27
Jul
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iPhone News
Citibank said its U.S. iPhone app accidentally saves personal information which includes account numbers.
The company publicly acknowledged the security flaw Monday, explaining that it had already released an updated iPhone app that patches the leak.
“During a recent review, we discovered that our U.S. Citi Mobile iPhone banking app was accidentally saving information related to customer accounts in a hidden file on their iPhones,” said Citibank spokeswoman Natalie Riper. “This information may also have been saved on their computer if they had been synchronizing their iPhone with their computer via iTunes.”
Citibank clarified that the flaw affected only users of the mobile banking app; credit card customers access Citibank’s services through a separate iPhone application, which the company considered was not cooperated. Citibank stated that it had endeavoured to converse with customers who have downloaded the app to recommend them of the update, and stresses that the error was initiated and fixed before any customer data was compromised.
“We have no reason to believe that our customers’ personal information has been accessed or used inappropriately by anyone, i.e., there has been no data breach,” said Riper.
Citi launched the iPhone app in March 2009 in combination with mobile financial services provider MFoundry, reported the Wall Street Journal. The bank said it performed security tests before and after the release of the application but failed to detect the problem. Citi said it is conducting an internal analysis to determine why it didn’t find the vulnerability.
“Most consumers and app developers don’t know what is happening in their apps, because it is moving so fast,” Mr. Hering said. “Apps are proliferating so quickly. We will see more and more of this.”
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Apple has announced that its popular iPhone4 model will go on sale in an additional 17 countries on Friday, July 30.
At a press conference last week, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs noted that the handset is not rolling out on time in South Korea, home turf for two of Apple top rivals, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and LG Electronics Inc
The latest edition of iPhone went on sale in France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. in late June. The sale created a carnival-like atmosphere and drawing tens of thousands of eager fans to Apple stores and retail partners.
The iPhone is Apple’s main growth driver and is expected to soon become its biggest source of revenue. The latest version will be in 88 countries by September — the company’s fastest-ever global product roll-out.
“It’s going to take us a little longer to get government approval there,” he said.
The iPhone 4 is now offering different applications which can be bought in any local apple store. Sales and promotions such as these will create so much attention since it is one of the most craved gadgets in today’s time.
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FaceTime, the video calling application for the iPhone 4, intend to transfigure the way we communicate on our cell phones. The application is exceptionally difficult to use. The obstacle is not a technical one. It’s a social one.
“How do you know whether or not someone is available to speak with you on FaceTime?” asked Sol Lipman, an entrepreneur in Santa Cruz, Calif. “That’s a big barrier to using it. We want to remove that barrier.”
Mr. Lipman created an application called FacePlant that shows users which of their contacts can receive video calls — those who have an iPhone 4 and are on a Wi-Fi network. (FaceTime does not yet work over cellular networks.)
The application, which will be available for free once it is approved by Apple, monitors the Wi-Fi status of contacts with iPhone 4s and also using FacePlant, and flashes a green light next to their names when they are available to video chat. Users can then call available friends from within the application. FacePlant propose a privacy mode to specify when a user is linked to Wi-Fi but, say, watching a screening of “Inception” and unable to chat. It also permit people to leave each other video voice mail. Ultimately, Apple is likely to allow FaceTime to sprint over cellular networks. Mr. Lipman doesn’t see that as removing the need for his application.
“Just like on I.M., status is really important,” he said. “Only whether or not you are available to take a video call is more important than starting an instant messaging chat.”
Mr. Lipman, who previously co-founded two other start-ups, a mobile social network called RallyUp and 12seconds, which lets users send brief video tweets, said he thought FacePlant could be useful beyond the iPhone 4.
In addition to the rumors that the next versions of the iPad and iPod Touch will come equipped with front-facing cameras to facilitate video chatting, Apple has outlined plans to make FaceTime an open standard, allowing it to work on other devices.
“We’re expecting it to appear elsewhere, on Android devices and PCs,” Mr. Lipman said. “As soon as those releases are available, we will build applications for it.”
“Our goal is to become the main application for FaceTime,” he said.
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23
Jul
Posted by: gracelim / Category:
iPhone News
A San Francisco officer has tracked down a man accused of swiping an Apple iPhone out of a woman’s hands and has been shocked when police found him only nine minutes later.
HOW? It turns out the phone had been tracking his every move.
The iPhone was being used to test a new, real-time GPS tracking application, and the woman holding it was an intern for the software’s maker, Mountain View-based Covia Labs.
Covia CEO David Kahn had sent the intern into the street to demonstrate the software. Police say Horatio Toure snatched it and sped away on a bicycle.Khan was watching a live map of the phone’s location on a computer and says he was immediately struck by how quickly the image began moving down the street. Police arrested Toure nine minutes later, and the intern identified him as the thief.
So for those who are so keen on getting an iPhone especially those who do it by force or cheating, you might as well think twice as to not embarrass yourself. The apple iPhone is very useful in terms of tracking and keeping tabs of peole who are exposed to violence and crime. Thieves are now being tracked through GPS which is very convenient for the users and totally inconvenient for the criminals.
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22
Jul
Posted by: admin / Category:
iPad Apps,
iPad News
With the iPad being all the rave, Flipboard plans to get into the act with the announcement of the World’s First Social Magazine through its iPad app called the Flipboard App.
This new app is a new social magazine that aims to bring life to stories, photos and news as shared by most social networking addicts today.
Flipboard will create a magazine from a user’s social content. All users have to do is launch the app and flip open the cover and then readers can view sections and also personalize the magazine.
The Facebook and Twitter sections allow the readers to quickly go through the latest stories, photos and updates from their network where they no longer have to scan long lists of posts and then click on links.
Rather, they will immediately see the stories, comments and images, making it faster and more entertaining to discover, view and share social content.
This is a free app and can be downloaded at the Flipboard site or from the iTunes apps tore.
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