BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion (RIM), has taken a more pro-active approach to maintaining their BlackBerry servers. Rather than waiting for vulnerabilities to rear their ugly head and take down enterprise users’ entire BlackBerry email-backends, RIM has announced that they’ve identified and patched a vulnerability in their BlackBerry Enterprise Server related to PDF-parsing. The security…
Fix your iPhone 3G GPS problems – 3G network issues with iPhone GPS
The new GPS hardware in the iPhone 3G seems to be having some trouble when not connected to the AT&T 3G network. iPhone Atlas reports that some users are complaining of inaccurate GPS positioning when the 3G data setting (Settings>General>Network>Enable 3G) option is switched to “ON.” The iPhone 3G uses aGPS (assisted GPS), which means…
Sprint HTC Touch and HTC Mogul get some Windows Mobile 6.1 update love
It’s that time again. The Windows Mobile 6.1 ROM update is again out and about for all you WinMo fans to enjoy. Except this time around, it’s an official WM6.1 ROM straight from HTC itself. After seeing more cooked, unofficially official, and leaked Windows Mobile 6.1 ROMs floating around the intertubes than we care to…
Apple iPhone needs cut and paste functionality
As great as the iPhone and iPhone 3G platforms are at playing media, surfing the web, mobile blogging, and even finding the nearest Starbucks in your area, there’s a critical shortcoming in its otherwise superb UI. Cut-and-paste functionality has been a sticking point that has drawn the iPhone’s Mac OS much criticism and ire from…
Congress mulling cellphone tax break
We’ve heard it all before. Congress, presumably responding to disgruntled constituents’ complaints of ridiculous taxes on their cellphone bill, has previously proposed freezing new wireless taxes from being added to your monthly wireless subscription costs. But, without bi-partisan support, the Republican-backed bill promptly died on Congress’s floor. But, with the economy being what it is,…
Windows Live Mesh on the iPhone!
At first glance, using Microsoft’s Windows Live Mesh service on an iPhone seems a bit counter-intuitive. Apple has MobileMe to compete with Live Mesh’s cloud-based storage and synchronization service. And, let’s not forget that using an Apple iPhone running Mac OS with a Windows Live service arguably aimed at Windows and Windows Mobile devices is…
Samsung graces home-country with Samsung BlackJack III
Following on the Samsung i788 BlackJack III’s pre-release showing yesterday, Samsung has graced its home-market of South Korea with the Samsung BlackJack III. The South Korean Samsung BlackJack III should be available to eager Windows Mobile fans around mid-July on SK Telecom. But, this particular variant of the BlackJack III isn’t the Samsung i780 or…
Apple OpenCL to bring GPU parallel processing to iPhone?
What’s the big deal with GPU processing and Apple’s push to bring OpenCL to their Mac OS X “Snow Leopard” revision? It’s all about processing power and speed. You see, there’s only so much you can get done with a traditional CPU, sporting two or four processing cores. But, there are over a 100 microprocessing…
Canadian wireless spectrum auction wraps up – More wireless competition for Canada
Like any good federally-sanctioned frequency spectrum auction should do, the recently-wrapped Canadian AWS (advanced wireless spectrum) spectrum was auctioned off in hopes of sparking competition and driving down wireless prices from Canadian carriers like Rogers, Telus, and Bell. Canada saw 105 Mhz of spectrum in the 1710-1755/2110-2155 MHz AWS frequency range auctioned off for a…
Another MobileMe blunder nets UK users an extra month of service
And the MobileMe fiasco continues. Apple just can’t seem to find their way out of the MobileMe push data services-hole that they’ve dug for themselves. In fact, they’re digging themselves deeper and deeper. The latest blunder in Apple’s MobileMe launch hits the UK in the form of gross over-charges to MobileMe trial users. You see,…