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Monday, November 9th, 2009
The iPhone’s first worm — a playful, wallpaper-changing prank that only affects jailbroken phones — could be a sign of more dangerous things to come.
A hacker who identifies himself as “ikex” created the worm, which changes the user’s wallpaper to a picture of 1980s pop star Rick Astley, who sang the 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The software includes the message: “ikee is never gonna give you up.”
The term jailbreaking refers to a hack that allows users to run software not approved by Apple on the iPhone. It can grant users the ability to install custom wallpapers and themes, enable tethering, or unlock the handset for use on a non-approved carrier.
The ikex worm is simply a prank known as “Rickrolling,” an Internet bait-and-switch meme when users expect to see a video on a certain topic, only to find themselves watching Astley’s cheesy 1987 music video. According to Forbes, the worm does nothing malicious.
“The world’s first iPhone worm is also hardly a true criminal exploit,” the report said. “Instead, it seems to be half warning, half prank. Ikee’s author, who identifies himself or herself as ‘ikex’ in the worm’s source code, also wrote in the code that “People are stupid, and this is to prove it so,” adding that users should read their phones’ manuals.”
For now, the worm is said to be spreading among jailbroken iPhones in Australia. It affects only users who did not change their default SSH password, which allows file transfers between phones.
“It’s not that hard, guys,” ikex wrote in the source code. “But hey who cares its only your bank details at stake.”
Mikko Hyppönen, researcher with F-Secure, discussed the worm on his company’s Web site. It lets users know how to change their root password, and also warns that the software could become more dangerous.
“The creator of the worm has released full source code of the four existing variants of this worm,” he said. “This means that there will quickly be more variants, and they might have nastier payload than just changing your wallpaper or might try password cracking to gain access to devices where the default password has been changed.”
This summer, Apple quickly fixed a text messaging exploit that could have affected all iPhones. The exploit took advantage of the fact that SMS can send binary code to a phone. That code is automatically processed without user interaction, and can be compiled from multiple messages, allowing larger programs to be sent to a phone.
The exploit, discovered by security researcher Charlie Miller, exposed the iPhone completely, giving hackers access to the camera, dialer, messaging and Safari.
Miller also, back in 2007, discovered the iPhone’s first security flaw. It allowed malicious Web sites to take advantage of flaws within the Safari Web browser.
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Reported by: John Matarese ABC News http://www.abc2news.com
Fans of Apple’s iPhone love the new 3GS model….which is faster than ever, and fixes a few glitches with the original phone.
But it seems the new phone still has one troublesome area that can be very expensive to fix, as one man learned: the glass touch screen.
Two New Phones Dropped, Cracked
Dave Gregory loves the iPhone so much he’s bought them for his entire family.
But he says no sooner did his teenage daughters start using theirs then the unthinkable happened: They both dropped them!
Dave tells me “Within two weeks, both of them had dropped their phone, simple drops, fumbling to get a call. They fell to the floor a couple of feet.”
The phones survived. The glass screens? Not so much. Dave tells me “the screens just shattered.”
Is it Covered by Warranty?
Dave immediately contacted Apple…but learned one thing not covered by Apple’s warranty is breakage. “those screens are not covered under the warranty,” he says.
They are also not covered under the “Apple Care” program.
Instead, he showed me a receipt from the Apple Store, where he had to pay $199 per phone for Apple to replace the screen. That was essentially the price he paid per phone!
But as I first reported almost two years ago, a check of Apple’s website turned up this:
- “Glass cracked due to misuse or abuse is not covered under warranty.”
Go online and you’ll find hundreds of complaints.
Considering those hundreds and thousands of customers need for iPhone Broken Glass Screen replacement, Dr. Cell Phone Now lowered their price for Screen replacement to only $74.99, Yes only $74.99 with a 30 days free replacement warranty.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
The iPhone appeared to get a slow start in China on Friday night as China Unicom and Apple held a launch event largely free of the buzz and long buyer lines that have accompanied launches of the handset elsewhere.
Smog hung in the Beijing air as buyers filled about two-thirds of an outdoor sales queue set up at a shopping mall. Beijing’s first rain in weeks fell on an overhead canopy during the event.
“It’s because of the rain, the temperature really is a little low today,” said Li Yi, a 27-year-old man waiting in line to buy an iPhone 3GS, when asked about the low attendance.
High prices may also have kept away buyers. Chinese shoppers can find cracked gray-market iPhones for around 4,000 yuan (US$587) at many local electronics markets, while the cheapest iPhone being sold by China Unicom costs 4,999 yuan with no service contract.
China Unicom is selling the 32GB iPhone 3GS with no contract for the equivalent of $1,026, compared to about $800 in nearby Hong Kong.
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“It’s unfair that the phone has no Wi-Fi,” said a 30-year-old male surnamed Fan as he looked at an iPhone in the Beijing Apple Store, where sales also launched Friday night.
China Unicom has said any handset that supports its 3G mobile standard will be able to use its network, so gray-market iPhone users will be able to buy service contracts just like users of the official handset.
A China Unicom representative declined to say how many buyers had reserved iPhones, which could be picked up at the launch event. The carrier was selling the 8GB iPhone 3G and the 16GB and 32GB versions of the iPhone 3GS.
The main appeal of an official handset is that it is uncracked and can download iPhone updates as they come out, said Liu Xinran, a 30-year-old female employee at a local movie studio, as she waited in line to buy a 32GB iPhone 3GS.
“I couldn’t use my old iPhone 3G anymore because of a software upgrade,” said Liu, adding that she had trouble accessing the App Store. “I have little choice but to buy an official one.” Liu showed off a Nokia E71 she was using in the meantime as she spoke.
Apple’s deal with China Unicom is non-exclusive and China Mobile, another local carrier, has said it is in ongoing talks with Apple about offering the iPhone.
“Ever since we first launched the iPhone, we greatly anticipated bringing it to China,” said Greg Joswiak , Apple’s vice president of iPod and iPhone marketing, in a speech at the launch. “We plan on actively marketing the iPhone here,” he said before a large screen played an iPhone commercial that will air in China.
Source:http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
AT&T has reported their best and biggest quarter of iPhone activations to date, with 3.2 million iPhones activated in the third quarter of 2009. Shares of AT&T jumped following the initial release of the news, but have since declined, despite AT&T reporting better-than-expected per share earnings.
iPhone Repair at Dr. Cell Phone™ AT&T has wagered heavily on its relationship with Apple and the iPhone, and it has paid off. Many analysts site the iPhone as the single biggest reason for the telecom giant’s continued strength in a down turned economy.
The wireless division of AT&T has continued to invest in infrastructure designed to support the iPhone (amongst other things), such as expanded bandwidth, support for faster 3G data transfer rates, and expanded coverage of its 3G network across the United States.
AT&T also reported adding 2 million new subscribers in Q3, of which almost 1.3 million were new iPhone customers.
Apple has also has an excellent third quarter of 2009, with earnings comfortably beating expectations and greatly exceeding sales from Q3 of 2008. Apple cited the iPhone and Mac computer sales as the main reason behind its third quarter success.
source:http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97694
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Apple outstripped Wall Street’s expectations for the quarter ended September 30, and while the blowout quarter was mostly thanks to higher-than-expected Mac sales, the company also sold a record 7.4 million iPhones. But a lot of commentators think that the iPhone is finally going to meet its match with Droid.
 Dr. Cell Phone Getting Ready to Repair Motorola Verizon Droid Announced this weekend by Verizon in a cheeky TV commercial, the Droid is a Motorola phone running Google’s Android 2.0 operating system. The advertisement notes that the Droid will do things that the iPhone won’t, like take pictures in the dark and run simultaneous apps (apparently playing music in the background, as the iPhone can do, doesn’t count), and touts its open development process (a head-scratcher for non-techies, but it could mean more apps than the iPhone, someday). The first preview I’ve seen, from Boy Genius Report, was also positive. People are excited, and for good reason–competition drives innovation, which is good for consumers.
But here’s the thing: one reason for the runaway success of the iPhone–and one of the reasons why Apple still continues to sell more than 10 million iPods per quarter–is iTunes. Not so much the store, although that’s an important component, but the software. Of course there are plenty of other applications out there that help you rip CDs and organize your digital music collection. And there are plenty of other sources for online music. But the real strength of iTunes is in the sync process–you plug your iPhone in, iTunes opens up automatically and recognizes it. Hit the large “Sync” button and it automatically loads your music (and video, and apps, and anything else you choose) onto it. (With some devices, depending on your settings, you don’t even need to hit “Sync.”) That’s the simple, consumer-friendly, end-to-end experience that Apple figured out first.
Contrast that with the multi-step process required to transfer music from a Windows PC to the first Android phone that was available in the U.S., last year’s G1. Amazon provided over-the-air MP3 downloads for that phone, giving it a rough equivalent to the over-the-air version of the iTunes store, but let’s face it: most digital music is not purchased, but is ripped from a CD or comes from some other source (legal or not).
Verizon, Motorola, and Google haven’t said much about music for the Droid. Maybe they still have a musical trick or two up their collective sleeves. But without some sort of equivalent to the iTunes desktop application, the Droid may be a great phone, but it won’t be a great music phone.
Source:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10378321-27.html
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
The wisdom of business professors, once only available to MBAs and business students, can now be accessed by anybody with an Internet connection.
Hundreds of universities, and a growing number of business schools, are making recordings of lectures, seminars and conferences available to the general public via Web sites such as iTunes and YouTube.
 Dr. Cell Phone Can Fix iPhone/iTunes Software Problems Leading business schools including University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Fuqua School of Business, and Yale School of Management make course content available for download through iTunes University (iTunes U), part of the of the iTunes online store.
That means those whose budget won’t stretch to a two-year MBA can simulate the experience at home — or at work, in the gym or anywhere else they choose. And even better for money-conscious learners, the iTunes U content can all be downloaded free of charge.
French business school HEC Paris is due to launch its iTunes U content in the next few months, but it has been running an ambitious podcast program since 2006.
Begun as an experiment in partnership with Apple, all new MBAs at HEC are provided with an iPod Touch. Around half of the MBA lectures are filmed using an automatic camera system and the footage is made available for students to download and view on their iPhones.
Vanessa Klein, HEC’s project manager for iTunes U, told CNN that the iPod scheme has proved a hit with students. As well watching lectures, she said the students’ own presentations are recorded and made available for download, so they can review their performance.
She says one teacher noticed that each year his MBA students would ask the same questions after his end-of-course summary, so he made a podcast of recurring questions and answers. After encouraging students to come up with new questions, he is now recording responses to those in an effort to compile a video archive of questions and answers.
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Klein says that by making lectures available via iTunes U, HEC wants to be at the forefront of providing content for the rest of the world, but she acknowledges that the technology is also a great way to promote the business school.
“It’s a good marketing tool, not as publicity but to really show people what we are providing,” she told CNN.
“You can watch a lecture, learn a lot and think ‘I wish I could be there.’ The idea is to show what you could learn if you were at this place.”
YouTube EDU was launched in March this year and hosts the YouTube channels of hundreds of universities. Earlier this month it added content from 45 universities in Europe and Israel and now holds videos of lectures and discussions provided by business schools including INSEAD, ESCP Europe and University of California Haas School of Business.
Launched at the same time as YouTube EDU, Academic Earth hosts videos from U.S. universities including Harvard, Yale and Princeton, although the business content is provided almost exclusively by Stanford University.
Offering less audio/visual content, but still full of business school information, MIT’s Open Course Ware site gives free access to almost all MIT course content, including extensive lecture notes, assignments and exams from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Interested in the “Advanced Topics in Real Estate Finance?” You can download the complete lecture notes from Sloan’s 2007 course on the subject at MIT’s Open Course Ware site.
Other universities have their own Open Course Ware sites and the Open Course Ware Consortium has been set up as an agglomerator site, providing content from more over 200 higher education institutions.
But it’s iTunes U that’s generating the most interest. The University of Oxford says there have been more than one million downloads from its iTunes U site, while Stanford University says its course on creating iPhone applications was downloaded more than one million times in just seven weeks.
This week’s most popular business download on iTunes U is a University of Oxford lecture called “Entrepreneurship and the Ideal Business Plan.”
It may not get as many downloads as Michael Jackson’s posthumous single, but it should prove more useful when it comes to getting a business off the ground.
source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/10/16/online.university/
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Apple is allegedly building a new app for its iPhone and iPod Touch that will bring FM radio to the devices, according to a report on 9 to 5 Mac.
Remember Dr. Cell Phone for all iPhone Repairs Citing anonymous sources, the Apple news site says the functionality of the application will be similar to what Apple built into the iPod Nano. That includes the ability to pause live FM transmissions and fast-forward when you resume playing.
According to 9 to 5 Mac, the delay in getting the app to market is Apple’s decision to integrate it with the iTunes Store, which is built into the devices. With this integration, people will be able to tap on a song they hear on the radio and buy it through iTunes.
Of course, Apple wouldn’t be the first company to offer some type of FM functionality on the iPhone. Applications likeWunder Radio have been around for over a year and enable people to stream Internet radio to their iPhone and iPod Touch.
The big advantage Apple would have is linking its application to the iTunes Store, which creates the potential for more revenue.
Source:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10374854-37.html
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
AT&T on Tuesday opened its 3G network to VoIP calls on the iPhone, reversing its previous position, as federal regulators consider applying proposed net neutrality rules to mobile phones.
Remember Dr. Cell Phone for all iPhone Repairs AT&T’s decision applies only to Apple’s smartphone. The wireless carrier does not allow the use of voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, over its 3G network on other mobile phones. Before the reversal, VoIP applications from Skype and other companies could make calls on the iPhone only over a Wi-Ficonnection.
AT&T said it notified Apple and the Federal CommunicationsCommission of its decision Tuesday. “Today’s decision was make after evaluating our customers’ expectations and use of the device compared to dozens of others we offer,” Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive of AT&T mobility and consumer markets, said in a statement.
The FCC is considering a proposal to formalize network neutrality principles, which will direct which competing services Internet providers must allow. The commission is also looking at whether to apply those principles to wireless networks.
Wireless providers and their supporters in Congress will likely fight having network neutrality principles applied to them. In general, their services haven’t been affected by established rules governing wired networks.
AT&T has been among the most outspoken against applying net neutrality to wireless networks. AT&T argues that the nation’s wireless landscape is very competitive without additional government involvement.
“We would thus be very disappointed if (the FCC) has already drawn a conclusion to regulate wireless services despite the absence of any compelling evidence of problems or abuse that would warrant government intervention,” AT&T said in a recent statement.
AT&T’s latest decision has no affect on Apple’s denial of the Google Voice application for the iPhone. The application makes it possible to use one number to manage and receive calls from multiple numbers. AT&T has said it played no role in Apple’s decision not to offer GoogleVoice. Apple’s stand is under review by the FCC.
Source:http://www.informationweek.com/news/
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
 Dr. Cell Phone Provides all kinds of iPhone Repairs Adobe delighted on Monday the smartphone world, when it announced that Flash Player 10.1 will be available by the end of the year on BlackBerry, WinMo, Palm WebOS, Google Android, and Symbian phones.
But the millions of iPhone users out there are left fuming over the announcement because their beloved gadget isn’t showing any signs of Adobe Flash adoption.
Research In Motion, Microsoft, Palm, Google and Nokiawill all embed the Flash Player 10.1 into their handsets by the end of this year or in early 2010, but Apple is ignoring the wishes of the masses of iPhone owners across the world and did not announce any plans to integrate Adobe Flash support onto its line of smartphones.
It has been more than a year now since the industry was speculating the appearance of Adobe Flash on the iPhone, and since October 2008 we’ve seen Apple introducing a more powerful iPhone (the iPhone 3GS) and an improved operating system (iPhone OS 3.X), but still, no Adobe Flash — so here’s why I don’t think it will happen any time soon either:
3. Apple Doesn’t Want Flash on the iPhone
Let’s face it: when Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan said in February that Adobe Flash on the iPhone is “a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” we all thought that the iPhone’s hardware wasn’t powerful enough to support this technology.
Eight months later though, the iPhone 3GS doubled the processing power and RAM memory over its predecessor, the iPhone 3G, and the hardware barriers are gone. But still no Adobe Flash. Meanwhile, HTC managed to graciously support fully Adobe Flash on the similarly-spec’d HTC Hero, so Apple is running out of reasons to dismiss Flash.
2. The iPhone is Created so it Won’t Support Flash
The virtual limitations imposed by the iPhone software, as in only one application open at all times (except for a couple of Apple’s own apps), means that an environment like Adobe Flash won’t be able to install or launch other executable code by any means, including the use of a plug-in architecture (iPhone SDK EULA clause 3.3.2).
For you and me, this translates that the ways Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight were designed to work are forbidden from running on the iPhone — unless Apple decides to make an exception (which sends us to point No. 1). In relation, this means that third-party browsers such as Firefox or Opera (besides being banned from the App Store because of duplicate functionality) won’t be able to use Safari’s built-in Java engine either.
1. Apple is Betting on a Different Standard
Although Adobe Flash powers most of the interactive Web applications for full-featured computers, Apple has set its eyes on HTML 5 with the introduction of theiPhone 3.0 OS. HTML 5 makes obsolete plug-in-based technologies such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, because it’s open source and has similar multimedia capabilities to Adobe’s and Microsoft’s solutions.
Apple is quite involved in the development of the HTML 5 standard as well, and the technology is already being implemented into browsers before the standard is final. Oh, and the editors of the HTML 5 standard are David Hyatt of Apple and Ian Hickinson of Google. As a side note, Flash is not supported on standard Google Android installations, but only custom ones, such as on the HTC Hero.
But there is hope: Apple could change its mind at any time regarding Adobe Flash support. As far as no one knows, Apple might be working on a solution right now, but as usual, the Cupertino Company is keeping mum on details. Just don’t bet your money on Adobe Flash on the iPhone yet.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/173092
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
For the lovers of the iPhone, it’s like daddy and mommy are getting a divorce. If that wasn’t the case–if Apple and Google weren’t calling it quits–why would Apple buy a mapping company?
Remember Dr. Cell Phone for all iPhone Repairs Steve, tell us it isn’t so!
The tight integration between the iPhone and Google, especially its mapping products, is a big part of why people love their iPhones. Hearing the Apple has bought its own mapping company, Placebase, is unsettling.
The deal, which supposedly happened in July, added talent to a supposed “Geo” unit inside Apple. Nothing wrong with that, but before Apple starts messing with Google Maps on iPhones, it needs to think very seriously about the consequences.
If a new Apple mapping product is to replace Google Maps, it needs to be done by offering customers a choice of mapping providers. If Apple is good enough, people will switch and eventually the rest can be moved over by force, if necessary. But, only after Apple Maps does everything that Google Maps does–and then some.
There are reasons why this may be a much ado about very little. Apple can find plenty of location-based applications or features to add to iPhone and Mac OS that could run on top of Google Maps. New mapping apps might use new Apple technology while the existing ones could remain on Google Maps and be improved upon.
There doesn’t have to be a conflict here, but we’re sure Apple and Google aren’t as chummy as they once were. Apple’s penchant for secrecy makes matters worse and leads to speculation that perhaps exceeds reality.
As for Placebase, the Los Angeles startup was founded to sell a mapping system to businesses, which is hard to do when Google offers such a service free. GigaOm has a nice story that explains what founder Jaron Waldman hoped to accomplish. Here is an example of Placebase and its PushPin Java API in action at a site called PolicyMap.
Waldman’s LinkedIn profile says he now works at Apple, after four years at Placebase.
There is a strong possibility that Apple didn’t actually buy Placebase, just hired Waldman (and others?) when the company failed. That’s the rumor inside the mapping business and makes as much sense as anything else. Regardless, Waldman’s arrival at Apple demonstrates that the company is seriously interested in mapping.
There is much to be done in the mapping space and Google has brought tremendous value to the iPhone with its cool mapping application. Apple is rarely a stupid company, so I have to guess it will think long before dumping Google Maps for something created in-house.
While Apple may someday offer a mapping platform of its own, the company would be wise to remain tied to Google until it has something truly incredible to offer.
Google Maps will be much easier to add value to than for Apple to beat.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/172951
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