Saturday - April 12, 2008
Until iPhone 2.0 software is released in June, if you want to add third-party software to your iPhone, you first need to jailbreak it. Jailbreaking, however, is only the first step. The next step is to actually install your choice of software. For this task, hackers have standardized on an iPhone application called, appropriately enough, "Installer." This program downloads software directly to your iPhone, much as Apple's App Store promises to do. If you decide to jailbreak your iPhone, you'll need to get comfortable with this Installer.
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Friday - April 4, 2008
Last year, Microsoft successfully mated a touch-screen PC with one of those old Ms. Pacman games you might see at your typical dive bar. Thus the Microsoft Surface -- the world's smartest end table -- was born. At first, it spent most of its time finger painting and identifying objects placed on top of it.
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Monday - March 31, 2008
After three days of attacks by leading hackers, a laptop running Ubuntu remained untouched while two others, running Mac OS X and Windows Vista Service Pack 1, succumbed. The attacks were launched at the CanSecWest PWN 2 OWN contest in Vancouver, Canada. This was sponsored by security firm TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, and held March 26-28, under its Zero Day Initiative.
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Friday - March 28, 2008
A computer with a sky-high public profile these days -- the much talked-about and often coveted MacBook Air from Apple -- was the first laptop to get cracked in a security hacking contest Thursday. While headlines around the Web are claiming that it took only two minutes, there's more to the story. The cracking went down at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the PWN to OWN 2008 contest.
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Sunday - March 23, 2008
Just as those living in shiny houses of self-righteous glass often end up surrounded by shards of their former sanctimony, so Apple now finds itself the increasingly appealing target of software hackers. For years, Apple's marketing has consisted of accentuating the positive and ignoring everything else.
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Monday - February 18, 2008
Of the multitudes of people making a buck from gray-market sales of iPhones, Pavel Zaboj may be one of the most reluctant. Zaboj is the founder of a company called "Bladox" that breathed life into the burgeoning market for iPhones that have been reconfigured for compatibility with networks other than those of Apple-sanctioned carriers.
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Thursday - February 14, 2008
Encamped along the aisles of the massive Zhongguancun Kemao Electronics Market in Beijing are many people like Li Zhongxin, of the Beijing Xinyu Lianhe Telecom Equipment Co. Li sits atop a plastic stool in front of his open-air stall on the third floor, scanning the throngs of shoppers for would-be customers.
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Tuesday - December 11, 2007
Symantec has rolled out a new Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard-compatible version of Norton AntiVirus that includes beefed-up safeguards at the Web application layer. Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac is also more user-friendly, said the company, as it now incorporates less obtrusive security alerts, and it automatically updates in the background without interrupting users.
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Thursday - November 1, 2007
Researchers at Intego, a maker of Mac-based security software, have announced they have recently discovered malware targeting the Mac OS X on some adult-oriented Web sites. The company dubbed the malicious Trojan software "OSX.RSPlug.A." "A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography Web sites, claiming to install a video codec necessary to view free pornographic videos on Macs," Intego said.
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Monday - October 15, 2007
The iPod touch, Apple's latest media gadget, has been on store shelves for less than a month. However, a hacker barely in his teens has claimed he's already cooked up a code called "iJailbreak" that will allow touch users to load their devices with third-party applications. As an added bonus, the program apparently does its job for anyone interested in freeing their media player from Apple's solitary confinement.
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Tuesday - October 9, 2007
The ability for a consumer to unlock a phone and use it on any wireless service provider network may get a serious shot in the arm if a California man and his class action lawsuit attorney have their way. Timothy Smith, represented by attorney Damian Fernandez, has filed a suit against Apple in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
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