“You actually have ‘the developer’ who does something who shows up to hear from ‘the attacker’ who is breaking it. And that’s pretty cool,” Dan Kaminsky of security firm IOActive said in a phone interview.
Xue talked about how to exploit the vulnerabilities through Web pages, peer-to-peer and IM. He also demonstrated some [...]
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iPhone rumor pile: it may be smaller.
Apple has long cited battery life issues as the reason it didn’t jump on the 3G train last year, so it would be somewhat surprising if the company actually improved battery life–rather than just keeping it constant–in iPhone 2.0. Wired’s source is supposedly a software [...]
When the site relaunches as MobileMe, users will find a few changes, according to MacRumors.com:
A one-year subscription to MobileMe will cost $99, which is similar to the .Mac price, but purchasers of an iPhone 3G will be able to score a subscription for $69 on Friday, the report notes.
The www.mac.com site will go down on [...]
And last week, things apparently between the two companies seemed to get worse when Time Warner Chief Financial Officer John Martin said 28 minutes and 13 seconds into the company’s fourth-quarter Webcast conference call:
The 2005 arrangement, not only included collaboration on advertising, instant messaging and video, but also gave Google “certain customary minority shareholder rights,” [...]
This approach differs from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, which all brand their mobile search platforms as their own.
AllianceBernstein led this round of funding. It also included funding from previous investors, including General Catalyst Partners, Summerhill Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Valhalla Partners.
Johar argues that JumpTap’s white label approach allows operators to retain control of their [...]
Here’s a look at the applications and database revenue breakdown with the key figures highlighted (click to enlarge):
Meanwhile, Oracle declared a dividend of 5 cents a share payable each quarter. The move to declare a dividend is an interesting one. For starters, Oracle’s dividend may provide a downside buffer on its stock since it may [...]
Sergey Brin
• When you’re a Jew, you have a background of hardship, suffering, difficulties–and to turn that into success is part of the Jewish experience.
Brin was in Israel to visit the local Google office, as well as to take part in a conference organized by Israel’s president, Shimon Peres. The following are excerpts [...]
Meanwhile, Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal’s dismal note on Yahoo easily could apply to any number of advertising-dependent Internet companies:
Marc Andreessen
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Earlier Friday, analysts lowered estimates on Amazon.com and Yahoo, setting off renewed worries about the earnings outlook for Internet companies. The Nasdaq finished Friday in the red, even as the Dow [...]
For the past two years, my roommate and I have split a Netflix user account, mostly so that I don’t have to deal with his trashy action-movie picks mucking up my queue of navel-gazing Wes Anderson knockoffs, and so that we can ensure a clean split in our four-at-a-time subscription. He’d totally hog it otherwise.
Lousy [...]
“Our reasons for shifting ‘Half-Blood Prince’ to summer are twofold: we know the summer season is an ideal window for a family tent pole release, as proven by the success of our last Harry Potter film, which is the second-highest grossing film in the franchise, behind only the first installment,” Warner Bros. President Alan Horn [...]
