Archive for 2007/08


Legal threats halt iPhone crack

A British firm’s plan to sell software that could open the iPhone to non-US networks has been put on hold following legal threats.Last week, Belfast-based UniquePhones joined several others in claiming it had cracked the code which locked iPhone into AT&T’s network. But a middle-of-the-night phone call from AT&T’s lawyers have forced the firm to […]

LG’s IFA booth tour

Filed under: Features

We found LG’s “booth” slightly less impressive than Samsung’s, primarily due to the lack of a balcony cafe, which is just a serious oversight at this year’s IFA — all the cool Korean electronics giants are doing it. That said, LG is pretty serious about design these days, and has a lot of […]

Call to regulate the net rejected

The internet should not be used as a scapegoat for society’s ills, said Vint Cerf, Google’s net evangelist and a founding father of the network.Speaking on the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he rejected calls for strict control of what is put online.He said the net was just a reflection of the society in which […]