I definitely wasn’t expecting to come across this particular story but it seems that Facebook, and probably other social networking sites, can prove to be very useful in court. A 19-year old kid was arrested on October 18 as he was a suspect in two crimes. His smart defense lawyer cleared him in court as it looks like the young man in question was updating his Facebook status exactly at the time the crimes in question were committed. “Where’s my pancakes?” is the status that he entered from his father’s apartment at the time of the alleged crimes.

Sure you’ll say that the alibi could have been manufactured but that’s less likely to have happened. Here’s what the defense lawyer said when someone implied that the Facebook update could have been entered by anyone having access to the defendant account:

This implies a level of criminal genius that you would not expect from a young boy like this; he is not Dr. Evil.

Will we see Facebook and other social networking sites used as alibis in the future?

via Fort Greene

Tags: crimes, Facebook, Mobile News, Updates

The Droid and the Droid Eris have been available for almost five days now and from the looks of it the phones are already bringing in some serious cash. The most popular of the both is definitely the Motorola Droid and you must surely agree that the Droid is an exceptional Android machine.

But neither of them is perfect. In fact there are quite a few issues that need to be fixed so both the Droid and the Droid Eris will receive an update in the near future. And it’s not customers complaining about the phones but it’s Verizon. The carrier has already found various things that need attention and it has leaked no less than twelve pages filled with complaints (five for the Droid and seven for the Droid Eris.) Everything will be sorted out by two firmware updates that are supposed to arrive in December and January. We don’t have any exact dates for you so in the mean time feel free to tell us what’s wrong with the Droid from your point of view.

via phandroid

Tags: Android, Droid, Droid Eris, firmware, HTC, HTC, Mobile Software, Motorola, Motorola, OTA, Updates, Verizon, Verizon Wireless

Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1 beta yesterday and lucky developers out there can now enjoy the new firmware update. While there’s no official change log coming from Apple, the Internet is now filled with unofficial rumors about the iPhone OS 3.1.

Here’s what we should expect from it:

• MMS options available on AT&T but the service is not running
• Voice Control available over Bluetooth
• Vibration when moving icons
• “Save as copy” option available for saving videos
• Improved OpenGL and Quartz
• APIs for third party apps that access video
• Modem firmware updated to5.08.01
• Updated AT&T profile to 4.2

Come on Apple, tell us all what’s going on in iPhone OS 3.1! As you can see we already have a pretty good idea of what’s coming…

Tags: 3.1, Apple, Beta, developers, firmware, iPhone, Mobile Software, OS, SDK, Updates