Archive for March, 2008
Engadget: iPhone Lookalike BlackBerry 9000 is “Sexy.” Umm, not so much.
Daniel Eran Dilger
Engadget profiled RIM’s new iphone styled BlackBerry 9000 (above on the right, aping the iphone’s chrome and black style but lacking its touchscreen), calling it sexy and praising its “beautiful user interface, which has been totally revamped from the ground up; gone is the cartoonish look and feel of the current lineup, replaced […]
Thom Holwerda of OSNews Calls “Mac Shot First” Misinformation and Slander. Oops!
Daniel Eran Dilger
Responding to the article “Mac Shot First: 10 Reasons Why CanSecWest Targets Apple,” Thom Holwerda of OSNews wrote a point by point essay titled “Countering Misinformation” that described my article as “an unrivaled wealth of misinformation, [with] some things even bordering on slander.” Of course, one can’t write slander (it’s called libel), but […]
Mac Shot First: 10 Reasons Why CanSecWest Targets Apple
Daniel Eran Dilger
The details emerging from the CanSecWest security contest fill out a story that is bigger than the simple “Mac Shot First” headlines convey. This was not a contest where three systems were placed in an equal foot race and the Mac simply lost due to being a slower runner. Here’s why.
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Exploring Time Capsule: theoretical speed vs practical throughput
Time Capsule, announced earlier this year, is a base station with an integrated hard drive and power supply. The previous segment of this series exploring Time Capsule in depth looked at the differences in members of the AirPort family. This segment, the second of six, compares the differences between the hypothetical maximum data transmission speed […]
No commentsUnlocked iPhones: Bane and Boon for Apple
by Thomas Penberthy
iphone unlockers, while costing Apple millions in subscription-derived revenue that the company shares with authorized carriers, are playing a vital part in growing the iphone market. Owners of unlocked iphones are the epitome of “early adopters;” customers who try current technology ahead of the wave, influencing buying decisions in their peers and stoking […]
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With the introduction of an Interface Builder and revised APIs, which debuted in Apple’s second beta edition of the iphone software development kit (SDK) yesterday, developers have a more complete set of tools for putting their code into realistic operation under the included “Aspen” Simulator.
Below is a video demonstration of PhotoBoard, an application that started […]
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