Ars have done a very interesting experiment recently. They have deleted some photos from Flickr, Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook. And see if they are still there after 6 weeks. Twitter and Flickr photos are really gone. But, photos are still there and accessible to public at Facebook and MySpace. (Since it is reported by Ars, it may be removed very soon by Facebook and MySpace).

The main reason why those photos are not permanently removed could probably because of the backup copies. If you have those crazy photos, don’t upload it in the first place. “deleted” photos are not really deleted.

[via Ars]

Wired wrote a false report about Japanese hate the iPhone in March, the truth is revealed by AppleInsider later on. There are lots of survey proved that Japanese love the iPhone. Here is another one: A new survey by market research company BCN revealed that iPhone 3G 8GB is the number 1 smartphone in Japan, followed by iPhone 3G 16GB is the number 2. NTT CoCoMo Aquos SH-04A is the number 3.

The smartphone sales goes by 80% in a year, and the non-smartphone sales is dropping. Survey said over 1 million iPhone 3G is sold in Japan. Will the new iPhone 3GS becomes another hit in Japan?

[via TG Daily]

I was so happy to know that redsnow, the iPhone firmware 3.0 jailbreak tool, was released. I go to iPhone Dev Team site and quickly download it. It was redsnow 0.7, the very first version. I didn’t notice there is an updated version0.72. My iPhone 3G 3.0 experience the heat problem after jailbreaking. It turns pretty after using it for a long time. My friends told me it is a bug of redsnow 0.7.

I restore my iPhone 3G yesterday, and jailbreak with the newest redsnow 0.72. It seems the overheat problem is gone. iPhone becomes more stable now. If you have similar problem, try to restore the iPhone and use the latest redsnow 0.72. It may help to solve the problem.

Sour, the Japanese band, has bring us something really awesome. They used a bunch of webcams to make their new song Hibi no Neiro music video(that means Tone of everyday). Enjoy the music and discover how the video editing job is done amazingly.

[via CrunchGear]

Microsoft Bing is adding the “Twitter factor”. You can now search Twitter users’ tweet by simply typing their user names. Just type the “Twitter” in front of the name, Bing will show you the most updated tweets. Try the search of Ryan Seacrest Tweets at here. You will figure out Bing can show you the recent tweets. Note it only works for some Twitter user accounts only. Bing will continue to index more Tweets in the future.

[via Bing Community]

Twitter is growing quickly, but the big question is how to make money. The simple way is to put ads on it. Recently, there are at least 2 new ads appeared. They are Federated Media’s Microsoft microsite ExecTweets.com and Universal Studios’ CinemaTweets.com. It’s not clear how much would it costs to put ads on Twitter. It’s definitely a good start. Twitter needs to be profitable in long term. I think most users don’t mind.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Several rumors said Apple is going to drop NVIDIA. NVIDIA graphic chips are currently used in Apple’s Mac. Closed source of NVIDIA said the relationship with Apple is fine. Apple is still buying the NVIDIA graphic chips and chipsets. Nothing is changed. Your new Mac will still be cool.

[via Fudzilla]

A closed source from Microsoft has confirmed Windows 7 RTM will be there on 13th July. It will be the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). As usual, TechNet, MSDN and other partner connections will be able to get the RTM shortly after the WPC09. Source also said Microsoft will keep on solving bugs. No one wants the “Vista tragedy” happens again.

[via geekSMACK]

iPhone Dev Team wants more people to get iPhone 3GS before releasing the new jailbreak tools. On the other side, Geohot thinks it’s not worth to wait. He has released the first iPhone 3GS jailbreak tool at here. It’s still in early beta, but Geohot will try everything to help if possible. Currently the tool works for Windows only, Mac version is coming soon.

Once the iPhone 3GS is jailbroken, it’s highly possible that you can unlock it with ultrasnow. Note these tools only works on iPhone firmware 3.0 but not the 3.1 beta. iPhone Dev Team have also released the video to show you the unlocked iPhone 3GS. I will probably get one since it’s free from any network now.

Video after the break.

[Thanks, Pak]

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A security expert said iPhone has a serious SMS security exploit. Hacker can use it to detect the iPhone location using the GPS. Phone conversations and SMS may be tracked. Apple has the plan to fix it later this month. How the hackers can use the exploit is not exposed to the public. Come on, hackers. Track my stupid SMS log, now.

[via AppleInsider]