http://apple.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-11-12T18:10:26+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://apple.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/6w52mKPlqqQ/OS-X-Update-Officially-Kills-Intel-Atom-Support bonch writes "After apparently disabling and then re-enabling support for the Atom chipset in test builds of their 10.6.2 update, Apple has officially disabled support for the chipset in the final update. This makes it impossible for OSX86 users to run 10.6.2 on their Atom-based netbooks until a modified kernel shows up."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/1336200/OS-X-Update-Officially-Kills-Intel-Atom-Support?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/11/1336200"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/1336200/OS-X-Update-Officially-Kills-Intel-Atom-Support?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Tv6pxmd6QNIeTpLEv5n7p0agP1s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Tv6pxmd6QNIeTpLEv5n7p0agP1s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Tv6pxmd6QNIeTpLEv5n7p0agP1s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Tv6pxmd6QNIeTpLEv5n7p0agP1s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/6w52mKPlqqQ" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2009-11-11T13:54:00+00:00 hardhack hackintosh-smackintosh hardware 585 585,570,457,378,77,33,18 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/1336200/OS-X-Update-Officially-Kills-Intel-Atom-Support?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/C7Dp4jugPNg/Apples-Mini-DisplayPort-Officially-Adopted-By-VESA DJRumpy writes "The Video Electronics Standard Association officially issued its Mini DisplayPort standard Tuesday, based on the technology licensed from Apple. VESA said that all devices using the Mini DisplayPort connector must meet the specifications required by the DisplayPort 1.1a standard, and cables that support the standard must also meet specific electrical specifications. It's a formal confirmation of the news from earlier this year, when VESA announced the Mini DisplayPort connector would be included in the forthcoming DisplayPort 1.2 specification."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/176220/Apples-Mini-DisplayPort-Officially-Adopted-By-VESA?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/10/176220"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/176220/Apples-Mini-DisplayPort-Officially-Adopted-By-VESA?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-2ShOod2KWHpIHJgrnTLREwKEQ4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-2ShOod2KWHpIHJgrnTLREwKEQ4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-2ShOod2KWHpIHJgrnTLREwKEQ4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-2ShOod2KWHpIHJgrnTLREwKEQ4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/C7Dp4jugPNg" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-10T17:12:00+00:00 displays good-for-tiny-pictures apple 155 155,151,124,103,44,20,10 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/10/176220/Apples-Mini-DisplayPort-Officially-Adopted-By-VESA?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/dnWeFiVGVgw/Lawsuit-Claims-Top-iPhone-Games-Stole-User-Data pdclarry writes "Storm8, a maker of some top iPhone games, allegedly stole users' mobile phone numbers, according to a lawsuit filed on November 4. The suit claims that best-selling games made by Storm8 contained secret code that bypassed safeguards built into the iPhone to prevent the unauthorized snooping of user information. There have been other reports of applications copying personally identifiable customer information in the past. The complaint seeks class-action status."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1352249/Lawsuit-Claims-Top-iPhone-Games-Stole-User-Data?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/1352249"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1352249/Lawsuit-Claims-Top-iPhone-Games-Stole-User-Data?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wLKQ_fHJJw7FZcjvY3LCYuYUJpU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wLKQ_fHJJw7FZcjvY3LCYuYUJpU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wLKQ_fHJJw7FZcjvY3LCYuYUJpU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/wLKQ_fHJJw7FZcjvY3LCYuYUJpU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/dnWeFiVGVgw" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-08T18:20:00+00:00 cellphones shake-up-and-down-to-send-credit-card-details games 146 146,144,111,90,41,22,15 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1352249/Lawsuit-Claims-Top-iPhone-Games-Stole-User-Data?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/Zk3O3lh2r0U/First-iPhone-Worm-Discovered-Rickrolls-Jailbroken-Phones Unexpof writes "Users of jailbroken iPhones in Australia are reporting that their wallpapers have been changed by a worm to an image of '80s pop icon Rick Astley. This is the first time a worm has been reported in the wild for the Apple iPhone. According to a report by Sophos, the worm, which exploits users who have installed SSH and not changed the default password, hunts for other vulnerable iPhones and infects them. Users are advised to properly secure their jailbroken iPhones with a non-default password, and Sophos says the worm is not harmless, despite its graffiti-like payload: 'Accessing someone else's computing device and changing their data without permission is an offense in many countries &mdash; and just as with graffiti there is a cost involved in cleaning-up affected iPhones. ... Other inquisitive hackers may also be tempted to experiment once they read about the world's first iPhone worm. Furthermore, a more malicious hacker could take the code written by ikee and adapt it to have a more sinister payload.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1411259/First-iPhone-Worm-Discovered-Rickrolls-Jailbroken-Phones?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/08/1411259"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1411259/First-iPhone-Worm-Discovered-Rickrolls-Jailbroken-Phones?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yd4hTY_qshMaeepw0LQ2WiHBEDE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yd4hTY_qshMaeepw0LQ2WiHBEDE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yd4hTY_qshMaeepw0LQ2WiHBEDE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yd4hTY_qshMaeepw0LQ2WiHBEDE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/Zk3O3lh2r0U" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-11-08T15:08:00+00:00 worms maximum-threat apple 206 206,198,157,129,45,25,14 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/1411259/First-iPhone-Worm-Discovered-Rickrolls-Jailbroken-Phones?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/IG6N77uXKOU/Going-Head-To-Head-With-Genius-On-Playlists brownerthanu writes "Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are developing a system to include an ignored sector of music, dubbed the 'long tail,' in music recommendations. It's well known that radio suffers from a popularity bias, where the most popular songs receive an inordinate amount of exposure. In Apple's music recommender system, iTunes' Genius, this bias is magnified. An underground artist will never be recommended in a playlist due to insufficient data. It's an artifact of the popular collaborative filtering recommender algorithm, which Genius is based on. In order to establish a more holistic model of the music world, Luke Barrington and researchers at the Computer Audition Laboratory have created a machine learning system which classifies songs in an automated, Pandora-like, fashion. Instead of using humans to explicitly categorize individual songs, they capture the wisdom of the crowds via a Facebook game, Herd It, and use the data to train statistical models. The machine can then 'listen to,' describe and recommend any song, popular or not. As more people play the game, the machines get smarter. Their experiments show that automatic recommendations work at least as well as Genius for recommending undiscovered music."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/227236/Going-Head-To-Head-With-Genius-On-Playlists?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/05/227236"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/227236/Going-Head-To-Head-With-Genius-On-Playlists?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NetINvfATYXpI4UDdn308A2jvTY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NetINvfATYXpI4UDdn308A2jvTY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NetINvfATYXpI4UDdn308A2jvTY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NetINvfATYXpI4UDdn308A2jvTY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/IG6N77uXKOU" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-05T22:15:00+00:00 music put-that-man-down apple 173 173,170,147,108,33,16,13 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/227236/Going-Head-To-Head-With-Genius-On-Playlists?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/rJh-rgxCt58/Apple-Not-Disabling-OS-X-Atom-Support-After-All bonch writes "Contrary to previous reports, Atom chip support is working fine in the latest 10C535 build of OS X 10.6.2. Apple's EULA still states that OS X is licensed to run only on Apple hardware, but it looks like OSX86 hackers can breathe easy ... for now."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/2110259/Apple-Not-Disabling-OS-X-Atom-Support-After-All?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/05/2110259"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/2110259/Apple-Not-Disabling-OS-X-Atom-Support-After-All?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yaH2HKnBdgwRJ6uh6taj8jDWa_A/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yaH2HKnBdgwRJ6uh6taj8jDWa_A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yaH2HKnBdgwRJ6uh6taj8jDWa_A/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yaH2HKnBdgwRJ6uh6taj8jDWa_A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/rJh-rgxCt58" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-05T21:32:00+00:00 macosx If-you-like-that-sort-of-thing hardware 275 275,273,228,167,50,28,20 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/2110259/Apple-Not-Disabling-OS-X-Atom-Support-After-All?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/xQp1AL-tAvs/Mac-OS-X-1062-Will-Block-Atom-Processors Archeopteryx writes "According to Wired's 'Gadget Lab' blog, Snow Leopard's next update, OS X 10.6.2, will block the Atom processor and will disable many 'Hackintosh' netbooks. It is indeed true that OS X will run just fine on some netbooks if you install the right drivers and ktexts, but Apple's EULA has always specified that the license was applicable only to Apple hardware. There have always been processor types specified in OS X and that have to be worked around now for those who want to use an Atom or similar non-Apple-adopted processor, so this is likely no more than a hiccup on the road for the OSX86 crowd. But, it raises the question: is it time for Apple to sell a license for non-Apple hardware &mdash; priced accordingly of course &mdash; for those people who want OS X on platform types Apple has not yet adopted, like the netbook? The only reason OS X is not on my Eee is that I want to comply with the licensing terms. I could just pay for a license to use it."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/003243/Mac-OS-X-1062-Will-Block-Atom-Processors?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/03/003243"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/003243/Mac-OS-X-1062-Will-Block-Atom-Processors?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qC-Uzw-Tj-14Falsm5FAmb5uSC8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qC-Uzw-Tj-14Falsm5FAmb5uSC8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qC-Uzw-Tj-14Falsm5FAmb5uSC8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qC-Uzw-Tj-14Falsm5FAmb5uSC8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/xQp1AL-tAvs" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-11-02T23:49:00+00:00 macosx caveat-hackor apple 1010 1010,995,816,633,108,57,40 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/003243/Mac-OS-X-1062-Will-Block-Atom-Processors?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/cgQ782VOtoI/For-September-Book-Related-Apps-Overtook-Games-On-iPhone ruphus13 writes "In a sign that ebooks are rising in popularity, a recent survey by mobile analytics company Flurry revealed that users may be using the iPhone for more intellectual pursuits, and not just the visual sizzle. The 'book-related' apps on the iPhone overtook games in terms of new apps released. According to the post, 'Book-related apps saw an upsurge in launches in September ... So much so that book-related applications overtook games in the App Store as a percentage of all released apps. The trend isn't an aberration. In October, one out of every five new applications launching on the iPhone was a book ... from August 2008 to the same month in 2009, more apps were released in the 'games' category than any other and, as a result, the iPhone (and iPod touch) became a new handheld gaming platform, one that impacted the Nintendo DS. '"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/02/0853219/For-September-Book-Related-Apps-Overtook-Games-On-iPhone?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/02/0853219"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/02/0853219/For-September-Book-Related-Apps-Overtook-Games-On-iPhone?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qP2ja8lddB6Se5s6LopfoIJMPoc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qP2ja8lddB6Se5s6LopfoIJMPoc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qP2ja8lddB6Se5s6LopfoIJMPoc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qP2ja8lddB6Se5s6LopfoIJMPoc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/cgQ782VOtoI" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-02T10:00:00+00:00 books fall's-good-contemplative-reading-weather apple 96 96,85,67,50,16,10,6 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/02/0853219/For-September-Book-Related-Apps-Overtook-Games-On-iPhone?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/z97pTBbSCPc/Apple-Says-Booting-OS-X-Makes-an-Unauthorized-Copy recoiledsnake writes "Groklaw has an extensive look at the latest developments in the Psystar vs. Apple story. There's a nice picture illustrating the accusation by Apple that Psystar makes three unauthorized copies of OS X. The most interesting, however, is the last copy. From Apple's brief: 'Finally, every time Psystar turns on any of the Psystar computers running Mac OS X, which it does before shipping each computer, Psystar necessarily makes a separate modified copy of Mac OS X in Random Access Memory, or RAM. This is the third unlawful copy.' Psystar's response: 'Copying a computer program into RAM as a result of installing and running that program is precisely the copying that Section 117 provides does not constitute copyright infringement for an owner of a computer program. As the Ninth Circuit explained, permitting copies like this was Section 117's purpose.' Is Apple seriously arguing that installing a third party program and booting OS X results in copyright infringement due to making a derivative work and an unauthorized copy?"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/01/195232/Apple-Says-Booting-OS-X-Makes-an-Unauthorized-Copy?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/11/01/195232"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/01/195232/Apple-Says-Booting-OS-X-Makes-an-Unauthorized-Copy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Al482fC1yXsSwXR3SISCztKX6Vk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Al482fC1yXsSwXR3SISCztKX6Vk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Al482fC1yXsSwXR3SISCztKX6Vk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Al482fC1yXsSwXR3SISCztKX6Vk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/z97pTBbSCPc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-11-01T19:39:00+00:00 macosx slice-the-ram-nodes-to-find-copy-four apple 865 865,854,721,575,102,55,30 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/01/195232/Apple-Says-Booting-OS-X-Makes-an-Unauthorized-Copy?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/kQwAkdtGEt0/Speech-to-Speech-Translator-Developed-For-iPhone Ponca City, We love you writes "Dr. Dobbs reports that Alex Waibel, professor of computer science and language technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed an iPhone application that turns the iPhone into a translator that converts English speech into Spanish, or vice versa. Users simply speak a sentence or two at a time into the iPhone and the iPhone will respond with an audible translation. 'Jibbigo's software runs on the iPhone itself, so it doesn't need to be connected to the Web to access a distant server,' says Waibel. Waibel is a leader in speech-to-speech translation and multimodal speech interfaces, creating the first real-time, speech-to-speech translator for English, German and Japanese. 'Automated speech translation is an expensive proposition that has been supported primarily by large government grants,' says Waibel. 'But our sponsors are impatient to see this technology become more widely available and we, as researchers, are eager to find new revenues that will help us extend this technology to more of the 6,000 languages now spoken worldwide.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/0311214/Speech-to-Speech-Translator-Developed-For-iPhone?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/29/0311214"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/0311214/Speech-to-Speech-Translator-Developed-For-iPhone?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AXHC-pW6fR6k6vfYRhpRRKew8NA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AXHC-pW6fR6k6vfYRhpRRKew8NA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AXHC-pW6fR6k6vfYRhpRRKew8NA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AXHC-pW6fR6k6vfYRhpRRKew8NA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/kQwAkdtGEt0" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-10-29T11:57:00+00:00 programming we-got-a-word-for-that apple 133 133,125,89,67,28,20,9 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/29/0311214/Speech-to-Speech-Translator-Developed-For-iPhone?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/JVTCcu4E2d8/Psystars-Rebel-EFI-Hackintosh-Tool-Reviewed-Found-Wanting CWmike writes "While the world focused on Microsoft's launch of Windows 7, Florida-based Psystar quietly launched Rebel EFI, a software product that should worry Apple a lot more than Microsoft's latest operating system. Rebel EFI allows users to run Apple's flagship operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, on non-Apple hardware. Computerworld test drove the making of a Hackintosh out of a generic PC with the company's new software package and found a product that has a lot of homework still to do. Reviewer Frank Ohlhorst's final analysis: 'Psystar's Rebel EFI (a free trial is available) is an interesting tool, but it is very limited when it comes to the selection of hardware that you can use. The company really needs to create a compatible hardware list and post that on its Web site &mdash; and it also needs to create some usable documentation. As it stands right now, you can use Rebel EFI to build a Mac clone, but unless you stick to relatively generic hardware, you will be disappointed.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/2256212/Psystars-Rebel-EFI-Hackintosh-Tool-Reviewed-Found-Wanting?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/26/2256212"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/2256212/Psystars-Rebel-EFI-Hackintosh-Tool-Reviewed-Found-Wanting?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HpGVGVP_OdkWvTAIqgN5xon1pKQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HpGVGVP_OdkWvTAIqgN5xon1pKQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HpGVGVP_OdkWvTAIqgN5xon1pKQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HpGVGVP_OdkWvTAIqgN5xon1pKQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/JVTCcu4E2d8" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-10-27T00:08:00+00:00 mac weighed-in-the-balance apple 328 328,315,257,218,53,29,24 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/26/2256212/Psystars-Rebel-EFI-Hackintosh-Tool-Reviewed-Found-Wanting?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/9KDhGVFhKHY/Apple-Discontinues-ZFS-Project Zaurus writes "Apple has replaced its ZFS project page with a notice that 'The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly.' Apple originally touted ZFS as a feature that would be available in Snow Leopard Server. A few months before release, all mention of ZFS was removed from the Apple web site and literature, and ZFS was notably absent from Snow Leopard Server at launch. Despite repeated attempts to get clarification about their plans from ZFS, Apple has not made any official statement regarding the matter. A zfs-macos Google group has been set up for members of Apple's zfs-discuss mailing list to migrate to, as many people had started using the unfinished ZFS port already. The call is out for developers who can continue the forked project." Daring Fireball suggests that Apple's decision could have been motivated by NetApp's patent lawsuit over ZFS.<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/23/2210246/Apple-Discontinues-ZFS-Project?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/23/2210246"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/23/2210246/Apple-Discontinues-ZFS-Project?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/My-pnodOETBDKd4oejOEBgc5bqk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/My-pnodOETBDKd4oejOEBgc5bqk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/My-pnodOETBDKd4oejOEBgc5bqk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/My-pnodOETBDKd4oejOEBgc5bqk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/9KDhGVFhKHY" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-10-23T23:59:00+00:00 apple stick-a-fork-in-it apple 329 329,317,250,212,58,43,28 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/23/2210246/Apple-Discontinues-ZFS-Project?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/uXb-yoeJw7A/Apple-Seeks-Patent-On-Operating-System-Advertising patentpundit writes "On April 18, 2008, Apple Computer applied for a patent relating to an 'invention' that allows for showing advertisements within an operating system. The first named inventor on the patent application is none other than Steve Jobs. The patent application published and became available for public inspection on October 22, 2009. If implemented, the invention would make it possible for advertisements to be displayed on a variety of devices, including desktop computers, cell phones, PDAs, and more. In one alarming aspect, the device could be disabled while the advertisements run, thereby forcing users to let the advertisement run its course before the system would unlock and allow further use. In an even more invasive scenario, explained in the patent application, the user could be required to do something, such as click to continue, in order to verify that they are actively watching the advertisement and haven't simply walked away while the ad runs. Whether Apple would implement such an invention is unknown, but it is possible that they think there are others out there who might want to implement such invasive advertising. It is possible Apple wanted to get ahead of the curve and file this patent so that if any company is silly enough to engage in Big Brother advertising, then Apple will get a royalty. I sure hope this is not the future of advertising."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/23/1456221/Apple-Seeks-Patent-On-Operating-System-Advertising?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/23/1456221"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/23/1456221/Apple-Seeks-Patent-On-Operating-System-Advertising?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VWANVJkmOSQb-rAP_Dh_Zzsnhsk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VWANVJkmOSQb-rAP_Dh_Zzsnhsk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VWANVJkmOSQb-rAP_Dh_Zzsnhsk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VWANVJkmOSQb-rAP_Dh_Zzsnhsk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/uXb-yoeJw7A" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-10-23T17:01:00+00:00 patents go-ahead-be-evil apple 342 342,339,260,191,49,24,14 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/10/23/1456221/Apple-Seeks-Patent-On-Operating-System-Advertising?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/u55fwpc7IyE/Nokia-Sues-Apple-For-Patent-Infringement-In-iPhone AVee writes "Engadget (amongst many others) reports that Nokia is suing Apple because the iPhone infringes on 10 Nokia patents related to GSM, UTMS and WiFi. While the press release doesn't contain much detail, it does state that Apple didn't agree to 'appropriate terms for Nokia's intellectual property,' which sounds like there have been negotiations about those patents."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/22/1541220/Nokia-Sues-Apple-For-Patent-Infringement-In-iPhone?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/22/1541220"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/22/1541220/Nokia-Sues-Apple-For-Patent-Infringement-In-iPhone?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/eUcm4ZN18hX9kBi4N1jPBTFVjpc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/eUcm4ZN18hX9kBi4N1jPBTFVjpc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/eUcm4ZN18hX9kBi4N1jPBTFVjpc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/eUcm4ZN18hX9kBi4N1jPBTFVjpc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/u55fwpc7IyE" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-10-22T17:12:00+00:00 cellphones we-did-it-first yro 367 367,354,280,218,83,51,33 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/22/1541220/Nokia-Sues-Apple-For-Patent-Infringement-In-iPhone?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/jILEBcHsqjY/Some-Users-Say-Win7-Wants-To-Remove-iTunes-Google-Toolbar Foofoobar writes "Due to a strike with the UK's postal system, people in Great Britain are getting copies of Windows 7 early and have already posted their experiences about the install process. Some have an easy time but others post installs taking 3 hours including Windows asking them to remove iTunes and Google toolbar prior to installation." The article indicates that many of these early users, though, are having better luck.<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/10/21/2120251/Some-Users-Say-Win7-Wants-To-Remove-iTunes-Google-Toolbar?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/10/21/2120251"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/10/21/2120251/Some-Users-Say-Win7-Wants-To-Remove-iTunes-Google-Toolbar?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EDkc8TjZHWOOPd4PeOesFrpGRXQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EDkc8TjZHWOOPd4PeOesFrpGRXQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EDkc8TjZHWOOPd4PeOesFrpGRXQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/EDkc8TjZHWOOPd4PeOesFrpGRXQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/jILEBcHsqjY" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-10-21T21:23:00+00:00 upgrades you-choose-the-teapot-you-choose-the-tempest it 570 570,563,460,366,115,75,43 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/10/21/2120251/Some-Users-Say-Win7-Wants-To-Remove-iTunes-Google-Toolbar?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://apple.slashdot.org/search.pl