Posted these over on hacker news last month and guess they really should be on here as well * iPhone 5 will add NFC, which will have advertisers foaming at the mouth as Apple will link to ATV* RIM will be brought by a network operator for their operator friendly tech * Existing iOS and [...]
Read MoreDue to I assume a probable misconfiguration of something in O2, it appears that peoples phone numbers (MSISDN in GSM parlance) are being sent in the http headers on certain gateways, this was spotted by @lewispeckover .Hes set up a simple script to dump the http request headers to the browser screen, so you can [...]
Read MoreInspired by fellow co worker @elroids post on what phones he has had in his life time I felt I should follow suit! Nokia 1610 First phone, eventually given to my younger brother Ericsson T10i This phone was purchased with my first taste of “internet money” during the dot com boom with gains from alladvantage.com (living [...]
Read More Apple, Future of Mobile, iPhone, myphones, NokiaListening to the Apple keynote in the overflow room yesterday the reality distortion field hopefully did not have the same effect as those who had queued most of the night. However one number and a couple of announcements that really did stand out for me, was the fact that Apples push notification service has now sent 100 billion [...]
Read More iOS, SMS, Stats, wwdcTo celebrate the Londroid group reaching over 1000 members a hack was organised and held in the crypt at Clerkenwell Despite having had a busy but productive week I went along with the hopes of some sort of inspiration would hit me at the event itself, that could possibly lead to something productive being produced. [...]
Read More Android, Google, IOS (Apple), Lolcats, Lovefilm, tabletSometimes after a clean reinstall of your system, you want to reinstall one of the previous versions of the iOS SDK, maybe your not fully happy with xcode 4 yet or have a project that will only compile with an older version without somechanges you do not wish to make. The older versions are available [...]
Read More Apple, iOS, IOS SDK, IPad, iPhone, XcodeWhether you believe LinkedIn is overpriced or not and taking into account the shortage of shares made available (7.84 million was all that the underwriters released) the shares really did pop yesterday It looks like a lot of money was left on the table at the price of $45, back when Google floated they did [...]
Read More dutch auction, ipo, linkedinTwitter have today updated their application permissions model https://dev.twitter.com/pages/application-permission-model “we have created a new permission level for applications called “Read, Write & Direct Messages”. This permission will allow an application to read or delete a user’s direct messages. When we enforce this permission, applications without a “Read, Write & Direct Messages” token will be unable [...]
Read More api, Mobile, OAuth, Twitter, xAuthI was lucky enough to be able to personally grab one of the in demand tickets for GoogleIO back in February; the event sold out in 58 minutes so these were obviously heavily in demand. The question for those of us outside Northern America is is the event worth attending? Thankfully a short answer: without a doubt [...]
Read More Android, Event, Google, Google I/OBack in the UK after a great GoogleIO (more in depth post shortly), whilst unpacking my suitcase I realise that between the Adobe mixer and GoogleIO freebies, I have obtained everything needed to make sure everyone at WWDC wants to talk to me and be my friend! Then again maybe leaving an Adobe+Android t-shirt [...]
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