The battle between Orange, Vodafone and incumbent operator, O2 over iPhone sales has begun, and it looks likely network strength and extra services will be key to how this UK Apple story shapes up.
O2 today began unlocking iPhones for existing contract and Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) customers, warning that the process can take up to 14-days, and charging PAYG owners a
Slightly eclipsed by the release of 10.6.2, Apple last night also released important security updates for older OS X systems and introduced new software for its newly-introduced Wireless Keyboard.
Wireless Keyboard Update 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later to be installed and switches on the special features of the keyboard. It
One of the things that no one has really talked about much on the Android platform is the limit of installing apps to the internal storage (news to us), and not on the external Flash micro SD cards. Apple allows you to install apps on the 8-64GB of storage that comes along with the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. AndroidandMe exposes this significant issue with the Google OS:
The Droid ships with a 512 MB ROM which contains only 256 MB available for app storage. Google does not support installing apps to the SD card (and likely never will), so developers are limited in what they can create.
Google is all about the Cloud so this is likely something they’ve considered, but it will significantly limit what can be put on an Android phone like the Droid. 256MB is only enough for a few mid-sized games. If you build a 50MB app for the Android platform, how many people will give you 20% of their phone’s app storage for it?
Update: It looks like there is a fairly easy way to hack the OS to store apps on SD cards. Also, apparently Google is working on this issue for an upcoming release. Another commenter says that apps can have calls to SD storage so all of the media can be stored externally. For instance, in a first person shooter, all of the bitmaps and graphics can be stored on the SD card while the application runs from the internal storage. So it might not be as big a deal as originally thought. Thanks commenters.
Somehow I think Apple will exploit this in an upcoming commercial. via DF.
Apple just released 10.6.2 so go hit that Software Update (unless you are on a Atom-based Netbook that is). 500MB later, how are you rolling? Snappy
$750 million for the mobile advertising company started three years ago. Mobile is hot, thanks to the iPhone. Don’t take it from us. In the words of Admob’s founder:
Then came the iPhone. Suddenly, Apple solved so many problems that had plagued mobile for so long. They showed all of us the way forward and their efforts have led to a landslide of rapid improvements in our space. We were so excited by the promise the iPhone represented that we shifted a significant portion of our attention to that device in its very early days. We launched the first iPhone ad units focused on the web and quickly added the capability to run ads in applications. Now with the addition of excellent devices from Palm, Nokia, RIM, and plethora of Android powered smartphones, we have all the preconditions necessary for what will be a tidal wave of mobile browsing and app usage. But let there be no mistake. Our business, and the mobile industry in general, owes Apple a debt of gratitude.
The deal also makes Google a little bit more scary in the mobile space now that they own a platform and the lion’s share of the advertising on other platforms.
While many commentators think Apple may have a fight on its hands as it faces several patent infringement abuse lawsuits from Nokia, the game could turn out to be no more than corporate hardball – Apple
Seems the tech pundits are convinced its Android-based systems which are going to trample on Apple
Core i5 iMacs have gotten the go ahead for shipment according to some MacForums readers. The Core i7s can’t be far behind. Anyone else out there got confirmation?
Just received my shipping info with tracking # for i5
Shows FedEx pickup in China today
All shipment travel activity is displayed in local time for the location Date/Time Activity Location Details
Nov 9, 2009 6:15 AM
Shipment information sent to FedEx
Nov 9, 2009 6:52 PM
Picked upSHANGHAI CN
Package received after FedEx cutoff
Nov 9, 2009
6:49 PM Left FedEx origin facilitySHANGHAI CN
Apple has arranged a series of new deals to boost the profile of the iPhone in the Qatar and Singapore, while Japan
Nvidia has a lot of love for Apple, confirmed company CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang in a speech he delivered at the American University of Dubai this weekend, where he poured praise on the Mac.
In the speech, which looked at Nvidia
Google Chrome has been updated to version 4.0.237.0 for all platforms, according to Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager, who writes on the related blog.
As the company continues to stress development of the Mac version following Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Despite AT&T
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Microsoft continues its walk in Apple
Shazam has introduced an all-new version of its music tagging and discovery application for the iPhone and iPod touch, calling Shazam Encore, which is available now at the App Store.
The app offers a host of additional features but costs a one-off
Satire is an honorable tradition in politics and public life, from comedians and imitators to venerable magazines across both sides of the pond, it has been a pressure release system for public life for a very long time – but satire isn
We’re now getting the first spyshots of the inside of Apple’s new Upper West Side Store. It looks pretty standard issue from here (except some 5 story high glass ceilings), including the big tables and that giant Apple Logo that will be hanging over your head (at bottom). The Store opens Saturday the 14th. Weather permitting, we’ll be on hand for the opening.
Wow, this is a hilarious attack on Apple’s wireless provider, AT&T. If they can get through, AT&T are probably on the phone with their lawyers right now.
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Two more Verizon ads below. via Engadget
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If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone and enabled SSH, change your default password!
Reports from Sophos indicate that another hack is spreading that uses this obvious vulnerability to Rick Roll Jailbreakers with the wallpaper pictured below. Sophos, being a security vendor, states the obvious: If you leave your iPhone open like this, literally everything in it including email and bank passwords are vulnerable. This one is currently circulating around Australia but nothing is preventing it from spreading overseas.
Jailbreakers who’ve been hacked will see the wallpaper (above) with the phrase “ikee [the name of the hacker] is never going to give you up” at the top. Best to do a restore at this point and change your password if you are going to jailbreak!
Instructions on changing your iPhone’s default password below
How to change your iPhone root password:
Step 1: If you haven
Apple just sent out a letter to AppleTV customers telling them to upgrade lest they temporarily lose some media. Another reason to stay at version 2.Boxee?
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We won
The great thing about offering a hugely-popular development environment for a successful mobile device is just how quickly 1000,000 apps can reach your App Store, but Apple
The Wall St. Journal is reporting that Radio Shack will begin selling the iPhone for the holidays in New York City and Dallas-Ft. Worth and will roll it out to all of its stores in 2010. Seperately, Radio Shack will be operating Target’s wireless phone business or “store-within a store” so it is conceivable that they’ll sell the iPhones at Target as well
“The Shack” has been rumored to carry the iPhone for over a year.
