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31 Jul 2009 19:16

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Tech: Apple finally starts listening to hackers, patches the iPhone

  • After trying for weeks to convince Apple to fix their iPhone software, two security researchers revealed a scary method for hacking the iPhone using SMS. source
  • After feeling the wrath of negative PR contained in that message, Apple hurried and fixed the vulnerability, but you have to hook up to iTunes to fix it. source
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30 Jul 2009 11:08

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Tech: Mad haxors are meeting in Las Vegas to hack your machine

  • The goal? Finding security flaws. Las Vegas’ Black Hat security conference is the place to be if you want to present some major hacks that companies like Microsoft and Apple should know about. Currently on the table? An exploit which allows users to hack Macs and steal scrambled data. Now, we know what you’re thinking. How could this possibly help you? Well, it forces tech companies to make better products. source
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29 Jul 2009 10:35

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Offbeat, Tech: The Onion: Apple invents a iPhone visible only to the loyal

  • Not only is this our lightest and slimmest model ever, but as any truly savvy Apple customer can clearly see, it’s also the most handsome product we’ve ever designed.
  • Apple CEO Steve Jobs • In an Onion parody, talking about the company’s new iPhone 3GI, which is invisible to everyone except Apple’s most loyal customers. This article came out right around the time of the invention of transparent aluminum, so you laugh now, but just wait a few years until it’s real! • source
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27 Jul 2009 09:36

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Tech: Apple and the major labels butt heads over album-art approaches

  • Apple’s approach Last night, word came out that Apple was working on a new digital album format that would include liner notes, visuals, interactive features and the whole kit and caboodle. It’s code-named “Cocktail,” and it’s an attempt to get you jerks to buy albums. source
  • Apple’s approach Last night, word came out that Apple was working on a new digital album format that would include liner notes, visuals, interactive features and the whole kit and caboodle. It’s code-named “Cocktail,” and it’s an attempt to get you jerks to buy albums.
  • The labels’ approach However, the major labels say that Apple chose to come up with something on their own that the labels suggested 18 months ago. Since when has Apple been known to do that? The labels are working on a similar type of feature for everyone else. source
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23 Jul 2009 09:47

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Biz, Tech: AT&T’s customer base is huge thanks to the iPhone, but it costs ’em

  • +3.5 million number of new 3G customers the wireless company got last quarter thanks to the iPhone – and 1.5 million new overall customers source
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22 Jul 2009 20:35

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Tech, World: iPhone prototypes: Serious business in China – deathly serious

  • A Chinese worker for Foxconn was entrusted with a 4th Generation iPhone prototype. source
  • The worker lost the phone, told his bosses, freaked out, and killed himself last week. source
  • A Foxconn security guy was suspended, and Chinese police are investigating. source
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21 Jul 2009 22:20

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Tech: Holy smokes!!! Apple is selling an *insane* amount of iPhones

  • 57,000 iPhones are sold every day. Not kidding. source
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16 Jul 2009 11:20

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Tech: Lauren apparently touched a nerve with Apple’s legal department

  • You know why I know they’re working? Because two weeks ago we got a call from the Apple legal department.
  • Microsoft COO Kevin Turner • Regarding their ad campaign that made us fall in love with a bespectacled young woman named Lauren. Lauren said a number of anti-Apple things in her commercial, where she looked for a laptop for under $1,000. Describing the phone call, Turner said, “It was the single greatest phone call in history that I’ve ever taken in business.”  • source
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10 Jul 2009 10:44

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Tech: Fake Steve Jobs trashes all over the emergence of a Google OS

  • Somehow if you put out a new operating system you’ll get more people using the Internet and then you’ll be able to sell more of those $#%@*^ little ads?
  • Fake Steve Jobs (a.k.a. Daniel Lyons) • Discussing why Google’s new operating system is going to fail. Our favorite part? When he trashes on the tiny size of the netbook market. “Frankly, if the entire netbook market caught fire,” he says, “I wouldn’t piss on it to put it out. But that’s just me.” Oh Fake Steve. *fawn* • source
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05 Jul 2009 20:56

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Tech: Apple’s best frenemy, “Geohot,” jailbreaks the new iPhone. Jerk

  • two number of weeks it took “Geohot,” real name George Hotz (see what he did there?), to jailbreak, or unlock, the iPhone 3GS source
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