A truly cool iPhone app boosts the iPhone’s already exceptional form factor. Right out the box, the fashionable handheld (ever the cool kid’s accoutrement) handles everything from texting to movie downloads to shooting video. But add a few choice apps – say, a top-flight personal organizer or a cool music app – and your iPhone stretches the envelope of design coolness still more. It’s one very impressive gewgaw.
The annual Pwn2Own contest starts today at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada.
In a nutshell, competitors have to demonstrate remote code execution with minimal user interaction. The first to succeed wins the attacked device (laptop or mobile phone), $US10,000 cash, and certain benefits.
This year's targets are Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7, Mozilla Firefox 3 on Windows 7, Google Chrome 4 on Windows 7, and Safari 4 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. That's for the first day of competition. Windows 7 is replaced with Vista on day two, and XP on day three.
iTunes Store offers a large variety of free content, but to download it you have to have an account. Usually you have to enter your credit card information to sign up, but here’s an easy way to get an iTunes account for free downloads without entering any payment info.
Wow, where do you start with these guys? They are probably the reason most of you have iPhones, and they are definitely the reason Sebastien and I are writing to you guys all the time. You certainly couldn’t “liberate your iPhone” without these guy’s transcendent work.
Quick - which Silicon Valley icon creates the computers that creative professionals love? And what SV company creates the software that creative professionals crave?
Right: Apple and Adobe. So why are they 2 separate companies? There’s no good reason, especially now that Adobe’s management can’t figure out how to grow the company. Apple, with over $30 billion in cash, could buy Adobe outright, whose market cap is about $18 billion. A cash and stock offer would also make Adobe shareholders happy.
Apple is on pace to potentially sell more iPads in its first three months than it sold iPhones in the three months after the touch-screen handset made its debut back in 2007, people familiar with the company's running sales totals say.
Since going on sale for pre-order last Friday morning, customers have purchased "hundreds of thousands of the device," those same people told The Wall Street Journal. By comparison, Apple sold roughly 1.2 million iPhones in the three months following its June 29, 2007 launch.
A knock-off MacBook Air running Windows, a tablet computer shaped like a big iPhone and another tablet meant to rival Apple's iPad were all among the devices shown off by a small Chinese gadget maker on Thursday.
Teso, a gadget design outfit in the freewheeling southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, has already sold its MacBook Air look-alike for more than a year and is preparing for sales of its tablets, said a company official surnamed Wu.
Consumers seeking a protective film for the screen on their iPhone, iPod, iPad or Mac will soon have to look outside of Apple's retail stores, which will soon halt sales of the accessories indefinitely.
The iPad is not even out yet, and we’re already getting news from the iPhone\iPodTouch jailbreak community that they are working on a jailbreak software for the iPad.
p0sixninja of the Chronic Dev Team has posted a screenshot of GreenPois0n, the jailbreak software for Windows, Mac and Linux. The team is said to begin work on jailbreaking iPad with GreenPois0n as soon as iPad is out. p0sixninja, in a tweet, has asked for donation to get him an iPad so that he may bring us an iPad jailbreak solution.
As cyberthreats go, none is more pronounced than the menace of new malware being written by amateur hackers and criminals to find vulnerabilities in Apple products, industry reports showed Wednesday.
Apple computers have been famously safe for years from viral attacks and malware infestation that often afflicts computers with Microsoft's Windows-based operating systems.
