João Saramago » iphone

Gentlemen Prefer Androids, Ladies iOS

js — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:43:39 +0000

Ponca City writes “PC World reports that women are more likely to buy an iPhone for their next smartphone purchase, while men prefer Android devices. According to data collected in October 2010, 31 percent of women wanted to buy an …

Apple Quietly Drops iOS Jailbreak Detection API

js — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:26:54 +0000

bednarz writes “Without explanation, Apple has disabled a jailbreak detection API in iOS, less than six months after introducing it. Device management vendors say the reasons for the decision are a mystery, but insist they can use alternatives to discover …

iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in

js — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:45:17 +0000

nk497 writes “A flaw in the alarm clock in iPhone 4s gave Europeans a bit of a lie-in this morning. While the Apple handsets automatically adjusted to daylight savings time, a bug in the alarm system meant many were woken …

Apple closes PDF flaw in iOS updates for iPhone, iPad

js — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:45:36 +0000

By Ed Oswald, Betanews Apple released iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone and iPod touch, and iOS 3.2.2 for the iPad on Wednesday, effectively closing the PDF flaw which allowed hackers access to the internal code of those devices. The exploit …

iPhone Jailbreak Uses a PDF Display Vulnerability

js — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:10:25 +0000

adeelarshad82 writes “Latest reports indicate that the website that ‘jailbreaks’ iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches does so by means of a PDF-based vulnerability in OS X. PDF parsing and rendering is a core feature of OS X, and there have …

iPhone’s PIN-Based Security Transparent To Ubuntu

js — Mon, 31 May 2010 11:26:04 +0000

ndogg writes “Security experts found that the iPhone 3GS has very little security, even with a PIN set up. They plugged one into Ubuntu 10.04, and it was automounted with almost all of the iPhone’s data exposed. This has been …

Android Ported To iPhone

js — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:47:53 +0000

anethema writes “iPhone hacker planetbeing, from the iPhone Dev Team, has successfully ported the Android OS over to the iPhone. He is doing it on a first-generation iPhone, but others may be possible. The port is pretty functional, with data, …

New iPhone Attack Kills Apps, Reroutes Web Traffic

js — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:53:17 +0000

Trailrunner7 sends in a threatpost.com article on exploiting flaws in the way the iPhone handles digital certificates. “[Several flaws] could lead to an attacker being able to create his own trusted certificate and entice users into downloading malicious files onto …

First Malicious iPhone Worm In the Wild

js — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:10:12 +0000

An anonymous reader writes “After the ikee worm that displayed a picture of Rick Astley on jailbroken iPhones, the first malicious iPhone worm (Google translation; original, in Dutch) has now been discovered in the wild. Internet provider XS4ALL in the …

iPhone cannot win the smartphone wars

js — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:08:07 +0000

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews I’m going to make a bold prediction: Apple’s iPhone will lose the mobile device wars. Such statement will send some iPhone fans howling — perhaps appropriately so with the full moon days passed and Halloween days …

Verizon touts Android’s superiority over iPhone

js — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:03:58 +0000

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Every major iteration of Android is named after a pastry (Cupcake, Donut, etc.), and whenever the latest version is being worked on, a giant foam rendition of that pastry is planted on the lawn of Google’s …

Verizon’s Challenge To the iPhone Confirmed

js — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:01:11 +0000

misnohmer writes “Verizon has just launched a new set of ads confirming the rumors of its upcoming iPhone competitor: ‘Unlike previous Android phones, the Droid is rumored to be powered by the TI OMAP3430, the same core that the iPhone …

iPhone’s global success is more marketing myth than reality

js — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:41:12 +0000

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews American business history almost certainly will recall Apple as one of the most successful marketers ever. With iPhone, the company has performed a remarkable magic trick: Making the late-starting mobile seem ready to take over the …