The Inquirer reports, that Apple’s latest gadget has been rejected from using on networks of George Washington University and Princeton University. The iPad seems to have massive issues with network stability.
Read more on The Inquirer…
Engadget reports they got hands on pictures of the upcoming iPhone 4G. They seem to be from an inside testlab of Apple.
Readmore on Engadget.com…
Notorious hacker Marc Maiffre said in an interview with CNet.com that OS X is less secure than Windows. The reason why Windows is more attacked anyway is Windows’ market penetration.
Read more on CNet.com…
According to “Apple Insider” Apple is in talks with AMD. Rumors say Apple will be design their own x86 CPUs and AMD might be the company to manufacture them.
Read more on Apple Insider…
Berlin based Company Neofonie now presented their latest high-tech gadget called WePad. The We Pad will be cheaper than the iPad. The WePad will be Adobe Flash enabled.
Tech Specs
The operating system will be a multitouch adjusted Linux. Software can be installed as widgets. Open Office will be available. It is compatible to
Versions
The WePad will be released in two flavors.
Releasedate
The WePad will be released in Germany in July. Pre-Orders can be submitted from April 27th, 2010.
via: Golem.de (german only)…
As of version 1.4 it seems Palm has managed to get WebOS out of beta status. Anyway there are still some things that could be a tiny bit better. We therefore compiled an (incomplete) list ;-) of packages, we are currently using on our Pre’s.
The Requirements
These packages require a Palm Pre put into developer mode and an installed Preware installer.
Both steps are easy as saying “1, 2, Pre”…
The Incomplete Preware Packages List
Done and happy? Ok then, here we go:
| Package | Description | PreWare Folder |
| Battery Saver | Turns on airplane mode each night at a defined time | Application |
| Brightness Unlinked | Brightness of Keyboard and Brightness of Screen can now separately be adjusted | Applications |
| MyTether | Turns your Pre into a WiFi to 3G router. Extremely helpful on vacation. | Not on PreWare, get here only… |
| Terminal | Allows Accessing the Linux Terminal from within the Pre | Applications |
| 4×4 icons v4 No Arrows Plus More | 4 Icons on Launcher Screen per line | Patch |
| Ad Blocker | Being on GRPS/Edge sometimes, you definitely don’t want to spend bandwidth on ads | Patch |
| Capture with Volume Keys | Shoot Images with the Volume Keys | Patch |
| Confirm Delete | Confirm Deleting an Email | Patch |
| Fullscreen Mode Browser | No Urlbar, No Application Frame, No Notification when scrolled down. Extends the browser to the full screen size | Patch |
| Reduce Minimum Brightness | Changes Minimum from 10 to 0 | Patch |
| Fullscreen Mode Browser | No Urlbar, No Application Frame, No Notification when scrolled down. Extends the browser to the full screen size | Patch |
| Send All Contacts via Email | Creates a vCard containing ALL contacts and attaches it to an Email | Patch |
Shouts fly out to the WebOS-Internals team and the guys at the Precentral Forums. That’s awesome work you’re doing.
What happened so far?
GeoHot has had a reverse-engineerer’s look into Sony’s high tech gadget and Sony immediately declared war.
Obviously in panic, Sony announced to deactivate Linux (Other-OS) support with their latest firmware 3.21. This was the time when people were wondering how long it would take until GeoHot would reenable it.
The magic PUP files
So it did not take too long. That notorious hacking genious did it. He says he’s using a custom PUP file. A PUP file basically is an update file for the PS3. The interesting point is usually PUP files are signed by Sony.
Speculations
Could that mean there is a major flaw in Sony’s implementation of checking the authenticity of update files (at least until firmware 3.15, which GeoHot mentions is the latest that allows to install his custom PUP).
Anyway, the next weeks will be very interesting.
Leaked vid showing multi-tasking on iPhone 3GS
It seems someone has got his hands on a developer beta of iPhone OS 4.0. The vid below shows how multi-tasking is gonna be implemented on the iPhone. We say: yes eventually multi-tasking, but no: Palm’s webOS approach to multi-tasking is unbeaten at the moment. Apple should consider buying Palm. They are cheap and half the staff is former leading elite Apple people anyway ;-)
Apple’s golden rule: product lifecycles are two years, amigos
Sadly although Cydia users know that multi-tasking is possible even on first gen iPhones, Apple will not enable multi-tasking on devices older than iPhone 3GS.
iPhone 2G users already made a bitter experience when MMS was not enabled on their devices with the 3.0 update.
Notorious WebOS Internals Team has managed to compile and run an X-Server on our beloved latest gadget Palm Pre, thus allowing to run Open Office. As Rod Whitby states:
Just a note to say that we do have a roadmap of being able to install native Debian X11 GUI applications (like OpenOffice) via Preware. But don’t hold your breath, cause it looks like we need to write a whole new FUSE filesystem driver to be able to do it. Think weeks to months, rather than days.
Via PreCentral.net…
According to Sony’s Blog, the upcoming Playstation 3 firmware update 3.21 will cease to support the “Other OS” option. It will be released on April 1st, 2010.
Sony says disabling Linux comes from security concerns. This is an immediate result from the efforts of GeoHot’s attack on Sony’s hypervisor protection and the release of XorLoser’s PS3 Exploit Toolkit.
Consumers and organizations that currently use the “Other OS” feature can choose not to upgrade their PS3 systems, although the following features will no longer be available;
- Ability to sign in to PlayStation Network and use network features that require signing in to PlayStation Network, such as online features of PS3 games and chat
- Playback of PS3 software titles or Blu-ray Disc videos that require PS3 system software version 3.21 or later
- Playback of copyright-protected videos that are stored on a media server (when DTCP-IP is enabled under Settings)
- Use of new features and improvements that are available on PS3 system software 3.21 or later
For those PS3 users who are currently using the “Other OS” feature but choose to install the system software update, to avoid data loss they first need to back-up any data stored within the hard drive partition used by the “Other OS,” as they will not be able to access that data following the update.
Find Sony’s blog entry here…