When Facebook released Facebook App for iPhone 3.2 last week to incorporate the new Places feature, quite a few users who had jailbroken their iPhone reported issues with the new version.
Last Friday, Facebook had acknowledged that they were aware of the problem and working on a fix.
Facebook has just released an update for their iPhone app, which should fix the problems.
Some jailbroken iPhone users had reported the following issues with Facebook 3.2 (and 3.2.1):
You get the “Unable to Load This Page” error message anywhere you launch the application.
You get the “Error – sorry there was an error” message while trying to load Places.
You get the “Login Failed – Unable to Connect to Facebook” error if you’re trying to log in to the application.
Facebook 3.2 (and 3.2.1) seemed to have some compatibility issue with jailbreak app – BiteSMS as uninstalling it fixed the issue for me.
According to what’s new section, Facebook has fixed the login issues in the new version.
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Apple is significantly increasing telesales positions in preparation for the October release of "a very big new product", according to a MacDailyNews source.
Multiple sources have told MacDailyNews that Apple Inc. is in the midst of an increase in telesales positions that has been described by one as "huge" and by other sources as "significant." These sources also tell us that Apple will begin an intensive four-week training course for these new hires starting next week. The training is said to be in preparation for an October release of "a very big new product."
It's widely expected that in addition to new dual camera iPod touch devices, Apple will unveil a new Apple TV in September.
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In a bid to capitalize on this year's back-to-school shopping season, one of Apple's largest authorized resellers has dropped Mac prices to the lowest seen this year, offering $150 of white MacBooks, up to $180 off new iMacs, and up to $300 off MacBook Pros.
AppleInsider sponsor MacConnection launched the sale overnight, combining its already reduced pricing with limited-time mail-in-rebates of up to $150. The result is the lowest prices we've seen all year across Apple's three most popular Mac product families: white MacBooks, MacBook Pros and new iMacs.
The sale also offers a $29 mail-in-rebate that can be combined with a $40 HP mail-in-rebate for a free HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-One Printer with the purchase of each of the aforementioned Macs.
MacBook Pros
Discounts and rebates factored in, MacConnection is offering the 2.4GHz 13" MacBook Pro for $1,049.00 ($150 savings), the 2.66GHz 13" MacBook Pro
for $1,299.00 ($200 savings), the 2.4GHz 15" MacBook Pro for $1,599.00 ($200 savings), the 2.53GHz 15" MacBook Pro for $1,729.00 ($270 savings), the 2.66GHz 15" MacBook Pro for $1,899.00 ($300 savings) and the 2.53GHz 17" MacBook Pro for $1,999.00 ($300 savings).
MacBooks
Similarly, the 2.4GHz 13" MacBook is being offered for $849, a $150 discount.
iMacs
For desktops, MacConnection is offering the 3.06GHz 21.5-inch iMac for $1,049.00 ($150 savings), the 3.20GHz 21.5-inch iMac for $1,349.00 ($150 savings), the 3.20GHz 27.0-inch iMac for $1,529.00 ($170 savings), and the 2.80GHz 27.0-inch iMac for $1,819.99 ($180 savings).
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Google announced on their mobile blog that the Google Mobile app for iOS received an update today which enables Google Calendar and Gmail push notifications. The push notifications will work for the Gmail.com domain as well your own custom domain setups. As Fortune points out, this is a big deal for Google-app users as up until now only Yahoo and MobileMe were able to push email to iOS.
The push notification system will work like any other app so you will get to choose what kind of notifications you would like to receive, whether it be an icon badge or one of those obtrusive popups we all love. The app gains real-time search results for stocks, flight info, weather and currency conversions. The free update is universal for all iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) and iPhone 4 retina support will join this release.
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It appears that iTunes accounts are still being compromised, though it isn't certain if hackers are brute forcing or phishing passwords out of users. Today's incident involves PayPal who has swooped into the action as hackers are using iTunes to deplete users' bank accounts.
According to a report by TechCrunch, one user's account was charged $4,700 after receiving close to 50 $99.99 iTunes charges via PayPal. Luckily for this user, he got PayPal to stop the funds transfer but others, like the Twitter user below, aren't so lucky.
iTunes users are ranting their disgust and hacking concerns across the Social 2.0 space and here are some quotes from Facebook:
Everybody watch your itunes account closely. I just got hacked for almost $1000.00 worth of software, videos and music. Hopefully paypal will refund it all. . . . This happened within the last few hours. Once transaction after another.
So apple/itunes had a security breach & someone bought over $500 worth of music through my paypal account. just what i wanted 2 b dealing w/ while in San Diego! AWESOME!!!
The issue seems to reside in iTunes with PayPal being the hackers money-stealing gateway. Until this is officially resolved it might be a good idea to remove all forms of payment from your iTunes account.
These types of 'hacks' usually come down to phishing sites getting your login information from a third party.
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According to El Reg, Google is building an iPhone version of its Google Goggles product.
"We're working on an iPhone version, and hope to have it out by the end of the year," David Petrou, a Google staff engineer working on the Goggles project, told his keynote audience at Monday's Hot Chips conference at Stanford University in California.
A web app for Goggles, Petrou said, isn't currently an option, even with HTML5's enhanced media-capture abilities. "There is a new part of HTML5," he said, "that allows you to acquire an image from a camera. And that's really nice and really useful, but we don't think it's sufficient for something like Goggles that needs very fine control over the camera.
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