A Swiss iPhone app developer, Nicolas Seriot claims that it is pretty easy to install spyware on iPhones using
built with just one of those Apple -approved APIs without the need for any kind of phishing or hacking attempts. In a discussion in Geneva, Seriot outlines the possible ways by which your confidential information on the iPhone can be compromised.
Seriot has developed a proof-of-concept iPhone app called SpyPhone that can help illustrate (more…)

The lawsuit filed by AT&T has attracted a lot of attention and debate. While the general consensus has been that the ads do portray the ground realities, neutral observers including the Federal Court judge saw merit in AT&T’s claim that the ads were misleading the viewers into thinking that AT&T did not have data and voice coverage outside their 3G network.
has solely been because AT&T subscribers, mainly iPhone users, have been consuming data at
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Analysts have been increasingly pointing towards Verizon. Not only has the carrier
in partnering Apple , but also there have been reports about Apple building a
which is due to be launched next year. Besides, it is already known that Verizon is building a next gen
due to be deployed by late next year or 2011. Also, being the largest wireless carrier with 71 million subscribers, it makes business sense for Apple to expand their market by partnering (more…)

According to the company's statement, Office 2010 on mobile phones shall be accessible in two ways – The Office 2010 Web Apps version and Office Mobile 2010 version. The free to download Web Apps version of Office 2010 supports the Safari 4 browser on
. However, this version does not permit editing files and users may only view Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote documents.
Editing of Office documents is available with Office Mobile 2010. (more…)

called iDroid developed by Swavv apps. While the exact reason behind the rejection is not clear, it is pretty obvious that the decision to
was because of the name and utility (or the lack of it) behind the iPhone app.
that was marketed by Verizon against the iPhone . However, there has not been any particular violation that the app can be singled out for except probably violating the trademark of Motorola Droid.
Did this iPhone app deserve a (more…)

If these were any indications of Apple choosing to part ways with Google and build a much more robust mapping application on their own, it has become increasingly clear today with an innocuous job posting at the Apple website.
The job post for the position of software engineer specifically emphasizes on the company's vision for their native maps application. The posting on the company's website reads
“We want to take Maps to the next level, (more…)

Conventionally, Apple assigns a device identification number to each of the different iPhone models. Analytics software used by
can track this id to offer app developers an insight into the devices accessing their apps. In this case, an iPhone app named iBART, which is a public transportation guide for the San Francisco train system detected that its iPhone apps were being accessed from a device identified as ”
iPhone 3,1
“. For the record,
(more…)

In the lawsuit, the company has sought for a jury trial and damages caused to them as a result of Apple 's use of these technologies on the
. The four patents in question are
This is not the first time St. Clair IPC is suing a company over these patents. The organization has a long list of court trials filed in the past against a number of major digital camera manufacturers. In 2001, the company filed a lawsuit against Sony for infringing the (more…)

In a note sent to his investors, Toni studies the current challenges faced by Apple and looks at metered data pricing as one of the very possible solutions. According to him, the average iPhone user consumes five to seven times the monthly bandwidth consumed by the average wireless voice subscriber. This is also double the data consumed by the average 3G smartphone user.
Toni puts the average data consumption of iPhone users at 250MB-350MB per month (more…)

Ansca Mobile is the developer of Corona, which is an iPhone app development platform. According to the founders, Corona offers a simple alternative to web developers and engineers to easily develop iPhone applications. Announcing the funding, Carlos Icaza said
“We will bring in more world-class engineers to help us deliver on our vision. Our mission is to lower the barrier for developing mobile apps and making it accessible to a much wider range (more…)