This past Wednesday, we hosted our first Ars Premier Chat. We’d like to thank again all the people who came out to participate. We got so many great questions and comments that John didn’t have enough time to answer them all in our allotted hour of time.
Changes in the way Exchange is handled in iPhone OS 3.1 have left some iPhone users with nowhere to go but down. In order to comply with certain security policies, Apple apparently changed the way iPhone and iPod touch devices connect to Exchange servers in iPhone OS 3.1. As noted by AppleInsider, many users found out the hard way that their Exchange support broke on anything but the iPhone 3GS. The reason for the downgrade in functionality was due to hardware encryption required to connect to Exchange servers—something only the newest of iPod touch (32GB and 64GB) and the iPhone 3GS have.
Microsoft recently gave more details on Windows Marketplace for Mobile during the Tech Ed New Zealand 2009 session titled “Distributing and Monetizing Applications through Windows Marketplace Mobile,” led by Loke Uei Tan, Senior Product Manager on the Windows Mobile Team. Geekzone covered the event in good detail, but one of their points caused a lot of uproar in the blogosphere: “If an application is approved but later removed from the marketplace it will then be automatically removed from all mobile devices.” That sounded a bit ominous to us, so we decided to check in with Microsoft.
Just when it seems the music industry is starting to come around to the realities of digital distribution, groups representing songwriters, composers, and music publishers are hoping to tack on additional licensing fees to music downloaded online. If fact, the group would like to earn performances fees even from the 30-second previews you can hear when you browse the iTunes Store.
Windows Mobile 7 will put a large emphasis on social networks, going so far as integrating them into the core experience of the phone. At least, that’s what the Windows Mobile 7 Communications group is striving for, according to a job posting from today, discovered by mobiletechworld. The requirements on microsoft-entertainment-jobs.com say the software giant is looking for a Senior Program Manager, but here’s the part that matters to current and future Windows Mobile users:
This past weekend, we spent some time among the computer enthusiasts at the Vintage Computer Fest East, hosted by the Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists. The event was a mix of things: part history lesson, part nostalgia trip, and a bit of swap meet thrown in. All in all, it was fascinating to see some of the hardware that had been preserved in working order. In a lot of cases, I was completely unaware that the hardware maker ever existed. In others, there was a certain nostalgia for long-deceased platforms. But the big surprise was probably how people had merged some of the old hardware with modern tech to create some things that were very modern.
Another year, another iPod nano. As expected, Apple introduced the next generation of its flash-based music player during the September 2009 iPod event, once again building on its current feature set in an attempt to appeal to more buyers.
Another year, another iPod nano. As expected, Apple introduced the next generation of its flash-based music player during the September 2009 iPod event, once again building on its current feature set in an attempt to appeal to more buyers.
At a Los Angeles event for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, a brand new edition of the Xbox 360 was shown. For $400 you can get the system with the Modern Warfare 2 styling, two wireless controllers, a 250GB hard drive, and a standard copy of the game.
The iPhone Dev Team has announced its first jailbreak for devices running iPhone OS 3.1. The latest version of PwnageTool 3.1 can successfully jailbreak an iPhone, iPhone 3G, or first-gen iPod touch running the latest mobile OS from Apple. However, it will not work for the iPhone 3GS or newer iPod touch models.
