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The 24c Gold Coated iPod touch (Special Limited Edition)

Goldstriker, a company that specialize in dipping smart phones in gold and platinum, had gone ahead with production of $3.2 Million “iPhone 3GS Supreme”, which grabbed the title of world’s most expensive cell phone.

This Limited Edition “Usain Bolt Gold iPod Touch” is embellished in 24ct Gold. Each iPod touch is Laser engraved with Usain Bolts signature and comes with a LIFE TIME GUARANTEE against any scratching or fading..

And now another company named Goldgenie, today has launched a gold coated iPod touch to pay tribute to the great Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt. To honor this great star, his signatures and his pose of triumph has been engraved with Gold on the surface of the device.

Usain Bolt’s signature laser engraved and famous “pulling of the bow” pose.

For those of you who don’t know, Usain Bolt, 23, is a Jamaican sprinter and a three-time Olympic gold medalist. He has set new world records in the 100m, 200m and 4×100m relay at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and followed up that feat last year with three more gold medals and two more world records at the World Championships in Berlin.

These special devices released in the honor of Usain Bolt, are of course, in limited production. A total of only 500 sets are available with each priced at about US $550.

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New iPhone Could End AT&T’s U.S. Monopoly

Apple Inc. plans to begin producing this year a new iPhone that could allow U.S. phone carriers other than AT&T Inc. to sell the iconic gadget, said people briefed by the company.

The new iPhone would work on a type of wireless network called CDMA, these people said. CDMA is used by Verizon Wireless, AT&T’s main competitor, as well as Sprint Nextel Corp. and a handful of cellular operators in countries including South Korea and Japan. The vast majority of carriers world-wide, including AT&T, use another technology called GSM.

With Apple developing a phone with CDMA capability, its exclusive U.S. arrangement with AT&T dating to 2007 appears set to end.

Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon Communications Inc. and Vodafone Group PLC, declined to comment. An AT&T spokesman said: “There has been lots of incorrect speculation on CDMA iPhones for a long time. We haven’t seen one yet and only Apple knows when that might occur.” Apple declined to comment.

Separately, Apple plans to release a new version of its current iPhone this summer, continuing its practice of annual upgrades at about the same time of year, said people briefed on the matter. The model is likely to be thinner and have a faster processor, two people familiar with the device said.

For AT&T, the Apple relationship has been crucial, helping to make the carrier the U.S. leader in lucrative smart-phone market share. According to comScore Inc., AT&T has over 43% of all U.S. smart-phone customers, compared with 23% for Verizon. These customers are especially attractive because they generally pay higher monthly rates for data plans.

For several quarters, AT&T’s growth has come almost single-handedly from the iPhone. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the carrier said it activated 3.1 million new iPhones. In comparison, it counted only a net total of 2.7 million new subscribers as some customers moved from other phones to iPhones.

“You’re not going to lose the iPhone [exclusivity] and make up growth somewhere else without bearing the cost,” said Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. research analyst Craig Moffett.

The people briefed on the matter said the upgraded GSM iPhone is being made by Taiwanese contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., which produced Apple’s previous iPhones. The CDMA iPhone model is being made by Pegatron Technology Corp., the contract manufacturing subsidiary of Taiwan’s ASUSTeK Computer Inc., said these people.

One person familiar with the situation said Pegatron is scheduled to start mass producing CDMA iPhones in September. Other people said, however, that the schedule could change and the phone may not be available to consumers immediately after production begins.

Representatives of Pegatron and Hon Hai declined to comment.

Verizon has publicly stated its interest in the iPhone, but people familiar with the situation said Apple originally decided against developing a phone for Verizon to keep its development process simple, since the technologies are incompatible.

Verizon also is upgrading its network to a higher-speed technology, so Apple has said it believed CDMA was a short-term technology. Apple later changed its mind as it realized Verizon’s upgrade would take longer than expected, said people familiar with the situation.

Making the iPhone available through Verizon, which has over 91 million customers, as well as potentially other CDMA carriers could open up a significant new market. In 2009, iPhone sales globally rose 83% to 25.1 million, far outpacing the 20% to 25% growth in smart phones sales overall, according to Bernstein. But since Apple already dominates smart-phone sales through existing partners, “sooner rather than later, Apple is going to have to look to find incremental distribution,” said Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi. He estimates Verizon could help Apple nearly double the number of iPhone users in the U.S.

AT&T’s relationship with Apple, a lucrative deal arranged by Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs, shows how such a partnership with other carriers could present challenges.

Analysts estimate AT&T pays Apple more than $600 per phone, but sells most of them for $199 or less. Heavy iPhone users have also put an enormous load on AT&T’s wireless network, pushing the carrier to a breaking point in some markets such as New York and San Francisco.

Qualcomm Inc., which holds patent rights to CDMA, is the dominant designer of CDMA chips

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Apple to Block SHSH Downgrade With Next iPhone

The firmwareumbrella published in his blog that he found a new key named APTicket that might be a means for Apple to stop us jailbreakers from restoring to versions of firmwares that are not signed anymore.

This would mean Apple would get complete control over what you restore and when you restore it. While jailbroken devices are able to accept custom firmwares, the new bootroom 3gs and the ipt3g and MC can’t be restored to a custom firmware as of now, so this might become a real situation for the devices to come. This is, of course, until the great team of iPhone hackers, finds a workaround.

Here is an extract from thefirmwareumbrella

“My guess is that in future versions of iTunes, Apple will probably handle the TSS request/response and later this year implement the code to process the response in the actual bootrom of the device. Here’s what I mean:

The newer iTunes versions will send a certificate request in the TSS request by adding a new key to the TSS request.
Their TSS server will create a new certificate with an effective date attached to it. (Making it invalid if used after that date) Until the new bootrom rolls out, iTunes will handle the decrypting of the response blobs using the nifty new signed certificate response ala APTicket.

Once Apple ships new devices with the bootrom capable of validating the new APTicket (or whatever they call it in the future) they can add logic to check the bootrom of the device and conditionally process the response from the TSS server(for old bootroms) or allow the device to process it(for new bootroms).

Looking at the above, it’s a fairly bullet-proof means of stopping local restores. Since the APTicket will be signed and likely shsh’ed I wouldn’t be surprised if they load APTicket or something like unto it BEFORE the LLB is loaded. This way they can not only control what VERSION of the firmware you install, they can also control WHEN you can install it by a means with far longer and sharper teeth.

If they implement the above, the only means of restoring will be via jailbroken device.”

And here is a response to the post from geohot

“Welcome to proper challenge response, guess someone at Apple finally read a book on security. At least it’s not in the bootroms yet.”

Guess we will have to sit tight and wait to see how this next movement of the overlord unfolds.

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The Case that MIGHT Keep Cell Phones from Being Hazardous to Your Health

If you haven’t read Christopher Ketcham’s awesome and scary story on brain damage and cell phone use , read it now. See? Scary shit. And while it’s impossible to shield yourself from harmful radiation without going all Unabomber and heading into the wilderness, it helps to get a landline at home, abandon Wi-Fi and not to live near a cell tower as was noted in the story.

And it MIGHT help to use this radiation reducing iPhone case developed by a company called Pong Research. They claim it works by redirecting the radiation coming in and out of the antenna up and away from your headspace using a brass colored module embedded in the case. (Wired.Com recently witnessed a test that verifies Pong Research’s claims.)

While $59.95 might be steep for a silicone case, I can attest that it has saved my iPhone from many a fall. I just think of the radiation reduction as an added, albeit slightly dubious, bonus. Still, if I could line my apartment in Pong, I probably would.

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Bump Now Lets You Facebook Friend On The Spot

Bump, the great contact sharing app that works by bumping two iPhones together, just got a very neat update which makes friending someone on Facebook easier than ever.

Once set up, Bump now allows you to friend someone on Facebook directly from the app using their same signature move, an impressively convenient feature which will most probably save you quite some trouble.

If you happen not to know about Bump, here is the official demo:

It’s totally free so go get it now!

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Cisco adding iPhone app for voice-over-Wi-Fi

Cisco Systems Inc. plans to add voice-over-Wi-Fi capabilities to its existing iPhone app by April, part of a continuing effort to expand its unified communications technology into the mobile space.

The current iPhone Cisco Mobile app requires users to have a Cisco Unified Mobility Advantage server installed at a business. The server is usually administered by a company’s IT department.

Cisco Mobile already gives iPhone users quick access to many of the standard Cisco IP features, such as visual voicemail and Mobile Connect, software that can route calls from a work number through a company’s phone switching network and then out to an iPhone. The iPhone client software is free.

Cisco sees voice over Wi-Fi for the iPhone as a less expensive way to communicate because it would eliminate the need to use cellular voice minutes when placing a call in a Wi-Fi zone, said Laurent Philonenko, general manager of Cisco’s unified communications business unit.

The upcoming version, to be called Cisco Mobile Voice, will also be free and is expected to be available by April. Among the new features it will offer is “shake to lock,” which allows a user to end a call with a simple shaking gesture of the phone, he said. Another, named “call preservation,” allows a phone call to stay connected, even if a user opens a different application in the iPhone.

Cisco is also developing another iPhone application for voice-activated dialing. That app can be launched by bringing the phone to the ear and speaking, since the iPhone’s accelerometer detects the movement. It will be part of the Web 2.0 IP Telephony Widget.

Philonenko spoke to reporters in Boston and other cities from San Jose, Calif. via videoconference and was joined in Madison, Wisc., by Pat Scheckel, vice president of converged infrastructure solutions for CDW, which resells computers and related gear to businesses.

CDW, which has 3,500 customer deployments of Cisco’s mobile and unified communications technology globally, has already worked with one manufacturing company that has implemented voice over Wi-Fi using Nokia smartphones and Cisco 7925 IP phones, Scheckel said. “They had exorbitant cell phone bills and now just use Wi-Fi,” he noted.

Philonenko said it is important for Cisco to bring its mobility apps to iPhone, which has gained ground in large businesses in the past two years. Cisco eventually plans to bring all of its mobility applications to Nokia and BlackBerry devices, and, later, Android phones, he said. “Android is not yet a big factor in the enterprise ,” he said. “And we think Windows Mobile will re-emerge….

“The iPhone came from nowhere and companies like CDW are now deploying them by the thousands,” Philonenko said. With smartphone devices proliferating, cell networks seem to have saturated the globe, “but there’s still not enough 3G bandwidth for what people want to do.” As a result, Wi-Fi is seen as a relief valve, raising the value of voice over Wi-Fi, he added.

Cisco, which offers Webex collaboration software as well, is tracking the growing importance of social networking, Philonenko added. “Everything we do [at Cisco] is going to be mobilized,” he said.

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2009 Iphone game of the year.

Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor – We choose Tiger Style Games’ Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor for our 2009 Game of the Year first and foremost because it’s a great game, but also because it perfectly represents the promise of iPhone gaming. Spider is an original concept built specifically for the iPhone by a small self funded team. It’s this low barrier to entry which provides customers with a huge selection of games including unique and polished gems like Spider. You really should experience this one.

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Jailbreak iPhone 3.1.2 on Windows with Sn0wbreeze

Sn0wbreeze like blackra1n, redsn0w and PwnageTool is yet another jailbreaking tool for iPhone and iPod touch which can be used to create custom .ipsw files. But unlike the PwnageTool, Sn0wbreeze is fully compatible to work with Windows 7/Vista and XP machines. If for some reason the earlier mentioned tools didn’t work for you, you can give Sn0wbreeze a try and see if it helps in jailbreaking your iPhone with a custom .ipsw file.

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App that Controls a Missile Launcher

In past, we have seen iPhone being made to use in situations such as driving vehicles, controlling robots and so much more, but none a special than launching a missile! Yes, a small group of students have managed to control a missile through their iPhone that commands and controls a small rocket launcher in pre and post firing conditions. They designed an app for iPhone and created a system for the launcher by running customized version of Windows CE 6 on eBox 2300, on which the orientation, deviation and firing control of missile was possible using the iPhone. The project that successfully performed all these claimed functions was realized by David Attias, Jeff Lumish, Andrew Thoni, Greg Watkins and James Hamblen where as Nate Klein supervised it.

eMissileBox was part of their final year project at Georgia Tech University which is distinguished for its commitment to improving the human conditions through advanced science and technology. Here is the video of the experiment in action.

Full hardware + software specifications, demo videos and presentations can be found at the official site of this project here. [via Hack a Day]

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