AT&T Investigating iPhone 4 Pre-order Security Issues

The iPhone 4 pre-orders were plagued with an incredible mess of mis-payments, wrong account information, and overall bad juju. Yesterday Gizmodo readers sent the infamous blog details (rather, complaints) of the day’s events. It became an incredible security issue, as people ended up logging into others accounts - which allowed customers to purchase, change, or update information in their name. What’s worse is that of the customer’s who were successful, some were overcharged for their orders, or others had completely screwed up order information ranging from the wrong phone to weird plans.

As Charles who wrote in to Gizmodo puts it, “AT&T Sucks.”

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iPhone 4 Demand Reported to be 10x Bigger than 3GS

Don’t get too excited just yet – we seriously doubt Apple really had ten million successful iPhone 4 pre-orderes amongst the problems AT&T had yesterday. Despite our wishful thinking, 9 to 5 Mac reports that Geman Telekom (who had problems similar to AT&T) revealed to NTV that demand for the iPhone 4 is ten times higher than that of the iPhone 3GS. Needless to say, 9 to 5 Mac is just as skeptical as we are, and even NTV doesn’t recognize that amount in a recent report this morning. It’s suggested that Apple has probably hit the the million mark, and we’ll be sure to keep you updated with more official numbers once the tally is counted.

Check the updates after the break!

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Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of Lions Coming to iPhone

Square Enix announced yesterday that Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of Lions is coming to the iPhone. Final Fantasy Tactics is a departure from a the usual mechanics of the Final Fantasy series, featuring an isometric view of the battlefield and many, many customization options for your characters. The original game first appeared on the Play Station in 1997, and War of Lions is a remake Square Enix launched on PSP 2 years ago.

Square Enix hasn’t announced a release date yet, or whether this “remake of the remake” will carry along some exclusive features for the iPhone. Check out the promo video after the break.

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Apple Suggests You Should Open Presentations In…iBooks

Right after the iPhone 4 was announced, Apple updated its website with screenshots of the new features. Mail.app has a dedicated page on the website, and we noticed that Apple posted a screenshot of Mail allowing you to open a presentation attachment in Keynote. Too bad Keynote for iPhone hadn’t been announced at the keynote, so we all wondered whether that might mean that iWork suite was on its way to the iPhone.

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Spotify for Safari: Exactly What I Was Looking For

Ok, I’m quite into this “discover the coolest Safari extensions out there” thing. Developers are coming out with innovative and useful tweaks every day, and we’re here to cover them. But when it’s about Spotify, the beloved music streaming service everyone wants to use somehow, I’m kind of a fanboy. The service is great, the catalogue is huge and the social features are neat.

Most of the time though, I hear about new artists I’ve never heard of while reading news in Safari 5. We Are Scientists have a new album out there? Let me search in Spotify. Wakey Wakey? Let me paste in Spotify real quick. See, it’s all about moving between windows and pasting stuff - boring and slow. Thanks to Johan Brook’s Spotify for Safari I can now do all of this directly from my browser window.

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