It seems like there’s a huge bug in iOS 4.1 for iPhone: with a combination of sleep / power button and a fake emergency call, it is possible to access the iPhone’s contact list and phone keypad even if the device is locked. I personally tested the method and, indeed, it works: I was able to bypass iOS’ passcode lock check and make a phone call to a friend of mine. Read more
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iPhone Security Hole Lets You Make Calls When The Phone Is Locked
PBS Grows Up with Redesigned Website, New iPad App
PBS has launched a redesigned website with a new online player, a new iPad app, and they are targeting toward their grown-up viewers. It’s all part of a bigger plan to bring more local content to wider national audience.
Welcome to the new PBS.org. We’ve redesigned the site to provide users with a richer experience by highlighting content from local PBS stations, as well as the best of your favorite national programs. PBS.org now gives you easy access to videos, blog posts, articles and more from your community, and makes it easier to find TV schedule information and content specific to your stations. Visitors from more than 80 different communities across the country will be able to see links to locally produced content while browsing the site, with more areas coming soon.
More Details On Apple’s North Carolina Data Center
Last night we reported that Apple’s new data center in Maiden, North Carolina is, according to many sources, ready to begin operations “any day now”. In the past weeks we heard rumors about Apple willing to double the size of the facility to 1 million square feet, being the current size 500,000 square feet.
Now it turns out Apple was planning to increase the size of the data center all along, the project is named “Dolphin” and the “phase 2” should include the aforementioned expansion. Read more
Backflip Studios Making Half A Million Dollars Per Month With In-Game Ads
So much for in-app advertising being a non-sustainable business mode. Backflip Studios, developers of the popular Paper Toss and Ninjump games for iPhone, is making half a million dollars per month from in-game ads alone. The company dramatically increased ad revenue since last May, when they confirmed they had managed to make $1 million in six months.
Backflip generated more than 45 million installs on iOS, 5.5 million on Android devices.
Apple’s Massive Data Center Beginning Operations “Any Day Now”
Apple’s $1 billion million data center in Maiden, North Carolina is where iTunes in the cloud will live. And the Mac App Store. And MobileMe. And whatever Apple has in mind for its cloud-based features.
According to a report by DataCenterKnowledge, the data center “is expected to begin operations any day now”. Which means it’s ready, and as Apple promised in July it’ll be up and running before the end of the year. Read more
EXCLUSIVE: There’s An App for Apple Store Check-ins Coming Your Way
Apple has wanted to put a location aware app on your phone for a while now. Specifically, Apple envisions a future where your phone integrates into various retail stores and commercial establishments (such as libraries) through temporary, location based applications. A source close with MacStories has informed us that we could begin seeing some of this technology arriving as early as next week in Apple’s own retail stores.
iPod: Rise & Fall
Remember when the iPod used to be the most important product for Apple? Now it’s all about the iPhone and iPad. The Mac’s coming back (and frankly, with Lion and the Mac App Store what a comeback), and the iPod sales are slowing down.
The chart below, Sonic-style, gives you an idea of how times change. [via Fortune] Read more
The Great, Amazing, Phenomenal Steve Jobs Lion Keynote
Apple Showcasing “Special Education” Apps In The App Store
Every week Apple launches a new custom section in the App Store for iPhone and iPad. This week Apple is featuring “Special Education” apps, and more than 60 different applications are listed in the section. Apps such as Things from Cultured Code, Sign 4 Me, Dragon Dictation and Color Identifier are included. It’s surely one of the most populated app sections Apple launched to date.