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4 July 2007 - In a move that no-one saw coming with the talk of Vodafone and T-Mobile’s frenzied attempts to clinch the iPhone deal for Europe, The Times is reporting that O2 has beaten its rivals to win the exclusive rights to offer Apple’s iPhone in the UK.

Grabbing the rights to sell the iPhone exclusively in the UK from under the noses of larger operators will be a major coup for O2.

The iPhone is due to go on sale in the UK towards the end of the year, certainly in time for Christmas, and will give O2 a massive competitve edge over the UK’s other mobile phone operators.
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Apple’s iPhone could deliver a profit margin of more than 55 per cent after hardware and manufacturing costs, research firm iSuppli said on Tuesday, sending shares in the company up nearly 5 per cent. (more…)

Apple wasn’t the only one to cash in on the hype surrounding Friday’s iPhone release. Cybercrooks waited just hours to unleash a spam run promising a free phone that instead lured users to a malware-laden website, researchers said today.

The emails, which first appeared Saturday morning - just hours after Friday’s 6 p.m. EST release - falsely told recipients that they had won a free iPhone from an unnamed retailer, Paul Henry, vice president of technology evangelism at Secure Computing, told SCMagazine.com today.

By clicking on a link to sign up for the free phone, users are silently brought to a malware-hosting website that scans their machines for more than 10 previously patched ActiveX vulnerabilities, Henry said. As of this morning, the site was operational. (more…)

Hi guys,

I read a very nice article on iPhone hacking. Read the complete story her.

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Within hours of Apple’s introduction of the latest version of its Safari browser two weeks ago, the hacking community began reporting bugs they had discovered in the beta code. Today, the iPhone is likely to get even closer scrutiny from many of the same security researchers. Here’s a list of the top items on the typical iPhone hacker’s to-do list. (more…)