A front-facing iPhone camera means video calling, but it's
also a sign of something bigger. Combined with other recent leaks, it
means that Apple is bringing iChat to the iPhone. Everything about voice
calling may be about to change.
iChat, You Chat
So, how does the appearance of a front-facing camera change standard
voice calling? Let's connect the dots:
• Front-facing camera means video calling
• Leaks suggest video calling is part of overall iChat
• iChat software and new VOIP provisions in OS means voice chat, too
(maybe even for older iPhones)
• iChat branding, arrival of iPad and new OS multitasking all suggest
compatibility with desktop app and standard buddy lists
• iPhone-to-desktop compatibility means everybody talks to everybody, no
special ... Read more »
Apple virtually dominates the Japanese smartphone market, MM
Research Institute found in a new study. By the end of the fiscal year ended in
March, the iPhone had 72.2 percent of the field with 2.34 million units
on Japanese. Its next-closest rival, HTC, had just 11.1 percent, while
local phones didn't register until third place Toshiba's 6.8 percent.
The
shipments were more than double the 1.1 million iPhones that were
shipped a year earlier. Apple in its latest quarterly results had
already noted that quarterly shipments for early 2010 were up 183
percent in Japan compared to a year earlier.
Apple's lead wasn't enough to get the lead in the total Japanese phone
market but was enough to let it eclipse a number of smaller Japanese
companies. Sharp for the fifth year in a row held a comfortable lead
with 26.2 percent, helped... Read more »
If you’ve been following iPhone hacker MuscleNerd on
Twitter, you would have seen that he has already worked
on a jailbreak for the iPhone’s new OS 4.0. The video demonstrates him
using both Cydia and Veency on his iPhone running the developer’s copy
of OS 4.0. There are no details about how to do the jailbreak and he
also recommends that users (with a dev copy) should not bother, because
the current version is "very buggy”. Take a look at the video below
demonstrating the results of the Jailbreak.
There is a new scam on the net affecting BitTorrent users, in an
effort to try and extort cash from unsuspecting users. A hacking entity
has formed a fake organization called ICPP Foundation which claims to be
an online intellectual copyright organization partnering with real
copyright from such as the RIAA, MPAA, Copyright Alliance and a few
other well-known organizations. With all the hub-bub about illegal
downloading, they are capitalizing on the fear BitTorrent users endure
when they download illegal content.
The malware program comes attached to programs and plants itself into
the PC user’s administration Application Data folder (C:\Documents and
Settings\{USERNAME}\Application
Data\IQManager\iqmanager.exe). When the virus activates, it scans the
entire system specifically for .torrent files (legit or not) and then
launches a fake applicatio... Read more »
The weeks leading up to a major technology launch are always going to
be riddled with Internet leaks, and the upcoming introduction of
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 480 graphics card - codenamed Fermi - is no
exception.
Scheduled to be launched on March 26th,
NVIDIA's card has already been priced, pictured and
detailed
over the course of the last month. Accompanying the steady flow of
information is a set of in-house NVIDIA
benchmarks, which claim the GeForce GTX 480 to be superior to AMD's
fastest single-GPU competitor, the ATI Radeon HD 5870.
NVIDIA's own benchmarks have to be taken with a pinch of salt, but
the first of what appears to be real-world benchmarks have now arrived
to back up NVIDIA's claims. Surfacing at Arabic technology site arabhardware.net, the brief benchma... Read more »
