The Dev-Team just announced that they were able to succesfully upgrade their iPhone 3GS to the newest 3.1 firmware and still maintain their jailbreak! This brings them one step closer to releasing software to jailbreak 3.1 and, for those stuck at 3.0, grant us the ability to upgrade safely as well.
Hopefully we will see a new Pwnage Tool, or another newly named tool, so we can all have the luxury of Genius Mixes, MMS, and other features. So keep an eye out here and we will let you know as soon as a tool becomes available!
Back in February of this year, I wrote about how four Google executives are being taken to court for a video being uploaded of a teenager with Down’s Syndrome. Google claims that they have not committed any crime and I definitely agree with them. When you launch a website that depends primarily on user-generated content, then you should not be responsible for videos unless the community flags them. The video of a teenager with Down’s Syndrome being bullied by four students slipped through the cracks.
The Google employees on trial are David Drummond (SVP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer), George De Los Reyes (board member) , Peter Fleischer (Global Privacy Counsel), and Arvind Desikan (Google Video Marketing). The video was uploaded shortly before Google acquired YouTube. And then the video stayed for a few months before Google was notified about the objectionable content. As soon as Google found out about the video clip, they removed it.
Google also provided the information of the user that uploaded it. The four students ended up being expelled from their school in Northern Italy. The actual victim withdrew from the lawsuit, but a Down’s Syndrome advocacy group called Vividown decided to pursue the case. A verdict is not expected to be made until this December.
“Plusmo’s technology will help us build upon the success and momentum we’re experiencing in mobile local search, which continues to see strong growth,” stated AT&T Interactive CEO and President David Krantz. “The addition of Plusmo adds a new dimension to our technology prowess through its multi-platform approach. It highlights our commitment to invest in mobile application innovation and search leadership.”
AT&T announced today that they will be acquiring Plusmo, a mobile applications company that receives about 100 million monthly pageviews. The company makes mobile applications for the iPhone, Google Android, BlackBerry, Nokia, Java/J2ME, and Windows Mobile. Plusmo will become a subsidiary of AT&T Interactive. The financial details were undisclosed.
Plusmo’s mobile platform decreases the development time for building widgets and applications. Plusmo uses web development standards across different mobile operating systems. Plusmo also has several sports applications such as soccer, football, cricket, etc. Plusmo was started by Krishna Vedati and Srinivas Mandyam. New Enterprise Associates invested $4.41 million into Plusmo around May 2008.
The Walt Disney Company bought ClubPenguin, a kids social network in May. And now Disney is picking up on another trend, e-books. Disney is selling access to Digital Books for $8.95 per month. Kids can access about 500 Disney e-books including those in the Hannah Montana and Winnie the Pooh series. The e-book reader works on browsers and the books have animated illustrations including authentic character voices.
Earlier this week Google invited 100,000 people including many developers into the testing phase of Google Wave. Anyone that has an invitation to Google Wave can invite 5 people to the service. Google Wave starts with four modules.
The module at the top left is the navigation, the module at the bottom left is the contacts, the module in the middle are archived messages and e-mails, and the module on the right is real-time collaboration like IM, video-conferencing and document-sharing. Some of the extensions already made for Google Wave include Ribbit, Lab Pixies for Sudoku puzzles, Lonely Planet, and AccuWeather. SAP, Salesforce.com, and MediaWikiWave have developed prototypes using Google Wave for their respective software.
Google Wave was developed by Lars and Jens Rasmussen. This is the team behind Google Maps too. A Google spokesperson said that Wave is “how email would look if it was invented today” in an interview. “It would be collaborative and there would be no barriers between live instant messaging, email and documents and so on.”
The Dev-Team just announced that they were able to succesfully upgrade their iPhone 3GS to the newest 3.1 firmware and still maintain their jailbreak! This brings them one step closer to releasing software to jailbreak 3.1 and, for those stuck at 3.0, grant us the ability to upgrade safely as well.
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