Aug 1, 2010
Tonight’s Gadget Grill Show (2RDJ FM-88.1, or streaming from www.radio2rdj.com) will be an iPhone 4 free zone. Tune in and see.
Jailbreak your iPhone. Legally!
Jul 27, 2010
Every three years, the US Library Of Congress carries out a review of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and issues rulings on certain aspects of it. In it’s most recent ruling, just handed down, it stated that the protection built in to the iPhone had little to do with copyright, and that therefore the act of bypassing that protection –...
iPhone GPS tracks iPhone Thief
Jul 25, 2010
Timing is everything: When would be the worst time to steal an iPhone? How about while it’s being used to demonstrate a new app that tracks the iPhone’s current location using the embedded GPS facility. In San Francisco on Monday last, 32 year old Horatio Toure was riding his bicycle when he spotted Jordan Sturm, who is an assistant at Mountain...
Five Second Rule
Jul 25, 2010
Who would have thought to do a scientific study to see if food, having fallen onto the floor, would pick up germs? Some scientists from Clemson University – obviously with way too much time and funding on their hands – did. They wanted to test to see if the five second rule was true or not. And the results? Who’d have thunk it? They discovered...
Free Samsung Galaxy S Phones
Jul 25, 2010
In the UK, and in the wake of Apple’s Antennagate issues, Samsung has apparently offered those who are very dissatisfied with their iPhone 4s to replace them with a new Galaxy S.
Free Microsoft Phone 7 Devices For All
Jul 25, 2010
To all Microsoft employees, that is. In an email circulated this week, Microsoft told its staff that they would all be getting a new Phone 7 device. The timing of this would be dependent upon local roll-out schedules. At least this ensures that there will more than the 503 Kins that were sold before it was decided to put that phone out of its misery.