iOS 4 Most Recent Posts

Updated: The curious story of the iPhone and iPad location-tracking file continues to attract interest. Is consolidated.db an evil privacy problem, a useful assistance to GPS, or an Apple (AAPL) oversight? In IT Blogwatch, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden come in for criticism for renting the forensics curtain. Not to mention Raymond Chen's top ten tips from Vegas...

iPhone alarm glitch hanging around like a bad smell. It's not working for some, even though Apple said the iOS 4 alarm clock bug would magically vanish Monday.
Despite Apple's promise that it would fix itself by today, the iOS alarm clock glitch is still making pomaceous owners oversleep. iPhone and iPod Touch alarms stubbornly persist in not working due to yet another bug with alarms. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers rub their eyes in disbelief. Not to mention a welcome return to our global TV ads series: How Ukranians advertise candy...
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Google is ever-so proud to announce that Android sales last quarter were more than those of Apple's iPhone. CEO Eric Schmidt 'let slip' that Android smartphone sales are now at 200,000/day. Wow! In IT Blogwatch, bloggers brace for fanboi flamewars. Not to mention bizarre email...
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Have you been patiently waiting on a jailbreak for your Apple iPad or iOS 4 iPhone? Well, no need to wait any longer! JailbreakMe.com is here now, with a carrier unlock hopefully coming Tuesday. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers cheer for a PDF vulnerability, for a change. Not to mention vote NO...
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It's official: Microsoft's Apple iPad competitor is "coming soon," with Windows 7 on Intel. At yesterday's financial analysts' meeting, Steve Ballmer made his clearest statement yet on the company's vision for tablet computing. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers reach out and touch the future. Not to mention a Philips-shop disaster...
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Dear Apple fanbois (and fangrrls): wow! You're (mostly) all good sports. You (mostly) didn't object to Thursday's parodic "leak" of Steve Jobs' press conference script. In fact, some of you were even (mostly) complimentary. I'm truly humbled; thanks! Aside from the obvious light relief, I was making a serious point in the post. Yes, really! Read on, as I breathe a sigh of relief and talk more seriously about iOS 4.0.1, in The Long View...

A mind-boggling 1.7 million iPhone 4 users are waiting on Apple to release arguably the most critical software update in its history, as users and competitors wait and see if software can fix the damage done by the left-hand-holding iPhone 4 call flaw....

Monday's launch of iOS 4 seems to have caused some hair-pulling for Ford SYNC users. Yesterday's IT Blogwatch was something of a lightning rod for discussion about the issue. Read on for the solution (hopefully) to this iPhone OS 4.0 issue...

Users of older iPhones and iPod Touches don't get the best features of iOS 4, the new iPhone operating system. But we do get a few new goodies.

Monday was the iOS 4 release date. Let's see what people had to say about iPhone OS 4.0 -- including some lesser-heard voices, for a change. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers cogitate and castigate. Not to mention Bob Parsons: the new GoDaddy girl?..
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Your ten-minute guide to what to expect from iOS 4 on your iPhone or iPod touch, and what you should do to be ready for the upgrade when it hits.