has just reported that UK Operator O2 is sending user’s phone numbers in the header information when you visit a website over O2′s 3G network.
The issue was brought to our attention to Lewis Peckover, who created a simple webpage to check the information that a mobile browser would send to a website when it requested data.
Whilst most of the data was to be expected, including the Host, User Agent, Referrer and Encoding, there was also another (more…)

Last year, Apple removed more than 5000
so it was highly unlikely that Apple would approve Playboy’s native iPad app with uncensored content.
So to bypass Apple ’s approval process, Playboy has just launched a new
optimized website where subscribers can access not only the latest issue, but the full archive of Playboy issues since 1953.
From the inaugural issue with Marilyn Monroe to the current issue with rock heiress Lizzy Jagger on the (more…)

When he was asked whether the iPhone 4 antenna issues had impacted sales, he responded:
Let me be very clear: We are selling every unit we can make.
When he was asked to further clarify on the effect of antenna issues and if there were more complaints and returns, he reiterated:
My phone is ringing off the hook with people asking for more demand. So hard to say. Returns are less than for iPhone 3GS, and the ones for this specific issue are extremely (more…)

At the press conference, Steve Jobs explained that they’ve got to the heart of the problem, and that is smartphone have weak spots, which was a challenge not just for Apple but also for the entire mobile industry.
Not surprisingly, this hasn’t gone down too well with Apple ’s competitors. RIM, Nokia, HTC and Motorola have fired back at Apple for drawing them into the antenna issue.
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, RIM’s co-CEOs issued (more…)

Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.
Steve Jobs had also responded to (more…)