Archive for July, 2007
It’s a smartphone. It’s an iPod. It’s Apple’s iPhone — and its making room on deck for video games. One of the top casual-game publishers just stepped aboard the iPhone express, and analysts are saying the move might lead to other developers climbing on board.On Monday, PopCap Games launched a custom version of its flagship game Bejeweled for the iPhone. If that’s not enough to excite iPhone-toting gamers, perhaps the price tag will turn some heads: Bejeweled is available at no cost.
“We’re excited to be providing the most popular puzzle game of the 21st century to users of the most advanced mobile device yet created,” Andrew Stein, director of mobile platforms at PopCap, said in a statement. “We wanted to give the hundreds of thousands of iPhone users a fun, fast gaming fix — and at no cost, no less.”
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July 31st, 2007
“The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as close to heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.” — W.E.B. DuBois, American Civil Rights Activist
July 31st, 2007
AT&T and Apple are demonstrating an old adage: What goes up must come down. The same two companies that saw shares rise in the midst of iPhone hype are watching their shares take a hit in the wake of fewer-than-expected iPhone subscriptions.Apple’s stock was down $8.81 per share, or 6.13 percent, to $134.88 at the close of trading on Tuesday. AT&T shares, meanwhile, were down 35 cents, or 0.87 percent, to $39.68. In Wednesday morning trading, Apple gained $2.11, or 1.56 percent, to settle in at $137.00 while AT&T gained 80 cents, to settle in at $40.48. While some analysts expressed surprise, and others said they were satisfied, investors were clearly unhappy.
Apple’s iPhone went on sale June 29 with high expectations. Some analysts had estimated that 700,000 iPhones were sold between Apple and AT&T in the first week it was available. However, AT&T’s second-quarter report shed light on the guesswork, indicating the reality fell short of the hype. Only 146,000 iPhones were activated on June 29 and 30.
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July 26th, 2007
“I always view problems as opportunities in work clothes.”
– Henry Kaiser, businessman
July 25th, 2007
A group of U.S. security 
researchers claims to have discovered an iPhone flaw that can open the door for malicious hackers to take control of the smartphone remotely.While Jon Lech Johansen, also known as “DVD Jon,” was busy cracking the activation codes for the iPhone, a team at Independent Security Evaluators set out to investigate how difficult it would be for a remote adversary to compromise private information stored on the new handset.
“Within two weeks of part time work, we had successfully discovered a vulnerability … and created a proof-of-concept exploit capable of delivering files from the user’s iPhone to a remote attacker,” the researchers wrote.
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July 25th, 2007
A social-media battle is brewing in Boston this week. A U.S. District Court Judge in Beantown is expected to make a decision on whether to proceed with a lawsuit that alleges Faceook’s founder swiped trade secrets, source code, and intellectual property from his fellow Harvard University students.Judge Douglas P. Woodlock is hearing arguments on the Facebook founder’s motion to dismiss the case. The March lawsuit claims that Mark Zuckerberg, now Facebook’s CEO, was hired to develop a Web site for the Harvard students. That Web site was to be called ConnectU, an online social-networking site similar to Facebook. Zuckerberg promised to keep the plans a secret, but registered the Facebook.com domain name shortly after he began work on the ConnectU project, the court filings indicate.
Harvard students Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narenda are asking the court to shut down Facebook, give them control of the property, and award them profits from the popular social-networking site. Facebook has about 30 million members.
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July 25th, 2007
E-mail management is a critical mission that consumes many hours each week for an already busy I.T. administrator: Fighting spam. Recovering old messages. Securing the server . Indeed, the job is never done and the challenge is only getting worse.According to the Radicati Group’s recent E-mail Archiving Market Research Report, the average corporate e-mail user processes about 18 MB of data every day, and, that number is expected to climb to 28 MB a day by 2011. While e-mail servers can handle large volumes of messages, storing so much data can be quite the challenge.
The storage problem has led to “purge policies” that demand old e-mails be deleted, but end users often find mailbox size restrictions quite limiting. Many of these solutions are far from ideal. Not only do they add another burden to the I.T. admin’s back, they can also add more fees to the corporate budget. To complicate matters even further, today’s I.T. administrators also need to ensure that their e-mail storage solutions are keeping their company in compliance with government regulations.
“Our research shows that storage is the number one messaging-management problem,” said Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research, a firm that focuses on the messaging market. “Organizations are experiencing plenty of pain in controlling messaging due to the growth of message volume and the increasing size of attachments. Companies are looking for new approaches.”
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July 24th, 2007
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