In an effort to make the BlackBerry stand out further from the pack, Research In Motion’s investment arm announced plans to invest in startup Xobni, which makes an e-mail search tool. Xobni-inbox spelled backward-creates a tool that works with Microsoft’s Outlook and lets users quickly search the contents of e-mail messages easily.
Backed by the ACLU, a group of Pennsylvania parents is suing to block an enthusiastic DA who has threatened to file child porn charges against teen girls who appear semi-undressed in candid cell-phone photos—unless they agree to attend a five-week program on “what it means to be a girl in today’s society.”
Death Metal writes “Chief Security Engineer Andrea Barisani and hardware hacker Daniele Bianco used handmade laser microphone device and a photo diode to measure the vibrations, software for analyzing the spectrograms of frequencies from different keystrokes, as well as technology to apply the data to a dictionary to try to guess the words. They used a technique called dynamic time warping that’s typically used for speech recognition applications, to measure the similarity of signals. Line-of-sight on the laptop is needed, but it works through a glass window, they said. Using an infrared laser would prevent a victim from knowing they were being spied on.” (This is the same team that was able to pick up the electromagnetic signals emitted by PS/2 keyboards.)
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Apple has been targeted twice in lawsuits this week by companies that claim patent infringement in the iPhone, the App Store, and even the chips that power its camera. The most notable, from Affinity Labs, accuses Apple of violating three patents for sending information wirelessly to a portable device, including for browsing downloading online co
We reported yesterday about Apple’s alleged delay in payments to iPhone app developers, but there is more alarming news from iPhone developers about Apple’s refund policies.
Forget copy-and-paste. The real seed of innovation planted in the upcoming iPhone 3.0 upgrade is the OS’s ability to interact with special accessories via Bluetooth and the dock connector.
You can do a lot with the phone while “drinking juice out of the carton” but is it worth the money?
gardel writes “Google appears to have fixed a significant security hole in its two-week-old Voice calling service though some vulnerabilities remain. Until about 7pm PDT Tuesday, an unauthorized party could use a SIP device to spoof a phone number attached to a Google Voice account to call the Google Voice number, giviing the spoofer access to greetings and voicemail, and the ability to make outbound calls, including expensive international calls. Though spoofing via SIP is no longer possible, continued existence of some vulnerability was still apparent Tuesday night. Voxilla was able to set the caller ID of a PBX extension to a mobile number attached to Google Voice account and call in, using a business VoIP trunk, to gain access.”
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This week, we’ve collected some really amazing tips from Web and our own experiences to present you 25 most wanted tips for iPhone 3G.
An anonymous reader writes “id Software has released a port of the classic Wolfenstein FPS to the iPhone. Some of the coding was done by John Carmack himself, who also used original code combined with new code from Wolf3D Redux. The original code was open sourced years ago, and enthusiasts have been updating it, which made the port considerably easier for id. It’s available in the iTunes App Store, but the source is available for free at id’s website.” Carmack also posted a detailed writeup about the decision to bring Wolf3D to the iPhone, including design notes and a few snippets of code. At the end, he says, “I’m going back to Rage for a while, but I do expect Classic Doom to come fairly soon for the iPhone.” Kotaku got a chance to try the game at GDC: “It’s not just a good reproduction of the original, it seems better.”
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