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TOTA - APPLE iPHONE & iPAD & Mobile News Thread PT1 (CLOSED) (pg. 435)
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| E2EK1EL |
Apple’s App Store now home to over 500,000 apps
According to new data from Chop, 148apps, and Chillingo, Apple’s iTunes App Store has approved more than 500,00 applications. In an infographic posted on Facebook, the group notes that Apple has worked with 85,569 different developers and that the average price of a paid application is $3.64. Similarly, 37% of all applications are free. The most popular iTunes categories (ranked by downloads), are games (15%), books (14%), entertainment (11%), education (8%), lifestyle (7%), and utilities (6%). If it seems like Angry Birds has been a hit for nearly a year, that’s because it spent 275 days in the No. 1 spot. Apple has yet to confirm these figures and App Shopper, another third-party that monitors the App Store, currently says there are about 499,200 live applications in the store. We expect to hear more on the matter during Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference when it kicks off on June 6th. |
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| E2EK1EL |
Sony Ericsson Canada and Sony Greek attacked
Sony’s ongoing battle with cyberattacks has already left the personal data of over 100 million customers exposed, and now the company has fallen victim to yet another attack. Details are slim for the time being, but Reuters cites a report from Jiji news service in stating that roughly 8,500 people across three countries have been affected by this latest breach. Their personal information has been leaked as a result of an attack on Sony’s Greek website on Tuesday, though it is unclear exactly what data the hackers gained access to. Sony has not yet confirmed the attacks, but its Greek website, sony.gr, was back online at the time of this writing.
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Hackers have breached a database at Sony Ericsson’s Eshop online store for mobile phones in Canada, extracting personal information of more than 2,000 customers.
Records including names, email addresses and encrypted passwords were taken by an outside party, the company said in a statement late Tuesday.
It said no additional personal or credit card details have been compromised, adding that the joint venture has disabled the e-commerce website, a standalone platform that is not connected to Sony Ericsson servers.
Idahca, a Lebanese hacking group, claimed responsibility for the attack and said contents have been leaked via Facebook and Twitter.
The group claims it could have extracted far more sensitive information such as credit card details, but declined to do so.
The latest attack follows a breach of Sony Corp.’s Greek music service data base that Sony revealed in a blog post Monday. It said hackers had obtained nonsensitive information from about 8,500 users, with the data posted by hackers to a public site.
On Tuesday, security firm Sophos said Sony Music Japan suffered the same fate — with hackers exploiting a system vulnerability and posting such taunts as “stupid Sony, so very stupid” inside the data they made available online.
A group known as Lulz Security, which attacks sites primarily for political reasons, claimed responsibility, said Chester Wisniewsk, a senior security adviser at Sophos. “This doesn’t change the criminality of their behavior. Accessing systems without authorization is still a crime in most countries.”
He said the database information obtained in Greece and Japan does not contain names, passwords or other personally identifiable information. “The attackers noted that there are two other databases on the site that are vulnerable and it remains unclear whether they contain sensitive information.”
In April, Sony’s PlayStation Network system was hacked, affecting more than 100 million online accounts worldwide and forcing the company to shut down the popular online gaming service, although it did not report the breach until a week later.
The attack prompted Sony chief executive Howard Stringer to implement a cyber security makeover at the Tokyo-based, multinational entertainment conglomerate that includes appointment of a management level security oversight team.
And while the series of attacks suggest Sony has more work to do securing its networks Phil Lieberman, CEO of online security consulting firm Lieberman Software, said it is also the price Sony is paying for its hard-line approach to the hacking community.
“Telling them to bring it on is not the best strategy,” he said, adding that Stringer remains entrenched in his view that law enforcement and the courts offer the solution to online attacks.
While Sony focused heavily on protecting IP and enforcing copyright protections, the company appears to have done little to protect its massive presence on the Internet, Lieberman added. “I think Sony is beginning to understand it horribly underinvested in security.”
He also said Sony provoked “nuclear responses” from the hacking community after it sued George Hotz, the 21-year-old who hacked the fully locked Sony PS3 console in 2010. He then reverse-engineered his own PlayStation 3 to run homebrew applications and later released the method to the public through his website.
Sony responded with a lawsuit and demanded that social media sites including YouTube hand over IP addresses of people who visited Hotz’s social pages and videos.
Jason Maloni, senior vice-president of the crisis and litigation team at Levick Strategic Communications, said Sony needs to seek peace with the so-called hacktivists to win back consumer confidence.
“Settle, would be my best advice,” said Maloni, part of a crisis management team that helped Heartland Payment Systems respond to a 2008 breach that exposed data on close to 100 million debit and credit cards. |
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| spiderpig |
Ok, some weird is going on with my iPhone 4.
I usually reset my Cellular Network Data counter every month, obviously to make sure I don't go over my plan. I go in there today and it says i've sent/received 4.1 gigs. I knew this was impossible. I barely go over 500mb a month. I'm on wifi at work and at home. Sure enough, I called Telus and i've only used 145mb the past 30 days.
I was relieved as I only have 1 gig of data every month so I said thanks and hung up. After that, I reset the usage stats. I got a couple of texts from people after that and i noticed that my cellular network data is no longer at 0, but at 251kb. Which leads me to believe that it is including the sms in the count, which it NEVER did before.
Every time I have ever reset the usage, I would be in between 200mb - 500mb, again, I was at 4 gigs when i checked today. This is completely retarded if it's counting my sms/mms as it's not a proper reflection of my actual data usage.
What the hell is going on here? I just checked again and it has now actually gone up 5kb without me doing anything. WTF.
My phone is not jailbroken or anything btw. |
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| E2EK1EL |
^^^
iOS's data counter is horrible, use your carrier's app to track your data usage. I stopped using the iOS's, once Roger's came out with their app.
Reagarding your SMS counted in your iOS data counter, each SMS is 1.0KB each for sent and received.
I've also noticed iOS data counter seems to stop counting when the iPhones got sleep, maybe it's all changed now with in 4.3.3.
Telus To Launch Mobile Account Management Site
By Ex on June 15th, 2010
Way back in November 2009, Rogers and Fido launched two account management iPhone apps called “My Account”.
The “My Account” app allows Rogers/Fido customers to view the amount of minutes, data and messages that they have used so far in the month, the amount of remaining usage for the month and how many minutes/data/messages their plan includes per month.
The app further allows users to view the amount of their current and last month invoice and also pay for the current invoice via credit card.
Now, it looks like Telus will be launching a similar service, but it will be entirely web based. The new dedicated Telus account management mobile site allows users to view their airtime usage, data usage, make payments, and also modify price plans.
The site is located at mobile.telus.com and users can log in with their Telus username and password (or create one for the first time).
What do you think Telus customers?
Thanks to all those who sent this in!
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| spiderpig |
Thx, i'll def use the Telus mobile site.
It's really strange though cause this just started happening. It was working completely fine before. |
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| E2EK1EL |
Most likely something added in 4.3.3? Who knows, shouldn't matter to use since we all have efficient data plans.
I wonder what's going on w/ all those cheap bastards using an iPhone w/o any data plans.
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I have 3 coworkers using their 3Gs since 2008 w/o a data plan and they always ask me "why do i need a data plan when there's wifi "everywhere" |
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| E2EK1EL |
Apple sues (settles?) a kid who sold Steve Wozniak white iPhone 4
Remember Steve Wozniak’s white iPhone 4? Then you remember we discovered it was a do-it-yourself modification. The Woz himself admitted to buying parts from Fei Lam (no relation to Gizmodo’s editor Brian Lam whatsoever), a New York teenager who banked a cool $130,000 selling those sought-after white front and back plates on the web. When the story blew up and Apple presumably sent its legal rottweilers after the kid, he shuttered the whiteiphone4now.com site and disappeared under the radar.
MacRumors discovered that Apple yesterday filed a lawsuit against Lam and his parents who “aided and abetted him” in an alleged infringement and dilution of Apple’s trademarks. They’re seeking damages and demanding that Lam hands over all profits from the sale. At the same time, the company has filed a voluntary dismissal, leaving the door open to a possible settlement. From Apple’s lawsuit:
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| Playa24_7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
(Demo unit was using Rogers sim ... where's the sim tray pin hole?) |
It's probably just not on the demo so people can't steal the SIM |
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| E2EK1EL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Playa24_7
It's probably just not on the demo so people can't steal the SIM |
I know that :)
I wonder how they get the sim card out?
They also have the CDMA units on demo too, w/o any service of course. |
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| Playa24_7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
I know that :)
I wonder how they get the sim card out?
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They throw it against something and bend the side in like I did
That'll pop it out lol |
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| Nerologic |
So I just MoneyGram'd 40bucks to my Philippiana Facebook friend that works for my service provider.
Looks like I don't have to pay my bill for the next 3 months and she is also sending me nudez of her self. Double win.
APRIL FOOLS.
;)
EDIT: Ohh she is also "reseting" my data every 2 weeks so I wont get banned lol |
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| E2EK1EL |
I don't understand how ppl score these retention plans ...
"$17.50: 200 Wkday + Unltd. Eve/Wkends
$(-15) Monthly Fee Discount
$7.00: 6pm early evenings
$(-7): Early evening option credit
$10.00: Value Pack w/ CID/VM/2500 txt
$10.00: 1000 Canadian LD Minutes
$(-5): LD discount
$2.35: GRRF
$108 credit applied yearly ($9 x 12 months) for 3 years
= $19.85 + tax = $22.23 - $9 credit = $13.23/month all in" |
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