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iPad owners will have to wait until Fall before a version of the new operating system is released. While still suffering from some unresolved Wi-Fi issues, the iPad has been a hit with customers. Reporting over two million units sold by the end of May, the iPad has actually doubled the sales of the original iPhone in the same amount of time.
Sadly, this hack is a pricey one: it requires a 3G iPad, which starts from $629, since the Verizon MiFi needs to connect to the iPad’s 3G components. It makes more financial sense to buy a Wi-Fi iPad to use with a MiFi, but this hack has one nice extra: a switch. The modder put a simple $2 switch where the iPad’s Micro SIM slot normally is, allowing the MiFi to be turned off at the flick of a switch.
It seems obvious in retrospect to consider that apps designed for iPhone 4 will nearly fill an iPad display. Conversely, iPad apps will nearly fit into the new phone’s Retina display without modification.
The stunning 960×640 resolution of the iPhone 4 Retina display is double the linear resolution of the current iPhone, giving it the highest pixel density of any smartphone on the market when it goes on sale later this month. The iPad’s 1024×768 resolution is just slightly larger despite having a much larger display surface. While the 132ppi pixel density of iPad was already the highest of any device Apple sells, the new iPhone 4 boasts a 326ppi resolution density.
The iOS app developer of Make Coffee depicts on its site how apps with a native resolution version designed for iPhone 4 will look on iPad (below); it’s the same as a pixel doubled version of a standard iPhone app, but in high resolution of course.
At WWDC, chief executive Steve Jobs noted during his keynote presentation that iPhone 4 will automatically scale existing iOS apps to its higher resolution, making text and user interface controls appear sharper without developers needing to do anything. Jobs noted that with a little additional effort, custom artwork can be enhanced to make iPhone 4 apps that look exceptional.
Black hat hackers have exploited a security flaw on AT&T’s web servers which enabled them to obtain email addresses from the SIM card addresses of iPad 3G users. (Updated with statement from AT&T)
The breach, profiled in a report by Gawker, described the event as "another embarrassment" for Apple and outlined a variety of high profile individuals whose email addresses were obtained by automated script attacks on AT&T’s web server based on their iPad 3G SIM addresses (ICC ID).
The publication claimed that the identifying information meant that thousands of iPad 3G users "could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking," while also pointing out that many users have actually already published their iPad ICC ID numbers in Flickr photos. Presumably, many of them also have public email addresses and therefore already receive spam like the rest of us.
The attack on AT&T’s web servers resulted in at least 114,000 iPad 3G users’ emails being leaked to the hackers, who were coy about wether or not they were planning to enable others to access the data. The security leak, which returned a user’s email address when their ICC-ID was entered via a specially formatted HTTP request, has since been patched.
The group automated requests of the email address information for a wide swath of ICC-ID serial numbers using a script. No other information was discovered.
You know you wanted this to happen — your iPhone or iPod touch used as a controller for a racing game — but with the most recent release of the game, Podracer goes one stage (or one iPad) further — now you can link two iPads together to make for a bigger track.
ThinkGeek posted an iPad arcade cabinet as an April Fool’s joke this past year, but gamer Hideyoshi Moriya actually did build just such a cabinet out of cardboard and hardware — you plug the iPad into a dock, and then you can control software with the joystick and buttons via an Arduino board. You can see a full video of the device running (along with some cute puppies) after the jump below.
ThinkGeek was only kidding, and Moriya is just joking around, but there is definitely a viable demand for something like this. Sure, the cabinet form built out of cardboard is totally a prototype, but a little stand that you could just plug the iPad into and then control arcade games with buttons and a joystick? That thing would sell like hotcakes.
iPad owners will have to wait until Fall before a version of the new operating system is released. While still suffering from some unresolved Wi-Fi issues, the iPad has been a hit with customers. Reporting over two million units sold by the end of May, the iPad has actually doubled the sales of the original iPhone in the same amount of time. 
Verizon on the iPad? Sort of. In an effort to improve the iPad’s mobile data connection one hacker modded an iPad 3G to work with Verizon’s network.
Sadly, this hack is a pricey one: it requires a 3G iPad, 
Black hat hackers have exploited a security flaw on AT&T’s web servers which enabled them to obtain email addresses from the SIM card addresses of iPad 3G users. (Updated with statement from AT&T) 
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