Time For Apple To Get Serious About Apple TV

01Aug08

Apple executives continue to refer to their Apple TV set-top box business as a “hobby” — which is a polite word for “failure”. Time for that to change: If Steve Jobs wants to make a serious run at owning our living room’s “digital hub”, then Apple TV needs a serious overhaul, ASAP.

Why now? Because even though the industry is still nascent, the Internet-connected living room is becoming more of a realistic proposition. And the market is quickly getting more crowded.

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Tags: abc, apple, fox, hulu, mlbtv, nbc, tv, webtv

Facebook Developers: Much-Dreaded Redesign Not So Terrible, After All

01Aug08

If you had been listening to Facebook app developers over the last couple of months, you would have heard a lot of doomsday scenarios for their apps and/or the site itself once the redesign launched. But we’re now two weeks past the redesign’s unveiling — and far as we can tell, there still hasn’t been an apocalypse. Just to make sure we weren’t missing anything, we polled some of the site’s most prominent developers:

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Yahoo to Take ‘Verbal Beating’ At its Annual Meeting

01Aug08

Financial analysts expect Yahoo’s management to get a tongue lashing from disgruntled and even angry shareholders who feel the Internet company failed to act in its best interests.

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Tags: annual, board, deal, meeting, microsoft, yahoo

Tech News: Google Shows How it Displays Customized Search Results

01Aug08

This newsbit actually freaked me out. If you’re a paranoid-delusional, then this is something you’d rather not know. But then again, anyone who would be reading about this would become paranoid-delusional as well.

Remember how Google apparently tracks everything that you do with them? Well, get ready for this – they’re making public how they dish out customized search results for you. And yes, it involves something about your location (tracked via your IP), your recent searches, and your web history (which they record if you search while logged in another service like Mail or Reader).

Sure, you could appreciate their transparency. But it does come off as a confirmation of your worst fears. Anyway, here are more tips on making your searches private.

Via: Google Blog

Tags: google, search, informasjon, ip, track

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Linux 2.6.26 Opens Up to Debugging

15Jul08

New Linux kernel gets new debugger, virtualization and memory support amid its improvements.

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Tags: debugg, linus, linux, torvalds, unix

iPhone Looms Over Palm’s New Treo

15Jul08

The PDA pioneer’s latest high-end mobile phone makes its entrance, but is overshadowed by the launch of Apple’s new 3G iPhone.

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Tags: iphone, palm, smartphone

A $3B Investment in Superfast Broadband for BT

15Jul08

Leading U.K. ISP makes a major push in superfast connections.

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Tags: broadband, company, investment, isp, priority, shareholders, telecom, uk

DNS Protocol Flaw: Don`t Panic, Just Patch

14Jul08

The exploit discovered by IOActive’s Dan Kaminsky, takes advantage of a fundamental flaw in the DNS (Domain Name Server) protocol. Organizations should move quickly to patch vulnerable DNS servers against a flaw revealed last week. Dan Kaminsky said the bug can be exploited to redirect Internet traffic, but the problem has been solved by implementing port randomization.

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Tags: bind, bug, dns, failure, flaws, Internet, panic, patch, server, unpublished

$20m iPhone injection could boost Aussie adoption of 3G

14Jul08

Market researcher IbisWorld has predicted that Friday’s launch of the iPhone across Australia delivered $20 million into the economy in just a matter of hours.

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Tags: australia, economy, iphone, launch, million

New Trojan in the wild targeting multimedia files

14Jul08

Secure Computing is warning of a new Trojan in the wild that is infecting multi-media files on a victim’s hard disk.

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Tags: files, multimedia, target, trojan