However, Ping in its current form could turn out to be a haven for impostors and spammers.
points out that the new music social networking service already has fake accounts in the name of Mark Zuckerberg and The Beatles. Considering the lucrative opportunity involved in selling music to followers,
notes that Ping is likely to invite spammers to create fake accounts of popular music bands to sell their music. The issue could be sorted out through (more…)

Apple has applied for a patent titled “Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device”, which will allow it to remotely disable an
,
if it detects any unauthorized activity such as hacking,
or unlocking the iOS-based device.
The patent, titled “Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device,” describes several ways a device could sense who is using an iPhone or iPad. Among the (more…)

Couple of days back, tap tap tap had
that they had sold over 400,000
and had generated more than $500,000 in the first two months since it was released.
However, yesterday they revealed that it was possible to enable the VolumeSnap feature by entering
without the quotation marks in mobile Safari.
This was quite cheeky of tap tap tap as Apple had already rejected an update to the iPhone app that included the feature.
At that time, Apple ’s (more…)

homescreen.
Tap on the “Manage” Tab and then tap on “Sources” section.

http://cydia.pushfix.info

After it is successfully installed, tap on the “Search” tab at the bottom and search for ‘T-Mobile US MMS Fix for iOS4’.
.
Then tap on the “Install” button and then the “Confirm” button to install the patch.
, you should see the following settings under MMS:
APN: wap.voicestream.com
MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
(more…)

The iPhone hacking community has released a hactivation patch to fix the “Different SIM detected” error.
to activate your iPhone without official iPhone carrier SIM (to get out of emergency mode).
it.
to unlock your iPhone .
homescreen.
Tap on the Manage Tab and then tap on Sources.

http://cydia.pushfix.info

After it is successfully installed, tap on the Search tab and search for Hactivation.
.
Then tap on the Install button and (more…)

The most common criticism is that the phone is slow after an upgrade. There are also many complaints that the phone drains the battery quickly and becomes excessively hot. Concern about general problems such as slowness and battery life on gadgets isn't unusual, but using iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G seems to make the problems so bad that the phone is nearly unusable for some people.
for iPhone 3G due to hardware limitations so it was disappointing (more…)

We have now learned that this issue could be due to a bonding agent that is used in the manufacturing process. This chemical is used to secure the
screen and it is suspected that the discoloration is primarily because the bonding agent may not have dried completely as yet. An
“Apple is using a bonding agent called Organofunctional Silane Z-6011 to bond the layers of glass. Apparently, Apple (or more likely Foxconn) is shipping these products so (more…)

In the complaint, Richard Samson, the lawyer for
, has noted that the Pulse News Reader application has made use of his company's copyrighted content for commercial use. He also alleges that Alphonso Labs violated copyright in the marketing material featured on the application's App Store page. Samson writes:
“The Pulse News Reader app, makes commercial use of the NYTimes.com and Boston.com RSS feeds, in violation of their Terms of Use. (more…)

“While he agreed that the app doesn't technically break the rules, he said that it does encroach upon the boundaries of what they can and cannot allow on their store. He also cited security concerns.”
is not entirely surprising. We had noted that the communication between the
” and hence the app could be rejected. Also, it is highly possible for Apple to introduce this functionality in one of the future versions of iPhone OS. This could be (more…)

Grooveshark is a free web based music streaming service that allows users to upload, share and stream tracks from a massive catalog of songs. The new iPhone app will allow their Premium/VIP members of the service use their
to search for music from the huge database. Additionally, users may also organize tracks into playlists, mark tracks as favorite and listen to songs offline. The web based alternative available on the company's website runs (more…)