Update May 5, 2009: EPOS I. does pretty much the same like EFI-X, but is free of charge for endusers. Find EPOS I. here.
We today finally received an EFI-X V1 device for review purposes. As our device arrived from Taiwan, there is obviously a swiss dealer who really got some devices for sale, yet. We get back to you a little later, when we setup our testing lab devices. In the meantime, enjoy some photos…
» List of EFI-X Retail Dealers…
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The higher regional court of Hamburg (Hamburger Oberlandesgericht) yesterday ruled in favor of T-Mobile. Sipgate is not allowed to promote or distribute its iPhone application that allowed Voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephony on jailbroken iPhones anymore.
The issue is not the application, but installing Sipgates VoIP client required to jailbreak the iPhone. And jailbreaking of T-Mobile’s customer’s iPhones is illegal in germany. By the way: jailbreaking of iPhones bought abroad is not.
This project grew from a little idea. The idea was to share knowledge about things you can hardly find anywhere else on the net. As we moved forward this project grew and still grows. Each day thousands of people from all over the world visit our pages. In the beginning we were happy with 4,000 visitors a month. In peak times we currently got more than 2,000 visitors per day. Thanks to all of you guys.
Anyway, we realized without searching you cannot find too much on our pages. That’s why we decided to change the categories and the structure of our pages a little bit. Also the weighting of the “similar news” has been adjusted. We expect you to find things much easier and faster.
I you like: drop us a line and tell us what you think…
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Firmware 2.1 is already available for iPod Touch customers. If you are already using firmware 2.0 this update will be free of charge. If you are running a firmware revision below 2.0 an upgrade fee will apply. iPhone users need to wait a little longer. Apple will begin seeding firmware 2.1 on friday, 12th of september. As always: for iPhone customers this upgrade is free of charge. Why buying an iPod Touch anyway?
Apple announced this upgrade will:
iPhone Dev Team: get on your marks. 6million iPhone users are expecting your help tomorrow :-)
Jim Goldmann of CNBC interviewed Steve Jobs on tuesday. Steve talks about their new iPod holiday collection, about bugs in the iPhone 3G and Microsoft’s new advertisments. Steve – as always – is kinda simpatico, but he definitly looks a little bit thinner than last year.
This video is courtesy of CNBC. Find original CNBC article here.
[Update] Sept 26th, 2008: Added the SRWare Iron browser under Downloads
The Next Browser War
The next Browser War has begun yesterday night, when Google released their new view on the Web. A new Browser called “Chrome“. Chrome is the most powerful weapon, when it comes to the question: how to connect services locally stored on your PC with services available on the net.
Microsoft – the market leader in the field of operating systems – cannot be amused about that. Chrome has the potential to make a large amount of local stored services (like Office solutions) dispensable, means: what will we need Windows for?
The Thing with the Privacy
But it is that simple only from the view of the economists. Highlighting the potentials is their sphere of action. With a sociological view people will ask, why they should give eben more private data in the hands of Google. Google’s only ambition is making money through advertisements, thus giving away for free all the services people will need in order to provide the users with customer specific advertisements.
Even now Google has already collected more private data than Microsoft ever had the possibility to. And every Chrome installation got a unique serial number integrated. That serial will be used for tracking and aggregation of customer behaviour data. We will see how people will agree with Google’s strategy.
The Future
What likely is: the end of Mozilla could be coming silently. In the past Mozilla actually was bankrolled by Google: 85% of their revenue comes from Google (read here and here). Although Google and Mozilla prolonged their sponsoring contracts until 2011, there is basically no need for Google to sponsor Mozilla anymore, when supplying an own browser like Chrome.
Google’s battle against Microsoft has reached a new level of escalation. We’re quite certain to see Microsoft’s answer very soon.
Downloads
» Download Mozilla Firefox here…
» Download Google Chrome beta here…
» Download Internet Explorer 8 beta here…
» Download Opera here…
» Download Apple Safari here…
» Download SRWare Iron here (german page!)…
Performance Tests
Golem.de did a performance test for all these browsers. Find it here:
We just got an e-mail sent by the PR division of EFI-X, saying they will ship press review sample devices on friday this week.
Stay tuned guys. Dreams are finally coming true to the PC scene…
» Find more information on EFI-X.com
Nicht nur MobileMe von Apple hat Probleme mit der Persistenz von Mails (wir berichteten hier), auch der lokale Provider Berlin.de haut nun in die gleiche Kerbe. Ebenso wie MobileMe ist Berlin.de kostenpflichtig.
Schon im vergangenen Jahr wurden viele Kunden von Berlin.de in den Irrsinn getrieben. Die damalige Migration verlief nur unter größten Problemen. IMAP Nutzer fanden die in Unterordern angelegten Mails nicht mehr, da entweder die Order gar nicht migriert wurden oder die Mails in falsche Ordner sortiert wurden. Kundenmails von uns an den Support, blieben damals unbeantwortet. Rund 500MB Mails seit 2002 durften wir in mühseliger Kleinarbeit manuell in die richtigen Ordner zurücksortieren.
Heute morgen war es dann mal wieder soweit. Der Server war nicht mehr erreichbar. Erst ein Einloggen unter http://club.berlin.de brachte zu Tage, dass der E-Mail Service momentan nicht genutzt werden kann und dass man es bitte später wieder probieren sollte. “Präsentiert von der ComDirect Bank”… Gründe wurden bislang nicht genannt, weder über Berlin.de, noch auf Anfrage per Mail, auch ist die Die Berlin.de Hotline unter 01805.002856 nicht erreichbar.
Wir sind gespannt.
[UPDATE]: Seit einigen Minuten (17:00h) ist nun die Inbox wieder erreichbar. Das für IMAP bekannten abonnieren von Unterordnern funktioniert hingegen nicht.
GeoHot just granted the world an insight into his current work project. It is called EDA and it almost looks like IDA (that btw also includes an iPhone debugger), but EDA seems to go a little further in case of simulator/dissassembler terms.
Geohot says the EDA simulator to:
This concept he explains should make tracing of memory mapped IO processes “super easy”. But as GeoHot says: “Sadly, it’s still a work in progress. Maybe when its done, I’ll look for the 3G unlock.” Means: this tool is not available to the public, sadly.
Picture is courtesy of GeoHot.
VMWare has released VMWare Fusion 2.0 beta for MacOS X. Fusion will integrate McAfee Antivirus solution with an upgrade and update plan for 12 months. Moreover Fusion 2.0 will be available as a free update for Fusion 1.0 customers.
Further features:
Downloading the beta version as demo requires registration on VMWare site (go here). A free beta serial key is provided aswell.
See official VMWare trailer here: