I dropped and broke the glass on my iPhone 3G. While trying to fix it, I screwed it up and couldn't get it to power on. I ended up buying a new one and selling the old one as-is on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MESO:IT&ih=007

Thing is I had a passcode and I forgot to wipe the data before trying to fix it. After I broke it, I had no way to take the passcode off and sold it thinking the buyer could do a restore.

The buyer has fixed it and gotten a display and now wants the passcode to enter into the phone, but I was under the impression you can put it into restore mode and wipe it without a passcode. Is this right? I don't want to give out my passcode. There wasn't much personal on my phone, but I'd rather contacts and such and not be revealed.

I hope no one accuses me of stealing the phone or something along those lines.

Apple's iPhone is stealing market share from dominant smartphone makers like Nokia and Palm...

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/applearnings.jpg" width="500" height="254" style="display:block;" /After a href="http://gizmodo.com/5066543/apple-quarterly-earnings-69-million-iphones-sold-more-phones-than-rim"besting BlackBerry/a and a href="http://gizmodo.com/5082165/iphone-passes-the-razr-to-become-best-selling-phone-in-the-us-this-quarter"the Razr/a, the iPhone has seized its largest parcel of the global smartphone market yet: a href="http://cultofmac.com/iphone-now-has-166-percent-of-world-smartphone-market/5390"16.6 percent/a. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually a pretty big deal./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/smartphones.jpg" width="755" height="398" class="center"You actually have to look at Nokia's numbers, though, to understand why. The global smartphone leader by a huge margin, its marketshare shrank from 63.3 percent to just 43.6 percent. So, not only did it lose 20 percent of its grip, its marketshare fell below 50 percent for the first time in several years, according to Needham's chart. And, more to the point, its drop is roughly proportional with the iPhone's rise in the last quarter. In fact, the iPhone is the only reason smartphone growth did not slow overall. FWIW, RIM and Windows Mobile's marketshare stayed roughly constant, dipping slightly./p pEven though it's not like the iPhone is stealing Nokia's users directlymdash;many of the iPhone's are first-time "smartphone" owners in the USmdash;it does make it painfully clear how unwise it is for Nokia to essentially forego certain segments of the market. Hey, guess who their flagship a href="http://gizmodo.com/5100707/nokia-n97-unveiled-the-first-high+end-n+series-touch-phone?skyline=trues=x"N97/a precisely doesn't target? [a rhef="http://cultofmac.com/iphone-now-has-166-percent-of-world-smartphone-market/5390"Cult of Mac/a, a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/02/iphone_single_handedly_driving_smartphone_growth.html"AI/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=624e01f9619b27b6efb40a3a936f0df5amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=624e01f9619b27b6efb40a3a936f0df5amp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=5RzLdE20"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=BksBimhF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=9eS2bnuO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=9eS2bnuO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=IWEvMsog"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=IWEvMsog" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/oWdznyd-UTc" height="1" width="1"/

The universal log-in standard has been around for three years now. So why is Facebook Connect stealing all its thunder?

The universal log-in standard has been around for three years now. So why is Facebook Connect stealing all its thunder?

The universal log-in standard has been around for three years now. So why is Facebook Connect stealing all its thunder?

On the December 1 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity asserted that in the Minnesota Senate recount, challenger Al Franken (D) "has been trying to challenge ballots that are clearly for [incumbent Sen.] Norm Coleman [R]," adding, "That is stealing an election." Subsequently, Hannity aired several examples of ballots that the Franken campaign has contested and said to former Rep. John Kasich (R-OH): "I'm gonna put up on the screen -- and I want Al Franken to sue me, because for him to challenge these ballots that are so clearly, you know, for Norm Coleman, I think it shows that he's trying to steal the election." However, Hannity did not display any of the published examples of ballots that the Coleman campaign has challenged that appear to be marked for Franken or another candidate besides Coleman.

Later, former Hillary Clinton campaign adviser Kiki McLean said to Hannity: "Sean, I'd like to know that you actually spent the time looking at the ballots that Norm Coleman has tried to have dismissed. Have you?" She also said: "My question to you is have you reviewed all the ballots that Norm Coleman has tried to throw out?" Hannity replied: "I've reviewed a number of them, but I don't see any that are this obvious." But Hannity again did not show his viewers any of the ballots Coleman has challenged.

As Media Matters for America has noted, a Minnesota Public Radio article, originally published November 19, provided some examples of ballots that the Coleman campaign has challenged along with reporting on the reason for the challenge:

The Coleman campaign challenged this ballot [on November 19], arguing the voter didn't intend to vote for Franken, because of the small dot inside the bubble next to Dean Barkley's name.

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