If you're using Skype for iOS version 3.0.1 or older, you might want to think twice before opening messages from people you don't know. According to a security expert, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Chat section of Skype for iOS on both the iPhone and iPod touch.
Apparently, Skype fails to properly encode the "full name" of the sender of an incoming chat message, allowing the sender to add malicious JavaScript code that can be executed as the message is opened...
With Halloween around the corner, the annual dilemma comes back: what costume am I gonna wear? This year, looking at those Angry Birds costumes, my decision process might be streamlined.
Selling for $30-$40, you can pick from all your favorite birds: black, red, yellow. You can even a King Pig costume...
Good news if you've invested some of your hard earned (or not) money in Apple. The stock is currently skyrocketing. It reached its highest price in history today when it briefly traded at $411.50. At the time I am writing this, it is at $409.66 (a 2.3% increase from the last trading session) while the Nasdaq and Dow Jones are both down.
Is it too late to buy AAPL? I doubt it. With the iPhone 5 right around the corner, just in time for the holidays, something tells me that Apple's stock is only going to get better...
Do you hate birds? Would you love to play Angry Birds, but can't because you hate birds so much? If you answered yes to both these questions, hang on because we might have the right app for you.
It's called Angry Frogs. It looks like Angry Birds, it plays like Angry Birds, heck, the name even sounds like Angry Birds. The only difference is that you're not using birds against pigs. You're using frogs against snakes...
Welcome to chapter XXVII of the ridiculous legal battle that Samsung and Apple are fighting, mostly over patents dictating who owns what technology. Today's potential lawsuit is brought to you by Samsung.
Even though the iPhone 5 currently is no more than a bunch of rumors and speculations, Samsung already knows for sure that it will bring Apple to court over the iPhone 5 as soon as it hits Korea...
Analysts predictions are a dime a dozen, especially these days, when we're getting soo close to the new iPhone launch. Still, as a news site, it is our duty to report on all of them so you can make your own opinion.
Reiterating some of the rumors we've been hearing for awhile now, JP Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz claims that Apple is just about to launch two new devices this fall: the iPhone 4+ and the iPhone 5.
We're not learning anything new here. According to the analyst, the iPhone 5 will be a world phone sporting a dual GSM+CDMA chip, it will have a larger display and an 8MP camera...
BiteSMS is without a doubt my favorite jailbreak app. I use it several times a day to write and read text messages. Up until now, you couldn't run BiteSMS on a jailbroken iPhone running iOS 5 beta. But due to the overwhelming demand, the BiteSMS team has decided to release an iOS-compatible version of the app.
Because it is in its early beta development, you can expect BiteSMS to have quite a few bugs. However, the die hard BiteSMS fan that you are will most likely see past those issues and focus on the exciting new features...
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Following their announcement made in February that the company would be throttling data for the top 5% of its users, Verizon has officially started what they call "Network Optimization Practices," just in time for the iPhone 5 launch sometime next month.
These "Network Optimization Practices" consist of reducing the data speed of the top 5% of Verizon users, a.k.a those who are on an unlimited data plan and use more than 2GB of data per month...
A few minutes ago, MuscleNerd tweeted the picture above, showing a name tag with his nickname instead of his real name. But the most interesting part of this tweet is not the name tag, it is that MuscleNerd was at Apple's HQ in Cupertino.
What was he doing there? Simply paying them a courtesy visit, or having a serious talk about future employment?
Don't you love good deals? Now let me rephrase this: Don't you love free apps, especially when they usually sell for a few bucks? If so, we have a good deal for you today.
Gameloft, one of the largest iOS games developer, is having a massive sale on their racing game Asphalt 6: Adrenaline for iPhone and iPad...
When the news fell last week that Steve Jobs was resigning from the company he had built, I felt like the world was going to collapse under my feet for a few seconds. I wasn't the only one. Tech bloggers, analysts and investors knew it was the end of an era.
The news was widely covered all over the world. In France, where I currently am vacationing, I read countless stories and watched tons of news reports that were praising Steve Jobs for the amazing job he'd done at Apple. Steve Jobs. The face of Apple. The salesman. The visionary. The dictator. Gone. Nothing would ever be the same without him. Some went as far as saying Apple was done, forgetting for a minute that Tim Cook, the newly appointed CEO, had been running the company for months, in what were Apple's best financial times ever.
Like John Gruber notes, Steve Jobs' greatest creation is not the iMac, the iPhone, or the iPad. No, Jobs' greatest creation is Apple itself — the brand, its core values, what it represents. And according to a survey, the Apple brand is better today than it was before Steve's resignation...