It turns out people want the latest components and a brushed-metal look, rather than last year’s innards and colorful plastic — even if it costs a little bit more. Read more »
The venerable Chaos Computer Club hacker collective claims to have bypassed Apple’s much-vaunted TouchID biometric security mechanism, as used in the new iPhone 5s. Here’s what they did, and what it… Read more »
Germany’s Der Spiegel reports that the U.S. National Security Agency can access user data such as contacts lists, SMS traffic and location from the leading phone platforms and — embarrassingly given… Read more »
The app is the first that lets the user create a website on an iPad or iPhone for free before shifting over to the desktop to flesh it out with e-commerce… Read more »
Foap’s users have been able to sell their iPhone snaps for small sums since last year, but these days the company is also running branded missions that can net users significantly… Read more »
Vodafone has turned on 4G services, starting in Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht. It’s not the first carrier to do so in The Netherlands, but it is the first to… Read more »
Spain’s StackOps released one of the first OpenStack distributions, and now it’s come out with a suite of tools to help small service providers and enterprises jump aboard the speeding OpenStack… Read more »
Without any fanfare, the software giant has released the clumsily-titled “Office Mobile for Office 365 subscribers”, which seems to do what it says on the tin. Read more »
Although it claims the move “isn’t about subsidies”, O2 is effectively moving away from the traditional model where carriers subsidize the phones they sell up-front, then bury the real cost in… Read more »
French carriers have reportedly made an unofficial complaint to EU competition authorities over Apple’s iPhone sales quotas. The Commission is unlikely to see this as a matter for an antitrust investigation. Read more »