3G International, 2010 by Aristarkh Chernyshev & Alexei Shulgin.
Chasing Down a GPS Blip to a Stolen iPhone
The woman was talking on her iPhone, and never saw coming her induction into a large and growing subset of crime victims. But there it happened shortly after noon on April 15, on a busy corner of Main Street in Flushing, Queens. A teenager zipped past, snatching the phone out of her hand and kept running.
Devices like hers were stolen 16,000 times last year in New York City. But what happened on this afternoon was anything but commonplace. The closest comparison that leaps to mind is a classic chase scene from a 1971 thriller.
The teenager, soon out of sight, had every reason to believe his getaway was whistle clean. The woman, with just as many reasons to believe that was the last she would see of her phone, flagged a police officer, who put a call over the radio with a description of the young man wearing a yellow hooded sweatshirt.
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Apple's Privacy Record Sucks. Here's Why You Should Care
The next time you’re thinking about buying a new smartphone, there’s one more spec you might want to consider. If the FBI or the IRS wants to read your texts, will Apple hand them over? Would it require the feds to get a warrant first? And would it even bother to let you know that federal agents made the request in the first place?
If you’re looking at a shiny new iPhone, the answers are not comforting.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s latest digital privacy report, Who’s Got Your Back?, awards Apple its secondthe Electronic Frontier Foundation gives Apple a paltry one out of six stars. While Apple got credit for supporting efforts to defend users by modernizing electronic privacy laws, its apparent willingness to hand over your personal information to the government without a warrant and its failure to tell its users how it handles such requests put it in the dock.
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‘LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles’ Launches May The 4th!
The LEGO Group is celebrating Star Wars Day, May the Fourth, by launching a free-to-play LEGO Star Wars spin-off on iPhone and iPad. “LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles” will see players representing the Light Side as Yoda or the Dark Side as Count Dooku in a “classic, good versus evil arcade experience.”
The game delivers a mix of real time blaster battles, dungeon crawling, lightsaber duels and space combat across 15 levels and 5 mini-missions. Half of the levels will be available on launch May 4th with the second half showing up later this summer, along with an Android version of the game. LEGO Star Wars fan who don’t have the necessary mobile device can play through their web browser at LEGO.com.
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Does this ‘leaked’ snap reveal the fabled budget iPhone handset?
An image, purportedly showing the outer plastic casing of the mythical cheaper Apple iPhone, has appeared online.
The mobile giant currently furnishes the current iPhone with an aluminium casing, but this curved offering looks like the offspring of an iPhone 3GS and current generation Nokia Lumia 920 handset.
The leaked casing has all the hallmarks of an iPhone handset, with printed logos and lettering, as well as a microphone hole between the camera lens and flash.
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iOS 7 concept video shows iPhone and iPad potential
iOS 7 concept video from an Apple fan has shown the potential capabilities of the next Apple OS instalment.
Federico Bianco, a.k.a misterwhite84, who made the YouTube iOS 7 concept video, has demonstrated what new features could be incorporated into the existing iOS 6 to unlock its full potential.
The changes, although subtle, makes the current iOS 6 much more user friendly and vastly increases the functionality of features such as the Lock Screen and Setting menu.
As part of the iOS 7 concept, users would be able to toggle airplane mode or turn on Wi-Fi, as well as customising what function they can access via the Lock Screen. The camera icon could be replaced by the calling function, meaning users can make calls without unlocking their handset.
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Baby Monkey (Going Backwards On A Pig) - the iPhone game!
50 iPhone 5 tips and tricks
Introduction
The iPhone 5 is one of the big daddies of the smartphone market. And part of the reason it’s so popular is that it is so easy to use. However, there are more features than most people know of tucked away in its little aluminium body. We’ve scraped away at the iPhone’s surface to find the top tricks and tips for this top phone.
Hardware
50. A case is a good idea this time around
Apple completely changed the hardware design of the iPhone series with the iPhone 5. Where previous generations were made of glass and steel, most of the iPhone 5 is aluminium.
The positive effect of this is that the phone is very light and less prone to smashing. However, it is also much less scratch-resistant. Aluminium is a much less hard metal than steel, so the iPhone 5 will take much more of a beating in a pocket full of change than an iPhone 4S. Therefore, using some form of case is a very good idea.
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