Monday - June 22, 2009
When some PC users move to a Mac, they occasionally can't find an Apple analog for a bread-and-butter application they had in the Windows world. In those cases, most users learn to live without their cherished app. The folks at Agile Web Solutions, though, learned how to build a business on theirs. Founded by Roustem Karimov and Dave Teare in 2005, Toronto-based Agile makes 1Password, a cross-browser password manager that's garnered more than a million users since its introduction in 2006.
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Monday - November 24, 2008
It's a safe bet that most enterprise employees don't haul their personal laptops into the workplace. However, with the ever-increasing capabilities of iPods and iPhones these days, are workers introducing new issues for IT security? The Apple iPod touch now comes with a whopping 32 GB of storage space and built-in WiFi capable of attaching to nearly ubiquitous corporate wireless networks.
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Friday - September 19, 2008
Security firm Sophos issued a warning Thursday about e-mails purportedly offering free iPhone games. The missives profess to feature a free game for the smartphone, but the only thing those who download the attachment receive is malware designed to infect PCs running Windows.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
Apple has purchased chip designer P.A. Semi for $278 million in cash, according to Forbes. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm is a self-described fabless semiconductor firm that delivers processors for the high-performance embedded-computing market. The company specializes in low-power chips that could be useful in Apple's iPhone and iPod devices.
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Thursday - October 18, 2007
After months of vehement proclamations that the iPhone would support only third-party applications over a Web browser, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Wednesday in an open letter on the Apple Web site that the company will release a software development kit to developers in February. The kit would allow software makers to create iPhone applications that would reside on the phone itself, not on the Web.
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Wednesday - August 1, 2007
Apple released three security updates Tuesday that correct a slew of bugs, including a hole discovered last week in the one-month-old iPhone. This is Apple's seventh security update this year. The bundled patches fix approximately 45 vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X operating system, the Safari browser for Windows beta, and the iPhone.
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Monday - July 23, 2007
A hole in the iPhone's security apparatus could allow a hacker to take complete control of the device, warn researchers at Independent Security Evaluators, who identified the flaw. The exploit is delivered via a malicious Web page opened in the Safari browser on the iPhone, according to ISE.
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Monday - July 9, 2007
In the week or so since the iPhone has been on the market, hackers have discovered the root password for the device, which is "Alpine"; found another password for the mobile user account, which is "Dottie"; and posted a workaround to the AT&T activation, so new owners can bypass AT&T's fees.
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Tuesday - April 10, 2007
Apple has patched two vulnerabilities in its AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n routers. The more worrisome flaw is a default configuration that exposes incoming IPv6 connections and network services on hosts connected through an AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n to remote attackers.
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Monday - April 2, 2007
There is no doubt that WiFi-enabled smartphones like the iPhone have corporate IT departments on edge. Numerous experts and analysts have observed that the iPhone is not intended to be an "enterprise" device, and very few benevolent CFOs are going to approve the purchase of pricy iPhones for their employees. Yet CIOs know that millions of them are going to be coming into the workplace anyway.
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