Just watch it. Brilliant. […]

“Steve Jobs Would Have Never Released iOS 6 Like This”

You have failed your readers when that’s the headline for your story. Remember the first version of OS X? Yeah, that was Steve. Do some actually reporting.

Security researchers participating in the Mobile Pwn2Own contest at the EuSecWest Conference in Amsterdam today demonstrated how to hack Android through Near Field Communication (NFC). The 0day exploit was developed by four MWR Labs employees (two in South Africa and two in the UK) for a Samsung Galaxy S 3 phone running Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Two separate security holes were leveraged to completely takeover the device, and download all the data from it.

Perfect!

I did a live interview with BNN this morning about the iPhone 5.

Yes, there’s an app for that.

One of my favorite developers, David Barnard from App Cubby, just released updates for two of his apps, “>Launch Center Pro and Timer.

A couple of readers have written to point out that you can still use Google Maps on your iPhone running iOS 6. Just go to http://maps.google.com in Safari and add it to your home screen. That will give you directions, transit and many other features.

It’s not perfect, but for those having issues with Maps, it’s something.

iOS 6 is out. Check your iOS device — as long as it’s not the iPad 1 or iPod Touch 3rd generation or lower — and download it. Except, don’t if you use Google Maps. The new Maps application, Apple Maps, is awful.

I’ve heard from a lot of people about Maps after writing my review on the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 on Wednesday. In the places I tried Maps — Cupertino and Halifax, Canada — it worked flawlessly. However, it seems not all areas, countries and users are having the same experience.

Florian Mueller:

In a case management statement filed late on Wednesday with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Samsung expressed its belief “the iPhone 5 will infringe [the eight patents that Samsung is already asserting in a California lawsuit against Apple, two of which have been declared standard-essential] in the same way as the other accused iPhone models”, and that it “plans to file a motion to amend its infringement contentions to address the iPhone 5 as soon as it has had a reasonable opportunity to analyze the device”.

We knew that was coming.

James Thomson released an update for PCalc and PCalc Lite.

There are lots of interesting things you could do with this. Have fun.

This is where Apple’s market dominance becomes so important. The truth is that NFC won’t take off without Apple — at least not nearly as quickly as it would with Apple. So the critics’ “disappointment” is in fact just a sad realization that the elusive NFC promise is at least one more year away from being kept. In the meantime, Apple keeps solving real problems it knows it can solve right now.

Smart article from Matt Drance.

Om Malik:

It is hard to imagine that it has only been five years since the smartphone revolution started in earnest. The sensor driven modern marvels are not only redefining how we interact with the world, but they are also having unintended consequences. Like helping make cheaper robots.

Something I never really considered before.

A coalition of liberal advocacy groups has announced plans to challenge AT&T’s policy of blocking FaceTime video chat over its cellular network. AT&T has insisted that the policy does not raise network neutrality concerns, characterizing the uproar over the policy … Continued