Apple shipped 1,119,000 iPhones in Q4 2007
The following is straight from Apple’s website, it includes the 2007 fourth quarter revenue and profit information. The article also provides information on how many units were sold, specifically how many computers, ipods and iphones sold.
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Sandboxie 3.02: Isolate harmful websites through IE and Firefox
Sandboxie will isolate the outcome of any website you visit, including any software or script installations, which can then be undone.
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Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
If you’re a Comcast Customer, then you should be concerned with what they’re doing to your internet connection. Why? Because Comcast is filtering your internet traffic, this article goes in-depth into what exactly is being filtered and tests that prove it is occurring. On one hand it looks like Comcast is trying to keep its network from being stressed with file sharing, on the other it looks like they might not just be filtering file sharing protocols.
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DeviceAnywhere lets devs play with 500 phones over the net
DeviceAnywhere is a company that wires cellphone hardware into servers, which are then accessible over the internet. Mainly used by software developers and for cross platform development, instead of buying all the phones you can just rent them and use them over the internet.
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Talk about the ultimate iPhone hack. Mobile Complete, a software-services company, has pulled an iPhone to pieces and lashed it to a remote-controlled server. Every input and output on the dissected iPhone is electrically hooked up to the net, providing access to would-be iPhone programmers over the web.
Attacks started on users of Internet Explorer and RealPlayer 0day exploit.
I haven’t really heard of many RealPlayer exploits, however this zero day one is a nasty. This is an Internet Explorer exploit only, so if you’re using FireFox you’re in luck.
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Brewery offers lifetime supply of beer in return for stolen laptop
A brewery in New Zealand is offering a lifetime supply of beer, in return for a laptop that was stolen from the Croucher Brewing Company in Rotorua New Zealand. Typically if something is stolen, the theft will usually use it or sell it. Everyone has been approached with an offer to buy a new laptop for cheap, and you know in the back of your head that its stolen. But in this case would you be seen as the bad guy for buying the stolen laptop, or the good guy for returning it for the free lifetime supply of beer?
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Software glitch “unlikely” to blame for deadly cannon incident, expert says
It looks as though the once though anti-aircraft software glitch that killed multiple people in South Africa, actually wasn’t software based. But was human intervention and software that caused the incident.
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Microsoft shaves down kernel for Windows 7
A very in-depth article about how Microsoft is planing its new Operating System, an engineer from Microsoft comments and agrees on how bloated Microsoft’s current kernel is.
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AMD showing records sales in Q3 but still in the negative for earnings
AMD’s reports for the third quarter of 2007 show a strong revenue increase of 18%, however AMD is still show negative in earnings.
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10 Ways To Speed Up Digg
Have you found Digg slow during the peak hours? Well peertopress.com has a top 10 for Kevin Rose on how to speed up Digg. The article was put on Digg’s front page, and the comments left on peertopress.com website are pretty hilarious.
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