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Wow-this is a surprise,or is it? iPhone is cool. iPhone wants to go enterprise. No matter how you look at it the iPhone is a cool gadget,but then again would you buy something that's simply cool and ineffective? Dunno. Adding ActiveSync to the mix opens a whole new world before the iPhone and connects a large number of iPhone owners (and potential owners) to Microsoft infrastructures that control the enterprise environment (why use GMAIL/Blackberry). So if you look at it this way,it makes sense...
This might be somewhat old but it still strikes me as odd. It seems that every process on the iPhone runs as root, which basically means that if one process is breached it will have full access to the whole system. When looking at this situation, on one hand you might be confident that your software has no security flaw, thus you have nothing to worry about or you have made a mistake. A process/user should not run with higher privileges then the ones he really needs, even administrators should be...
Many people were disappointed by the fact that the iPhone could only be used with one carrier,not only did this limit US owners to a specific carrier it also made it virtually impossible for anyone outside the US to use the iPhone (think about the cost...). A crack (or unlock) was inevitable. A hardware unlock surfaced a few days ago, yet it wasn't for the faint hearted. Yesterday (or so it seems) the first report of a software unlock finally surfaced on the Engadget blog. A few hours later a second...
MacGyver, look out, someone stole your tool of trade.... Now seriously,I can't say if this story is true or a fabrication but nevertheless it's still funny: The web has pictures, and a story, saying that Apple has sent out a wrapped paper clip as a tool for iPhone. On one hand,you have to give it to them, you can never find one when you need one,on the other hand it is really funny... Take a look at the pictures on flickr and the story on Engadget .