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iPhone and iPod Touch SDK Event: Minutes and Summary

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Watch this space for the all important minutes and summary of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch SDK Event. No need to read through long posts of coverage, it will all be here, in just a second.

-Ed.

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Summary:

  • Push Email, Push Calendar, Push Contacts, Global Contacts, Cisco IPsec VPN, Certificates and Identities, WPA2, Enforced Security Policies, Device Configuration and Remote Wipe are all coming to the next iPhone Software Update.
  • However, Update will not be released until June.
  • ActiveSync and Microsoft Exchange for iPhone.

iPhone / iPod Touch Update to 1.1.2 is pointless if coming from 1.1.1 (and even 1.02)

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[UPDATE] Reasons to upgrade to 1.1.2 from any version: Lan More…

Okay, okay. Something that was extremely easy already is, well easier. If that’s possible.

For all you guys running v1.1.1 iPod Touch or iPhone, yup your time has come to finally enable (or re-enable) third party applications on your device.

Thanks to the hackers, including:  metasploit, rezn, dinopio, drudge, kroo, pumpkin, davidc, dunham, and NerveGas, we are now able to jailbreak our phones/players to allow us to install 3rd Party Applications without using a computer on a previously untouched device. [[VISIT - JailBreakMe.com]]

For those who have no idea what this means, sorry. You kind of have to know.-Ed

Jailbreak on iPhone (and iPod Touch) v1.1.1 confirmed and sketchy details on fully unlocking

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We’ve got a number of tip-offs via e-mail (tips [at] technoessence [dot] com) and it looks like that the iPhone has been jailbreaked, and 3rd party apps are now loadable onto the two devices. Just for clarification, does this mean that it can be unlocked, or have Apple used further security measures?

And reports that the iPhone has indeed been unlocked with v1.1.1 are somewhat true, albeit the fact that it’s supposed to take 5 hours. -Ed

No Physical GooglePhone, just software.

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The NewYorkTimes is reporting that there will be no “Gphone” or “GooglePhone,” as of the near future (pretty much 3 years). Google now wants to break into the mobile web advertising market, which at the moment is quite lackluster. More…