Report: BlackBerry negotiation found for Saudis

Saudi Arabia has supposedly restored service for BlackBerrys, subsequent the furore over RIM’s encryption.

The Saudi government had articulated its fears that the encryption process could conciliation national security, but after an outage of four hours an amnesty has apparently been approved. The BBC is reporting that the service emerges to have been restored, following a move by RIM (Read More)

Opera Mini for iPhone Approved, in App Store now

Opera has just announced that their Opera Mini browser for iPhone has been approved [Free - iTunes link]. According to Engadget, it’s already popping up in some international App Stores and should/could be in your App Store any time now. Update: looks like it’s live now, go get it!

Opera Mini likely received approval because it’s not an actual web rendering, JavaScript processing engine like Safari (or Firefox, IE, Chrome, etc.) but a proxy-browser. All the rendering and processing is done ..read more

Nokia Slaps Apple with Patent Lawsuit Over iPhone

Today Nokia filed a lawsuit against iPhone maker Apple, claiming that the phone violates 10 of Nokia’s GSM, UMTS and Wi-Fi patents. In a press release, Nokia said, “The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and …(Read More)

Wednesday Fun Video: 1984 Gets DoubleTwist’ed

DVD Jon, who gained fame and notoriety for cracking DVD and iTunes encryption, has since devoted a lot of his time and energy into DoubleTwist, and iTunes replacement. The above video is, of course, a parody of Apple’s anti-IBM “big brother” commercial that aired during the 1984 SuperBowl, this time recasting Apple — and Steve Jobs — as “big brother” and intimating they’ve become what they once mocked. All this by way of promoting the next release of DoubleTwist for ..read more