In a blog post yesterday, Kaspersky Lab expert Denis Maslennikov wrote his company was contacted by Russian mobile phone company MegaFon to report a suspicious app. The app in question is called “Find and Call”. “Find and Call” is currently available on both the App Store and Google Play. My search of the App Store confirmed...
Marco Arment creator of the popular app Instapaper discovered an interesting flaw on the App Store. In a blog post yesterday, Arment noticed a flurry of emails and twitter messages moments after the newest version of his app appeared on the App Store. The complaints were all for the same thing. His app would crash...
Police in Gloucestershire, UK, have managed to track down a missing man using the app “Find My Friends”. On July 2nd, a woman reported her husband missing. She told police he had taken his iPhone with him. Gloucestershire police began searching for the man. The woman remembered her husband's login details for his phone and...
The epic battle between Apple and Google continues, as the latter released its Chrome browser in the App Store last week. Which will emerge victorious in the battle for iOS browser supremacy? Our review will attempt to answer this question, after testing and using Chrome for the past week. Upon launching the application for the...
Musclenerd, of The iPhone Dev Team, announced on Twitter that they have released an update to the popular jailbreak software, Redsn0w. This version improves downgrading your baseband from the iPad baseband, 06.15.00, and adds a new DFU IPSW feature. Here's the notes from The iPhone Dev Team's blog: Happy 4th of July! Today’s release of...
Many app developers out there have expressed their frustrations with Apple's app review process. The process can take a lot longer than it should, directly affecting an app developer's revenue on the product. Business Insider recently had a conversation with former Apple Senior Engineer, Mike Lee. He shared some insight into what he thinks the...
Looks like Rogers and Fido have rolled out some new changes today. According to an internal doc received by MobileSyrup, the GRRF (also known as the Government Recovery Regulatory Fee) will be eliminated for new customers (existing customers will remain the same). The charge will now be bundled into monthly service fees instead, which some...
Google has updated their iOS app, Google Places and is now called Google+ Local. Added to this update is speech recognition, an improved interface and Zagat reviews. The speech recognition is quite good and my verbal requests for things such as “Japanese Food” and “Coffee Shops”. I did manage to find a bug in the...
In a British high court today, Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC managed to defeat Apple in a series of legal challenges relating to patents, most notably the prized “Slide to Unlock”. Apple’s patent relating to the “Multi-touch” was also found to be partly invalid. HTC also successful challenged an Apple patent on the use of different...
For those in Toronto, you can now get engaged with the Crimestoppers program via your iPhone. The organization has launched a new free app to enable citizens to submit tips anonymously, protected by the Supreme Court of Canada. According to an interview with the Canadian Press: Const. Martin Douglas, Toronto Crime Stoppers youth and social...
BBCanada, the first and largest Canadian B&B (Bed & Breakfast) website on the internet, announced the launch of its iPhone app yesterday after providing 17 years of service to thousands of locals (via MarketWatch). BBcanada's website has millions of visitors and with its new iOS app, thousands of B & Bs in Canada are now available...
Last Saturday, Apple filed a claim with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to acquire ‘iPad3.com’ domain and today, the request has already been granted as Apple now owns the 'iPad3.com' domain, TNW is reporting (via Fusible). The iPad3.com domain is now controlled by Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, a firm that has represented Apple in the past. The 'iPad3.com' domain was registered in January...
