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Never heard of Boxee? It’s a neat “social media centre” letting you watch videos from PCs around the house, as well as the Internet. You can also hook up with friends, so they’ll see what films you’re watching, share music and send recommendations your way. And now, thanks to clever hackers, it’s available for Apple TV.

Scott Davilla, a developer on the aTV project, which hacks Apple TV using just a USB stick, has announced Boxee availability for Apple’s set top box.

Tired of getting the brushoff from Apple Inc., Israeli researcher Aviv Raff today disclosed technical details about a pair of iPhone security flaws that he first reported more than two months ago.

Raff, best known as a browser vulnerability researcher, told Apple in July that he had uncovered bugs in the iPhone's Mail application as well as in its version of Safari that could be used to trick users into clicking on malicious links and boost the amount of spam they face.

A version of Lotus Notes from IBM is at last available for Apple Inc.'s iPhone as a download from IBM, allowing users to check their Notes e-mail and view their calendar and contacts, IBM announced.

Apple last week began testing iPhone Software v2.2 beta 1, the next software update for the iPhone and iPod touch that will deliver, among other things, subtle interface changes to Safari and a new version of the company's App Store application.

The update, expected to be released next month, has thus far shown no signs of including support for background push notification -- a feature original promised for September, but pushed back slightly as development remains a work-in-progress.

Shares of Apple bled more than 17 percent of their value in Monday morning trading on the Nasdaq stock market after analysts for investment banks Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital both downgraded their outlook on the company, citing a worsening consumer environment.

As far as moral victories in the browser wars go, Apple's Safari web browser can now claim one of them. The Safari 4 beta scored a perfect 100/100 on the brutal Acid3 web standards test, becoming the first browser to pass all four conditions of the test (browser must use default settings, animation has to be smooth, score must end on 100/100, and must produce a pixel perfect copy of the reference rendering).

The iPhone 3G was unveiled by Steve Jobs back in June, but hackers are having a tougher time cracking the software to make the iPhone carrier-free and jailbreak the iPod touch. It seems that one of the under-the-hood improvements carried out by the Cupertino geeks was making the devices harder to crack.

The current state of play is that the iPhone 3G has been jailbroken so that third-party software can run on it, but it has yet to be unlocked to make it carrier-free. The iPod touch 2G, which was released a couple of weeks ago, has so far not been jailbroken.

Apple Inc. patched nearly 30 Java vulnerabilities in Mac OS X yesterday, months after Sun Microsystems Inc., Java's developer, fixed most of the same flaws for other operating systems.

Production ready versions of Apple's next-generation MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks have surfaced stateside in matching attire, according to reports.

In its attempt to provide the most accurate picture of Apple's future product plans, AppleInsider is publishing these tidbits only as a rumor to supplement earlier reports of higher conviction.

After several months of negotiations, it looks like the iPhone is finally coming to China – albeit with some functionality removed. It appears that China Mobile, the exclusive iPhone carrier for the region, is asking Apple for a version of the device with the Wi-Fi and 3G chips disabled, leaving customers with nothing but a slow 2G data connection.