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Apple Fires Worker For Ranting About iPhone On Facebook

Apple reportedly fired Samuel Crisp, an Apple employee who criticised his iPhone on several posts and comments on his Facebook profile. This ranting about his iPhone caused him to be fired from the company and left without work. If you’re an Apple empolyee, it’s better not to say your opinion about your iPhone publicly, just keep it for yourself

The news comes from Metro.co.uk; Crisp wrote this status on his Facebook while testing out an app on his iPhone, which he calls ‘jesusPhone’:

Use Siri Dictation On iPhone 4S To Type On Mac With TouchPad 4.0

TouchPad for iOS has built up a reputation for being one of the smoothest remote keyboard and Trackpad apps to do it, with functionality and features second to none.

Many remote control apps require you to download some form of third-party installer for your desktop, but since TouchPad is dependent solely on OS X’s native Screen Sharing technology, you won’t find yourself in the familiar predicament of trying (often unsuccessfully) to get two apps to connect with each other.

TouchPad has just been handed a fairly major update by developer Edovia, bringing Siri integration for those fortunate iPhone 4S users amongst you.

Providing your iPhone 4S and Mac share a Wi-Fi network in common, you can now use TouchPad to send voice notes from your device which Siri will, as she does with aplomb, convert into text understandable to the Mac.

Here are the rather excitedly-written release notes from Edovia, emphasizing the time and effort put in to the app:

At last, TouchPad 4.0 is out with even more Lion Love! This version took more time than planned and most of the work was made deep down in the app, mostly in preparation of Screens 2.0, which uses the same VNC framework we’ve developed for the past years and had to be revamped. The result is a super solid app that won’t give up!
Some features, such as the dragging gesture, were changed so we recommend you take a look at the revamped help documentation, bundled in the app. However, there’s still many new features.

Of the App Store’s rather incredible 500,000+ applications, although some are good and some are bad – as you would expect, some are just lacking a little TLC. It’s refreshing to see Edovia, (who aren’t the only outfit to work tirelessly on app improvements) still consider the customer experienceafter the money has been banked. Developers of neglected apps should certainly heed the example set by Edovia.

As has been the case throughout the TouchPad release cycle, this version runs very smoothly, and as well as the Siri integration, the update freshens the interface of the modifier toolbar on the iPad version and adds support for the EyeTV media player, as well as the usual array of bug fixes.

You can download TouchPad 4.0 from Apple’s App Store via this link. It costs $4.99, and compared to many other apps we feature, the price may seem a touch on the high side. That said, the quality of the app is also higher than average, rendering it well worth the money.

iOS Hacker’s Handbook Explains Jailbreaking And Hacking In-Depth

There have always been great minds behind great successes. Charlie Miller, Dion Blazakis, Dino DaiZovi, Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf-Phillip Weinnmann are the known names in the world of technology. They are the hacking, security and jailbreak leaders who with all the efforts and collaboration present to you a phenomenal book called, “The iOS Hacker’s Handbook”.

With Stefan Esser also being among the great authors of this book and Dev Team’s Musclenerd serving as the editor, this book aims for high roads. As these people are the ones who discovered routes towards the destinies that would always be remembered.

The book description:

Discover all the security risks and exploits that can threaten iOS-based mobile devices.

iOS is Apple’s mobile operating system for the iPhone and iPad. With the introduction of iOS5, many security issues have come to light. This book explains and discusses them all. The award-winning author team, experts in Mac and iOS security, examines the vulnerabilities and the internals of iOS to show how attacks can be mitigated. The book explains how the operating system works, its overall security architecture, and the security risks associated with it, as well as exploits, root kits, and other payloads developed for it.

• Covers iOS security architecture, vulnerability hunting, exploit writing, and how iOS jailbreaks work
• Explores iOS enterprise and encryption, code signing and memory protection, sandboxing, iPhone fuzzing, exploitation, ROP payloads, and baseband attacks
• Also examines kernel debugging and exploitation

The iOS Hacker’s Handbook is available for pre-order on Amazon. You can get it for $29.24 if you pre-order.

For all those who appreciated the charisma of wild technicians of security, jailbreaking and hacking; this book is the ultimate opportunity to get to know better.

Nuance Removed Siri0us Package From Cydia !

What a bad news we have got now, from some time we told you about a new and cool package that available in Cydia store called Siri0us, this package allows users to use Siri dictation and it is available for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS Siri dictation is a part from the full Siri part. But now we have got some bad news....

All iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS liked this package but it looks like that The fun did not last long and Nuance, software company that designed the Syrians, has asked the developer to remove Sir0us from Cydia and so it was. Recall that Siri0us leverages Nuance's servers just like the Syrians, and is therefore understandable that the company has put pressure on the developer in order to remove the package from Cydia.

Until now there is no news if Siri0us package is going to come again to Cydia store or not, who knows we will keep you updated....

LTE iPhone 5 And iPad 3 Reportedly In The Works, Slated For 2012 Release [REPORT]

Apple is reportedly preparing to release a 4G-capable iPad 3 in the summer, with the iPhone 5 following in Fall also boasting the connection technology of tomorrow. Additionally, both devices will be released on NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s foremost mobile carrier.

The timings would give the iPhone 4S, which released just last month, and the iPad 2, which dropped earlier this year, a decent spell as the top device.

NTT DoCoMo’s president Kiyoyuki Tsujimura and vice president Takashi Yamada are reported to have met Tim Cook earlier this month to smooth out the deal, and “agreed in principle” with Apple’s head honcho to sell both the next-generation iPhone and iPad. The verbal agreement also entailed a commitment to order, so although nothing’s been cast in stone, it does seem a strong possibility that the two companies will be doing a lot of business over the next 12 months.

There has been much talk during the course of the last year or so as to whether the fruit company would move towards 4G (or LTE, as it is referred to in Cupertino), but as yet, nothing has materialized. Apple has always maintained that the technology is not ready for mass adoption, since the current bunch of 4G LTE chips command too much power in order to run. With smartphone batteries about as useful as chocolate fire blankets just now, you’d have to say it’s been a wise move.

In addition, Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer noted the LTE chipsets would beset design compromises which the Apple was not willing to make, at least not for the time being.

Up until recently, talks between Apple and perspective carrier partners throughout Asia had been hitting a brick wall due to Apple’s lack of room for negotiation on its principle beliefs. For example, Apple wanted carriers to commit to large volumes, something which – despite the popularity of the iPhone – those carriers were not always willing to make. Furthermore, NTT DoCoMo is reported to have wanted some form of influence on what software goes on consumers’ devices, and as you would expect, Apple was having none of it.

Apple’s Siri Assistant VS Android’s Cluzee (VIDEO)

Cluzee is a Siri-like application that allows access to many personal assistances. It is developed by Tronton LLC. Cluzee got labeled as one of the most intelligent personal assistants and has become an adequate competitor to Siri. With all the very good advantages it has over Siri, its ability to take in variety of commands makes it outrank. Personalized recommendations, daily calendar briefs, navigation, standard web search, weather information and news updates are some of its features. It would even allow Facebook and twitter updating and planning relating to anything; even your diet and much more. It includes features that not even Siri handles.

With the advent of Siri advertisement for the iPhone 4S few days back, the market got loaded with many copies of this application. However, none of them were even near Siri but the impact of Cluzee is applaud-able. For your confirmation the news of the app comes fromBGR - a well known blog that covers consumer electronics and technology.

Personally the application has been tested over Samsung Galaxy S II and the results are the same as stated. If you are a native you would not have any issues however if not then you must shift to the artificial native-ish accent. Apart from the accentual issues there is no trouble with it. You may enjoy all the features even if you do not own the iPhone.

The video below shows Cluzee in action:

You can also check our previous post here showing Siri VS Microsoft’s TellMe.

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