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Animals often have feet, and there are a lot of different sorts of foot. When an animal has soft feet, or feet with soft parts on the underside, we often call it a paw.
An SMS vulnerability allows remote attackers to hijack any unpatched 3.0 iPhone. Apple released a patch in the form of a 3.0.1 firmware update on Friday
At this year’s Black Hat Joe Grand, Jacob Appelbaum, and Chris Tarnovsky presented their study of the electronic parking meter industry. Focusing on the parking meters of San Fransisco they were able to trick the system be programing a parking payment card with unlimited money.
They are not showing the details of how the system works, but instead are giving SF the time necessary to fix the problem.
Bay Federal Credit Union has implemented some new security features which require you to have Flash 9 or newer.
The FCC is investigating Apple’s application approval policy for various applications for the Apple Store, and how it relates to it’s relationship to wireless phone carriers. Could this spell the end of Apple’s finickiness?
A crawling businessman robot. Performance art from Momoyo Roimitsu
What use are notes that say, “remember this paragraph,” when the book it refers to has been deleted?
’’What we have created is a completely new state of matter nobody has seen before," said Professor Justin Wark of Oxford University
Yahoo will scrap its own efforts to best Google in search and instead rely on Microsoft’s recently debuted Bing search engine. Ads placed next to those search results would be served up not by Yahoo’s ad platform, dubbed Panama, but by a Microsoft technology called AdCenter.
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[Apple Apple 3.0.1 update – notes from Apple Support|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3754]
Is anyone worried about the [possible shut down of Skype by eBay|http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/netw/F7401C4DAE68D953CC2576040017BAE0] ? Patent license disagreement!
“Ebay bought Skype in 2005 for about US$2.6 billion but that deal didn’t include the peer-to-peer networking technology on which it runs. That technology is owned by a company called Joltid and licensed to Skype, but the two sides have fallen out over the licensing agreement.”
“Although Skype is confident of its legal position, as with any litigation, there is the possibility of an adverse result if the matter is not resolved through negotiation,” the company said. “Skype has begun to develop alternative software to that licensed through Joltid.”
eBay [10-Q for June 2009 Quarter|http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065088/000119312509157212/d10q.htm]
[Microsoft/Yahoo search deal in simple terms |http://searchengineland.com/microsoft-yahoo-search-deal-simplified-23299]
MS Bing/Yahoo won’t start happening until next year – "Both companies hope to close the deal in
