A recent article by Time magazine gained popularity by talking about the newest in technology, aka the iPhone, and porn sites being integrated easier into Safari on the iPhone. Currently Pornography websites have been integrating downloadable files into there database making it easy to copy onto your iPhone and watch on the go.
“It’s by far the porn-friendliest phone,” says Devan Cypher, representative for San Francisco–based Sin City Entertainment. As evidence of the gadget’s rocketing popularity in California’s capital, the San Fernando Valley, numerous iPhone-specific porn sites have been launched in recent months. “There are a few hundred iPhone porn sites now in use,” says Farley Cahen, vice president of business development for AVN Media Network, the adult industry’s trade body.
As the 3G release nears the adult entertainment industries prepare to launch sites that will be able to be accessed by the iPhone. With the overwhelming popularity of the iPhone this industry has seen an opportunity and gone after it with full force.
“Three out of four iPhone users are men with above-average incomes, and iPhone users spend heavily on entertainment. More than a third of iPhone users shell out more than $100 on phone and data charges every month, as compared with just one-fifth of other cell-phone users.”
One feature that will be included in the 2.0 release is the ability to set Parental Controls, disabling ever ‘accidentally’ stumbling accross a naughty site or two, or three, or four…
Written by Bree Pearson on June 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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Google Reader is a hot ticket for iPhone and iPod Touch users lately. We saw a native attempt at Google Reader, which worked quite well actually. There is just nothing like the real thing though right? So here it is, Google has finally brought full support of its RSS reader, Google Reader, to the mobile Safari browser. The service says it is still in beta, but it seems to be working very well.
“This new version is designed to offer many of the same features as the desktop, while making it quick and easy to act on items. If you’ve used list view, then it should be familiar to you. Scan the titles for an item that interests you, tap and it expands in place. Starring, sharing, and keeping unread are done in place, so you never have to leave the list view or refresh the page. We think it’s a very fast way to power through your reading list.” - Google Reader Blog
The application looks to bring a more desktop like Google Reader experience to the mobile Safari browser. To access the new Google Reader, just visit http://www.google.com/reader/i/ on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The service is still in beta and you will not be redirected to that page just by visiting Reader, so bookmark it for future use.
[Via Google Reader Blog]
Written by Chase Higgins on May 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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Everyone’s favorite way to share mixtapes online has just become iPhone friendly. Muxtape, is now fully compatible with the the iPhone’s browser. To use the service on the iPhone, just navigate along, and when you select a track to play, Safari will play it just as if it was a normal MP3 file.
Muxtape provides a simple way to share mixtapes with other people across the web. Users can subscribe to another users RSS feed of mixtapes in iTunes. When new music drops you then have the option to listen to it. You of course can upload your own mixtapes, and if you are lucky other people will subscribe and listen to your music too.
You can use the new Safari friendly Muxtape now, just head over to their website at muxtape.com. Now Muxtape has an even broader audience. Porting web applications to Safari seems like it is starting to become a trend, just me?
[Via Gear Diary]
Written by Chase Higgins on May 12th, 2008 with no comments.
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While poking around the the iPhone 2.0 firmware Vincent got a hold of, he noticed not only can you save images directly from Safari, but you can save images from email attachments. The saving of images from an email attachment works much like it does when you save an image from Safari. Video of it in action after the jump.
Just as in Safari, it is very simple to save and store images from an email attachment to your iPhone. You hold your finger over the image for a few seconds, and a menu will come up and offer you some options for saving the image. The image is saved in your camera roll. More and more, the iPhone 2.0 firmware is appearing to make the iPhone a very formidable opponent to Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices.
Once again, iPhone Buzz has gotten you the story on the new iPhone firmware 2.0 to you first. If you want to be the first to know when a new feature drops, keep checking back. You will know when we do.
Written by Chase Higgins on April 22nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Radware, who produce enterprise security software, are claiming to have identified a Denial of Service (DoS) flaw in the iPhone’s mobile Safari browser. While not yet seen in the wild, the bug is triggered by a Javascript command on a webpage - which Radware suggest would be linked to via a spam email or SMS message - and could result in Safari crashing or even the iPhone itself becoming unstable. The flaw is present in Apple’s latest publicly available firmware, version 1.1.4, though it is uncertain whether Firmware 2.0 is similarly affected.
The exploit works through what Radware are calling a design flaw in mobile Safari, whereby multiple memory allocation operations on the dynamic memory pool trigger a bug in the garbage collector. There doesn’t seem to be a lasting impact on the cellphone - switching it off and then on again should reset it - but I can see how this might be less than reassuring to your IT manager at work.Â
Apple are yet to address the issue, and Radware would very much like you to buy their security software to prevent against it. Of course, the obvious advice is - just like browsing the internet anywhere else - to not click on links from sources you don’t trust, to be cautious about random looking sites and to generally be sensible. Though that wouldn’t make Radware any money, I suppose.
[via GigaOM]
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Written by Chris Davies on April 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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