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.
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?) which, thanks to a lifting framework of key-edges that presses underneath, can be both a smooth touchpad or a delineated keyboard.
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 the bill. So, as if requiring a 3G version wasn’t enough of a roadblock, Telstra seems quite reluctant to take the financial screwing everyone else has to get the iPhone.
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 that refuses to play music and instead drives itself into a fiery state with constant hard-drive thrashing.
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, you can access it for free, or if you are stingy with your bandwidth, you can pay for access, just like a Starbucks or something of that nature.
So what is Steve Jobs doing meeting with the creator of FON? Hopefully he is working on a deal to bring the technology over here and make it more widespread. Do you know how much of a blessing it would be to be able to access the web from my Touch without having to stop and try and find an open, public, wifi network?
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