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      Nokia Denies Android Project

      July 6, 2009 /

      Is Nokia ready for Android?This weekend sparked (get it…like sparklers) rumors that Nokia, the world’s top cellphone maker, was abandoning Symbian for a new project. The phone, code named “Rachael,” was said to be designed to run Android. Unfortunately, Nokia denies that claim.

      It really is a shame, considering Nokia is one on a very short list of manufacturers capable of competing directly with the iPhone. What they need, though, is a consumer-friendly operating system like, you guessed it, Android.

      Speaking of the rumor, a Nokia spokesman said, “”Absolutely no truth to this whatsoever.” He followed up with, “Everyone knows that Symbian is our preferred platform for advanced mobile devices.” Doesn’t get much clearer than that.

      Source: Reuters

      Mobile, News

      Deleted Pictures Persist on Social Networking Sites

      July 5, 2009 /

      Facebook and MySpace.Most everyone has seen or heard of social networking sites affecting privacy in crazy ways. They’ve cost people jobs, ended countless relationships, and in the best cases, resulted in some bruised pride. As more people get hit, more users are choosing to remove questionable content from their pages, but the content’s not necessarily gone.

      Ars Technica’s Jacqui Cheng put recent findings from Cambridge University researchers to the test with some unsavory results. Turns out your deleted pictures may not be as far gone as you’d like.

      Jacqui tested Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Flickr with the same method. She deleted pictures from each site on May 21st and then watched the direct links for six weeks. Twitter and Flickr were both good, truly deleting the pictures after a hard refresh. MySpace and Facebook didn’t fare so well. Direct links from both sites still produce the “deleted” images, some six weeks after they were pulled.

      Moral of the story? Continue to censor your drunken impulses, particularly with regard to the pictures you upload.

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      iPhone 3GS Breaks AT&T Sales Records

      July 3, 2009 /

      iPhone 3GS in black and white.Apple and AT&T took more than two months to sell the first million iPhones. The iPhone 3GS matched those numbers in just three days, making it the biggest sales weekend for AT&T, ever. AT&T celebrated the milestone with…a company wide memo. Yay?

      We still don’t have any hard and fast numbers on the 3GS, and we won’t really until Apple releases their quarterly earnings information. AT&T said they sold “hundreds of thousands” of phones through pre-orders, but there’s still no official word from either camp.

      Here’s the full text of the memo:

      iLaunch day 2009 was one for the record books, as AT&T customers scrambled to get their hands on the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet.

      Here’s a look at some of the milestones we achieved:

      * Best-ever sales day in our retail stores
      * Second-largest traffic day in our retail stores
      * Most transactions processed via our IT systems in a single day
      * Most upgrade eligibility checks in a single day
      * Largest order day in att.com history
      * Largest features sales day in att.com history

      On this year’s launch day, iPhone sales exceeded sales recorded on 2008’s iPhone launch day, Black Friday 2008 and Dec. 26, 2008–all heavy-volume sales days. In fact, this year we surpassed 2008’s launch day sales at about noon Central time, and sustained our previous peak hour record, also set in 2008, for 11 straight hours.

      Source: AllThingsD

      Apple, iPhone

      Reading in the Bathroom Can Be a Terrifying Experience

      July 3, 2009 /

      Koji Suzuki's 'Drop' toilet paper.Koji Suzuki likes to scare people. The famed Japanese author has written bloodcurdling tales like “The Ring,” which have been adapted into films in Japan and Hollywood. Suzuki has a new idea for scaring people, one which involves the time you spend on the toilet.

      Suzuki has teamed up with Hayashi Paper Company, which makes novelty paper products for public restroom, to print his novella “Drop” on toilet paper. The story is about a goblin living in a public restroom, making the horror all the more real as you sit on a chilly seat.

      The story is nine chapters long, with multiple copies on each roll, so you can pick up where you left off without too much trouble. I’m sure green activists will have something to say about encouraging waste through the product, but I’d still back the product. Who said it can’t be printed on the biodegradable stuff, right?

      Each roll costs 210 yen, which is about $2. Think James Patterson will be releasing any toilet paper thrillers any time soon?

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      GeoHot Beats the Dev Team to 3GS Unlock

      July 3, 2009 /

      George Hotz looking hot.Alright, so the headline is a little bit misleading, but in a sense it’s true. The Dev-Team has had an exploit for the iPhone 3GS set and ready to go, but they want to wait until 3.1 so that Apple doesn’t immediately patch their hole. George Hotz got tired of waiting, so he’s releasing the jailbreak himself.

      As of yet there aren’t many details, and not many folks have tested it, but those who have are reporting a successful unlock. GeoHot, or George Hotz, has the necessary file listed on purplera1n.com. After the jailbreak, you should be able to use ultrasn0w for the unlock.

      I think the best part of this whole saga is Hotz’s comments regarding the Dev-Team decision to hold of on release. I’ll send you off to backup, jailbreak, and unlock with his words:

      Normally I don’t make tools for the general public, and rather wait for the dev team to do it. But guys, whats up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played. We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes. It isn’t worth waiting because you might have the “last” hole in the iPhone. What last hole…this isn’t golf. I’ll find a new one next week.

      Well said, George. Good luck jailbreaking – enjoy your holiday.

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