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iPhone App sold by owner, rereleased into wild
Infinite Loop — ... that arose recently: what's the value of a popular iPhone application? We got an answer yesterday when former CTO and co-founder of Equinix Ortwin Gentz announced that he had purchased the "points of interest" application Where To? ...

Where To iPhone App Acquired by FutureTap
TheAppleBlog — ... Ortwin has worked previously as the CTO of Equinux, a company famous for their development of Mac applications such as iSale — a two-times Apple Design Award winner. FutureTap today commenced operations by relaunching Where To in the iPhone App Store. ...

MacWorld Expo 09: Interview with Christian Rüb from Equinux
HardMac.com — ... equinux is a German company, with offices in San Francisco, that developed several products for the Mac, most of them being media-oriented: such as "Media Central", a media center for the Mac, TV with TheTube, TV tuner with TubeStick, music with CoverScout and the brand new SongGenie. ...

iPhone push exploit sends AIM message to unintended recipients
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... with Equinux has discovered an iPhone exploit where AIM messages could be sent to random people without you even knowing it. Schadde discovered this when he was notified that a message he had sent to his iPhone version of AIM got intercepted by someone else. That person proceeded to contact Schaddle, sharing the screenshot shown at right with him. Schadde posted the screenshot and detailed the bug on Twitter after testing it once more from his computer. ...

Jailbroken or unlocked iPhone Push errors cause AIM to misfire
iPhone Atlas — The founder of Equinux, Till Schadde, recently discovered an interesting problem with the AIM app and Push Notifications. According to Schadde and reported by Crunchgear, AIM on jailbroken and unlocked iPhones was sending messages to random recipients without the sender's knowledge. In other words, that sexy sweet nothing you sent your sweetheart might have reached a stranger instead. ...