Our favorite blogging platform, WordPress, just launched the their mobile-blogging iPhone application the other day through the AppStore to our merriment. And, to keep things moving along in iPhone development circles, the WordPress team has posted their iPhone WordPress application’s source-code through SVN. Rather than keep the application, and its development, locked down and subject…
HTC releases official HTC Touch Diamond ROM to enable US 850Mhz support
HTC, again proving that they are undoubtedly the people‘s handset manufacturer, has released their own HTC Touch Diamond ROM that flips the switch on the dormant 850Mhz GSM radio lying underneath that slick, VGA touchscreen. Following on the cooked ROM from xda-developers that allowed formerly tri-band HTC Touch Diamond handsets to roam free on the…
iPhone 2.0 OS jailbreak and what it means for multi-tasking applications
If you’re the type to abide by the rules and let Apple decide which applications you can and cannot run on your iPhone, then you’ll be just fine running third-party applications from the AppStore that don’t run in the background. Sure, they might offer you a saved-state feature that launches the application in to the…
Winpwn 2.0 brings iPhone 3G jailbreak to Windows – Pwnage Tool 2.0 for Windows
Can’t bear the thought of letting your GPS-toting, 3G-capable iPhone 3G keep living the straight-and-narrow life of official iPhone applications? Worry not, dear iPhone 3G jailbreaker. Pwnage Tool 2.0.1 was released to make your iPhone 3G jailbreak aspirations a simple few-click process. What, you don’t have a Mac, you say? Good news! The Windows-version of…
AT&T looking towards web-based voice-recognition application for handsets, iPhone
Voice-recognition applications aren’t exactly high on our list of gotta-have features for our myriad mobile phones, but it sure is a cool idea – especially when the steering wheel gets in the way of tapping on a mobile phone’s keyboard. So, it’s good to hear that AT&T is looking to bring true voice-activated text-entry to…
RIM fixes crash-worthy BlackBerry server flaw – PDF vulnerability in BlackBerry Attachment Service
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…
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…
Home-brew video acceleration drivers coming to an HTC device near you
HTC hasn’t been all that supportive of the ATI Imageon video hardware on board HTC handsets using Qualcomm’s MSM7500 and MSM7200 chipsets. They’ve released firmware revisions that offer some video performance boosts, but nothing to the level that many irate HTC customers are looking for in their high-end smartphone. So, without any help from HTC,…
WordPress application for iPhone coming soon to AppStore
Mobile blogging clients for the iPhone are every blogger’s dream application, us included. With the huge display and newly minted 3G radio, the iPhone 3G is poised to be a mobile blogging tool no unlike the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Of course, the new, lower priced of the Nokia N810 features a larger display and…
Pwnage Tool 2.0 Still Not Ready For Prime-time – Latest iPhone Jailbreak More Difficult Than Handy
There’s just something about sticking it to “the man.” Sure, jailbreaking an iPhone is sticking “it” to Steve Jobs, which is or isn’t as satisfying (depending on your point of view) as sticking it to more prominent authorities. But, it sure beats sitting back and taking what they give you. The latest iPhone jailbreak solution…