Nexus One rooted 2

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Nexus One rooted

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Organizing Apps in iOS 4

 

iOS 4 brings an entirely new way to organize apps on the iPod touch and iPhone. Previously, the only organization available was to separate the apps on different pages and flick between them. After a few pages of apps, it became much harder to find the one you were looking for.

Spotlight search helped somewhat, but I always found it a bit awkward, and not as fast as memorizing where the apps were.

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Apple Delays Availability of White iPhone

 

 

Today, Apple released a press statement announcing that it is delaying shipments of the white iPhone 4 until late July.

White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected, and as a result they will not be available until the second half of July. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.I have a feeling that the manufacture may not have been precisely more challenging, but that the color of the finished product may not have been up to the standards of Steve Jobs when he held one in his hand. I don’t have any inside information on this, purely speculation, but I could imagine him saying, “Not good enough, send it back and redo it.”

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iPhone 4 Reception Issue with Holding the Phone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixIHyEPO5g&feature=player_embedded

Samsung has put out, among others, a phone called the :)

Samsung dropped a few high-end feature-phones today into T-Mobile’s lineup: the Gravity 3, Gravity T, and the :). “The :), you say? Surely not.” But yes, the phone is called the :). I guess if companies like Motorola get to choose all-caps for their product names, we mustn’t begrudge Samsung an emoticon.

The phones themselves are of the full QWERTY feature-phone variety, focusing on social networking and text messaging. They use T-Mo’s new “Social Buzz” feature, which has alerts and popups for social events like status updates and so on.

 

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20% of Android Apps Seize Private Data

According to a report by SMobile Systems, entitled "Threat Analysis of the Android Market," Google allows one-fifth of its Android applications to access private data that could be used for malicious purposes.

Surveying 48,694 Android applications, or 68% of currently available apps, 29 were additionally found to request information from the user that have been well-documented as fitting the profile of known spyware.

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