Friday, November 9, 2007
Thursday, January 18, 2007
iPhone holds 150 ka-billion contacts
Steve Jobs recently appeared on SNL's Weekend Update.
Let's review the features:
- 2 billion songs
- movies
- iChat
- iPhoto
- 10 - way iConference Call
- On/Off button
- High resolution screen
- 150 kabillion contacts
- clock
- automatic best friend what-what
- flashlight
- starbucks
- iGenie with three iWishes
- 20 minute battery life
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Apple Employee responds to iPhone hacker
As always, when a new high profile tech device becomes available, hackers get an itchin' to hack. Roel over at http://www.virualist.com gives two reasons for a peaked interest by hackers:
#1: The iPhone will become the preferred target for writers of mobile malware.
#2: The iPhone is going to run a slimmed down version of OS X. Although it won’t be running the same architecture it's plausible that both OS X for Workstations and OS X for iPhone may have at least some of the same vulnerabilities.
Hacker battles it out with Apple employee
Halvar Flake says "with all this hoopla around the iPhone, is this beast running an ARM ? I have doubts about a mobile device being based on x86, so does anyone have details about what sort of shellcode needs to be written ? "
Response by Simon Cooper Apple Employee
"Do you really want to know the answer to this question? Do you want
to demonstrate your skill in developing a platform that is resistant
to malware?
If so, then you should apply, get offered and accept the software
security position I currently have open at Apple. This is work in
Core OS for Mac OS X.
I am not a recruiter - I am the hiring manager. Email me if you are interested.
--
Simon Cooper
ORIGINAL POST HERE!
Whoa..slam slam, the battle is on. I have a feeling Apple just might become as big a target for hackers as Microsoft is now.
Speculation abounds
Speculation abounds when no tech specifications have even been released yet. In an e-mail interview, one of the hackers behind the Month of Apple Bugs project, which is disclosing new Apple security vulnerabilities every day for the month of January, said he "would love to mess with" the iPhone. "If it's really going to run OS X, [the iPhone] will bring certain security implications, such as potential misuses of wireless connectivity facilities, [and] deployment of malware in a larger scale," the hacker known as LMH wrote in an e-mail. He declined to provide his real name.
"I can't wait to get one," said Maynor, chief technology officer with Errata Security. "There's already a lot of discussion going on, and it's not coming out for another six months. People are salivating over it."
It's on!!!!!
iPhone Stocks To Watch (besides Apple)
Shares of one company that make components for the iPod (yes iPod) have risen 4% over the iPhone shananigans! The company? Foxconn International Holdings. That's just an iPod component company. What about iPhone component makers? Their stock should be primed to sky-rocket! Check out these two companies:
Sunrex Technology
Catcher Technology
These little boogers are about to explode. More you ask? Then check out Hynix Semiconductor of South Korea, a maker of the NAND flash memory used in iPods and the iPhone. A Citibank analysts claimes these are good one to buy now! Oh and there is Samsung. It is a leading supplier of LCD (liquid crystal display) technology to Apple and is also the world's largest maker of memory chips, and already a supplier of NAND flash memory to Apple for its iPods.
Whooo hoo, it's gonna be a good year!
