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Hearst’s Skiff digital media service announced; 3G e-reader coming in 2010

By Chris Davies on Friday, Dec 4th 2009 No Comments

We can’t say we think much of the name, but Hearst Corporation’s new Skiff electronic content distribution service will likely be seen as a lifeboat for beleaguered publishers. Combining an “enhanced content experience” delivery service and digital store, Skiff will make its newspaper, magazine, book and other content available on various existing devices, including smartphones like the iPhone, Hearst are also planning their own ebook reader for release in 2010, based on a Marvell chipset and using Sprint’s 3G EVDO Rev.A network for wireless connectivity.

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iPhone APIs allow data harvesting on unmodded handsets warns developer

By Chris Davies on Friday, Dec 4th 2009 No Comments

spyphone app iPhone security is a hot topic, and so when a developer takes to the stage to describe how rogue applications could “harvest personal data” on an unmodified iPhone without a user realising, you know there’s going to be some coverage. Nicolas Seriot gave a talk about iPhone Privacy in Geneva this week, and listed several ways [pdf link] in which Apple’s own APIs could be used to read or edit the address book, browse Safari and YouTube history, recent GPS position and more.

Seriot has put together an app – SpyPhone – that demonstrates what data is available merely through the standard APIs, and at first glance it’s eye-watering stuff. While passwords are blanked out, there’s a keyboard cache that logs every other word typed on the iPhone (it’s used in autocompletion). However, as the commenters at Slashdot have been discussing, security on the Apple smartphone is not just a case of on-device safeguards.

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Sports Illustrated gets touch in tablet concept [Video]

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Dec 3rd 2009 No Comments

The future of Sports Illustrated is tapping and flicking at bulky men wearing lycra, at least that’s the intention of publisher Time Inc. The company has demonstrated a future magazine concept, and unlike the “firehoze” of Sports Illustrated on the web – and we use editor Terry McDonell’s own description there – the system will allow for both text and multimedia content in a more intuitive, manageable way.

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Phone-O-Scope straps SLR lenses to iPhone

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Dec 2nd 2009 1 Comment

The iPhone 3GS’ 3-megapixel camera is hardly a threat to RED, but modders can’t stop trying to tweak it into doing things Apple never intended. An excellent example of that deviant art is Bhautik Joshi’s Phone-O-Scope SLR lens mod, basically an optical coupler that allows you to mount an SLR lens onto the iPhone.

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Developer spots usage record for iPhone 3,1 in iBART app

By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 No Comments

Apple fans and developers keep their ear close to the ground to find the new tidbits on coming Apple products from all sorts of sources. Often those sources include usage logs and deeply buried profiles in updates and software from Apple. Developer Pandav has discovered a usage record for an iPhone model that has not been announced.

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Give A Little Bit… Of Tech

By Joanna Stern on Friday, Nov 27th 2009 No Comments

“Wow! So you just pull two fingers apart on the screen to zoom in on the site?” This was my mother’s reaction last week to seeing the power of pinch-to-zoom on her new iPhone 3GS. Yes, just last week my mother, a successful business woman but a technophobe at heart, discovered that the iPhone has a little thing called multitouch! You know, that small feature that made Apple’s first phone go down in cellphone history. And her amazement didn’t stop there; she was blown away by every phone feature from the Notes application’s “cute” handwriting font to the “cool” animation of the trash can that sucks down messages like a “garbage disposal.”

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Should Nokia Abandon Symbian S60 for Maemo Linux?

By Avi Greengart on Friday, Nov 27th 2009 8 Comments

Nokia has a problem: it is both the largest handset vendor in the world, by a significant margin, and the largest smartphone vendor in the world – again, by a significant margin. Yet it has never managed to crack the U.S. smartphone market, and it has begun losing market share even in its European strongholds, primarily to Apple, though RIM, Samsung, and HTC are also threats. Nokia admits that it was caught sleeping while Apple first redefined the mobile user experience with the iPhone, and then again when Apple reenergized app development with the App Store. Nokia’s initial response has been lackluster: adapting its existing Symbian S60 OS to support touch, applying that to a few phones (the 5800 and the N97), and stumbling in its initial launch of the Ovi Store.

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RIM: Time to Bend the BlackBerry to the Consumer Curve

By Joanna Stern on Tuesday, Nov 24th 2009 4 Comments

Last week the trackball on my BlackBerry Curve decided to quit on me. The thing couldn’t roll down a hill if it tried and, well, the phone’s dated version of the operating system was starting to make me look like a mobile T-Rex. (I always thought if I were to be a dinosaur, I’d be a T-Rex.)

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Apple iPod touch with camera coming this Spring?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 23rd 2009 No Comments

The firestorm of speculation earlier this year regarding whether Apple would push a camera-toting iPod touch out of the door at their now-traditional September music event, turned out to be a damp squib; the new iPod touch was faster and more capacious than its predecessor, but had no camera functionality (despite Apple's engineers leaving space inside for one). Now, the Examiner are claiming to have heard from "an insider source" that the camera-equipped iPod touch will in fact land this spring.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 47 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Saturday, Nov 21st 2009 No Comments

Week in review time again, here we go! The Lenovo IdeaPad Pineview netbook hit the FCC Monday. The FCC is one of the most prolific leaker of gadgets and gear around and we love them for it. The CrunchPad is now said to be steamrolling toward a launch and may have a sponsorship deal in place. Word was a few weeks back that the tablet was dead.