The primary cause of the issue was not with the app itself, but with a backend platform API that the app on iPhone and other smartphones use. As a result of this, Facebook users on iPhone were shown blank user profile pages. Explaining the issue, Joe Hewitt who responded to TechCrunch's article on the issue says,
“The FB API has glitches from time to time which break not just the iPhone app, but every app that builds on it, from Blackberry to (more…)

This is a screenshot of the SMS the hacked iPhone users received.

(Credit:

Tweakers.net)

A hacker in the Netherlands broke into some jailbroken iPhones and sent text messages to the owners asking them to pay to find out how to secure their phones, according to postings in a Dutch forum called Tweakers.net.

One of the victims posted a screenshot from his iPhone of the SMS received. It said: “Your iPhone ‘s (more…)

As you might already know, tethering and MMS features are still not available to AT&T’s iPhone customers even though Apple had introduced these features in
almost three months back.
and there is still no news on when the tethering feature will be available.
In the meanwhile, some smart folks had figured out a
way to enable both MMS and tethering features on the iPhone running
iPhone OS 3.0.
don’t work after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1.
(more…)

In an extremely rare move, an Apple executive has publicly commented on the App Store approval process as it relates to a controversial dictionary application.

Apple 's Phil Schiller, seen here at Macworld in January, commented on the App Store approval process this week–a move that seems to be unprecedented.

(Credit: James Martin/CNET)

Apple ‘s Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing (more…)