Apple Finally Discontinues Shake? [Updated]

Alongside today's introduction of updated Time Capsule models, Apple appears to have finally discontinued Shake, its long-standing high-end digital compositing and visual effects software package. While Shake's product pages remain available on Appl...

Apple Finally Discontinues Shake?

Alongside today's introduction of updated Time Capsule models, Apple appears to have finally discontinued Shake, its long-standing high-end digital compositing and visual effects software package. While Shake's product pages remain available on Appl...

TiPb Presents: iPhone Live! #21 - Google Voiceless

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Join Dieter, Chad, and Rene for iPhone 3.1 Beta 3, Google Voice rejection, iTablet and Verizon rumors, Palm/iTunes escalation, SMS exploits, and all the news and how-tos. Listen in!

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• Jabra SP200 Bluetooth Speakerphone for Hands-Free iPhone 3G/3GS Action

News

iPhone 3.1 Watch

• Updated: Apple Release iPhone 3.1 Beta 3 to Developers (Beta 2 Expiring Tues, July 28!)
• iPhone 3.1: Augmented Reality Apps are a Go!

Apps and App Store

• UPDATED: Apple Rejects Removes all Google Voice Apps for iPhone from iTunes App Store
• GV Mobile Brings Google Voice to iPhone… via Cydia for Jailbreak
• Apple Reverses Decision, Allows Promo Codes for Apps Rated 17+
• Apple Improves iTunes App Store Search, Asks Developers for Keywords
• Quick App: Apple Releases MobileMe iDisk App for iPhone Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Apologizes to Kindle (and iPhone Kindle App) Users
• Google Finally Provides Latitude to iPhone Users — Yeah, it’s a WebApp

iTunes & iTablet

• iTablet: When Will it Ship and What Will it Run? now that Steve is finally happy with it, and Verizon is racing to get LTE ready…
• Apple and Record Labels Trying to Reignite Album Interest with “Cocktail”?

Carrier Talk

• CEOh-Snap! AT&T Says iPhone Exclusivity Will End… Eventually
• Verizon: iPhone 3GS Cost us Money, Helped Drive Innovation Rogers Canada Roundup: Q2 Financial Results, Out of Stock, and 21Mbps HSPA+ Testing
• Apple and China Unicom Finally Maybe Potentially Have an iPhone Deal. Possibly.

The Competition

• Palm Re-Hacks iTunes Sync, Shows They Care More About Ego and Press Than Pre Users, and files a complaint against Apple
• Palm’s Roger McNamee Wants to Know if You’re Still Using an iPhone?

In Other News

• iPhone 3GS Hardware Encryption “Useless”?
• 1GHz ARM Mobile CPU on the Horizon — but is it iPhone Bound?

Help and How To

• Pro Tips: How to Secure Your Jailbroken (or Regular) iPhone Against Hackers

Forums

• From the Forums: iPhone 3.0 Jailbreak Apps, Overheating, 3GS Photos, Battery Tips

Credits

Thanks to the the iPhone Blog Store for sponsoring the podcast, and to everyone who showed up for the live chat!

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TiPb Presents: iPhone Live! #21 - Google Voiceless

Robot with iPhone 3GS head reminds us of a cuter, more magnanimous Steve Jobs

Continue reading Robot with iPhone 3GS head reminds us of a cuter, more magnanimous Steve Jobs

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Robot with iPhone 3GS head reminds us of a cuter, more magnanimous Steve Jobs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone SMS Security Vulnerability to Be Disclosed Today

Forbes reports that cybersecurity researchers plan to publicize today at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas a security vulnerability in the iPhone SMS messaging system that reportedly would allow hackers to in theory "take over every iPhone in the...

MSI Wind battery used as a not-exactly-portable, unreliable USB charger

Continue reading MSI Wind battery used as a not-exactly-portable, unreliable USB charger

Filed under: Cellphones, Laptops

MSI Wind battery used as a not-exactly-portable, unreliable USB charger originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steve Jobs Pictured at Apple

TMZ caught Steve Jobs leaving the Apple campus. So now, yes, he’s been captured on film and all gadget perfectionists everywhere can sleep soundly.

So, our take away is that a) Steve Jobs is a paparazzi level technoceleb. Congrats? b) he was reportedly photographed with an iPhone. Ironic in a little-brother sort of way. And c) Jony Ive is not only the best designer on the planet, but an intimidating looking bodyguard. Multitasker!

Once again everyone here at TiPb wishes him well, and hopes that he’s enjoying whatever fourth or fifth gen iPhone is in his pocket and will be revealed to the rest of us in the years to come.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

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Steve Jobs Pictured at Apple

Apple kicks out MobileMe iDisk app for iPhone

It still can't multitask, but as of today, it's finally capable of accessing and sharing iDisk files. Apple has at long last let loose a long-awaited application for iPhone OS 3.0 that enables iPhone and iPod touch users with MobileMe accounts to access the inner sanctums of their own iDisk. The app lets you login, view files (up to 20MB or so, sayeth Apple) and share files by sending others a link via email to whatever you deem appropriate. There's also an option to password protect those files and limit the amount of days the download is active, though viewing files is limited to iPhone-supported file types such as iWork, Office, QuickTime, PDF, etc. If you're a paying MobileMe user, go on and give this one a download -- it's free, you know?

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Apple kicks out MobileMe iDisk app for iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Time Capsule Dual-Band Routers + Storage Updated to 1TB/2TB

Stealth update time in Apple-land this morning, as Time Capsule has doubled in storage to 1TB/2TB configurations ($299/$499). The dual-band routers inside the Time Capsule, identical to those in the latest Airport Extremes, support both fast 802.11n networking for modern computers, and simultaneously, 802.11g for mobile devices like the iPhone and iPod touch.

If you’ve been wanting to go dual-band and have a hunkering for a 2TB hard drive to go with it, Apple now has a glossy white option just for you:

Back up a lifetime’s worth of memories with the Time Capsule, a wireless hard drive that works seamlessly with Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard. It’s also a full-featured 802.11n Wi-Fi base station with simultaneous dual-band support.1 Choose from 1TB and 2TB models.

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Apple Time Capsule Dual-Band Routers + Storage Updated to 1TB/2TB

Apple Updates Time Capsule to 1 TB and 2 TB Capacities [Updated]

Apple this morning quietly updated its Time Capsule combination wireless router and network-attached storage drive to double the models' capacities at the same price points as the previous models: 1 TB for $299 and 2 TB for $499. While Apple...

Apple Updates Time Capsule to 1 TB and 2 TB Capacities

Apple this morning quietly updated its Time Capsule combination wireless router and network-attached storage drive to double the models' capacities at the same price points as the previous models: 1 TB for $299 and 2 TB for $499. While Apple...

Charlie Miller to Demonstrate iPhone SMS Hack at Black Hat Conference Today

Almost a month ago we linked to an Engadget report on Charlie Miller and his SMS exploit for the iPhone. Well, today is the day he intends to show it off at the Black Hat conference.

Thanks to some last minute media attention, however, the general iPhone user base seems to be getting a tad nervous. And rightly so. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, in an ideal world, NSA expert come iHacker Charlie, who’s claim to current fame is using Mac exploits to win Pwn2own contests and free laptops, would work with companies like Apple and Microsoft (yes, it looks like Windows Mobile has an exploit as well), and those companies would patch the exploits as immediately as possible, before any “research” was publicly disclosed and any bad guys decided to use them as attack vectors.

TiPb will update post-Miller’s Black Hack disclosure, and hopefully Apple will roll the security fix into a quick 3.0.2 firmware release, or hurry 3.1 out of the gate.

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Charlie Miller to Demonstrate iPhone SMS Hack at Black Hat Conference Today

Apple Going to CES 2010, Steve Jobs Asked to Keynote?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting, almost off-handedly, that Apple is planning to attend CES 2010, a trade show it has avoided up until now, and arguably eclipsed in 2007 when it announced the original iPhone at the then similarly timed Macworld Expo.

Apple pulled out of future Macworlds, causing the expo to change focus and time slots for 2010, but the idea of Apple actually showing up at CES instead? To quoth Dieter: Cats and dogs — living together!

The meat of the WSJ’s story is actually that Steve Jobs has been invited to Keynote at CES but isn’t returning their phone calls. While Jobs owned the spotlight at Macworld before handing the final show over to Phil Schiller in 2009, Jobs would be one of several Keynotes at CES, including lovable competitor Steve Ballmer of Microsoft.

Would Jobs settle for “one of”? Would Apple, after leaving Macworld and saying they prefer to set their own schedule for special events, and that they reach more people via the Apple Stores every week anyway, really want to return to almost exactly the same formula with CES?

We doubted it, and still don’t believe what our eyes are reading.

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Apple Going to CES 2010, Steve Jobs Asked to Keynote?

Nintendo finally sees Wii demand slowing, calls iPhone a DS / DSi competitor

While it seemed that all was going well for the Big N, it looks like those jovial times are finally coming to a (temporary) end. In an earnings report filed today, the company posted a 66 percent fall in quarterly operating profit on "slowing demand for its Wii console and a stronger yen." It's not so much the profit slide that's surprising, but the sudden admission that Wii demand has finally (finally!) slowed from a raging boil to simply piping hot definitely caught us off guard. Still, Nintendo maintained that it would sell 26 million Wii consoles before the year was out alongside 30 million DS handhelds, the latter of which has seen momentum slow due to "increased competition in the handheld business from Apple's iPhone." Now, we've known for some time that the suits in Cupertino have always viewed the iPhone as a game console, but to hear it called out as such from an entity not named Apple is another matter entirely. Maybe it should reconsider that whole "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" thing? Nah.

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Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

Nintendo finally sees Wii demand slowing, calls iPhone a DS / DSi competitor originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Review: Marble Blast Mobile for iPhone

Poor controls and physics that are elementary at best make this game, in which you guide a ball by tilting your iPhone or iPod touch, anything but a blast.

SMS vulnerability on iPhone to be revealed today, still isn’t patched

Remember that alleged SMS-based security hole on the iPhone allowing evil-doers to execute arbitrary code and do all sorts of nasty crap like create an army of mobile zombies ready and willing to execute a DoS attack? The guy who found it, security expert Charlie Miller, said that he'd reveal the details of it at Black Hat -- and Black Hat's this week. Sure enough, Miller and his cohorts plan to unleash details of the hack today, and while they claim they informed Apple of the problem over a month ago, Cupertino's yet to make a move. We'd stop short of suggesting iPhone owners all turn off their handsets and take themselves firmly off the grid and into a completely disconnected underground bunker the moment the attack becomes public, but if it's as serious as Miller claims, it definitely bumps up the pressure on Apple to get a fix out on the double -- preferably before 3.1 drops.

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

SMS vulnerability on iPhone to be revealed today, still isn't patched originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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