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October 27, 2010
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How to bypass security code on IPhone

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In the video below, a Brazilian iPhone customer demonstrates the quick method to circumvent an iPhone’s passcode-protected lock screen: tap the “Emergency Call” button, then enter three pound signs, hit the green Call button and immediately press the Lock button. That simple procedure gives a snoop full access to the Phone app on the iPhone, which contains the address book, voicemail and call history.

http://player.vimeo.com/video/16179929

Bug no iOS 4.1 from Salomão Filho on Vimeo.

October 27, 2010
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LimeWire Ordered To Shut Down

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LimeWire Ordered To Shut Down! A federal judge has issued an injunction against LimeWire that essentially puts the music file-sharing site out of business, five months after it lost a copyright-infringement suit filed by the record industry.

U.S. district judge Kimba Wood in New York issued the permanent injunction Tuesday, ordering LimeWire to disable the “searching, downloading, uploading, file trading, and/or file distribution functionality” of the software it distributed to users to access and share files through the peer-to-peer service. In addition, the judge said in the 17-page ruling that LimeWire must notify its workers, investors, and customers of the injunction. Wood also ordered the site to file a progress report in meeting all conditions of the order within 14 days.

The injunction essentially shut down the site, which on Tuesday posted on its homepage a legal notice saying that it had been ordered to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing application. “Downloading or sharing copyrighted content without authorization is illegal,” the post warned.

In a statement, LimeWire called the decision a “sad occasion.”

“Naturally, we’re disappointed with this turn of events,” chief executive George Searle said in a statement.

However, Searle said the injunction only applied to the company’s file-sharing product and said, “Our company remains open for business.” However, what it would do was not clear. Searle said the company remained “deeply committed” to working with the music industry and was working on a new music service.

In a statement obtained by The New York Times, the Recording Industry Association of America, which represented the 13 record companies that sued the site, said the injunction “will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that LimeWire and (founder and chairman Mark) Gorton used to enrich themselves immensely.”

While the injunction closed down the site, it did not put an end to the case. Both sides will appear before Wood in January to begin arguments on how much LimeWire and Gorton should pay in damages, according to the RIAA statement.

LimeWire now joins other high-profile file-sharing sites, namely Grokster and Napster, in being shut down through a lawsuit filed by entertainment companies. LimeWire, launched in 2000, was one of the largest remaining commercial peer-to-peer services left on the web. The company claimed to have more than 50 million monthly users downloading 3 billion songs a month, according to the court.

Wood in May ruled that LimeWire was liable for the use of its software to illegally download copyrighted music. In issuing the ruling, the judge referred to the Grokster case in which the Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that the file-sharing service was liable when customers used it to swap songs and movies illegally. The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed by MGM Studios.

The record companies that sued Lime Wire included Arista, Atlantic, BMG Music, Capital, Elektra, Interscope, LaFace, Motown, Priority, Sony BMG, UMG, Virgin, and Warner Brothers.

October 12, 2010
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Norton Says Renew now or “Beg for Mercy”

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Instead of Symantec’s Norton Anti-Virus removing all adware and keeping your PC safe, the pop-up for when the subscription expires says “Maybe things will be ok for a while longer, Then again, maybe cybercriminals are about to clean out your bank account. The choice is yours: Protect yourself now or beg for mercy.” Sounds more like malware extortion to me.

October 12, 2010
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Facebook founders put $170,000 into pot

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Facebook founders put $170,000 into pot | Technically Incorrect – CNET News.

October 4, 2010
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BlackBerry Playbook to Battle IPad

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The PlayBook’s specs are impressive on paper. A 1GHz dual-core ARM processor, and multitasking based on RIM’s QNX technology.

By touting these specs, Research In Motion is obviously trying to execute some serious one-upmanship vis-a-vis the iPad–even when allowing for the fact that the PlayBook won’t appear until the first quarter, when Apple could potentially deliver a better iPad. Vaporware? Yes, at the moment. And building a large library of apps for the PlayBook is also problematic. But it’s nonetheless an interesting exercise to speculate on it, since the PlayBook is garnering a lot of attention.

My first question is, will Apple have a dual-core iPad by then? A second core may seem like a trivial spec to some, but it can make a big difference (just witness the leap in performance that PCs made when Intel went dual-core).

September 5, 2010
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Facebook trying to trademark the word “face” and “book”

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When businesses become big, some decide to act big too. They walk into the legal saloon, swagger up to the bar and expect plaudits and favors to come streaming their way.

Sometimes it is for good reason, for they fear that others might trade off the back of their bigness. Sometimes, though, it is just an attempt to live large.

What, then, might one think of the news that Facebook is reportedly not merely attempting to trademark the word “book,” but also the word “face”?

The patent application, seems to seek a rather broad coverage.

TechCrunch reports that Aaron Greenspan, a classmate of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard and someone who may or may not have been a participant in the company’s founding, has already laid an objection to the trademark application.

Greenspan has a company called ThinkComputer and a mobile payment app called FaceCash. He has therefore reportedly asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an extension to fully form his discomfort.

I will admit not to have been entirely au fait with FaceCash’s possibilities.

However, who could not have enjoyed some kind of relationship with a thing called FaceTime, Apple’s very nice video chatting telecommunication feature of the iPhone 4? Apple already owns the trademark to FaceTime, yet it is very fond of creating subbrands that have a very close verbal identification with each other.

What if Apple wants to create new versions of FaceTime, called, say, FaceIT, through which you could be grilled face-to-face by your most trusted IT professional anywhere in the world? Would that be suddenly verboten?

Yes, I know that not everyone wants to talk to an IT professional face-to-face. Of course I don’t expect such a feature to suddenly appear on iPhone 5. (It’s just a little too niche.)

But surely the question is whether Facebook can prevent any new product, especially one that might already carry some fame with it (like FaceTime), appearing in the vaguely technologically communicative sphere with the word “face” at the beginning of its name.

I have contacted Apple for comment and will update with the company’s reply.

July 28, 2010
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“Google Alarm” browser plugin alerts you when any of your personal data sent to Google

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F.A.T.’s new “Google Alarm” browser addon alerts you with sound and visual notification whenever your personal information is being sent to Google servers. Gmail and YouTube gather some user data, but so do “tracking bugs”: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, YouTube embeds, API calls. Currently available for Firefox and Google Chrome.

July 4, 2010
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Google Chrome Fixes Security

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The stable version of Google Chrome received multiple security fixes this week, including four rated as “high,” while the developer’s version adopted an interface tweak to create more room for extension icons.

Google Chrome dev 6.0.453.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux consolidates the former page control menu into the customization menu that’s accessible from the wrench icon. This clears space on the toolbar for an extra extension icon, as well as giving a stronger visual presence to the cut, copy, and paste options, page zoom controls, and the full screen view toggle. Other minor changes to Chrome dev for Windows include showing previews of images when dragging them, and printing vectors instead of pixels for the built-in PDF plug-in.

The changelog for Chrome dev indicates only that Mac developers continue to work on feature parity, while the Linux version of dev received more substantial changes. These include experimental password-storing support for gnome-keyring and kwallet, though Google advises users to read a post on how to safely test the feature. The PDF plug-in is now available to Linux users, though it’s not on by default. It must be activated in about:plugins.

Google Chrome stable 5.0.375.99 for Windows, Mac, and Linux is a security-fixing release, with four memory corruption repairs labeled “high.” There was also one medium-rated fix that addressed sandboxed iFrames, and four repairs ranked “low” that dealt with modal dialog crashes, print dialog annoyances, invalid image crashes, and a WebGL error. The changelog for Chrome stable also details which groups earned rewards for discovering security holes.

June 26, 2010
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Google can remotely add or remove apps on android

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Google Has Android Remote App Install Power, Too

Trailrunner7 writes “The remote-wipe capability that Google recently invoked to remove a harmless application from some Android phones isn’t the only remote control feature that the company built into its mobile OS. It turns out that Android also includes a feature that enables Google to remotely install apps on users’ phones as well. Jon Oberheide, the security researcher who developed the application that Google remotely removed from Android phones, noticed during his research that the Android OS includes a feature called INSTALL_ASSET that allows Google to remotely install applications on users’ phones. ‘I don’t know what design decision they based that on. Maybe they just figured since they had the removal mechanism, it’s easy to have the install mechanism too,’ Oberheide said in an interview. ‘I don’t know if they’ve used it yet.'”

May 28, 2010
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Apple Passes Microsoft in Worlds Largest Tech Company

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What a long, strange trip it’s been.

Apple’s market capitalization officially passed Microsoft’s Wednesday afternoon, making the Cupertino, California, company — for the first time — the largest technology company in the world.

With a market cap of $241.5 billion versus Microsoft’s $239.5 billion, Apple also became the second-largest company on the S&P 500, according to Standard & Poor’s analyst Howard Silverblatt. At the moment, only Exxon Mobil is bigger.

Market cap is a measure of the total value of all the outstanding shares of a company, and it’s a proxy for what investors think the company is worth, taking into account future earnings and future growth. As such, it’s a measure of expectations, not reality: Apple’s annual revenue was $42.9 billion in the most recent fiscal year, versus Microsoft’s $58.4 billion. Both look puny next to Exxon Mobil’s $301.5 billion in annual revenue.

Market cap is also a fickle mistress, and fluctuates wildly depending on stock price, so Apple’s position as the king of the hill may be short lived.

But it’s a significant milestone for a company that looked like a has-been just one decade ago.

Ten years ago, Apple was all but written off by most expert commentators. An also-ran computer company that once dominated geeks’ hearts and minds with the Apple II and the Macintosh, Apple made serious missteps in the 1990s that relegated it to a tiny niche of the overall computer market, with market share in the low single digits. It was all but certain that its share would continue dwindling until the company faded away entirely, like Commodore, Atari, Tandy and dozens of other computer makers before it.

What the commentators didn’t count on was the string of hits Apple would deliver over the next 10 years. Founder Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and removed then-CEO Gil Amelio in 1997, making himself interim CEO (and then eventually dropping the interim title).

Jobs then instituted what can now clearly been seen as a far-reaching strategy to consolidate and simplify Apple’s product line, while gradually leveraging the company’s strengths (ease of use, consumer-friendly branding, attractive design, and high margins) to expand into new areas of consumer technology.

Jobs also carefully created a new company culture, one that’s centered on innovation, control and secrecy. That approach has alienated many people — and runs counter to Silicon Valley received wisdom about the value of openness and sharing — but the proof is in the pudding. With a CEO of Jobs’ caliber, at least, that kind of top-down control works.

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