Oh to be a fly on the wall at Sony HQ these days. After previously saying they hoped to bring their PlayStation Network back online this weekend, Sony has had to postpone the much-awaited return of the service due to a third wave of attacks aimed at the Japanese giant.
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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.
Hot on the heals of the iPhone location fiasco (or 'locationgate' for those with a flair for the overly-dramatic) comes Footprints, an application for tracking iOS devices, but in a good way.
Apple is one of the most secretive companies on the planet. They don't (tend to) leak things, they don't tell anyone what's going on behind the scenes. But now Fortune has managed to get behind the curtain at the Cupertino outfit, and the stories coming out are intriguing.
After all the furore surrounding the revelation that iOS devices have been keeping tabs on where they've been and saving the information to various log files both on the device and the computer they're synced to, Apple released iOS 4.3.3 to rectify the issue. But did it do the job? According to PCMag, it did indeed.
Cydia, the jailbreak App Store of choice is home to thousands of apps, tweaks and themes for jailbroken iOS devices, but it can be a little too busy, making discovery nigh-on impossible. If you know what you're looking for though, you're golden. If you're thumbing through the categories though, wouldn't it be easier if you could do it from the comfort of your desk on a nice large screen? Enter Cydia Search, from Planet-iPhones.
As if two cyber attacks in as many weeks wasn't enough, it appears Sony could be in for a third, according to chatter in a IRC channel.
The iPad 2 is still on short supply, but the iPad 3 rumors have started already with RCRWireless writing that Apple is planning to bring 3D to its next tablet, citing a Hollywood source.
Google's latest addition to its growing Maps product is Business Photos, which was launched today by Google's Vice President of Location and Maps, Marissa Mayer.
If there is one area where Apple's iOS still lags behind Google's Android, it's in the software updating process. As things stand today, eager updaters must first be informed that an update is available and then run off to plug their iDevice into a computer for iTunes to work its magic. Contrast this with the painless over-the-air nature of Android's updates and it's clear to see where Apple needs to be focusing its energy right now.
An interesting little tidbit coming out of Reuters just now, with reports that both Facebook and Google are contemplating deals with online communication firm, Skype.
