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The Verizon iPhone rumor mill keeps churning, but as we move along it seems like more evidence continues to pile on, too. It’s no surprise to anyone that many Verizon customers are wanting the Apple smartphone. Hell, even AT&T iPhone customers want to jump ship for greener pastures: up to 34% of current iPhone owners…
Apple recently hired Benjamin Vigier as a “Product Manager” for the company’s “Mobile Commerce” unit according to his LinkedIn profile. His career in mobile spans all the way to 1997 where he was part of the team that invented Java for mobile phones or as we all know it: J2ME. Then in 1998 he did…
Paul Shin Devine, a global supply manager for Apple, was arrested on Friday for money laundering, wire fraud, and kickbacks after being indicted for selling iPhone and iPod trade secrets to Asian suppliers. Devine is accused of accepting over $1 million in payments from Asian accessory makers in exchange for internal information about the iPhone and iPod…
Apple has finally fixed up that funny little bug in iOS 4 that allowed web-based jailbreaking of the iPhone via Safari – the JailbreakMe.com jailbreak website that allowed iPhone 4 users to get in on the jailbreak and unlock action. The flaw that allowed this to happen was apparently caused by a PDF rendering bug…
We know that Apple has had some trouble keeping up with iPhone 4 demand but that may not be an issue next quarter because the company is reportedly ordering 10 million units. Sterne Agee analyst Vijay Rakesh said in a note to investors that the company has ordered more than 10 million Apple iPhone 4…
If the name Mark Papermaster rings a bell, perhaps it’s because of the battle between IBM and the veteran executive when he tried to leave for Apple. IBM sued Papermaster for violating a non-compete agreement, but the case was eventually settled and Papermaster became part of the engineering team as the executive in charge of…
The latest iOS 4 beta 3 has revealed that FaceTime will now be available via e-mail instead of just within phone calls or from a contact’s phone number within the contacts list. As you can see in the image above, an e-mail option pops up along with the phone number option in the Contacts application…
We’ve been looking for the folks at either Apple or Nokia to bring true haptic feedback technologies to devices like the iPhone and iPad – technologies that would allow for tactile feedback on a touchscreen that is capable of emulating the real feel of buttons and variable surfaces. Well, a tech demo from Senseg shows…
iPhone and other iOS users hitting the iPhone AppStore may be pleasantly surprised to discover that Apple has added a new “Try Before you Buy” header. The titling of this new section suggests that the Cupertino company is emulating Android’s application return policy which allows users to try an application and return it for a…
While the iPhone 4 has been nothing short of impressive since its release, except maybe for that little antenna problem it had, there seems to be one giant hole in the browser that poses a major security risk. The iPhone’s browser apparently had a little issue with the way it downloaded PDF files, thus making…