Technology giant Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) is reportedly planning to buy a Chinese online game developer, Handseeing Information Technology, a move that could help it gain a foothold in the world's biggest Internet market.
A top executive at Handseeing said, Friday, that Apple has been in negotiations with the Chinese firm for "a certain period of time" and the public could expect some sort of "incremental" announcement in September.
The iPhone 4 has only been out a few months, but already there is speculation about the next incarnation which some believe will hit the shelves as soon as December. If that was not enough to get fanboys salivating all over their shiny touchscreens, some details about the next iPad have been revealed, set for release in the first quarter of 2011.
Apple, the technology company, is surreptitiously dealing with a security problem. The company's actions may dictate the pace at which attacks on iPhones and iPads accelerate.
The company is hurrying to release a patch for a vulnerability that allows for remote hacking -or jailbreaking - of iOS, the operating system for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch. Natalie Kerris, an Apple spokeswoman, says that the patch is completed. She adds, however, that she cannot give a time frame for the public release of the fix.
Many felt Apple botched its initial response to the problem when it told users to buy a case or hold the iPhone 4 without touching a small gap on the lower left side of the phone.
Patrick Kerley, senior digital strategist with Levick Strategic Communications, a Washington, DC-based crisis management firm, said Apple had been caught flat-footed by the mess, and gave the company only a "C" grade for how its handling of the problem.
The title says it all! Yes, you can now get very alpha version of Flash (aka Frash) running right on your iPhone 4. Previously, we showed you how to install Flash (Frash) on iPad. And now folks at Grant Pannell site has managed to compile an iPhone 4 version of Flash. The credit for this of course goes to Comex, the guy behind Spirit and JailbreakMe tools for iOS devices. Without his hard work, this surely wouldn’t have been possible.
According to the source, this version of Flash (Frash) will also work on iPhone 3GS, iPad (on 3.2.1) and iPod touches.
After a number of pranksters uploaded videos of themselves "jailbreaking" demo iOS devices on display at Apple's retail stores, the company has blocked access to the website from its networks.
The jailbreakme.com URL is used to conduct a browser-based jailbreak of iOS devices -- the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch -- by taking advantage of a PDF security hole found in the Mobile Safari browser. Users jailbreak devices to run unauthorized software and make modifications to the iOS operating system that can potentially void the warranty of the device.
A pic of what looks like an iPod touch 4G (or 4, if it follows Apple's iPhone branding pattern) has been leaked by a case manufacturer.
Of course, it may only be a mock-up - it's most likely to be, in fact - but as case manufacturers are given exact dimensions by Apple ahead of launch, including placement of such things as camera lenses and buttons, Pocket-lint believes the final product will be very similar.
iPhone 4 users and would-be owners who have been waiting for a way to unshackle carrier-locked versions of the phone have some tapping to do. The infamous Dev Team has released a new version of ultrasn0w, its iPhone unlock utility, which has been updated for the iPhone 4.
Announced on the Dev-Team Blog, ultrasn0w is now available in Cydia, the app store for jailbroken iOS devices. To access Cydia, you must first use JailbreakMe, a new Web-based jailbreak utility for iOS devices that takes advantage of a fairly significant PDF exploit in iOS 4.
Apple plans to issue fixes for two security flaws that when exploited together allow attackers to remotely install malicious apps on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches.
Although the critical vulnerabilities surfaced over the weekend, Apple officials didn't acknowledge them until Wednesday, the same day the German government warned that the vulnerabilities could be exploited when users viewed booby-trapped websites or email messages. No other user action is required.
THE DANGERS of allowing Apple fanbois into local government with their distorted sense of perspective has been highlighted after Leicester City Council wasted £40,000 buying its councillors Ipads.
It admitted splashing out on the gadget boondoggle the same week that it announced the layoffs of 1,000 council workers in a bid to save money. The Apple fanbois running the council insist that paying over the odds to buy a £170 worth of technology for £700 from Jobs Mob will save money.
