Within weeks of the iPhone’s launch, it’s time to patch your iPhones! Yes, Apple has released a bunch of fixes for Mac OS X and the just-launched iPhone. The iPhone patches get delivered to you next time you synch your iPhone with iTunes.
The company that designs its products “to be secure from day 1” is facing some security headaches of its own. First, the vulnerabilities in its beta release of Safari browser for Windows, ironically discovered on “day 1”, within hours of Apple Wizard-In-Chief Steve Jobs announcing it with much fanfare (read previous post “Safari, Meet Windows: […]
After having used (or should “played” be the word?) the iPhone over the weekend, I’m a little underwhelmed by it. Clearly the product doesn’t quite live up to the hype and the aura surrounding it in Apple’s commercials and on its web site. Nevertheless, Apple has a good version 1.0 product on its hand, and […]
Has Apple finally seen the light, and licensed Exchange ActiveSync from Microsoft? Will iPhone users be able to get Exchange email pushed out to their iPhones using DirectPush? Gadget blog Engadget.com reports on rumors that indicate what many thought nearly impossible (but certainly something that would make a lot of sense for Apple – read […]
John Dvorak on the iPhone in his Second Opinion column titled “Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone”: These phones go in and out of style so fast that unless Apple has half a dozen variants in the pipeline, its phone, even if immediately successful, will be passé within 3 months. Interesting and opinionated, […]
The furore surrounding Apple’s iPhone announcement refuses to die down (depending on whether you’re a faithful Mac/iPod user wedded to Apple, a Microsoft-basher – and there’s no dearth of these – or not). However, sanity seems to be returning to the world. The fact is, what many consider to be the sexiest phone ever to […]
(Some) Blackberry handheld devices have phones – which is a good thing, the GSM coverage is getting better. Things to keep in mind: the phone and the data communications use different services. The phone works with the SIM card – like any other GSM phone. For data communications, the Blackberries identify each other (and Blackberry […]