An Estonian website claimed Tuesday to have broken news of a major bug in iPhone’s Safari app that could put unsuspecting iPhone users at risk of running up huge bills with their cellular service providers in certain cases. The danger appears related to Safari’s failure to close connections with web servers that run Motion JPEG to

Filed under: Odds and ends , Internet , Surveys and Polls It may seem a little strange, or downright counter-intuitive, but Net Applications is reporting that Mac OS X’s share of computers using the web grew from September to October this year, while Windows’ share of browsers declined. Windows (all versions of the OS) totaled 92.54% of computers browsing the web, a .25% drop, while Mac OS had a 5.27% share, up 2.73% from September.

Filed under: Hacks , iPhone , Jailbreak/pwnage For the last several months, anyone who had updated to iPhone OS 3.1 or greater without following a pre-update procedure lost the unlock on their iPhones due to new software in the modem firmware or the baseband. Using the at+xemn crash as an injection point, iPhone hacker Geohot (of the original hardware unlock ) was able to unlock the latest firmware on any iPhone. What does this mean

Filed under: Apple Corporate , Retail Last night Philadelphia’s baseball fans had something to cheer about, and soon her Apple fans will, too. After years of waiting, an Apple Store is finally set to open within the city itself at 1607 Walnut Street

George Hotz a.k.a GeoHot has released blackra1n RC3, which is an update to a 1-click jailbreak that adds activation options and an add-on blacksn0w, which unlocks latest iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS baseband version 05.11.07.

Whether funky or fashionable, protective or passe; made of titanium or cardboard, most iPhone cases are predictable. IvySkins Tuesday introduced an interesting twist on the ho-hum case: integrated energy. The SmartCase ($79.99) claim to fame is an integrated an interchangeable battery that supposedly will extend your iPhone 3G or 3GS’ battery by 200 percent

Learning English language that is spoken by 350 million non-natives and 250 million natives is getting easier and more interesting with the new application Santa’s Village. The Christmas themed game brings fun with hand drawn, computer painted graphics and original folk music. Each activity is focused on providing educational value including letters of the alphabet, memory, concentration and learning the reindeer names

Rumors are swirling that Apple is going to open a retail store in downtown Philadelphia.

Following reports of problems playing Flash video on the new iMac, here’s some footage of a quick video test I conducted. (Hit the jump). I’ve been playing video on the machine for several days now with no problems

Filed under: Hardware , Hacks , iPhone Running a jailbroken iPhone has its risks, as a Dutch hacker has demonstrated . Specifically, he used a bit of port scanning to find jailbroken phones with SSH running in his native Netherlands. From there, he sent unsuspecting users a message that reads, “Your iPhone’s been hacked because it’s really insecure! Please visit doiop.com/iHacked and secure your iPhone right now! Right now, I can access all your files.” The URL directs the users to Paypal and requests €5 in exchange for instructions that explain how to remove the hack

This app won’t tell you exactly how much battery life you have left on your iPhone or iPod touch, but then it doesn’t claim to do that. Rather, Battery Go gives you a pretty good estimate for how much juice you’ll need to perform tasks on your mobile device.

Here’s a couple of vidoes of the new 27-inch iMac in action as an external display. The new iMac is the first that can act as a monitor for another machine, but will only work with devices that output DisplayPort video, like newer MacBooks. In these videos I’ve hooked my MacBook Pro (13-inch) to the iMac

Geohot has released blacksn0w to unlock iPhone running iPhone OS 3.1.2 and baseband 05.11.07. Along with blacksn0w, Geohot is also releasing sa new version of his popular and extremely simple iPhone jailbreaking tool blackra1n RC3, with hactivation support, 15 second speed improvement, Tiger+PPC support, and installation of the latest blackra1n.app….