Just click here to be taken directly to the SSH Client I mentioned
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iPhone now truly able to accept Cingular SIMiPhone freed from contractual obligations

The iPhone is easily the most talked about piece of consumer electronic for 2007. For such a popular and mainstream product, the iPhone is surprisingly inaccessible with the requirement of a two-year activation contract with AT&T totalling more than $1,400. However, it would only be a matter of time before phone hackers would find a way around that.

The group iPhone Dev Wiki has discovered a way to partially unlock the device so that it will work with any AT&T or Cingular SIM card without the need for the exclusive new contract, details a post made on Gizmodo.

The iPhone hackers have apparently spent days disassembling firmware within the device in hopes of completely opening access. Although the iPhone may now run outside of the exclusive contract, the phone is still dependent on the AT&T network. What the hackers have accomplished is to allow the iPhone to run on any previous contract, including those on corporate accounts.




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Apparently, the amazing code wizards at the iPhone Dev Wiki have been able to partially unlock the iPhone using a new application called iASign. It won't fully unlock the iPhone for use with other companies, but the hack will allow you to use any existing Cingular/AT&T Pre-paid/MVNA SIM so you don't have to get a two-year contract with AT&T. We are now testing this, but if confirmed the benefits are great.

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Iphone is locked down tight

Hope of breaking network lock dissolves

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Putting your house on the market can be a frustrating experience, not to mention an expensive one. It might seem like a frugal decision to handle everything yourself rather than pay an agent’s commission, but their promotional services could mean the difference between finding a buyer within days or weeks as opposed to months. One enterprising seller obviously thinks the key to selling their keys is to ice the deal with a free iPhone: complete the escrow before this Friday and an 8GB cellphone is yours.

It’s an expensive deal if all you want is the iPhone, however. The 1,800 square foot home in Mesa, AZ, has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a two-car garage and is pre-wired for distributed audio, and is priced at $275,000.
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A leaked website proofs what everyone already expected:

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According to the security experts over at SPI Dynamics, the iPhone has the ability to be hacked and tracked by malicious code placed on websites, allowing hackers to track a user's calls, redirect a user's call or even to prevent their device from dialing at all.

Apple has encouraged developers to write web widgets or mini applications for the Safari browser integrated into the iPhone. One of Safari's unique features, the ability for a user to dial a phone number displayed on a web page just by tapping the number, is also one that potential hackers could exploit. According to SPI labs, this feature could be used by hackers to track phone calls placed by the user, to place the iPhone into an infinite loop of dialing calls until the phone is turned off, preventing the phone from dialing a number, or even to redirect calls placed by the user to different phone numbers (such as 900 numbers).

SPI Labs has reported these issues to Apple and are working with Apple to protect users from these type of possibilities. Until then SPI recommends that users do not "tap and dial" phone numbers on websites, however if these threats are real couldn't the hackers make a regular text link do the same thing?

You can read the entire article over at SPI Labs
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18,000 requests per second from iPhones knocking out dozens of access points at Duke University.

By John Cox, NetworkWorld.com, 07/16/07



The Wi-Fi connection on Apple’s recently released iPhone seems to be the source of a big headache for network administrators at Duke University.

The built-in 802.11b/g adapters on several iPhones periodically flood sections of the Durham, N.C. school’s pervasive wireless LAN with MAC address requests, temporarily knocking out anywhere from a dozen to 30 wireless access points at a time. Campus network staff are talking with Cisco, the main WLAN provider, and have opened a help desk ticket with Apple. But so far, the precise cause of the problem remains unknown.

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You love your iPod. It’s a great product. You take it everywhere and you use it every day. But owning a device so desirable and fashionable as an iPod comes with one major drawback . . . the iPod has become a target for theft. So how can you take your iPod out of your home without fear?

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If you're looking for a good way to access the cloud of music available in various nooks and crannies of the internets, check out SeeqPod's new iPhone version of their "playable search" free music service. To access it on an iPhone, point Safari at SeeqPod.com (an auto-detect mechanism shows a customized version of the service to iPhone users).

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We are quickly approaching the one month date since the release of the iPhone. What that means is we will start to see our first AT&t bills soon. I don’t know about you, but all I really cared about last week was getting an iPhone and what the advertised cheapest plan was to hook up with it. But now, the high has subsided and I am back to the realities of paying bills and watching my minutes.

here is a great resource for understanding the fine print of your AT&T contract. Granted, it is a tad slanted in the “what the hell are you thinking signing on with AT&T camp” but it is still very informative. Among the topline points:

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By Morgan:

Microsoft Zune…. Get real! Blackberry… yeah right. The greatest competitor to the iPhone is its future self. Everyone who is an Apple fan remembers the first iPod. We also remember all of its problems, from failing disks to batteries that couldn’t stay charged. We also remember how much better the newer iPod versions are. Personally, I much prefer the iPod Nano to the large iPod. I wonder if Apple will come out with an iPhone nano? These very questions are what will plague Apple sales of the iPhone in the coming months. To be certain the sales of the iPhone will be fantastic, but they would have been better if Apple was not so quick to top itself. When I talk to my buddies most of them are waiting to see if something better is around the corner. Of course we are talking about Apple – right? – So the answer is YES YES YES EMPHATICALLY YES!

Sure the iPhone is a great product, but will those current iPhone buyers regret their purchase in a few months should something better and cheaper comes out? Rumor has it that the next release will be by Black Friday(The day after thanksgiving). Of course this is a ‘rumor’ so please don’t ask for my source. From a business perspective Apple is rolling out this line of products perfectly. Ask any salesman and they will tell you that top-down selling works. Apple is selling its most expensive versions first soon we will see lower cost versions of the iPhone to hit the market for those people just not willing to shell out $500 or more for a smartphone.

If you are a current iPhone owner. Fantastic you and 90% of your compatriots love your new product. Just don’t be surprised if something better and cheaper is available within 6 to 8 month.

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Are you a Digg addict? Are you feeling dazzled when you haven't digged or submitted a story to the social bookmarking website for more than a few hours? If you answer yes to these questions and you are an iPhone owner, you will be happy to know that having your digg dose everywhere you are is now a lot easier.

Digg's iPhone version has been released and can be used right away. The page, coded in less than 48 hours, has the following features: Native iPhone-like story scrolling, Mini permalink pages with top 5 comments, Login and Digging, Pagination and Jump to any topic.

A "Top Stories (24 hours/7 days)" feature should also be available soon.




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NetSuite Inc. announced SuitePhone , a capability that allows NetSuite customers to run business operations using the Apple iPhone. The new SuitePhone capability provides native support for Safari, the iPhone and Mac browser -- allowing NetSuite's advanced, AJAX-based user interface technologies such as drop-down menus, drag-and drop portlets, and in-line editing, to be supported. In addition, the ERP, CRM and e-commerce functionality of NetSuite is now also available to Apple users, bringing them an on-demand, integrated business management application designed for the Apple platform.
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By Morgan:

Ok, if you are on the edge network then everything should work just fine since they have their network pretty much wide open. If on the other hand you wish to hot-spot hop like most of us to get on faster networks, then watch out. If your ISP uses port 25 for its SMTP E-Mail server, expect to be blocked about two-thirds of the time. AT&T, BellSouth, MindSpring, CableOne, Charter, Comcast, ATTBI, Cox, EarthLink, Flashnet, MediaOne, MSN, NetZero, People PC, Sprynet, Sympatico.ca, Verio, and Verizon among many more block port 25. This of course is to help prevent SPAM(Junk Email) from traversing their networks. Unfortunatly if your ISP uses port 25 for sending email, you are in a tough position. You will be able to read email but not send email. You could switch back and forth to and from the Edge network but that is kind of a hassle. There is a trick to work around this problem though – read below.

The trick! Sign up for a gmail account and have your email sent from it using Google’s SMTP servers. Google’s servers use ports which are not known to be blocked by any major ISP. You can keep your incoming email from your ISP. The only downside to this is that your username might change from something like smith@earthlink.net to smith@gmail.com or smith1523@gmail.com The upside will be that sending email will be possible regardless of the network you are connecting from!


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When you are playing music on your computer, have you got frustated that every time you want to change the song or pause it you need to go back to your computer. Alloysoft has release Signal, the ultimate media player remote so that you can wirelessly control iTunes.

Hit the jump for more details and also to see more images of the UI.




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Want to take control of your home PC or MAC using your iPhone? TightVNC (with some modifications) for the PC (Wintel) and Telekinesis for your MAC seem to be the answer at least for now.



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iPhone Unlock Toolkit software can activate your iPhone bypass iTunes subscription.

Hack iPhone without AT&T's two year contract automatically within a few seconds. It is fast, safe and easy-to-handle. Just click on the 'Unlock iPhone' button, the process will be completed quickly. iTunes 7.3 or later is needed.

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Written by Ben Jones on July 13, 2007
The possibility of file sharing whilst walking down the street is closer than you might think. Carrying a BitTorrent client in your pocket is getting closer, with the release of new high-powered communication tools, such as the much publicized Apple iPhone.


It would almost seem as if TorrentFreak is the only technologically based news site to have not carried some sort of piece about the iPhone, in one form or another. In order to correct this deficit, we wondered ‘would it be possible to torrent on one? After all, what can be more iconic than using something (potentially) dubbed iTorrent?

The technical specifications of the device certainly make it possible. It has more than enough cpu power for it, assuming a nice, tightly coded client was written. The built in WiFi (802.11b/g) and use of the EDGE 2.75G wireless network data transfer system allows a fairly widespread availability of reception.

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Friday, July 13th, 2007 at 1:15 PM - by John Martellaro


"You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose."

- Benjamin Lipson

There are people with good sense, industry experience, and a feel for the wireless market who see the iPhone as just another smartphone. One with limitations and some serious weaknesses in terms of big business. I don't think they're looking deep enough, or with an Apple perspective, or with a view to the future.

The Apple iPhone is going to make some serious inroads into our lives and change the way we use hand held computers, indeed, even our desktops. To fail to understand that is to fail in the wireless market. Some companies that sell mobile phones are going to fall into hard times as a result over the next five years. That's because they don't know why they're winning now, nor do they have the corporate insight to see how they're going lose in the future as the smartphone evolves.

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