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- Class action suit filed over Apple's 3G speed claims
- A class action suit has been filed by a Birmingham Alabama woman that accuses Apple of deceptive advertising in their claim that the 3G iPhone is "twice as fast" as the previous model. AppleInsider has more details. Always referring to the device as the "Defective iPhone 3G," Smith...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- A Random Walk Through Intel Developer Forum . . .
- A peek into my Intel Developer Forum experience... A short description for a short video: Here is part of my day at Intel Developer Forum. You get to see some of the Intel Insiders in action; plus you meet the founder of...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- News to know: Apple sued; IDF; Adobe hijack; Microsoft-Novell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch? Techmeme IDF wrap: Christopher Dawson: New touch screen Classmates unveiled today...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Apple faces suit over iPhone. Is it still worth the switch?
- I walked into an AT&T Wireless store earlier today, eyed the iPhone and picked up some brochures on pricing plans. I've been thinking that the problems with the new iPhone can't last forever - and yet, here's another black eye for Apple and the iPhone. An Alabama woman has filed...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- SpamZa - opt in spamming service fighting to remain online
- A recently launched unethical spam list building service called SpamZa, is fighting to remain online after providing highly successful (87 spam emails in 8 minutes) into fulfilling its objective, namely, to sign up any email submitted to hundreds of newsletters anonymously. What is SpamZa anyway? SpamZa is...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Pleasant 'Dream' for HTC, Google: FCC approves
- The FCC has approved HTC's 'Dream' phone, which will now be the first Android-based handset to hit the market, InfoWeek reports. It will support T-Mobile's 3G network. (Let's see if it handles 3G better than Apple and AT&T.) Looks like it will have a "jog ball" (trackball?),...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Scammers caught backdooring chip and PIN terminals
- The U.K's Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit DCPU have recently uncovered state of the art social engineering scheme, where once backdoored, chip and PIN terminals were installed at retailers and petrol stations in an attempt to steal the credit card details passing through. Originally, before online banking took place...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Mobile handset sales down in 2Q: Market share race has three horses
- NPD Group on Tuesday announced its second quarter handset sales tally and 28 million units were shipped to consumers, down 13 percent from a year ago. According to NPD, second quarter handset revenue was $2.4 billion, down 2 percent from a year ago. What's...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
- Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Europe discussing the business of the Semantic Web at ESTC
- I've written before about the importance of events that move us past introspection and academic debate, and bring the real benefits of semantic technologies to a wider business audience. As the Semantic Web Gang discussed recently, North America has had the excellent Semantic Technology Conference for several years, and this...
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- Intel proactively fixes security flaws in its chips
- Despite the skepticism surrounding Kris Kaspersky's upcoming "Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs" presentation to be held at this year's Hack in the Box con, it appears that he's been on the right track, as Intel has proactively taken care of the problem by fixing two of the critical...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- AFCO unfurls three new systems for data center power distribution
- I haven't written much about the providers of data center scale power management systems, but noticed some news from a few weeks back out of a company called AFCO Systems, which has several new power distribution units to tout. AFCO is worth investigating because it...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Two flavors of software as a service: Intuit QuickBase and Etelos
- There are dozens of flavors of clever applications aimed at the office productivity market, often spawned as a result of the Web 2.0 explosion. Where the Web 2.0 application market is driven by eyeballs and their resulting advertising monetization, the enterprise 2.0...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Researcher discovers Nokia S40 security vulnerabilities, demands 20,000 euros to release details
- Will disclose Nokia s40 security vulnerabilities for money? Part of Security Exploration's research program, Adam Gowdiak, a well known researcher with a decent history of uncovered security issues, recently made an announcement regarding two security vulnerabilities affecting the implementation of mobile Java used by Sun and Nokia in their products,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- More on the iPhone 3G woes (updated)
- An article by Peter Burrows for BusinessWeek analyzes the recent problems with iPhone 3G reception, stating that "two well-placed sources tell BusinessWeek.com the glitches are related to a chip inside Apple's music-playing cell phone." This corroborates previous reports that the handset's Infineon 3G chip is the culprit. BusinessWeek adds that...
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Best Buy first outsider to get iPhone
- Best Buy will begin selling the iPhone on 7 September making them the first independent retailer to sell the device. Currently the iPhone 3G is only sold at Apple and AT&T retail stores. The announcement gives Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co. the rights to sell the iPhone in...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Verizon launches Visual Voice Mail
- One of the iPhone's most compelling features has been commoditized by Verizon Wireless. The Basking Ridge, N.J.-based Verizon Wireless announced that they are now offering the once Apple-only Visual Voice Mail feature on their LG Voyager handset (which I reviewed on 12 December 2007) for an additional US$2.99 per...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Analyst: Apple will sell at least 4.47 million iPhones this quarter
- Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, and his merry band of observers have spent 25 hours at Apple stores counting folks buying iPhones. His conclusion: Apple sells 95 iPhone 3Gs a day at each of its 188 stores, up from 21 phones a year ago. Toss in international sales...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
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