Archive | July, 2009

31 July 2009 0 Comments

IPhone SMS Exploit Patch

IPhone SMS Exploit Patch

Who said Apples don’t get virusses? Researchers Collin Mulliner and Charlie Miller have proven at the Black Hat security conference that by merely sending a special SMS message, an attacker can take over your phone entirely: turn on or off the camera, send the contacts list, dial out, steal data, send text messages, etc etc [...]

30 July 2009 0 Comments

iPhone Security Threat Via SMS

iPhone Security Threat Via SMS

Remember that alleged SMS-based security hole on the iPhone allowing evil-doers to execute arbitrary code and do all sorts of nasty crap like create an army of mobile zombies ready and willing to execute a DoS attack? The guy who found it, security expert Charlie Miller, said that he’d reveal the details of it at [...]

30 July 2009 0 Comments

Steve Jobs back at Apple

If you have been mesmerized by a marketing god called Steve Jobs, just like I do, you wont say its too much when it comes to Apple news, rumors etc. The photo below was taken on an iPhone by TMZ staff who clicked Steve Jobs when he was leaving company headquarters in Cupertino, California around [...]

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30 July 2009 0 Comments

Google Voice Mobile for iPhone App Released on Cydia

Google Voice Mobile for iPhone App Released on Cydia

This week, Apple pulled GV Dialer and related Google Voice applications from the AppStore on the basis that it’s “confusing” to consumers and “duplicates” functionality available in other iPhone applications. But it will reappear in Cydia and this time it will be free of cost. If you have jailbreak iPhone, then that, you can install [...]

30 July 2009 0 Comments

China Unicom Rumoured to Be Chosen By Apple to Sell iPhone in China

A China news agency report claims that the largest nation in the world will soon be getting the most famous phone in the world (iPhone), via local carrier China Unicom. Apparently the carrier got the exclusivity for the handset for 3 years, so they should be getting ready for a major cash in soon. Rumour [...]

30 July 2009 0 Comments

Apple Finally Releases MobileMe iDisk App

Apple Finally Releases MobileMe iDisk App

It’s finally here! Apple announced the MobileMe iDisk App back in June and it has now arrived. Using the iDisk App, you can browse through your iDisk folders directly on your iPhone. The app is free and you get it from, yep you guessed it, the App Store. Note however, it requires iPhone OS 3.0 [...]

27 July 2009 0 Comments

AT&T Refub iPhone 3G Now Starting at $49 (8GB) or (16GB) $99

AT&T Refub iPhone 3G Now Starting at $49 (8GB) or (16GB) $99

AT&T looks like now desperate to move their remaining iPhone 3G stock out the door. AT&T used Twitter last Friday evening to announce that a refurbished iPhone 3G specifically, the black 8GB model can now be picked up for just $49 with a 2-year contract of course. That’s half the price of an unopened 8GB [...]

27 July 2009 0 Comments

Resident Evil 4 for iPhone

After a premature release and pull earlier this month, Capcom has officially released Resident Evil 4 for iPhone. Resident Evil fanatics have been anxiously anticipating its official release. The wait is over, but it will likely take a true Resident Evil fan to appreciate the mobile edition of the game (or, ironically, one who has [...]

24 July 2009 18 Comments

Send Free SMS Worldwide over the internet with Global.AQ iPhone App

It seems SMS or text messages are the most used feature on a cell phone. Not surprisingly, the cell phone carriers are trying to milk this cash cow, in spite of the fact that it almost costs nothing to send a text message. Today we review a great mobile application that lets you send unlimited [...]

24 July 2009 0 Comments

Google Latitude for iPhone Released as Web App Only

Google Latitude for iPhone Released as Web App Only

Google is ‘finally’ announcing Latitude for the iPhone, but can’t put it on the Google Maps application at the request of Apple. The reason behind the request is Apple doesn’t want confusion between a Google Maps App and the native one that comes installed on the iPhone. However, it’s also likely that the iPhone’s inability [...]