Tablet PCs seem to be the next big thing. After Apple’s smartphone revolution with their iPhone, it seems the next big market revolution might be the Tablet PCs. Steve Ballmer of Microsoft introduced one of the Tablet PCs – a prototype of the HP Slate – last week on the CES 2010. In his presentation [...]
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[e-Biz] The Slate Tablets Are Coming
January 11th, 2010 
B. Kreisky 
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Tags: 2010, Amazon, Apple, Apple Tablet, C E S, CEO, CES 2010, CES2010, Consumer Electrics Show, Consumer Electronics Show, Dell, HP Slate, iPhone, iSlate, Jon Rubinstein, Kindle, Las Vegas, Microsoft, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Slate, Steve Ballmer, Steve Bezos, Steve Jobs, Tablet, Tablet Mac, Tablet PC, Touchscreen, Windows 7 
1 Comment »[misc] Web Empfang von MMS mit Alice / Hansenet
December 13th, 2009 alexander Wir alle kennen die Situation. Ein Freund sendet uns eine MMS und wir erhalten eine SMS stattdessen, obgleich unser Telefon MMS fähig ist. Warum eigentlich? Nun das ist sehr einfach: sofern man selbst keine MMS bislang versendet hat, geht der Provider davon aus, dass man kein MMS fähiges Mobiltelefon besitzt. Das ist einerseits ein guter [...]
[iPhone] AT&T To Lose iPhone Exclusivity?
December 1st, 2009 J. Epstein The last weeks are full of rumors if AT&T will prolong their exclusive contracts with Apple. Rumors say the original contracts are gonna expire in the middle of 2010. Thus allowing Apple to negotiate with different carriers like Verizon or T-Mobile. T-Mobile is currently the exclusive partner for Apple in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and [...]
[iPhone] Multi-Tasking With Multifl0w
December 1st, 2009 J. Epstein Multifl0w is an attempt to bring multi-tasking capabilities known from our latest toy – the Palm Pre – to the iPhone. Sadly this nice (and overdue) feature is only available to iPhone customers having jailbroken their devices. It does not feature the Palm Pre’s multitasking gestures nor the ‘swipe up to exit’ functionality, but it [...]
Posted in News Tags: 3G, 3GS, Demo, Hack, iPhone, Jailbreak, Jailbroken, Multi Fl0w, Multi Flow, Multi-Tasking, Multifl0w, Multiflow, Multitasking, Palm Pre, Trial, Unlock No Comments »[Pre] Video Recording with Precorder 0.2 Alpha
November 24th, 2009 H. Frahm The long waiting is over. A team around the Precentral’s forum member Prenosicator has released an alpha version of a Palm Pre video recording application. It requires WebOS 1.3.1. You will not find it in the know homebrew repositories as long as it is in alpha status. Anyway for all of you able to root [...]
Posted in Labs, News, Pre Tags: 0.2, 3GS, Alpha, app, App Catalog, application, apps, beta, Cycorder, Dev Team, Homebrew, Installation, iPhone, Palm, Pre, Precorder, Prenosicator, Preware, Recording, Video, Video Recording No Comments »[iPhone] Commercial Unlocking Scammers
November 23rd, 2009 J. Epstein It is well known, that there are commercial thieves who use freely available programs and ideas by the iPhone Dev Team, GeoHot, Chronic Dev Team and others. We highly recommend not to buy any unlocking or jailbreaking solution. They are available for free. We prepped a list of current scammers making a business modell out [...]
[iPhone] T-Mobile Tariffs in Europe Differ Extremely
November 23rd, 2009 B. Kreisky You ever felt like citizens of T-Mobile’s home country Germany pay a lot more for iPhone tariffs than citizens in countries you spend your vacation time like Netherlands or Austria? Well, your feeling was right. T-Mobile is flagrant expensive here in Germany. Why? We don’t know. But we know Deutsche Telekom (parent company of T-Mobile) [...]
Posted in News Tags: Austria, Austrian, billig, Billiger, contract, Deutsche Telekom, Deutschland, Dutch, Expensive, German, German Telekom, Germany, Holland, iPhone, Netherlands, Niederlande, Österreich, Overview, price, Sim Free, SIM locked, subscription, T-Mobile, Tarif, Telekom, Teuer, TMobile, Übersicht, Unlocked, Vertrag No Comments »[Pre] WebOS Update 1.3.1 Released in Europe
November 23rd, 2009 J. Epstein As of today European GSM Palm Pre customers on the Telefonica networks (O2 Germany, O2 UK, Movistar Spain) can download and install WebOS Update 1.3.1. After downloading the 134MBytes update it will be validate for about some five minutes. Have your battery loaded, installation will take another 10 minutes. Now, go and get it. It [...]
Posted in News Tags: 1.3.1, competition, England, Espagna, Espana, Facebook, Germany, Great Britain, iPhone, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Rubinstein, Spain, United Kingdom, update, Upgrade, WebOS No Comments »[iPhone] The Thing With Adobe Flash
November 14th, 2009 J. Epstein Yesterday we’ve shown you a screenshot of the Adobe Flash download page, when you’re browsing it from a Palm Pre. Now we made this test with an iPhone. Sadly the result is what we’ve expected. Adobe and Apple are obviously in ugly negotiations. Visiting the http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ from an iPhone you can see this: Flash Player [...]
[iPhone] Virus Worm Spreading on Jailbroken iPhones
November 13th, 2009 B. Kreisky Apple must be pleased about this news. They haven’t become tired in telling the people that jailbreaking the iPhone seriously compromises user security. And now a worm developed by Ashley Towns from down under is nothing else but attacking jailbroken iPhones whose Secure Shell has not been disabled or where the default root password (“alpine”) [...]
[Pre] Flash Coming to Palm Pre in First Half 2010
November 13th, 2009 J. Epstein Although beta versions of Adobe Flash for the Palm Pre seem to be available soon (at least for developers), end users will have to wait significantly longer. Visiting http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer on a Palm Pre shows the following text. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is coming to Palm WebOS in the first half of 2010. Via Precentral.net
Posted in News Tags: 10.1, 2010, Adobe, Adobe Flash, Flash, iPhone, Macromedia, Palm Pre, Player No Comments »[iPhone] O2 Unlocking UK Customers’ iPhones
November 12th, 2009 B. Kreisky The competition in the UK seems to be getting hard around the jesus phone. Orange just released the iPhone 3GS for their network. O2 seems to be feeling they needed to come up with something that mostly only the iPhone Dev Team or GeoHot could provide: an unlock. The unlock is offered under the following [...]
Posted in News Tags: carrier lock, Great Britain, iPhone, iPhone Dev Team, Jailbreak, Legal, Lock, O2, SIM Lock, UK, un lock, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] GeoHot Announces Latest Baseband Unlock
November 1st, 2009 H. Frahm George Hotz – by now almost any iPhone user should know that guy – hacked the latest baseband firmware 05.11.07. The unlock will be named BlackSn0w, well … That means all carrier or SIM locked iPhones around the globe running this latest firmware can be used with different SIM cards from different carriers. Thus making [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, baseband, carrier lock, crack, Firmware 3.1.2, Geo Hot, GeoHot, George Hotz, GeorgeHotz, Hack, Hacktivation, Hactivation, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, iPhoneDevTeam, Jailbreak, Locked to Carrier, Sim, un lock, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] GeoHot Releases Jailbreak for 3.x Called BlackRa1n
October 11th, 2009 J. Epstein Today notorious GeoHot released a standing new jailbreak tool called BlackRa1n. BlackRa1n is currently only available for Microsoft Windows. It is supposed to jailbreak any 3.x based iPhone or iPod touch. No matter if you’ve jailbroken before or not. BlackRa1n is fairly self explaining and straight forward designed. It’ll bring your iPhone or iPod Touch [...]
Posted in News Tags: 3.0, 3.01, 3.1, 3.11, 3.12, Alpine, Black Ra1n, Black Rain, BlackRa1n, BlackRain, Chronic Dev Team, Cydia, firmware, GeoHot, George Hotz, GreenPo1son, GreenPoison, Icy, install, iPhone, iPhone Dev Team, iPod Touch, Jailbreak, PurpleRa1n, PurpleRain, Pwnage Tool, PwnageTool, Rock, sim unlock, SSH, Unlock, Vista, Windows, Windows 7, XP No Comments »[e-Biz] Is Dell About to Build an Android Smartphone?
October 8th, 2009 J. Epstein According to the Wall Street Journal, Dell is gonna build a smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system. The smartphone is rumored to be released exclusively on the AT&T network in the U.S. The german Golem.de News also mentions negotiations between Dell and T-Mobile. Dell seems to be able to deliver the smartphone in the [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, AT&T, Dell, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mini3i, Rumor, Rumors, T-Mobile, Touchscreen, USA No Comments »[Pre] Palm Allows Distribution of WebOS Apps outside App Catalog
October 6th, 2009 J. Epstein In contrast to Apple’ AppStore, Palm today announced, they will also allow distribution of Palm Pre applications outside of Palm’s App Catalog. The WebOS developer program will officially start in december 2009 for an annual fee of 100US$. The annual fee does not apply for open source applications, as they will be taken into the [...]
Posted in News Tags: App Catalog, App Store, AppCatalog, AppStore, iPhone, Jon Rubinstein, Palm, Palm Pre, Steve Jobs No Comments »[iPhone] Flash coming to iPhone / No Flash Player for Safari
October 6th, 2009 J. Epstein Although Apple still does not allow plugins for their iPhone Safari browser, Adobe will bring Flash on the iPhone using a different strategy. Adobe Flash Professional CS5 will have an export for iPhone apps. Thus allowing games and application built using Flash being compiled natively for the iPhone and being distributed via AppStore. Sadly Adrian [...]
Posted in News Tags: Adobe, Adobe Flash Professional, Apple, Browser, Compiler, Flash, Flash Player, Flash Professional CS, Flash Professional CS5, iPhone, MAX 2009, Palm Pre, Plug-In, Plugin, Safari 1 Comment »[Pre] Palm Pre to Ship with Adobe Flash Soon (Upd.)
October 5th, 2009 J. Epstein Adobe released a video yesterday featuring the Palm Pre running Adobe Flash. Adrian Ludwig from Adobe Labs shows websites running with Flash Player 10.1 beta on the semi-official iPhone challenger Palm Pre. In their official press statement Adobe say “A public developer beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows® Mobile, [...]
Posted in News Tags: Adobe, Adobe Flash 10.1, Adrian Ludwig, Apple, Developer Beta, Flash Support, GPU optimzied, iPhone, Jon Rubinstein, no Flash, Palm, Palm Pre, Public Beta, Steve Jobs, WebOS, webOS 1.1.0, WebOS 1.2.1 2 Comments »[Pre] Marry me again: WebOS 1.2.1 syncs to iTunes 9.01
October 5th, 2009 J. Epstein A couple of days after their latest release of WebOS 1.2 Palm released WebOS 1.2.1. Now the Palm Pre is again synchronizing with Apple’s iTunes 9.0.1. Since iTunes version 8.2.1 with every update Apple is trying to stop Palm from syncing their Pre with iTunes. As we’ve seen in the past, all those attempts by [...]
Posted in News Tags: Hack, idVendor, iPhone, iTunes, Mobile, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Sprint, Sprint Mobile, Sync, Syncronize, usb, WebOS, WebOS 1.2.1 No Comments »[Pre] Palm Pre Hacked to Support Video Recording
September 30th, 2009 J. Epstein PreCentral reports that some devs managed to run a video recording software on Palm’s new flagship Pre. The software currently only supports 320 x 480 as resolution with 30fps. But as the Pre supports up to 720×480 there is hope that we will soon seen DVD like recordings just from the Pre. The video format [...]
Posted in News Tags: 30FPS, 320 x 480, iPhone, Palm, Palm Pre, Pre, Recording, Video, Video Lan Client, Video Recording, VLC No Comments »