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Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0.1 update

Apple has stepped up quickly in light of the recent SMS exploit and have released iPhone OS 3.0.1. According to the “Important Information” in iTunes, the update takes care of just one thing — it fixes the SMS vulnerability. If nothing else other than to just use some caution, it may be a good idea [...]

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Apple releases new support article blaming jailbreakers for “instability, disruption of services, and other issues”

According to a recently published Apple Support article, jailbreaking is the cause of lots of problems on the iPhone. The summary of the article sums it up pretty well; “This article is about adverse issues experienced by customers who have made unauthorized modifications to the iPhone OS (this hacking process is often called ”jailbreaking”). Issues that have been encountered include instability, disruption of services, [...]

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AT&T issues statement, blames Apple for banning of Google Voice apps

For better or worse, it seems that those much loved Google Voice apps are going to remain out of the App Store and now the discussion of who is truly to blame seems to be continuing. Personally, this felt like more of an Apple move as opposed to AT&T, but many have been blaming AT&T [...]

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Apple adds keyword search to the App Store

According to a recent AppleInsider posting, keywords have come to the App Store. It seems that Apple has finally realized that certain apps were not all that easy to find, and in an effort to improve upon that, they are now asking developers to submit a list of keywords with their apps. “developers are now asked [...]

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Apple releases official MobileMe iDisk app

The free MobileMe iDisk app that Apple promised us back in June is now available in the App Store. As expected the app is available for free, of course a MobileMe account (which is not free) is required for use. Honestly, the app does just what you would expect in ways that you would expect. In [...]

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Google adds “smart links” for Gmail on the iPhone

Google has recently updated the way Gmail handles certain links using the web app. The new update basically just shortens the links, but when on a mobile device with a smaller screen, the extra space will be a nice perk. The official term is called “Smart Links” and they will be used to shorten links for [...]

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Jailbroken app: GV Mobile now available in Cydia

Those of you that may have missed out on getting a Google Voice app before they were all pulled from the App Store may have a second chance. Of course, that second chance does come as a little bit of good news and bad news. Lets start with the good news, GV Mobile is currently available [...]

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The Google Voice app massacre continues; all GV apps pulled and the official Google GV app denied entry

We first saw the Twitter message come from GV Mobile developer Sean Kovacs who alerted us that GV Mobile was being pulled from the App Store and sadly the bad news did not stop there. It turns out that a short while later, Apple also pulled all of the other Google Voice apps including VoiceCentral and [...]

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Apple and China Unicom reportedly reach agreement to bring the iPhone to China

According to a recent Shanghai Securities News report, it looks like the seemingly never ending saga between Apple and China Unicom has come to an end. Sure, we have seen reports that suggested this before, so we remain skeptical, however it looks like it will be a three year exclusivity deal. These reports note that the [...]

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Apple releases iPhone OS 3.1 beta 3, iPhone SDK 3.1 beta 3 to developers

Apple has recently released both iPhone OS 3.1 beta 3 and iPhone SDK 3.1 beta 3 to the development community. This release, which comes just a few short weeks since we saw beta 2 is just another stepping stone on the way to the official public release of iPhone OS 3.1. One important item to point [...]

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