Apple’s iPhone is getting seriously gussied up for its new role as an enterprise smartphone. With Apple bringing Microsoft Exchange support to the iPhone with the next iPhone update and Cisco already branding iPhone features with their VPN technology, not to mention IBM’s Lotus for iPhone, the iconic handset is sure to fire up corporate…
Virgin Mobile launches “The Liberty SIM” pre-paid plan with post-paid pricing
Things aren’t going all that well for our favorite IPO-scandal monger in the States. Virgin Mobile USA announced disappointing subscriber growth in Q1 2008 and cut its 2008 earnings forecast by 40%, resulting in a drop in Virgin’s share prices. So, in an effort to boost revenues, and hopefully profits, in other markets, Virgin Mobile’s…
iPhone v1.2 OS logs your position
The iPhone v1.2 OS firmware that’s been running on the iPhone SDK’s emulator and a few iPhone hackers’ handsets has been spotted with location logging capability. Positional data from cell tower triangulation and WiFi hotspot locations are apparently recorded and logged in the iPhone OS 1.2. iPhone Atlas found evidence of the location logging, and…
AT&T selling refurbished iPhones on the cheap
It was bound to happen. AT&T has started to offer refurbished iPhones at a discounted price. The AT&T website shows these refurbished iPhone 8GB handsets with a $249 price tag. That’s $150 off the current retail price for an 8GB iPhone! Talk about a deal. If the unsubsidized price-point of the iPhone has kept you…
Samsung’s new 8 megapixel CMOS image sensor is 8.5mm thick
Sure, there are handsets out there that boasts 8.5mm thickness, but you sure aren’t going to find an image sensor inside that’s capable of capturing more than a few megapixels. But, when you’re talking about an 8 megapixel CMOS image sensor with anti-shake, low-light compensation, ISO 1600, smile recognition (what’s with this smile recognition recently?),…
Vodafone cuts 450 senior management positions, declares store staff more important than managers
It looks like the British arm of the world’s largest wireless operator is getting ready to seriously push the mobile data plans that helped boost its 3Q 2007 earnings by 35.5%. Vodafone UK has given 450 of its senior managers their walking orders, choosing to instead invest resources into in-store staff. Vodafone says that the…
Half of all Japanese use their mobile phone in the bath
Wait, does anyone actually take baths anymore? I sure don’t. None of my friends (girls and guys) do either. I guess it’s popular in Japan. A new study from Sega polled 16,250 people regarding their mobile phone use. Following on the absence of 2G mobile phone sales in January, the new report finds that the…
Dual-boot your iPhone with multiple firmware versions!
Talk about cool. We’ve all heard of dual-booting desktop and laptop computers with mutiple OS’s. There’s nothing cool about dual-booting on desktop computers – heck, I used to triple boot my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. But, what about dual-booting your iPhone? iPhone developer/hacker extraordinaire, Jonathan “NerveGas” Zdziarski, has…
Are you a victim of cellphone spying? Good Morning America wants to talk to you.
We live in a digital age where all our information is available at the click of a button. The problem is, that information is probably available to just about anyone that’s committed enough to find it. And, the new trend of cellphone spying is starting to become a problem for more and more people nowadays.…
Run a web-server on your Android mobile phone with iJetty
No, Android isn’t yet commercially available. But, if it were, you could be running your web-server straight from your Android handset with an Android port of the Jetty open-source web-server. Called iJetty, the Android version of Jetty allows any Android handset to use the Java app to run their very own mobile web-server. Webtide’s developers…