Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) today announced support for Wi-Fi calls plus greater support for voice over internet protocol (VoIP) for enterprise-wide unified communications.
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Alan Panezic, RIM vice-president for platform product management, said the firm had been working to integrate Blackberry smartphones with corporate private branch exchanges (PBXs) for a long time.
Blackberry Mobile Voice System 5 enabled a company worker to use his or her deskphone number and extension on their Blackberry and to make and take calls over Wi-Fi and cellular connections as if they were seated at their desks, he said.
The facility was available to firms that use the open Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager 6.1 and higher. “If they’ve got 6.1, they’ve got everything they need,” he said.
Panezic said RIM was working with PBX suppliers worldwide to certify their systems with MVS 5. He named three, but asked to keep their names confidential until they had completed the certification process.
Panezic said the certification programme was particularly strict. “We are messing with dial tone here, so users have a right to expect that it works,” he said.
RIM was also speaking to telecoms systems integrators and value added resellers worldwide to ensure that customers didn’t have to go it alone. “Many of the customers who are interested in this announcement are global players,” he said.
Calls made through MVS 5 were routed through the corporate PBX, giving the firm control over policies with full security (via support for the 802.n wireless security protocol) and features such as least-cost routing for local and international calls.
The system allowed firms to enhance the performance of workers while they were out of the office by providing them with office-like communications facilities, Panezic said. read more
It had been a stressful day from the start. Dez Bryant woke up to learn that his month-old iPhone was malfunctioning, and he ended up at a local Apple store waiting hours for it to be repaired. Ultimately, he was given a replacement phone – with all of his contacts erased.
Given his reputation for unreliability, Bryant knew some might be skeptical of his story.
“Look,” he said a couple of hours before the draft began, whipping out the phone. “It’s a brand new phone. Can you believe this happened today, of all days?”
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A programmer has managed to run the Google Android mobile operating system on an iPhone, with features like browsing the Web and making phone calls functional on Apple’s hardware.
David Wong, who goes by the handle “planetbeing,” demonstrated his hack on video this week. The dual-boot setup, using a program called “OpeniBoot,” allows the iPhone to be restarted and then run Google Android.
While the hack was demonstrated on a first-generation iPhone, Wong said porting to the iPhone 3G would be “pretty simple.” An iPhone 3GS compatible version, he said, would be more difficult.
“The iPhone can in fact dual boot both the iPhone OS and Android, he said. “So even if you install Android on your phone, your iPhone can still be used normally.”
In the video, recorded with an iPhone 3GS, Wong shut down the iPhone running the iPhone OS to access the OpeniBoot software, which is only available on a “jailbroken” Apple handset. Jailbreaking is the term used to describe exploiting holes in the iPhone OS to allow the device to run unsigned and unauthorized code.
Holding down the home button when in OpeniBoot, the software loads the Linux-based Android operating system, created by Google. The video shows the entire boot process, which is particularly slow given the early state of the hack.
Wong created drivers to allow the features of the Android operating system to correspond with the hardware capabilities and inputs of the iPhone. Because the iPhone is lacking in physical buttons, Wong re-purposed the volume up and down controls to serve as the call and home buttons for the Android operating system.
“It’s not really production quality yet,” he said. “I’d say it’s alpha quality. But pretty much everything works.”
As shown in the video, Wong received signal through a prepaid Rogers SIM card, connected to a Wi-Fi network, opened the Android browser to surf the Web, received a text message and received a phone call. Using the onscreen virtual keyboard he was able to pull up a website and navigate through touch controls. He said the experience was “usable.”
Wong also ran into a hardware issue when playing music, because Android searches for files on an SD card — something not available on the iPhone. Still, he managed to create a workaround to play music on the handset.
In 2008, members of the iPhone hacking community managed to successfully boot Linux on the iPhone, iPhone 3G and original iPod touch. Wong noted in his video that earlier efforts didn’t offer much functionality, as drivers were not available. The first port was based on the main Linux 2.6 kernel and had rudimentary graphics, serial and other functional drivers for basic tasks.
Last week Apple gave us a sneak peek at iPhone OS 4. The presentation, which was more for developers than users, focused on 7 “tent poles” (multitasking, folders, enhanced mail, iBooks, enterprise, game center, and iAd).
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We were not particularly impressed by the new features unveiled, mostly because most of them are already here for anyone with a jailbroken iPhone. In this post, We would like to show you how you can make your old boring iPhone 3.X look a little bit more like iPhone OS 4.
For all features listed below, there is either a jailbreak app or mod to do the job. If your iPhone is jailbroken, here is how you can give it a little taste of OS 4. If your iPhone is not jailbroken yet, then you’re missing out and you should get your iPhone jailbroken now at Dr. Cell Phone !
Multitasking: Install Backgrounder and ProSwitcher to bring multitasking to your iPhone.
Background wallpapers: Install BossPaper or WinterBoard, which will let you customize your iPhone in every possible way. You can even download the iPhone OS 4 Theme from Cydia!
Folders: Install Categories.
Multiple Exchange accounts: Simply look at this hack that lets you set up multiple Exchange accounts on your iPhone.
iBooks: Just download the free Kindle application from the App Store.
Home screen music controls: Install the Music Controls app.
We already hear the complainers complain that this is a huge stretch and that OS 4 will be much better than these jailbreak apps. Well, yes you’re right. OS 4 will probably do a better job than these jailbreak apps or tweaks, but the point of this article is to show you that Apple didn’t reinvent the wheel at all and that you don’t need to wait for this summer to get OS 4 rocking on your iPhone.
Now that iPhone OS 4.0 is unveiled at special Apple event today, its good time to have a glimpse on iPhone OS 4.0 jailbreak situation. As of now we have three different Apple devices running iPhone OS viz. iPod Touch, iPhone (iPhone2G, 3G & 3GS) & recently launched iPad. The fact that Apple want to unify iPhone OS platform on all these devices sooner or later will have iPhone OS 4.0 running on all these devices.
iPhone OS 4.0 Unlock and Jailbreak Coming Soon
Meaning one single exploit on iPhone OS 4.0 will make it possible to have jailbreak for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad running iPhone 4.0 OS. This might make Apple gadget lovers happy but this doesn’t end here. Lately we found Apple aggressively fixing and patching exploits to stop users from jailbreaking or unlocking iPhone.
Hence iPhone OS 4.0 will have all old exploits patched, as well as stronger security within OS making it difficult to find new exploit for jailbreak. But whenever new functionality or features are added to OS chances are high that new exploits may surface.
Two teams of iPhone hackers, iPhone Dev Team & Chronic dev team is known to independently working on getting jailbreak tools and not to forget the one man army George Hotz, who has proved himself from time to time. Several new iPhone hackers are recently showed up, the one name which we would like to mention in Comex.
Till today infamous iPhone dev team have not publicly accepted that they have any known exploit on iPhone OS 3.1.3 baseband 5.12.07 but we have feeling that iPhone dev team definitely have some good exploit (not to forget the one which was reported by sheriff) in their hand and they might be saving it for iPhone OS 4.0 jailbreak.
None of these jailbreaks has been released yet, the sole reason is to hide exploit from Apple to prevent fixing it in next iPhone OS release, i.e iPhone OS 4.0. Overall scenario looks positive and is in favor of iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad users.
We can’t expect all of them to have unique exploit but we are sure one of these exploit will exist in iPhone OS 4.0 and iPhone 4.0 jailbreak will be out as soon as Apple releases iPhone 4.0.
Our Advice
If you want to jailbreak your iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad then you must not update to iPhone OS 4.0 until there is any update from iPhone Dev Team or Dr. Cell Phone.
Make sure to get the ECID SHSH copied at Dr. Cell Phone for your iPad &iPhone 3GS to help you in downgrading from iPhone OS 4.0 to 3.1.3 if you accidently update it.
Have Patience !!
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Apple is working to develop a CDMA version of the iPhone that could be marketed by Verizon Wireless, according to a report.
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The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Apple is working with Pegatron Technology to develop a CDMA version of the iPhone that could be mass produced by September. A second version of the iPhone is also under development by Hon Hai.
As the Journal noted, that Apple is working on another iPhone is not really a secret; the company has refreshed its iPhone lineup every June or July. Reports of a Verizon-branded iPhone surfaced in 2009, when a report by USA Today came up with a similar conclusion. The paper also reported that the two sides had talked in 2005 about a similar partnership. , Read More
