When the iPhone 3GS was announced, analysts expected pretty good sales – nothing too extreme or mind blowing, but not poor either. Apparently they were wrong. The website Mac Daily News has been tipped off with an internal AT&T company memo, explaining that the 3GS launch was the best sales day the company had ever seen, and dubbed it “iLaunch Day 2009.” We've included the memo below. 1.
UK readers of Neowin.net will have noticed that we seem to be at the end of a heatwave, but there is no guarantee it will stop there. I spent today on the beach and though readers may be elsewhere with the sunny weather still to come, do pay attention! Summer is always an exciting time for gadget lovers. It's the time of year when our favourite companies release their next surge of technology for us to cast our sweaty eyes upon. The following is our list of the very best gadgets the tech world has to offer this summer. Before we get properly started I'd like to make something clear.
Last week, Microsoft released some ads for Internet Explorer 8 that were intended to provide a “tongue-in-cheek look” at some of the new features of the browser. Unfortunately for them, there were those that weren't quite so happy watching a woman vomit, and as the Wall Street Journal reports, they've been removed. The title for the ad was “O.M.G.I.G.P.”, or for those not quite down with acronyms, “Oh My God I'm Going To Puke”. It featured a man happily sharing his laptop with his partner; to her horror, he was viewing some generic revolting website (yes, whilst sitting at the table with his loved one), and thus, much projectile vomiting ensued. On him. After he slipped on it.
Flickr has launched Twitter integration. The Flickr Blog reports that Twitter functionality has been added to the photo management tool. You can upload photos to both Flickr and Twitter, or use the functionality to tweet about an already existing photograph. The system will automatically shorten the url using a “flic.kr” URL. Getting started is simple enough and instructions can be found here. The Flickr Blog has also provided us with a sample image of a tweeted photo: This news must come as disconcerting to TwitPic, a website which allows the sharing of photos on Twitter.
Apple is hard at work to patch a serious vulnerability that could allow a hacker to perform malicious acts unknowingly on the iPhone platform. The attack, which hasn't been described in detail, works when the attacker sends the victim an SMS that could cause the phone to run malicious code or programs without the phone operator's permission. “The SMS vulnerability allows an attacker to run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator's network.
Apple has issued a warning to iPhone customers regarding iPhone 3G and 3GS devices overheating. Sporadic reports have hit internet blogs and gadget sites this week regarding overheating issues with new iPhone 3GS models. Reports from The Telegraph suggest that dozens of users have reported overheating issues. According to some owners the device becomes so hot that it's too hot to pick up and the casing on white 3GS models has turned pink for some. Several posts to Apple's iPhone discussion forums appear to confirm these early reports. According to PC World, one of their own writers claims “I became aware the handset had become very hot.
