Archive : Mobile

If you recall one of our latest news, Apple’s iPhone has its share of problems. One very big problem is a security hole that can be used by hackers to send spam, malware, and other malicious packages to and from your iPhone. Fear no more, the fix is here! This security problem can now be fixed by applying the iPhone OS 3.0.1 update released Friday. However, it is available only through the latest [...]

Danger! Your Apple iPhone can be targeted by hackers! They can break into your iPhone and deliver malware, intercept messages, or track your keystrokes. This is achieved by launching a Denial of Service (DoS) attack through the SMS protocol. Through this DoS attack, the hacker can take control of any iPhone. Why? To steal sensitive information, send spam and malware, or just keep you off the network. “Its [...]

Image by rustybrick via Flickr In its first ever developer conference at San Jose, California, on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless announced its own V cast application store as a direct competitor to Apple and its App Store. The new application is expected to come out in the forth quarter of 2009. The V cast applications store will allow developers all over the world to distribute and monetize [...]

Image via Wikipedia Etisalat is an UAE telecoms firm with over 145,000 users. Recently, it has prompted an update by text. The update was supposedly aimed at improving performance. However, crashes started to appear right after many users downloaded and installed it. Battery life was also significantly reduced. RIM (Research in Motion), the maker of Blackberry, stated that this update was [...]

We all know about the world’s most popular smartphone operating system, Symbian. Starting in October, Symbian will provide one of the world’s largest mobile applications (or apps) database. The project is called Horizon and comes in response to Apple’s statement on Tuesday that it’s App Store hit 1.5 billion downloads in just a year. Although many manufacturers, mobile network operators, [...]

The big announcement from @o2 this afternoon is that from 1st August all o2 customers will be able to receive Twitter messages via SMS. o2 joins Vodafone, who were the first to enable Twitter updates back in March. This comes after Twitter disabled the feature last year, as an attempt to arrange deals with Networks. Updates will be sent to your phone via text message for free, but o2 does request you [...]

Image by rustybrick via Flickr The iPhone dev-team have reportedly hacked the iPhone 3GS, but they’re yet to release it – claiming worries that Apple may fix their exploit before enough people have had a chance to purchase an iPhone 3GS. But not to worry, George Hots (aka Geohot), the boy who first unlocked the original iPhone in return for 3 iPhones and a Nissan 35OZ has gone and [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife We’ve been hunting deals high and low, trying to get our hands on the iPhone 3GS at the cheapest possible price. Some of us may have been on the fence, but let’s face it, it’s not a question of “will I get the 3GS”, more “when will I get the 3GS”. So we’ve found that if you order your iPhone 3GS through Mobiles.co.uk [...]

During iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 we wrote an article about how to enable tethering on your iPhone. With the release of OS 3.0 we feel the need to refresh this content. While Tethering is an official feature of OS 3.0, it is not enabled by default. Here in the UK, o2 require users to purchase a ‘Bolt-on’ package of either £15 or £30 per month, for 3gb and 10gb of data usage, respectively. Frankly, [...]

We’ve been waiting for what seams like an age, but WWDC is finally here and boy was it worth it. Unfortunately we couldn’t make it to California, so we had to take advantage of multi-monitor setups, and just stream our hearts away; Text from MacRumours, Images from gdgt, Video from TWiT. The anticiptation around the keynote was amazing as per usual. There were a few MacBook announcements, [...]