It's really not been a great week for mobile security. We've had the giant mess that is the Carrier IQ debacle, where a company appears to have at least the ability to monitor just about anything to do with a smartphone, and now we have a new Android security flaw that could potentially be just as troublesome.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Any iPhone owner that is a heavy multitasker will no doubt admit that the way Apple's smartphone handles accessing and restoring apps that are running in the background is not really the best. Double-pressing that already overused Home button in order to open up the multitasking tray may work, but it isn't ideal, and we have gone through a few iPhones because of broken Home buttons.
If you're an Xbox 360 owner then you're probably acutely aware that Microsoft has a brand new, completely revamped version of the Dashboard is on the way. Being the main interface into everything that goes on inside an Xbox 360, the Dashboard is an integral part of the experience, and this upcoming update is the biggest change it has undergone in quite some time.
These are worrying times for HTC, with a hearing tomorrow set to decide whether the company did indeed violate two of Apple's patents. If the ruling goes in the iPhone maker's favor, then the repercussions could be felt far and wide.
SMS Censor does exactly what its name suggests by allowing users to censor outgoing SMS messages, giving the jailbreak tweak a set of words to watch out for.
Infinity Blade 2 has received its first title update today, with the game's developers hoping that they have fixed numerous game-breaking bugs which became apparent after its release just a few days ago.
Microsoft has long been the king of the airplane and flight simulation. Some would call it a game, but those who live and breathe Flight Simulator would probably have a few things to say about that, so we'll just stick to calling it a simulator for the sake of not getting a few thousand angry emails.
If you're one for benchmarking systems and comparing the results, then chances are you're familiar with the work that Futuremark puts in on the subject. While the benchmarking company is more know for testing CPU and graphics card speeds, they are also the ones behind a test that will benchmark the performance of web browsers, too.
It's jailbreak tweak time again here at Redmond Pie and the latest to pop up on our radar is Preference Folders. What Preference Folders offers is actually rather simple, but it's something we've not seen done before and is well worth a look if you're the kind of person that is constantly scanning through their Settings app in the search of one particular setting.
A few days ago a video surfaced of one YouTube user comparing the abilities of Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Tellme software. With Siri found on the new iPhone 4S and Tellme being part of Windows Phone 7, it was really only a matter of time before the two were compared head-to-head.
