St3phen

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Your iPhone is silently and constantly logging your location [updated] (TUAW.com)

Apr 20th 2011 1:56PM @MRCUR

One of the sites belongs to Google (the maps, perhaps?), the other... Amazon. What's Amazon got to do with maps?

Your iPhone is silently and constantly logging your location [updated] (TUAW.com)

Apr 20th 2011 1:54PM @Chad
One of the sites belongs to Google (the maps, perhaps?), the other... Amazon. What's Amazon got to do with maps?

Your iPhone is silently and constantly logging your location [updated] (TUAW.com)

Apr 20th 2011 12:47PM When I ran the app, NetBarrier told me the app wanted to visit two IP addresses 72.21.211.171 (made three connection attempts) and 74.125.95.95 (one attempt), which did not resolve to DNS names.

I checked their FAQ and don't see anything mentioned about the app calling home. I blocked the attempt and ended-up with the same experience that "Bob Nobis," above, had. The app just stays stuck at Loading with a Safariesque blue question mark next to it.

Visiting the first IP with a browser results in a page that says, "NoSuchBucketThe specified bucket does not exist72.21.211.17118D024A3EB78C628xxxx9+b12i4vsA+X9jUAnjMxxxQH3uZpLlJddB9+sHxt3gVwTgjyFF0f0IjwhSq9"

Visiting the second brings up a default Google search page.

Any thoughts about what's going-on here?

iTunes 10.2 available, includes iOS 4.3 support, Home Sharing improvements (TUAW.com)

Mar 2nd 2011 5:50PM Still no playback speed controls for podcasts?

iOS 4.2 and iPhone: New features, fixes and changes (TUAW.com)

Nov 10th 2010 10:50PM Chris, I think you may have misread what "Change with buttons" does for the volume buttons. And, while you've got the update installed and I don't, looking at the UI, it would appear that the toggle there allows for your volume buttons to actually control the output volume of your iPhone instead of the unexpected behavior of changing the ringer volume.

I don't know about you, but I am regularly dismayed by the unintended act of changing the ringer volume using the buttons when what I wanted to do was change the system volume. If this does work as it appears (to me) to, then I count this as a welcome change.

Xserve End Of Life: Some opinions and ideas about Apple's server strategy (TUAW.com)

Nov 5th 2010 10:20PM Perhaps, but how does one implement an LDAP-driven, Kerberos-injected Directory Services solution as an add-on app? That functionality needs to be embedded into the OS (LKDCs not withstanding).

No jailbreak for you, 4.0.2 (TUAW.com)

Aug 26th 2010 3:56PM The "dev team" whining here is completely inappropriate. Sure, they used it for "good" to help iOS device owners to 'jailbreak' their phones. Yet, with no sense of irony, they help most people miss the fact that this security hole allowed unsigned code to be executed without notice or warning on their iOS devices and, for that matter, on Mac OS X computers.

So, while removing this jailbreak exploit was a side-effect of the repair of the hole, not removing it would have been gross negligence on Apple's part.

"Cat and mouse game," my ass.

The store is down... and back up (TUAW.com)

Aug 20th 2010 10:44PM All that video needs is the loungey music and I'd have thought I was watching Robot Theater on Red Eye.

iPhone 4 unlock now available (TUAW.com)

Aug 5th 2010 10:54AM Is it possible to jailbreak, carrier unlock, and then, after un-jailbreaking (essentially, a Restore), retain the carrier unlock?

What to do with your old iPhone (TUAW.com)

Jun 22nd 2010 11:10PM With regard to the 'travel' section, how would one use the network-based Maps app with no network service? And, stopping to find a Wi-Fi network just to check your flight status might be a bit more time-consuming than, say, glancing at a flight status monitor at the airport. I wonder if Dave forgot he was talking about what to do with an iPhone for which one no longer has service... :)