Orb TV is the $99 video streamer that will do Netflix and Hulu, but not HD
Your Apple TVs and your Google TVs hold a lot of potential, but their limited access to content freely available to any 'ol PC and Mac is what you'd call a bit of a problem.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, appleiphone, engadget, hulu, orb, orb caster, orb tv, quality, remote, tversity, tvs, video-streamer
Apple attempts to patent kill switch that roots out unauthorized users, detects jailbreaks
Just about every mobile operating system manufacturer can remotely delete apps from the smartphones they help provide, but if a recent patent application is any indication, Apple's looking to lock down the whole enchilada on future devices. The basic concept is as simple as the diagram above -- certain activities trigger the phone to think it's in the wrong hands -- but the particular activities and particular remedies Apple suggests extend to audiovisual spying (to detect if a user has a different face or voice than the owner), and complete remote shutdown. While the patent mostly sounds targeted at opt-in security software and would simply send you an alert or perform a remote wipe if your phone were stolen or hacked, jailbreaking and unlocking are also explicitly mentioned as the marks of an unauthorized user, and one line mentions that cellular carriers could shut down or cripple a device when such a user is detected
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apple-iphone, appleiphone, application, carriers, entry, opt-in-security, patent, patent applications, patentapplications, remotewipe
Hacker reveals how Apple artifically restricts iPhone chargers (video)
Most cell phone manufacturers have charging standards these days, even if they can't always agree on which version of USB to use, but as the hair-tearing message above shows, third-party renditions of Apple's proprietary dock connector haven't always been universal solutions for iPods and iPhones. Now we know another important reason why -- secret resistors placed on the data lines in connectors for each iDevice. Minty Boost creator ladyada recently reverse-engineered the chargers for a variety of Apple gadgets, and discovered that iPhones in particular don't draw electricity until they detect 2.8V and 2V signals when they attempt to charge
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: accepting-500m, appleiphone, chargers, charging, electricity, electronics, handsets, manufacturers, particular-don, phone, result, source
Apple iOS 4.1 beta 2 now available for developers
Developers, developers, developers: Apple is now seeding the second iteration of the iOS 4.1 beta your way. It's been just shy of two weeks since beta 1 hit the scene , which is about on par with the pace of revisions for previous beta releases
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: appleiphone, chance-yet, dev, developers, devs, engadget, ios, ios 4.1, ios 4.1 beta 2, ios4.1beta, iphone, pace, the-second
Skype updated for iOS 4, background VoIP is a go (update: no plans to charge for 3G use)
Well, it's about time.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: appleiphone, entry, from-the-new, international, ios 4, iphone os, iphoneos4, pillar, rollover, skype, video, voip, window
Mongoose Studio’s dozen iPod cluster display is an expensive way to watch Tron (video)
Most of us would be happy to get video to play on a single video to play on our PMP without having to run it through some sort of transcoder first, but the folks at Mongoose Studio needed something more complex.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: appleiphone, interesting, iphone, ipodtouchcluster, mongoose studio, mongoosestudio, multiple displays, pmp, video
iPhone 4 antenna problems were predicted on June 10 by Danish professor
Well, this must be one of the most epic "I told you so" moments in the history of consumer electronics. Professor Gert Fr
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: aalborg, aerial, apple, apple-iphone, appleiphone, brainbox, denmark, entry, phone, professor-gert, tissue, undesirable, university
iPhone 4 launch day line watch (update: UK sales begin)
From the London store Welcome to the latest installment of our annual tradition: the iPhone launch day queue experience in pictorial form. London's getting the party started early (not as early as some , admittedly) with a sizable crowd turning the corner from the Apple Store at Regent Street, but we'll keep this post updated with imagery from all over the place. Wouldn't mind if you helped us out with a few of your own pics, either
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, appleiphone, crowd, early-as-some, iphone, iphone4, launch, palo, party, queue, store, street
iPhone 4 launch day line watch (updated)
From the San Francisco store Welcome to the latest installment of our annual tradition: the iPhone launch day queue experience in pictorial form.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, apple-iphone, appleiphone, day, iphone 4, iphone4, laiunch day, launch, result
iOS 4 privacy policy updated: Apple can anonymously collect location data, you can take away iAds’ cookies
It may not be a big deal -- Android's done it for years -- but some will no doubt be interested to learn that Apple can monitor your GPS. In the latest revision of its privacy policy, presumably updated for iOS 4 , it revealed the company can anonymously track the "real-time geographic location" of devices and is free to share that data with "partners and licensees" as well.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple-iphone, appleiphone, collection, doubt, location, privacy policy, privacypolicies, real, simply-navigate, time