Apple mysteriously kills jailbreak detection API while hacker boosts iOS security, irony restored
It's no secret that Apple's been keen to monitor the lot of naughty jailbreakers, but it turns out the company has recently shelved iOS 4.0's jailbreak detection API with no explanation given. While this has little effect on the average user, Network World explains that this is bad news for enterprise IT and MDM (mobile device management) vendors, who will now have one fewer channel for checking whether a user's iOS device has been jailbroken and thus become vulnerable to attacks.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: api, charlie, ipodtouch, mdm, memory, miller, randomization, result, security, sektioneins, stefan-esser, technique, windows
FCC addressing net neutrality on December 21st (updated)
Well, well, look at what's been added to a tentative agenda when the FCC meets on December 21st: net neutrality . Here's how the item reads: Open Internet Order: An Order adopting basic rules of the road to preserve the open Internet as a platform for innovation, investment, competition, and free expression. These rules would protect consumers' and innovators' right to know basic information about broadband service, right to send and receive lawful Internet traffic, and right to a level playing field, while providing broadband Internet access providers with the flexibility to reasonably manage their networks
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: chairman, congestion, content, genachowski, hurt-the-public, internet, regulation, result, security, web-sites, words
Netflix headed to ‘select Android devices’ early next year
Netflix has always been something of a fickle beast, lavishing treats upon just one platform at a time, but now that iOS , Windows Phone 7 and every game console under the sun are streaming its video, the firm's finally turned its gaze on Android. Come early 2011, Netflix will appear on "select Android devices," according to the company's official blog, which also promises a "standard, platform-wide solution" for Android in the unspecified future.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: beast, content-holders, gaze, holders, keen-on-making, mechanism, netflix, phone, security, under-the-sun, watchinstantly, windows
Sprint axes Huawei, ZTE telecom bids due to security fears in Washington?
Huawei might be making inroads into the US consumer smartphone market, but the Chinese telecom supplier's attempts to break into big business have been stonewalled .
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: been-the-lowest, china, chinese, government, journal, security, street, telecom, usgovernment
HTC 7 Surround first hands-on! (update: video)
We just got a quick look at the HTC 7 Surround for AT&T, running that brand-spanking-new Windows Phone 7 OS you've been hearing so much about. The phone has a kickstand to help it show off its standout feature: a slide-out "Dolby Surround Sound" speaker
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 7 surround, htc, htc 7 surround, htc7surround, phone, security, Surround, windows, windowsphone, wp7launch
UAE says BlackBerry is now compliant with regulations, free to rock on
The latest thrilling installment in BlackBerry's Middle East saga has turned out not to be so thrilling after all. Having set an October 11 deadline for RIM to comply with its "telecommunications regulatory framework," the United Arab Emirates is today reporting that the BlackBerry maker has managed to make the necessary changes with plenty of time to spare.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, compliance, deadline, middleeast, saudi, security, uae, ultimatum, united
LG’s C900 Windows Phone 7 handset resurfaces with 1.3GHz Snapdragon, metal frame? (video)
We imagine that LG's security forces are combing Poland as we speak, because Android.com.pl has just provided us with yet another high-end handset leak.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, lg c900, lgc900, phone, polish, qwerty, security, smartphone, teensy-3-2-inch, windows, windowsphone7, wp7
BBC crafts malicious smartphone app to prove a point… we guess
You may surmise that Auntie Beeb is only good for news distribution from across the pond, but as it turns out, the BBC is apparently giving at least a few of its employees a little of that oh-so-coveted " 20 percent time ." In an effort to prove just how easy it is to create a smartphone application that can gank all sorts of personal information, a staffer at the organization spent just a few weeks learning enough code to create a "crude game." In play, the app would gather contact information, copy text messages and log the phone's current location; afterwards, it would shoot all of that information to a specified email address, but not before putting a serious hurting on the battery. All told, the spyware took up around 250 lines of the 1,500 making up the whole program, and thankfully for us all, the BBC decided against submitting the program into any app stores. Phew.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: across-the-pond, app, auntie-beeb, battery, bbc, beeb, crafts, drain, engadget, ill-willed-app, phone, security, staffer
BlackBerry messaging shut down in Saudi Arabia, users feel early withdrawal pains
We can't say this is exactly a surprise , but we are rather saddened to learn that Saudi Arabia has apparently carried through on its threats to shut down all BlackBerry messaging services functionality due to "security concerns." Users there are reporting that they are no longer able to use their keyboards for the jobs they were intended, forcing them to actually call friends -- with their voices. Saudi Arabia has threatened $1.3 million fines for any wireless provider that does not play nicely and, until those threats are lifted, we're thinking BBM is down for the count out there
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, concerns, fri, keyboards, rim, saddened, saudi arabia, saudiarabia, security, surprise, voices
Huawei bids high, loses hard on two major US assets
Huawei has been kicking for well over two decades, and while a great deal of its business revolves around the enterprise, the company still has a presence in the consumer arena (most recently with its S7 tablet ).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: arena, assets, business, consumer, engadget, enterprise, huawei, security