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Beginning today, iPhone users can log on to http://www.popcap.com via the iPhone’s Web browser and play the iPhone-specific version of the original match-3 puzzler Bejeweled free.

This customized version of Bejeweled leverages the Web 2.0 capabilities of Safari and the wireless capabilities of the iPhone, and has been optimized to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique display and input controls. PopCap developed the Safari-based version of Bejeweled in partnership with Polish developer Arkadiusz Mlynarczyk, one of the first programmers to take advantage of the Apple iPhone’s capabilities for video gaming purposes.

Here comes the first iPhone Game. Apple launched the iPhone without any games available for it. But games are coming to the Apple iPhone after all. PopCap Games, a leader in simple puzzle games, is announcing today an iPhone version of its popular “Bejeweled” puzzle game that is widely available on other gadgets.

Consumers can download it to their iPhones by using the Safari web browser in the phone to log in at www.popcap.com. Then they can download the game for free. The game has been tweaked to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique display and input controls.

PopCap developed the game in partnership with Polish developer Arka diusz Mlynarczyk. The game will be a fast gaming fix for people on the move. Both “Bejeweled” and PopCap’s “Zuma” game have been available on Apple’s video iPods since last year.

People who try to post copyrighted videos on YouTube could confront a video recognition system as sophisticated as FBI fingerprint technology by this fall, according to a lawyer for the popular Web site. (more…)

Microsoft announced the availability Thursday of the second beta version of its upcoming Visual Studio 2008 developer tools and the last version of its Silverlight rich media software code before the final version ships.
The second version of VS 2008, which is still scheduled to ship before the end of the year, includes a Silverlight add-in that allows developers to start building Silverlight rich Internet applications in Visual Studio 2008 and work with designer colleagues using the new Expression Web design tool, Microsoft said. With this beta release, VS 2008, is 99 percent complete, according to a Microsoft spokeswoman. (more…)

The iPhone vulnerability that could let hackers steal data or commandeer the device also exists in the desktop edition of Apple Inc.’s Mac OS X operating system, the exploit’s researchers said today.

Charles Miller, one of the three researchers from Baltimore-based Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) who found the bug and wrote proof-of-concept exploits, confirmed that the vulnerability in the iPhone version of Safari is also present in the desktop version of the browser. Safari is included with all Mac OS X installations.

The Windows version of Safari is also vulnerable. “[But] it may or may not be exploitable there,” Miller said.
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Interested in Wireless USB? Check out Certified Wireless USB kits from D-Link and Iogear. Cables connecting USB devices to PCs may soon disappear thanks to Wireless USB, a short-range wireless communications technology developed by nonprofit USB
Cables connecting USB devices to PCs may soon disappear thanks to Wireless USB, a short-range wireless communications technology developed by nonprofit USB Implementers Forum Inc. (USB-IF), which also developed the USB 2.0 standard. (more…)

According to various news sources three security researchers claimed Sunday that they have found the first exploitable vulnerability in Apple’s iPhone, a flaw that allows them to steal any data from the device or even to turn it into a remote surveillance tool. (more…)

The OLPC foundation aims to put inexpensive laptop computers in the hands of children in third-world countries. It has received orders from multiple countries, some of which would need hundreds of thousands to make the plan viable.

Originally dubbed the “$100 laptop”, the OLPC group said earlier this year it would need to up the price to around $170 per unit. The laptop has very basic software on it and comes in a green-and-white casing. It has been named the XO laptop. (more…)