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The much anticipated 1.1.4 firmware is here but besides fixing bugs and superseding past firmware updates, it does absolutely nothing. Despite the fact that this is a huge update that will probably take you half an hour on a slow connection to download, it is unconfirmed whether this will pave the way for SDK. The [...]

According to Mindset Media, which surveyed 7500 Mac and PC users, MacBook owners tend to be, well, more self-involved than their PC counterparts. Mac users, according to the survey, tend to buy five sneakers a year, use teeth whitening products, go to Starbucks, pay for music they download, drive a hybrid and care about a [...]

After China Mobile turned down Apple for an exclusive iPhone contract in China, the world’s largest cell phone market, report comes out that China Mobile is nevertheless servicing iPhones. In-Stat said that there are as many as 400,000 iPhones being used for the China Mobile network. According to News.com, the In-Stat study indicates “Chinese consumers [...]

I’m still using Tiger and just about to download the first security update for 2008. This is a security update for both PowerPC and Intel Macbooks. One of these updates is a fix for ” buffer overflow Directory Services that could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.” Apparently applications can [...]

It’s here and you know where to get it. There are all sorts of bug fixes in the entire Apple OS. Airport improvements as well as Dashboard improvements, Time Machine menu option and the GrowlMail fix come with the update.

Scoot over MacBook Air. Spice Corp of India just introduced a phone with, guess what, an optical drive! It’s pretty cheap, too, based on the fact that two other phones from the same company has an MSRP of $20 each. The Movie Phone is Spice’s multimedia wonder  using a small disc that goes in a [...]

Now, why can’t a non-touchscreen phone be an iPhone Killer? Specs include dual-slide action, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, DVB-H TV, GPS, video camera takes VGA at 30fps, GPS photo tagging, etc. Source 

  Where’s yours iPhone! This Android phone is not anywhere near being a true phone yet but the possibilities of a phone specifically built for third-party software is evident. Source 

GeoHot has a straightforward method of unlocking 1.1.2 OTB and 1.1.3 OTB iPhones. OTB is out of the box. I’m posting a YouTube video of someone else’s OTB iPhone unlock. Reminder: this is not GeoHot, it’s just an example of what to expect from an OTB unlock. I’m only posting an excerpt from his blog, [...]