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Perhaps Thousands of iPhones Bricked at the Moment

Any iPhone user (2.5G and 3G), who needs to activate their phone with iTunes is out of luck right now. Apparently slammed by activations or launch glitches, now is not the time to perform an update or restore function on ANY iPhone, as you won’t able to reactivate [...]

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Launches of iPhone SDK and Adobe AIR Foreshadow Possible Strategy
Steve Jobs “just says no” to Flash on iPhone. Well, on first glance, that’s just what he says now, and we all know, like a good episode of Lost, there’s always more to unpack and nothing is what it seems. Considering Adobe’s product line, the [...]

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In a surely controversial move, Nate True has released a splinter iPhone hack-dev group’s iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak to enable unauthorized third-party applications. He has since been banished from the group by releasing what the main group deemed premature for release. It is not clear if this is due to technical, copyright or imminent official SDK [...]

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Original iPhone hackster extraordinaire Nate True has used some undisclosed means to peek into firmware 1.1.3 and discovered essential file system structural changes that will allow Official SDK based third-party applications to run and install easily. Notably…

SpringBoard appears to display whatever is in the /Applications directory. Earlier firmwares used a .plist XML configuration file. Then, [...]

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Macworld 2008: Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary
Despite furious speculation, Jobs releases incremental product improvements, rather than fundamental game-changing gear

Apple announced four new products today in San Francisco:

Time Capsule, wireless base station and network storage device
iPhone and iPod Touch firmware updates
Apple TV 2.0 and iTunes Video Rentals
MacBook Air ultra-thin notebook
One more thing… There is NO “one more thing!”

Interestingly, [...]

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