Just Because…

Google just gave Apple another flip of the bird today with offering Google Voice in full HTML5 fashion! Now a simple Safari bookmark is all you need to get the majority of the goodness of the full GV Mobile app offers without the need to Jailbreak your phone.

The new site is at http://m.google.com/voice.

It is reported that you’ll need at least iPhone OS 3.0 or WebOS to use the new site. Still no confirmation on Android, Windows, or Blackberry browsers.

Some of the new features include:

• New design for the Google Voice Inbox
• Create Homescreen icons for individual pages
• Display your Google Voice number as the outbound caller ID for return callers
• Send and receive text messages for free
• JSON based data feeds

The real beauty of the new interface is that it is supported by most other smartphones in addition to the iPhone. Even the developer for GV Mobile, Sean Kovacs, is excited about the new data feeds. He mentioned that the old web code required a significant amount of parsing to achieve some simple listing tasks. I’m looking forward to seeing what Sean is able to come up with now with the new format. I expect we’ll get another performance improvement at minimum.

[ via Sean Kovacs | Mashable | iClarified ]

After working with Twitter for the last week now, we finally have the new username, @4JB.

If you are already following us then you are awesome and you don’t have to do anything. However, if you’re not then you are just rediculous and should start following right now!

You’ll know the instant we post any new and exciting geeky crap too!

Any how drop us a tweet at @4JB.

Well, he did it! George Hotz has actually weaseled his way past the security and hacked the Sony Playstation 3!

Geohot just tweeted a little teaser on the PS3:

fine, one tweet… i just hacked the PS3… http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/

And his block post says the following:

Friday, January 22, 2010
Hello hypervisor, I’m geohot
I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1.

3 years, 2 months, 11 days…thats a pretty secure system

Took 5 weeks, 3 in Boston, 2 here, very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not so simple software.

Shout out to George Kharrat from iPhoneMod Brasil for giving me this PS3 a year and a half ago to hack. Sorry it took me so long

As far as the exploit goes, I’m not revealing it yet. The theory isn’t really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can’t post dumps. I’m hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone’s KBAG.

A lot more to come…

Congratulations George! You have yet again changed the world for technology and security. I’m very proud that my birthday will live on as the day George Hotz hacked the first PS3!

[ Via @GeoHot | GeoHotPS3 Blog ]

Attention XBox360 hackers, Team Jungle just sent a tweet about iXtreme LT confirming the highly anticipated firmware will be released soon without any fees.

“iXtreme LT will release shortly as promised for free. Unofficial files are incomplete and unsafe. Protection was to prevent unofficial use!”

[Via @TeamJungle | Twitter]

Apple is sending invitations out to all the big gadget sites and other media giants today. The invites state: “Please join Apple on January 27 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for a Special Event.” & “Come see our latest creation.”

The Wall Street Journal reported previously this month that Apple will be releasing a tablet computer on January 27th. The most possible speculated name for the new tablet is the “iSlate“. Personally, I really think the name is horrible.

There are also other rumors about possibly revealing the next generation iPhone (4G) earlier than in previous years. Some are hoping that the iPhone will also be included this announcement. However, in my opinion, this would be far less likely than the tablet. I dont expect they would want to take away from the potential sale impact of the new device and muddy the water with another iPhone just yet. However, they have made some pretty interesting moves before. Let’s just say, I wouldn’t be surprised either way.

Regardless of what they rumors say, Apple has a new product that they are making a big stink over and they don’t want to wait for WWDC.
[ via Cult of Mac | Kotaku ]

iPhone Factory Workers Go On Strike

On January 15th, more than 2,000 workers gathered and damaged facilities and vehicles after rumors that the factory may not pay a planned bonus for 2009, the newspaper said, citing the statement. The plant belongs to Taiwan-based Wintek Corp., the world’s biggest touch-screen maker for mobile phones.
[via iClarified | Bloomberg]