July 2007
61 posts
Apple Falls on Initial iPhone Activation Numbers
Shares of Apple Inc. fell 4 percent on Tuesday after AT&T Inc. issued initial subscriber numbers for customers of Apple’s iPhone that were below analyst estimates. Read more
iPhone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over
The researchers, working for Independent Security Evaluators, a company that tests its clients’ computer security by hacking it, said that they could take control of iPhones through a Wi-Fi connection or by tricking users into going to a Web site that contains malicious code. The hack, the first reported, allowed them to tap the wealth of personal information the phones contain. Read more
Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down Facebook
The lawsuit’s allegations against Zuckerberg include fraud, copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. It asks the court to shut down Facebook and give control of the company and its assets to ConnectU’s founders. A hearing on a motion to dismiss the lawsuit is scheduled for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston. Read more
MySpace fan boys... MySpace Deletes 29,000 Sex...
The new information was first revealed by U.S. state authorities after MySpace turned over information on convicted sex offenders it had removed from the service. “The exploding epidemic of sex offender profiles on MySpace — 29,000 and counting — screams for action,” Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said in a statement. Read more
20 Fantastic Open Source Downloads
The very earliest days of the PC revolution were soaked in idealism. People shared their knowledge with one another freely; the very idea of charging for software was an anathema. The early days of the Internet had a similar rosy view of the world. Read more
20 Fantastic Open Source Downloads
The very earliest days of the PC revolution were soaked in idealism. People shared their knowledge with one another freely; the very idea of charging for software was an anathema. The early days of the Internet had a similar rosy view of the world. Read more
Dubai Skyscraper World's Tallest
When finished, the skyscraper will have more than 160 floors, 56 elevators, apartments, shops, swimming pools, spas, corporate suites, Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani’s first hotel, and an observation platform on the 124th floor. Read more
Duke Resolves iPhone Wi-Fi Problems
I touched on this last week about Duke calling in Cisco for help with the overlfow of WiFi connections since the iPhone. Initial reports of the problem placed the blame for the outages squarely on Apple’s iPhones, which flooded the Cisco WAPs (Wireless Access Points) with thousands of address requests per second. However, in a statement released this afternoon, Cisco Systems admitted that...
FBI Ducks Questions About Its Spyware
Some of the perfectly reasonable points they made: What about security flaws? Is there evidence of a “systematic search for bugs?” How about audit and logging? Why not publish the source code for public review? Read more
Next Version Of Windows In 3 Years
While the company provided few details, Windows 7, the next client version of the operating system, will be among the steps taken by Microsoft to establish a more predictable release schedule, according to sources. The company plans a more “iterative” process of information disclosure to business customers and partners, sources said. Read more
Dell Offers Free Laptops With Broadband...
Starting in September, consumers who buy a two-year contract for America Online’s broadband service through the Carphone Warehouse Group will get a coupon for a free base-model Inspiron notebook from Dell. AOL broadband costs £19.99 ($41) per month. Read more
Computer Program Can't Lose at Checkers
After 18-and-a-half years and sifting through 500 billion billion (a five followed by 20 zeroes) checkers positions, Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer and colleagues have built a checkers-playing computer program that cannot be beaten. Completed in late April this year, the program, Chinook, may be played to a draw but will never be defeated. Read more
Sony CEO Takes Shot at Jobs
Stringer made the comment in response to Jobs’ own comments on record industry executives being greedy over the price of music downloads. Moderator Anderson Cooper tried to change the subject, but Diller interjected, repeating the Sony CEO’s comments. When Cooper went back to Stringer to elaborate, he reportedly played down his earlier comments. Read more
Wal-Mart To Sell $300 PC With OpenOffice
The Everex Impact GC3502 uses Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista OS, but substitutes the OpenOffice.org 2.2 version of word processing and spreadsheet tools for the traditional Microsoft Office variety. Read more
AMD More Power-Efficient Than Intel
Specifically, the independent computer-testing firm announced today that it, in the tests, “the AMD based server used 7.3 to 15.2 percent less power at five different user load levels and 44.1 percent less power while the systems were idle and waiting for work.” Read more
Harry Potter Pirate Found?
Thanks to the digital fingerprint within every image, Canon believes it can possibly track the leak of the final Harry Potter novel if the camera has ever been serviced. Read more
IPhones flooding wireless LAN at Duke University
18,000 requests per second from iPhones knocking out dozens of access points at Duke University. Way to go Apply =) stealing time from our children when they should be learning! Read more
MIT Scientists to Debut Building Made of Water in...
Let your watery imagination go wild, earlier this week an international team of architects and engineers led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology said they have designed a building made of water. Read more
Intel is bringing the "Extreme Line cpu's" to...
The Core 2 Extreme X7800 includes such power-saving features as a dynamic front-side bus, which lets the system drop into a “low-frequency mode” to conserve energy, and Enhanced Deep Sleep, which uses less power when the system is idle. Read more
Mac fans - Power Book Adapter up in smoke! MUST...
Cheech and Chong are not starring in this debut. Powerbook adapter up in smoke tour! Read more & be sure to watch the video as this happened and was caught on video by David Letterman’s head writer!
iPhone buyers be careful...Criminals Using Botnet...
Looking to buy an iPhone? Beware that the Web site you think you’re visiting actually may be a phony site set up to empty your bank account instead of sell you a new iPhone. Read more
Microsoft Copy Protection Cracked Again
The latest version of the FairUse4M program, which can crack Microsoft’s digital rights management system for Windows Media audio and video files, was published online late Friday. In the past year, Microsoft plugged holes exploited by two earlier versions of the program and filed a federal lawsuit against its anonymous authors. Read more
PCWorld says that unlocking the iPhone is proving...
Unlocking the iPhone is proving to be more difficult than some hackers had expected. Read more
About DAMN TIME. Vick indicted by grand jury in...
Amen, give him the chamber, then celebs and athletes may think twice about getting away with EVERYTHING…Read more
Ohio: Stolen Device Contains 859,800 IDs
The names and Social Security numbers of 561,126 people who had not cashed state income refund checks were on the device. The device was stolen June 10 from an intern’s UNLOCKED CAR! Read more
Our Goverment not helping anything once again..
I swear the people that consider themselves actually workers for the US Goverment want the U.S to die. Careless morons put TOP SECRET files unprotected on the net. Read more
iPod striking it's users with lighting?
You have heard correct, Apple once again thinks with the release of the iPhone they are God :) Read more
Give me an iPhone, give me a BlackBerry, just...
Apparently Sprint doesn’t like people that complain, the company has told one thousand customers to find a different provider because they complain too much. Read more
IE is the Devil huh? FireFox isn't an Angel
If you are a Firefox user with IE installed (most of us), you need to be aware of a new security flaw that can lead to your system being compromised. Read more
Gates & The Xbox 360 strike back, Price Cuts...
Wedbush Morgan Securities expects Microsoft to dropthe Xbox 360 price tonight at its E3 press conference. Prices cuts are expected to be $479 to $399 for the Elite, the Premium from $399 to $349 and the Core from $299 to $249. Read more
More Battery Problems for the iPhone...
Wireless Info has three iPhones in house for testing and claim that 2 of the 3 have problems with battery charging. The good news is that the article does say that Apple is good about replacing the defective phones. Read more
Watch out P2P, MPAA is setting trap websites
Please, come download all my goodies… read more with proof of these actions. If you do use P2P for “legal” reasons and still want to attemp to hide yourself, please check out this open source program than updates it’s block lists all the time. “PeerGuardian 2 is Phoenix Labs’ premier IP blocker for Windows. PeerGuardian 2 integrates support for multiple lists, list...
Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human...
Why most suicide bombers are Muslim, beautiful people have more daughters, humans are naturally polygamous, sexual harassment isn’t sexist, and blonds are more attractive… read more
China, you must be bored...
I guess they have created everything they ever can for the tech guru’s of this world. “Public toilet has 1,000 stalls in four stories - BEIJING, China “ read more
Me & Politics... Pure Corruption.
All I can ever see with Politics is all the corruption. These figures are elected and voted into office to govern the American people, yet have lower values than scum. I dedicate this post to a guy I have never met, Mike ( a friend of my brothers as he is a Politics junky I hear ) This is Clinton’s Pardon list, enjoy.
Metallica: The New Terrorist threat?
Metallica singer James Hetfield was investigated by UK airport officials who believed he was a terrorist this week, it has been claimed. The star was barred entry to Luton airport on Thursday and questioned by staff who were concerned about his appearance. Fears that Hetfield might be involved in terrorism were apparently founded on his “Taliban-like beard”, according to The Times. He...
Tumblr updates coming soon?
I think I have some readers after a week or two here. I hope soon that tumblr will add the ability for users to post comments to stories etc. Tumblr has a big future, but no real updates since April are making me wonder
Atari bringing Jenga to the Wii!
You remember the game playing it with your old school pals, after school, talking with the boys, drinking an ice cold Hawaiian Punch… Yeah that was the 90’s and this is the new reality
You got the iPhone, now get the apps you need to.....
The Apple iPhone was only released into the wild a little over a week ago, and some killer apps have already surfaced.
Jobs isn't done yet, iPhone Nano?
Apple plans cheaper, Nano-based phone claims JP Morgan
The "New Seven Wonders of the World"
See these wonders for yourself…
New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown
Are you ready for this? New York City has plans to blanket the Lower Manhattan area with over 3000 security cameras (that can read license plates), a center staffed by police, private security officers and movable roadblocks.
Nintendo to Receive $2.5M From Court Settlement
The Big N is going to receive a major amount of money thanks to a judgment in their favor against a major counterfeit retailer.
Playstation 3 Price Cut Confirmed
Sony Computer Entertainment America, contradicting statements made by the company president on Friday, just confirmed the $100 price drop on the 60GB model. Sony also announced a new 80GB version for $599 that comes with a free copy of Motorstorm.
Apple Still Ripping Artists Off
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/05/apples-little-problem-with-ripping-off-artists/
Geek Squad Caught Stealing Porn Video
Who do you trust your computer with?
PC Perspective Pod Cast
This week we talk about the NVIDIA Tesla HPC announcement, Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6750 preview and the AMD HD 2600 and HD 2400 graphics card launch. Of course, how could we call this a podcast without some coverage of the iPhone from Apple?!? More news from the tech industry is covered as well. read/listen to more
Who is Transmeta? AMD Invests $7.5 Million
As part of the investment, AMD will receive preferred shares of Transmeta. After the announcement, Transmeta shares rose 24 cents, or 34 percent, to 94 cents in late trading. Shares of AMD rose 20 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $14.39, read more
Today I hit 1 MILLON Points (FAH)
http://hardfolding.com/index.php?go=38&tm=33&id=166014 If your unsure what folding really is, Please take a look at Stanford’s website here.