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July 2008

Apple resolves DNS spoofing vulnerability in 2008-005

Apple on Thursday unveiled Security Update 2008-005, offering users protection against several major vulnerabilities, some of which affect many different platforms. The most major problem solved relates to Domain Name spoofing wherein a maliciously crafted website, coming in the form of a trusted website, would be substituted, allowing it to collec...

2008 07 31

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New Mac OS X Security Update patches dangerous DNS hole

Apple late on Thursday offered up its fifth security update of 2008 to cover an industry-wide and potentially dangerous exploit of Domain Name System servers for spoofing attacks. Security Update 2008-005 is available for client versions of Mac OS...

2008 07 31

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Security Update 2008-005 Released, Addresses DNS Vulnerability

Apple has released Security Update 2008-005 via Software Update. The update patches several vulnerabilities including a much-publicized DNS/BIND server vulnerability where an attacker could cause a Mac OS X DNS server to direct clients to forged web...

2008 07 31

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Apple security update patches critical DNS flaw

Apple released a security update that fixes a DNS vulnerability, among 12 other fixes.

2008 07 31

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PaceCalc figures time, distance, pace data on iPhone

Runners, bikers and swimmers have a new iPhone tool, PaceCalc, allowing them to track distances, times and pace. PaceCalc, by Maverick Software, calculates results using time and distance data to provide pace. Athletes can also put distance and pace to calculate time or pace and time to calculate distance. The software offers live recalculating as ...

2008 07 31

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Nullriver Introduces 3G/EDGE Tethering App for iPhone [Updatedx4]

Nullriver, Inc. has released NetShare onto the iTunes App Store this evening (via iPhone Alley). The $9.99 application promises to allow you to share your iPhone's network connection with your computer.

Share your iPhone's EDGE or 3G...

2008 07 31

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Nullriver Introduces 3G/EDGE Tethering App for iPhone [Updatedx3]

Nullriver, Inc. has released NetShare onto the iTunes App Store this evening (via iPhone Alley). The $9.99 application promises to allow you to share your iPhone's network connection with your computer.

Share your iPhone's EDGE or 3G...

2008 07 31

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Nullriver Introduces 3G/EDGE Tethering App for iPhone [Updatedx2]

Nullriver, Inc. has released NetShare onto the iTunes App Store this evening (via iPhone Alley). The $9.99 application promises to allow you to share your iPhone's network connection with your computer.

Share your iPhone's EDGE or 3G...

2008 07 31

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Nullriver Introduces 3G/EDGE Tethering App for iPhone [Updated]

Nullriver, Inc. has released NetShare onto the iTunes App Store this evening (via iPhone Alley). The $9.99 application promises to allow you to share your iPhone's network connection with your computer.

Share your iPhone's EDGE or 3G...

2008 07 31

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Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F5)

Apple has seeded the first version of Mac OS X 10.5.5 (Build 9F5) to developers tonight. This is the first new seed of Mac OS X since the released of Mac OS X 10.5.4 on June 30th.

Apple instructs developers to focus on testing a numbe...

2008 07 31

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Intel Chipsets To Stay, Larrabee GPU In Apple’s Future?

Arstechnica is refuting recent claims that Apple may be considering dropping Intel chipsets for those made by competitors AMD or VIA or perhaps their own custom chipset.

In a mix of speculation and rumor, Ars believes that Apple will...

2008 07 31

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Apple’s stock up almost 1400% over 5 years

Analysts at Pingdom have recently compared the value of Apple's and Microsoft's stocks and noted that over the last five years Apple has seen its stock value grow exponentially. In comparison to its value in 2003, Apple's stock has grown by 1384-percent while competitor Microsoft has seen its stock drop by 2.45 percent over the last five years. The...

2008 07 31

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Opinion: Apple’s unforgivable DNS delay

Apple’s response—or lack of one—to a serious DNS bug has shredded the security goodwill the company earned over the years, John C. Welch argues.

2008 07 31

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Video: World Tech Update

In this week’s show: Cuil tries to compete with Google, kids program their own computer games, Intel’s Classmate gets a big order, the IOC admits to a censorship deal, Asus’s Eee Box launches, a Facebook faker gets a fine, Comcast is punished, the friendly skies might not be so friendly and a new cell phone service helps you do more than just make calls.

2008 07 31

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Apple drops first build of Mac OS X 10.5.5 with warning

As expected, Apple on Thursday afternoon provided its vast developer community with the first pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.5.5, but warned developers not to use this initial version of the software with Macs that contain integrated graphics chips...

2008 07 31

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iPod shuffle 4GB may be enroute; QuarkXPress 8; more

Apple could boost its least expensive iPod this fall with a redesign and 4GB of storage, according to one report. Also, Quark has shipped a major overhaul of its long-running publishing software, the iFund is now backing a game developer, and Apple ...

2008 07 31

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Google acquires startup to bolster YouTube editing

Google has bought Omnisio and plans to fold the start-up company’s technology for mixing online videos and adding comments to videos into YouTube.

2008 07 31

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FMPro Migrator adds Bento-to-FileMaker converter

FMPro Migrator 4.36 from .Com Solutions converts Bento forms into layouts which can be pasted directly into FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced.

2008 07 31

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TRENDnet ships dual-band 802.11n router

TRENDnet today shipped its own take on advanced wireless with the Dual Band Wireless N Gigabit Router. Like recent competition, the new networking device gives users the option of running 802.11n Wi-Fi either on the faster but less compatible 5GHz band or on the more ubiquitous 2.4GHz band. A three-antenna MIMO (Multiple In, Multiple Out) array g...

2008 07 31

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del.icio.us goes through overhaul, domain change

Social bookmarking site Delicious on Thursday announced it has refined its services greatly, while also adding a new domain name through which the site can be reached, Delicious.com. According to a post on Delicious' blog, the various refinements have allowed the company to enhance speed, search capability, and overall layout of the site. The domai...

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FmPro Migrator 4.36 adds Bento support

.com Solutions has released the v4.36 update to FmPro Migrator, its companion tool for FileMaker Pro. The software is intended mostly for converting FileMaker databases to other formats, such as Access, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase and OpenBase. It can also consolidate tables from earlier editions of FileMaker for versions 7, 8 and 9, which should enabl...

2008 07 31

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Jumsoft expands Aperture Web Themes pack

Designer Jumsoft has expanded its Aperture Web Themes pack, an add-on for Apple's photo workflow software. The pack is intended to improve the appearance of web galleries generated through Aperture, with an aim towards professional photography sites. The new version more than doubles in size with six new variants, divided between "frames," "grid"...

2008 07 31

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Leaf tops line with 56-megapixel AFi 10

Leaf made its bid to regain the performance lead in medium format cameras on Thursday by introducing the AFi 10. At 56 megapixels, the multi-piece camera system has a higher resolution than the previous champion, the Hasselblad H3DII-50, and produces images nearly 70 percent larger than the 33-megapixel AFi 7. The new imager is also labeled a Tru...

2008 07 31

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KPCB adds gaming company to iFund list

A gaming company has been chosen as the next iPhone developer to receive money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, an announcement reveals. The venture capital firm has agreed to provide ngmoco with Series A money from the iFund, a $100 million pool created to boost companies interested in developing native applications for the iPhone. Althoug...

2008 07 31

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Mozilla debuts first Firefox 3.1 alpha

Mozilla has released the first preview of Firefox 3.1, a fast-track update that the company hopes to finalize by early 2009.

2008 07 31

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