It has been said by the Techcrunch blog that Apple will not let Google offer its Internet phone service through the iPhone App Store.
Other bloggers are pointing towards the exclusive iPhone carrier of Apple in the U.S., AT&T Inc. are acting as the party that is responsible for the rejection.
It is due to the reason because Google Voice is offering for free some features that compete with those services for which AT&T take charges.
One number is offered by Google Voice for all of a user’s phones, voice-activated features and free U.S. long distance. This is available by invitation only at this time.
It has been reported by the Techcrunch that a comment has been offered by a Google spokesperson that they work hard to bring Google applications to a number of mobile platforms that also includes the iPhone. The Google Voice application that has been submitted by us six weeks ago to the Apple App Store had not been approved by Apple. We will still continue to work to bring our services to iPhone users for instance, by taking the advantage of advances in mobile browsers.
Previously Google Latitude has been rejected by Apple, which is the location-based tool by which the users are able to see where their friends are, from the iPhone store.
But as it has happened in that situation, we can expect that iPhone owners will be able to download Google Voice from the Web. However, in this case it won’t work as seamlessly and possibly it might not be able to use all of the features.
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Today it has been announced by Microsoft that it will open its first two retail stores that are similar to those of its archrival Apple Inc. in Arizona and California.
According to Cnet, it has been confirmed by the Vole that on Tuesday it has signed leases on storefronts in those two upscale bedroom communities.
The Redmond, Wash., giant will open stores in Scottsdale, Ariz. and in Mission Viejo Apparently. Apparently, the Mission Viejo location has been targeted by Microsoft because there’s already an Apple store in the same mall.
It has been said by Kevin Turner, who is Microsoft’s chief operating officer,that his company’s strategy is such that they will put some of its stores near rival Apple stores.
According to news reports, these two stores should open in the fall.
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In a report issued by Apple to the U.S. Copyright Office, it has been claimed by Apple that jailbreaking iPhones could cause “potentially catastrophic” attacks against cell phone networks,as reported by wired.
It has been said by Apple’s report that hackers may use the phones in order to crash tower software, or a tower might be potentially disabled by them.
The filing that has been made by Apple is an attempt to stop the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s efforts which is being made by them to legalize the practice of jailbreaking with the Copyright Office. It is believed by the group that the consumers should be allowed to run whatever applications they want on devices that is owned by them. Under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998, the public requests for exemptions from the law must be reviewed by the Copyright Office after every three years.
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A UK based carrier told BBC today that Apple will trying to remove a serious security fault in their iPhone. This iPhone security flaw will give hacker opportunity to disable or take control of the device.
Although Apple and AT&T have not said anything about device’s security flaw. Apple will launch this patch on Saturday via iTunes. Charlie Miller is the man who have presented the flaw at Black Hat security conference. A remote hacker can disable or take over iPhone by sending them a series or hundreds of hidden SMS. A square character only appears in the last message.
The flaw is well known common bug named as “buffer overflow.” It will fill data into a protected area beyond its capacity. This overflow of buffer will give access to hacker to the information that is outside of the protected area. The myth behind is that Smartphone can take binary data in its text message. This data can be executed as a logical program on the iPhone.
Miller said the bug could be used to execute “arbitrary code” – i.e. letting hackers run programs on remote phones – but he only demonstrated an ability to knock a phone off-line.
Miller only put a iPhone in off-line mode in his demonstration. He said that the flaw can used by running an arbitrary code, mean hacker can run programs on remote phones. Miller has warned Apple in July regarding this issue. The same issue is also reported in Android and Windows Mobile phones by Miller. Although Google has released the patch for Android flaw but for Windows Mobile patch is not available yet.
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Not confused enough about Windows 7 and its various versions? Good, because Microsoft has recently released the above chart adding even more fuss to the confusion.
As you can see, Microsoft has detailed just about every kind of upgrade you could encouter on October 22nd from Windows XP all the way up to Windows Vista Ultimate. While some versions will allow for a painless upgrade, others will require you to completely wipe your harddrive clean and then install Windows 7.
Annoying? Yes. Confusing? Of course.
via AllThingsDigital
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