Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

Apple has updated their online store with the TomTom Car Kit for iPhone 3G/3GS.

The car kit consists of a dock with a built-in GPS transceiver designed in tandem with the companion TomTom for iPhone GPS application, although the application is sold separately for $99.99 and is not bundled with the $119.99 dock as first expected [...]

Information has surfaced that confirms the top 20 third-party authorized dealer networks selling AT&T Mobility products and services will begin to carry the iPhone beginning on November 1st.
This represents a further change of sales policy regarding iPhone, as it was formerly restricted to AT&T retail stores, online sales and Apple, then opened up to [...]

Nokia has filed a lawsuit against Apple in Delaware Federal District Court, claiming the iPhone violates 10 of Nokia’s expansive GSM, UMTS and Wi-Fi patents.
In a press release, Nokia stated:

“The ten patents in suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and [...]

Following up on the 3.1.2 jailbreak news yesterday, members of the Dev-Team have confirmed that Apple has begun shipping iPhone 3GS units with a new bootrom that fixes the 24kpwn vulnerability that allows for jailbreaking as of last week.

Because of the new bootrom, the team has confirmed that a standard jailbreak would be impossible [...]

The Dev-Team has made short work of the recent 3.1.2 security/patch release update for the iPhone.
SUMMARY:

The iPhone 3GS is now supported out of the box in PwnageTool 3.1.4 (or if you have upgraded to 3.1.x in iTunes)
The iPod 2G is still supported in PwnageTool 3.1.4 but you must already be jailbroken
The iPod touch 3G is [...]

Apple has pushed iPhone 3.1.2 via iTunes, which weighs in at 241MB and fixes the following issues: a sporadic issue that may cause the iPhone not to wake from sleep, an intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular services until restart and fixes a bug that could cause occasional crashing during video streaming.
The update also includes [...]

AT&T has just issued a press release in the last few minutes announcing that it will allow VOIP applications such as Skype to be used over its 3G network, confirming its decision to Apple and the FCC.
This follows FCC inquiries into AT&T’s practices regarding its policies on allowing or restricting certain applications on its data [...]

RIM has announced the official release of the long-awaited Mac OS X version of its BlackBerry Desktop Manager device management software for its recent lineup of BlackBerry devices.
Prior to the release of the native Mac client, BlackBerry owners with Macs were forced to use less than seamless alternatives to sync the device with Mac OS [...]

The iPhone Dev Team has released PwnageTool 3.1. The update is the first release that support iPhone OS 3.1.
However, due to Apple’s updates to the iBoot firmware, the team has been unable to add support for the iPod touch 2G and iPhone 3GS.
The iPhone 3GS is further complicated by the addition of Apple’s Windows-style activation [...]

AT&T has officially announced September 25th as the date for activation of iPhone MMS services and the availability of the latest Apple iPhone 3G/3GS update via iTunes which includes the proper hooks for the service to function, which have previously been available via jailbreaking.
AT&T explained the service delay was due to wishing to provide the [...]