Last week a british customer of an iPhone 3G found photos on his just activated iPhone 3G. Those photos were showing a girl from the factory plant of Foxconn nearby Shenzhen. A factory representative said to not intend to fire that girl. We all really hope that’s true.
Pictures are courtesy of http://www.iphonegirl.net. Visit their page here for more photos.
Mac clone manufacturer Psystar said to countersuit Apple for anticompetitetive business practices on Tuesday (see our recent report here). For this operation Psystar hired antitrust specialist attorney Colby Springer from Carr & Farrell.
Psystar will file sues on the basis of two U.S. american laws to prevent monopolies and cartels (see Sherman Antitrust Act and Clayton Antitrust Act). Tying MacOS X to Apple labeled hardware only is “an anticompetitive restrain of trade”, said Colby Springer. Psystar wants the District Court from Northern California to rule Apple’s End-User-License-Agreement for MacOS X invalid.
Stay tuned…
It looks like Google learned from Apple in the question how to distribute content and useful applications to the customer. Google will introduce a marketplace, that is quite similiar to what Apple already introduces as AppStore. As Google puts it: “We chose the term “market” rather than “store” because we feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available. Similar to YouTube, content can debut in the marketplace after only three simple steps: register as a merchant, upload and describe your content and publish it.”
Google also plans to integrate a wide range of statistics and analytic tools to the developers. More infos and more photos to be found here. We feel like Android’s GUI looks like Google learned a lot more from Apple than other companies in this short time. Isn’t it sarcastic, that Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt is member of Apple’s Board of Directors?
Our fellow iPhone Dev Team yesterday finally released QuickPwn for MacOS X. Sadly the Dev Team in the first place only provided a .torrent link (get torrent here) for distribution. We will come up with further details soon. For now: there are no reports about bugs about this version for Mac ,yet. Use “Archive Utility” to unpack, otherwise permission may be screwed up. Thumbs up for the Dev Team.
SHA1 sum: QuickPwn_1.0.0.tbz (via torrent) = 22ee0d6814a6bac9b1b9a8c7715dd714bd6bb449
[Update] Download QuickPwn 1.0 for Mac from these mirror locations now: RapidShare and iPhone-Hacks.com.
In german speaking forums rumors circulate saying the new crypto system for some european Pay TV providers (D+ / TVCabo, Premiere) Nagra 3 has been commercially hacked.
An emulator smart card called “Centaurus” is said to be available on the european grey markets within the next two weeks. This has not been confirmed, as said: this is rumors only.
More details about the Nagra encryption and Kudelski the company behind.
Update November 14th, 2008: The whole Centaurus shabang is fake.
Our beloved iPhone Dev Team yesterday released updated versions of QuickPwn for Microsoft Windows (now with improved Windows 64bit handling) and PwnageTool for MacOS X (fixes the permission issue, mentioned here). If you have PwnageTool installed yet, it should bravely auto-update.
We had no time yet to test neither the Windows version nor the Mac version. Firmware 2.0.2 is reported to be only a series of bugfixes. People report, their devices run a little smoother. If you don’t encounter problems running your current iPhone / iPod Touch firmware, we would not recommend to update right now. It is rumored Apple will the release stable firmware 2.1 in september.
» Windows QuickPwn RC3 Download here…
» MacOS X PwnageTool 2.0.3.1 Download here (mirror here)…
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Many MacBook and MacBook Pro users already experiences problems with their MagSafe power adapters. Apple now reacts to this issue and replaces all MagSafe adapters no matter if your device is out of warranty or not. Go here to demand a replacement. Apple usually ships within 48hrs to your door.
In contrast to Apple’s shown picture our problem with the rubber molding appears on the other end of the cable.
My fellow dudes from giube.de solved the server transition almost like fluently in 22 hours. Including rehousing of 99 domains and contents. Congrats. We’re now running a CentOS system. Users may experience minor errors for the next 24h, because not all DNS records worldwide have been updated yet…
Our provider informed us that their upgrading the server. They hope to get this fixed until wednesday evening (european time)! We apologize for any inconveniences in advance.In the meantime our news-services will not be (fully) available.
Our services will be fully accessible at latest on Thursday 28/08/2008. Take care and enjoy your iPhones, Hackintoshs or your family :-)
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More and more people are reporting that their iPhone 3G cases are cracking sooner or later. It is well visible on white devices, but we exect the black ones to be as fragile as the white ones. The only difference is: a crack can be seen much better on a white case. Anyway ehPhone.ca from Canada show how those cracked cases look like.
