Gadgetory

it's Wednesday August fourth 2010 I'm Jeff Bakalar and it's time to get loaded as expected Research In Motion launched a new blackberry phone yesterday the blackberry torch the new phone has a slideout keyboard 5 megapixel camera and a touchscreen the phone comes pre-loaded with OS 6 and will be available from 18t with a two-year contract for 199 dollars expected to hit other carriers in the near future speaking of blackberry OS six the new software contains many improvements including a new touch capable interface also in the software is a brand-new browser based on the WebKit rendering engine in fact the new phone is named after torch mobile the company that RIM acquired to use for their mobile browser also in OS 6 is a wireless media sync a new music player and much more the new OS will also arrive on older blackberry phones including the bold 9650 9700 and the pearl 3g to places that won't be getting the new blackberry or Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates the countries have ordered that cell phone service providers there stop supporting blackberry phones because the government's cannot monitor encrypted blackberry data the UAE has said that BlackBerry's are a national security risk because terrorists may be able to use them to plan attacks rim says that the email and data on its blackberry enterprise servers are encrypted and even rim can access that information google has finally rolled out multiple logins this means that you can now log into Google services with more than one user name now this is useful if you have more than one gmail address the new feature has to be enabled in your google account settings and will only work with gmail calendar google sites reader voice app engine and google code they all too easy to use website jailbreakme com for the iphone is raising some security eyebrows researchers have uncovered that the jailbreak actually exploits a PDF viewer related bug to run root level code on the iPhone analysts are saying that this exploit is particularly vulnerable because it relies on the Safari web browser to execute and websites could potentially use it to run nefarious code facebook has finally updated their app for Android phones while it's still not on par with the iphone version the new update is a dramatic improvement the app now supports notifications events liking posts h.264 videos but no facebook chat yet those your headlines for today I'm Jeff Bakalar for cnet.com and you've just been loaded