Archive for ‘July, 2010’

Citibank customers may have exposed info through iPhone app

Citibank customers may have exposed info through iPhone app

Citigroup issued a warning today noting that there were some security loopholes in its mobile banking iPhone app, and also released an update that patches the hole.
Citi said that the app saved personal information about users, such as security codes, account imformation, and transaction details, to a remote file on the iPhone’s internal memory. That [...]

Apple pushes back white iPhone release, again

Apple pushes back white iPhone release, again

Don’t think this means Apple is going to fix the antennas with the white iPhone, or that Apple is racist, but it has yet again delayed the availability of the white iPhone.
“White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they [...]

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook contract was forged

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook contract was forged

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has officially disputed claims that he signed away a majority stake of his $25 billion dollar company to the owner of a wood-pellet fuel store in upstate New York.
“Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that Paul Ceglia’s claims are absurd and we strongly suspect the contract is forged,” Facebook confirmed in an [...]

Getting some FaceTime — hints and tips about iPhone 4 video calls

Getting some FaceTime — hints and tips about iPhone 4 video calls

When I ordered my iPhone 4 on June 16th for delivery in July, one of the features that I was intrigued about was FaceTime, Apple’s Wi-Fi video calling application. Sure, other phones have had this feature for a while, but for me this was going to be something new.
After an abortive attempt at my first [...]

China cracks down on gray-market cell phones

China cracks down on gray-market cell phones

Beijing has finally moved to curtail China’s infamous “gray” cell phone market.
According to iSuppli, the government-enforced crackdown is causing domestic gray-market phone shipments to decline, while simultaneously boosting the output of major global OEMs.
“Recent developments indicate [Beijing] is beginning to take seriously the long-festering problem of smuggled handsets and counterfeit [...]

John Lewis Expects New Apple iPod This September

John Lewis Expects New Apple iPod This September

The UK retailer expects that this busy back to school season will get just a little busier as Apple plans to refresh their iPod lineup which will include features that will entice young kids and teens into buying this multimedia device.
Here are the features that we can expect to see in the new iPod lineup:
* [...]

Does PhysX diminish CPU performance?

Does PhysX diminish CPU performance?

Silicon Valley chip expert David Kanter has hypothesized that PhysX diminishes CPU performance by “exclusively” using an outdated x87 instruction set.
“x87 has been deprecated for many years now, with [both] Intel and AMD recommending the much faster SSE instruction [set],” Kanter told TG Daily in an e-mailed statement.
“On modern CPUs, SSE [...]

HTML5 mobile Youtube site goes live

HTML5 mobile Youtube site goes live

Because the most popular phone in the country doesn’t support the Flash video standard that powers Youtube, the video sharing giant has launched a new mobile site that’s capable with the iPhone’s replacement: HTML5.
It’s not just because of the iPhone, though. HTML5 is poised to become a serious challenger and possible [...]

LG Android Tablet Available Before 2011

LG Android Tablet Available Before 2011

South Korean based LG Electronics announced their plans this morning to bring a new Android tablet to the market before the end of 2010. This of course isn’t surprising considering that one of their largest rivals, Samsung has plans of launching their own S-Pad tablet.
LG offered few details of their new product other then to [...]

Is AT&T capping iPhone upload speeds? Inquiring minds want to know

Is AT&T capping iPhone upload speeds? Inquiring minds want to know

The MacRumors forums are abuzz with users comparing their recent upload speeds. TUAW reader Becca Holmes tipped us that iPhone users are experiencing uploads that appear to be capped at 100 kbps rather than the 1.6mbps that was a previous norm. Users have been comparing rates captured with tools like Speedtest.net’s [...]

Pair of App Store studies show Apple is the devs’ choice, for now

Pair of App Store studies show Apple is the devs’ choice, for now

I wouldn’t have called July 4th weekend as a great time for releasing studies about in-depth App Store information, but it was certainly that, as quite a few studies came to light this weekend about how the Android and the Apple App Stores compare. First up, App Store HQ has released [...]

Smartphones expected to dominate US handset market

Smartphones expected to dominate US handset market

The US mobile market is experiencing a seismic shift towards higher-end phones, with at least 50% of all handsets expected to be classified as smartphones by 2011.
According to Research and Markets (R&M), smartphones have become akin to “mini-PCs,” with a wide range of services offered alongside basic calling and texting functions.
The [...]

3D TV images guzzle up to 50% more power than 2D

3D TV images guzzle up to 50% more power than 2D

When a 3D TV is switched from 2D mode to 3D mode, the power usage can swing dramatically

depending on the manufacturer, according to a new report from Cnet.
Cnet monitored the number of watts used from four different 3D TV models and studied how they changed when toggled between 2D and 3D [...]

HP-Palm deal finished, a WebOS tablet confirmed

HP-Palm deal finished, a WebOS tablet confirmed

On the heels of announcing that it had dotted all the I’s and crossed all the T’s on its buyout of Palm, HP confirmed that its upcoming Slate media tablet will run on Palm’s WebOS operating system.
The HP Slate was first introduced at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in January, but at [...]

Apple says iPhone 4 reception is the “best”

Apple says iPhone 4 reception is the “best”

Apple has issued an official statement rebuffing claims that its popular iPhone 4 shipped with a faulty antenna design.
However, the Cupertino-based company did acknowledge a “dramatic drop” in reception bars for some iPhone users and described the phenomenon’s root-cause as both “simple and surprising.”
“We have gone back to our labs and retested [...]

Has the Xbox 360 hit the “downside” of its lifecycle?

Has the Xbox 360 hit the “downside” of its lifecycle?

DFC Intelligence believes the Xbox 360 may have “some” good years left, but estimates the console is on the “downside” of its lifecycle – despite the advent of Microsoft’s Kinect platform.
“Kinect [for the Xbox 360] is definitely an interesting product. At the end of the day, we see Kinect having some appeal [...]

Steve Jobs emails were faked, says Apple

Steve Jobs emails were faked, says Apple

Steve Jobs is known for being a prolific emailer, but it seems he’s not quite as prolific as some people have been making out.
Reproachful public relations staff have been telling journalists that a widely-reported exchange of views about the iPhone’s reception problems is actually a fake.
Yesterday, Boy Genius Report published a [...]

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