Showing posts with label iTunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iTunes. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2009

iPhone - Tablet - Mini-Computer - What??

May be we need something in between a smart phone and a tiny note book that could do all. To provide users a satisfying experience Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung, Sony, and RIM spending enormous amount of money on the R&D to stay up in the race with beautiful skinniest model bundled up with all the possible features in one. These are the big players offering the best cell phone technology today. However, Apple is dormant player this stream that could come with some revolutionary idea like no one thought about iPod, until it existed. What our silent killer Apple is up to? No one knows, people have some educated guesses what Apple should or could come up with? From touch to tactile? What will the next version of the iPhone have that the current one doesn’t? Will it have a keyboard for those who haven’t been touched — in a good way — by the iPhone’s touchscreen? How about GPS capabilities? Will there be iPhones in different sizes, similar to what Apple has done with its iPod digital music player? How about a 'tablet' or 'mini-computer' or could sell the digital books from it iTune store, making the tablet another e-book reader and competitor to Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle.

On the contrary, there are vulnerabilities in iPhone software that communicates the sms function. What happens in this vulnerability that users can not detect that there is malicious virus in the sms message received. These hacker are pain in the neck for the iPhone users to keep updating their PCs and iPhones. The funny part Government knows how it is designed with tons of information up there on the internet with tutorials to hack a system. What hackers has to say in the conferernce attended by several security professionals at Black Hat. "It is not illegal to disclose ways to hack into computer systems, though it is against the law to use it to break into them. " :)

Monday, April 28, 2008

Beta iPhone Firmware to iTunes Control

Apple may be preparing to add iPhone (and iPod touch) functions to connect to and play media from nearby iTunes sources. Citing an "anonymous tipster," TUAW reports that code found in the latest firmware release points to a new iPhone application called iControl, which it says could be part of Apple's own plan to release new software applications based on forthcoming iPhone SDK. Based on strings found in the code of the latest private iPhone firmware beta, the application would allow users to connect to shared iTunes library running on a PC to playback songs or view videos. According to the report, the media navigator will allow users to view videos, play podcasts, listen to music and even support shuffle playback from the iTunes library. If true, iPhone and iPod touch users would not only be able to playback media from their device, but may also be able to actively control iTunes installed on a PC.

Users could potentially direct playback of iTunes to any of its sources, including local speakers or other wireless speakers (connected via AirPort Express).