Archive for June, 2007
Scammers sell iPhone
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
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This from my friends at Sunbelt Software :
This morning, Sunbelt researchers discovered a new custom Trojan that attempts to steal money by selling a fake iPhone. This Trojan looks custom-built and has very poor coverage by AV vendors (report here ).
The malware produces a popup, triggered by going to yahoo.com or google.com. There are multiple types of [...]
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iPhone … dissected!
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
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The guys at AnandTech have got their hands on an iPhone and rather than play with it, they decided to put it on the operating table and take it apart.
Some thoughts ...
Wow! Things are tightly packed inside that device.
Given that the AnandTech guys had to rip the back off the phone roughly to get into [...]
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PS3 firmware update time
Friday, June 29th, 2007
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Sony has released updated firmware for the PS3 games console.
Firmware version 1.82 adds the following features :
Support for playback of AVC High Profile (H.264/MPEG-4) format video has been added. * * High image quality encoding method used by Blu-ray Discs and other media
Playability status with the PS3™ system has changed for some PlayStation® and PlayStation®2 format [...]
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eBay tries to prevent iFraud
Friday, June 29th, 2007
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The iPhone has been hyped to the point that buyers looking to get an iOrgasm iPhone on eBay need protecting from themselves and potential scammers. Because of this eBay has put restrictions in place on the sale of iPhones . Here are the restrictions (my thoughts in italics):
Apple iPhone Pre-Sales are prohibited.Sensible precaution that prevents customers [...]
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DigiGuide is great!
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
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Unless you live in the UK, feel free to look away because this doesn't apply to you ...
I don't watch much in the way of TV but there are shows and movies that I will sit down and watch. In order to better schedule my TV viewing I got a DVR (a digital video recorder) [...]
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Had a blast yesterday!
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
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I had a blast yesterday - we spent several enjoyable few hours chucking various cases (from Stormcase, Otterbox, Peli and Seahorse) over a 90ft cliff and capturing the action on video. It was a great deal of fun and the results were interesting (and spectacular). We also answer the question "can you throw an egg off a 90ft [...]
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