One day after security experts announced their iPhone SMS hack research at the Black Hat Security Conference, Apple released a patch to address the flaw. Experts revealed on Thursday that malformed SMS messages could be used to hijack an iPhone. Originally, an O2 spokesperson was the first to reveal the upcoming fix, noting that the patch would be available Saturday through iTunes. “We will be communicating to customers both through the website and proactively. “We always recommend our customers update their

Video:Gigabyte Geforce GTX 285 (1Gb GDDR3) @ CPU3D Motherboards and Chipsets:GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM3 Motherboard Review @ Hardware CanucksASUS Maximus II Gene micro-ATX motherboard review @ Elite BastardsProcessors:Intel Core i7 LGA1366 Processors @ iXBTMemory and Storage:REVIEW: Transcend Ultra 120GB SSD @ PureOverclockQNAP TS-219P NAS Review @ NinjalaneCrucial M225 256GB Solid State Disk @ TweaktownInWin Ammo 2.5″ SATA HDD Enclosure @ DreamWare ComputersOCZ Blade 1066 and Blade 1200 @ InsideHWPhotoFasts

Shoot, when we were kids, the best we could get away with in terms of something similar to this was “the dog ate my homework.” In this case, a lawsuit has been filed after the well-publicized e-book deletion fiasco that ending up remotely deleting legitimately purchased e-books from users’ Kindles. A 17-year-old from Michigan, Justin D. Gawronski, filed suit in a Seattle court along with California resident Antoine J. Bruguier. They are are seeking class action status. While Amazon.com refunded the charges for

The HTC Touch Pro2 is set to arrive in the U.S. on August 12. T-Mobile will carry the new HTC smartphone, which has a WVGA (480 x 800) touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and voice capabilities. The Touch Pro2 will run on T-Mobile’s 3G network and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g). The Touch Pro2 has a 3.6-inch color display that slides back and tilts up to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. The handset also comes equipped with a Web browser, location-based services and built-in GPS, and a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus

We know it may be overstated, but Samsung sure knows how to design an HDTV. The company best known for its ‘Touch of Color’ design style is wowing potential television buyers again today with its all-new 8500 series. Considered the flagship model of its expanded LED backlit HDTV series, the new lineup combines the picture quality you’re used to in a Samsung with the thinness of its previous LED HDTVs. Heck, there’s even networking and interactive features thrown in, which can only be viewed as a direct response

We won’t be hearing the term Windows Mobile much longer. At an event to show off upcoming Christmas goodies, Microsoft let it slip that the devices will soon be known as Windows Phone. Reports indicate that the Windows Phone branding will be applied to Windows Mobile 6.1, the upcoming 6.5 version, and to Windows Mobile 7, which is expected sometime in 2010. Right now, it’s still unclear when the naming system will be implemented. Windows Mobile 6.5The name change “reflects the upcoming desktop operating system

Okay… everything seems to be working now.  We’ve upgraded WordPress and all of the previous posts seem to be in place.  Sorry about the two hour downtime.

The near disaster did give us the opportunity to change the address of the Pocket PC Central News Center, which is now:

http://pocketpccentral.net/newscenter/

Please update your bookmarks.  Requests for the old News Center (…ccentral.net/rss/) will be automatically forwarded.  We’ll be tweaking the new installation over the coming days, so please excuse any bumps you may encounter.

Thanks for your patience!

Microsoft’s latest operating system is still several months away from store shelves, but a team of Chinese hackers has reportedly found a workaround for the latest iteration of WGA. The hack is similar to cracks we saw with Vista, and uses an OEM BIOS to trick the OS into believing it doesn’t need to activate. Microsoft is less than thrilled with the news, but cracks of this sort have appeared in every generation of Windows since WGA was invented, and they’ve not deterred the company from pushing ahead with

Microsoft Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach recently listed the names of hardware companies the software giant will be working with closely on Windows Mobile going forward; the list did not include Motorola.

Mary Jo Foley quotes Bach as specifically naming “Samsung, LG, HP, HTC, Sony Ericcson and others…” as the companies Microsoft will work with on upcoming Windows Mobile handhelds.  The fact that Motorola was not listed is worth noting; even if Moto was silently included as one of the “others” Bach referenced, the relationship would at least appear to be on rocky ground.

This isn’t the first indication we’ve seen that relations between Motorola and Microsoft were souring.  In February, The Wall Street Journal suggested that Motorola planned to focus on other mobile operating systems and to move away from Windows Mobile entirely, a sentiment buttressed by Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha when he laid out the company’s future with Google’s Android OS.

A Motorola spokesperson was also quoted yesterday as saying that in 2009, Motorola’s “primary strategy is Android. With that said, Windows Mobile is very important for our enterprise mobility business.” Enterprise Mobility, formerly Symbol, makes ruggedized handheld devices like those used in Apple retail stores, not consumer smartphones.  This would seem to confirm the future, at least in the near term, of Motorola’s consumer plans for Windows Mobile.

Speculation about the future of Windows Mobile has been all the rage in recent months, with suggestions that it may be too late for Microsoft to compete in the smartphone market with Android and Apple’s iPhone.  The number of Windows Mobile handsets sold in 2008 was up over 2007 with approximately 20 million units sold, but its share of the smartphone market was down.

Microsoft hopes to improve its smartphone performance with Windows Mobile 6.5 later this year, and with the wholly-redesigned Windows Mobile 7 in 2010.

Investors have had a couple days to digest the strategic partnership Microsoft and Yahoo jointly announced this week, and they  aren’t exactly pouring money into Yahoo’s coffers. The company’s stock price (Ticker: YHOO) has fallen nearly 20 percent over the past five days, from its July 27 price of $17.31 to today’s $14.44 (as of this writing). Microsoft’s stock is up very slightly over the same period, from $23.11 to today’s $23.81, but a flat trend doesn’t constitute a ringing endorsement. “I was myself