Linked List: July 4, 2007

Wednesday, 4 July 2007

David Pogue on T-Mobile’s new HotSpot @Home service. For an extra $10 per month, you get to make unlimited calls over IP whenever there’s Wi-Fi available. Includes free use of T-Mobile for-pay hotspots in Starbucks.

Ugly Airline Math: Planes Late, Fliers Even Later ★

New York Times story on the worsening problem of airline delays. The airlines only officially count how long individual planes are delayed, not how long fliers are delayed, which can be much longer because of missed connections.

This is why I fly Southwest whenever I can.

More on Scott Moritz’s Phony iPhone Sales Projection ★

Remember Scott Moritz’s jackass-winning bullshit on TheSteet.com about a “whisper number” projecting a million iPhone sales over the first weekend? Anthony Piraino dug around looking for someone — anyone — who called for one million iPhone sales over the opening weekend. Ends up even Moritz himself thought the best they could do was 400,000.

iPhone TTY ★

Joe Clark on using an iPhone with a teletype machine. At least for now, I don’t think iPhone is a good phone for the hearing impaired.

Errata Security: Our First iPhone Bugs ★

Robert Graham (David Maynor’s partner at Errata Security):

The thing that interests us most, though, is that we think the iPhone is inherently more secure than competing smartphones (such as those based on Windows Mobile or Symbian). While Apple is slightly behind Windows on the desktop/server (that Samba bug still appears to be unfixed), it’s still light years ahead of the mobile vendors. The mobile market is completely screwed up right now: while carriers know about the widespread vulnerabilities in their phones, the carriers are unwilling to patch them.

In short, Apple’s biggest security advantage with iPhone is that they’re going to push software updates out to all users via iTunes.