baseband
iPhoneHacks, 2/21/2010 Though there are tools and step-by-step guides that make it easy to jailbreak and unlock iPhone, things have got a lot more complicated and confusing with the release of iPhone OS 3.1.3 and updated boot ROM in new iPhone 3GS models. iH8sn0w, developers of popular jailbreaking tool, Sn0wbreeze have recently released a tool [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: JailBreak, Tether
Apple placing ban on jailbroken devices?
iPodNN, 12/15/2010 According to a report, Apple has begun banning users with a hacked iPhone from its App Store. Sherif Hashim, an iPhone hacker who is credited with finding an exploit in the latest iPhone software, recently posted a message on Twitter explaining that his Apple ID had been banned for “security reasons.” Following the [...]
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