Munir Kotadia is a man on a mission - a mission to berate iPod Touch and iPhone owners until they take his security concerns seriously.  In an article seemingly designed to drive the Mac faithful into a furious rage, Kotadia highlights the potential dangers of granting access to random strangers via "Unlock your iPhone" websites.    continued »

Attempts to change the venerable keyboard are usually met with failure - despite promising claims of productivity benefits, there's often too great a pay-off for users used to the traditional QWERTY 'board - but if anyone can encourage us to upgrade, perhaps it's Apple.  Their latest patent describes a MultiTouch surface particularly suitable for a MacBook (or a Mac Tablet, maybe?) ... continued »

Thanks to Telstra Apple could be launching their iPhone in the land down under. Although maybe not unless Apple launches a 3G version. You see, Telstra is rolling out a huge 3G network which is scheduled to be completed by January, so they are eager to find a major release device to launch on it, a 3G iPhone would surely fit ... continued »

While much of the iPod praise has been saved for its glossy cousins - either of the compact nano or the touchscreentastic Touch flavours - the iPod Classic is nonetheless making its own waves among consumers.  Unfortunately, many of these waves are down to an issue with the PMP's latest firmware update, which has seen some users left with a Classic ... continued »

For those of you that don’t know, FON is like a somewhat Marxist WiFi movement. The gist of it is, you buy one of their WiFi routers, and you share all or part of your bandwidth wirelessly. In return, you gain access to everyone else on the FON network’s bandwidth, so if you travel, and pick up a FON hotspot, ... continued »

Let’s start with Verizon, they have been gradually losing market share ever since the release of the iPhone, and now all of the sudden they are releasing some really cool phones? Furthermore they have been in talks with Google and have even dropped their complaint regarding the 700MHz spectrum becoming open. Sure, they probably aren’t anticipating the mobile wireless world becoming ... continued »

Ever wish you could have an iPhone that looked more like a Touch and had the 16GB capacity of the Touch? Yeah me too, well you might get your wish from Meizu quicker than you will from Apple. Their new M8 MP3 Player/Phone originally looked exactly like the iPhone, had nearly the exact same OS, the same multi-touch screen, there was ... continued »

Back in July the BBC launched their TV download service, iPlayer, to a mixed chorus of excitement and - from the Mac (and Linux) contingent - sobbing; the software was, and in fact still is, compatible with Windows XP only.  In a recent interview Ashley Highfield, head of the corporation's Future Media and Technology unit, revealed that a streaming version of ... continued »

AT&T’s site, YellowPages.com, has just been pimped for ease of use on your iPhone and iPod Touch, so should you need directory assistance, before paying those extremely bloated 411 charges, check YellowPages.com. I wonder if the other site, whitepages.com got the same treatment. You can easily search by name, location, or category for what you are looking for. Furthermore, your search ... continued »

Not really, but you can paint it all black and add the older, multi-colored Apple logo in place of the home button, which would bring you a lot closer. It kind of looks cool, too bad you can’t draw in Notes on your iPhone like you could on the Newton. That rainbow Apple logo was decommissioned somewhere around 1998 which was ... continued »

When I first saw this story, I thought Citizen, the same company that made my watch, had made a special edition iPhone which didn’t make much sense. There is a reason why that didn’t make much sense, its because they didn’t make it, Citizen: Citizen made it, which is a whole other company entirely. I took a look at the Citizen: ... continued »

If there's a phrase that'll put the fear of God into any mobile user, it's "critical manufacturing flaw", but that's just what data recovery firm Retrodata has accused Apple of experiencing in some of their machines, particularly MacBook and MacBook Pro models, but also potentially Mac mini deskop units.  Retrodata chief Duncan Clarke has gone public with his concerns that the 2.5-inch ... continued »