News on the iPhone will be charged
Süddeutsche Zeitung and Berliner collect for news
In times of declining conditions, the publishers are trying not only to supplement savings programs, but also with new sources of revenue their balance sheets. After paying sites had only moderate success, the trend now seems to be news-fee software for smartphones. Especially popular are applications for the iPhone from Apple.
Two newspapers to make a beginning
As the media “Kress” and “DWDL” report is an alliance of the quality press and Boulevard, the vanguard for fee-News Apps: Both the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” (SZ) and the “BZ” should work to make appropriate applications.
Local news for customers B.Z.
The “BZ” program initially will cost once per month in 2010 and 79 cents. For this price you get in addition to the regular news on demand content such as photo spreads or other local news identified by GPS location.
New software puts together UMTS signals of multiple phones
“Joiku Boost” increases connection speed
Joiku logo
The Finnish company Joikusoft announced its new software solution “Joiku boost” for smartphones. The software looks for other “Joiku Boost-users that are located nearby. With the permission of the user, the software data connections via Wi-Lan sets together, so that is available to users of Wi-Fi hotspots faster connection.
Eliminate restrictions on air interfaces
“Joiku boost eliminates the limitations of wireless interfaces, the speed of today’s wireless data transmission affect.” Says Lasse Maki CEO and founder of Joikusoft. By linking multiple mobile data connections in a larger and more uniform Bitpipe multiply “Joiku boost” the actual speed of the mobile Internet in
Apple closes security gaps through new Boot ROM
Apple iPhone 3G and Samsung’s S8000 Jet
Apple equips its new iPhone 3GS now with a modified hardware that will make impossible to find a jailbreak. The supposedly last remaining vulnerability, the hacker has used it to turn off the SIM-lock or enable the uploading of other software, should be closed with a new boot ROM is now final
Modified devices are already on the market
According to Internet reports, Apple provides the 3GS models with the new boot ROM iBoot “-359.3.2″ for about a week to its customers. As recently as September, the hackers of the iPhone Dev Team, the new version 3.1 operating system iPhone OS had cracked. Now they let it be known that, under the new hardware for an indefinite period with a jailbreak of 3GS were foreseen iPhone.
The iPhone is and remains one of the most debated topics in the wireless industry. For the success of the device continues unabated - the factors of success include the substantive support on the App Store, which was able to report again this week a success: Two million apps have been downloaded since the launch of the store. Other manufacturers are still forced.
Listen to the News
But the competition seems to be relaxed. For example, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently said that Apple is offering with its strategy, a smartphone, and the appropriate software would not emulate. Gives information about this topic and more news about the news of the mobile industry to listen to it in the current podcast at nokia search mobile dot com .
Other Topics
There is also news about the successor of Samsung’s 12-megapixel Pixon mobile phone and the new generation of LG’s Chocolate devices.
