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…)
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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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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…)
Experts at Independent Security Evaluators, a computer protection consultancy, claim to have found a way to gain complete access to the phone, billed by its creators, Apple, as the mobile phone of the future.
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New software hack turns the iPhone into a prepaid cellphone but still only with AT&T/Cingular.
One of the greatest complaints about the release of Apple’s iPhone was the locking of the phone to an AT&T two-year contract.
While Jon Lech Johansen, the software engineer who first developed the crack of DVD’s copy protection, has been able to develop a hack that activates the iPhone so that it can at least play music and perform WiFi tricks without the AT&T contract, the phone remained locked so that it could not be used to make phone calls.
The latest hack moves the iPhone one step closer to cellphone-nirvana of being able to link up with any cellphone network service provider. While it’s still not there just yet, the ability of this new hack will at least bring cost control back into the hands of the consumer.
To perform the hack, you need an Intel-based Mac computer and the tutorial found at HacktheiPhone.com.
According to Erica Sadun’s The Unofficial Apple Weblog, the hack also enables data downloads to be made however, the costs isn’t cheap at one-cent per kilobyte with Google’s webpage costing $US0.11 to download.
The hack also enables the iPhone to send and receive text mess