http://apple.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-07-06T22:50:24+00:00 SourceForge, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://s.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://apple.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/QxFW3LTOH6c/iPhone-3GS-Finally-Hacked Well, the inevitable hacking of Apple's latest flavor of iPhone has happened. Named "purplera1n," the tool will only allow installation of unauthorized applications instead of a full unlock. "The purplera1n jailbreak will free your iPhone from the limitations imposed on it by AT&amp;T and Apple. After jailbreaking, a user will be able to customize the iPhone with home-screen wallpapers and third-party ringtones. But the biggest advantage of jailbreaking is the support of unapproved apps such as iBlackList (blacklists and whitelists for contacts) and many others."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/2112245/iPhone-3GS-Finally-Hacked?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/05/2112245"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/2112245/iPhone-3GS-Finally-Hacked?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XNzJyMN5TnpGhlPBZPz1BzfwK-Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XNzJyMN5TnpGhlPBZPz1BzfwK-Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XNzJyMN5TnpGhlPBZPz1BzfwK-Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XNzJyMN5TnpGhlPBZPz1BzfwK-Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/QxFW3LTOH6c" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2009-07-06T01:11:00+00:00 apple almost-like-consumers-don't-like-being-dictated-to apple 340 340,322,258,185,55,34,21 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/2112245/iPhone-3GS-Finally-Hacked?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/j3J2IaIZc18/Squeezing-a-Wikipedia-Snapshot-Onto-an-8GB-iPhone blackbearnh writes with this excerpt from O'Reilly Radar "Think about Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general survey of human knowledge we have at the moment. Now imagine squeezing it down to fit comfortably on an 8GB iPhone. Sound daunting? Well, that's just what Patrick Collison's Encyclopedia iPhone application does. App Store purchasers of Collison's open source application can browse and search the full text of Wikipedia when stuck in a plane, or trapped in the middle of nowhere (or, as defined by AT&amp;T coverage...)"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1352219/Squeezing-a-Wikipedia-Snapshot-Onto-an-8GB-iPhone?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/03/1352219"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1352219/Squeezing-a-Wikipedia-Snapshot-Onto-an-8GB-iPhone?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/waM94K9o9yg6AM1-xD-SixUjXo4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/waM94K9o9yg6AM1-xD-SixUjXo4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/waM94K9o9yg6AM1-xD-SixUjXo4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/waM94K9o9yg6AM1-xD-SixUjXo4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/j3J2IaIZc18" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-03T14:41:00+00:00 handheld but-you'll-miss-the-latest-edit-wars hardware 164 164,162,122,90,29,17,10 http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1352219/Squeezing-a-Wikipedia-Snapshot-Onto-an-8GB-iPhone?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/RteuLZUTGw8/iPhone-Vulnerability-Yields-Root-Access-Via-SMS snydeq writes "Pwn2Own winner Charlie Miller has revealed an SMS vulnerability that could provide hackers with root access to the iPhone. Malicious code sent by SMS to run on the phone could include commands to monitor location using GPS, turn on the phone's microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a DDoS attack or botnet, Miller said. Miller did not provide detailed description of the SMS vulnerability, citing an agreement with Apple, which is working to fix the vulnerability in advance of Black Hat, where Miller plans to discuss the attack in greater detail. 'SMS is a great vector to attack the iPhone,' Miller said, as SMS can send binary code that the iPhone processes without user interaction. Sequences can be sent to the phone as multiple messages that are automatically reassembled, thereby surpassing individual SMS message limits of 140 bytes."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1210222/iPhone-Vulnerability-Yields-Root-Access-Via-SMS?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/03/1210222"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1210222/iPhone-Vulnerability-Yields-Root-Access-Via-SMS?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VMQPDVBMz7v0Sot6Dmv6NQnYcnI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VMQPDVBMz7v0Sot6Dmv6NQnYcnI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VMQPDVBMz7v0Sot6Dmv6NQnYcnI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/VMQPDVBMz7v0Sot6Dmv6NQnYcnI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/RteuLZUTGw8" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-03T13:01:00+00:00 security tweet-hack it 185 185,178,138,99,29,18,12 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1210222/iPhone-Vulnerability-Yields-Root-Access-Via-SMS?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/K66tytxDops/Some-Overheating-3GS-iPhones-Glow-Pink Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that dozens of users of the recently released iPhone 3GS have reported overheating issues, with some iPhone owners unable to pick up the device because the handset gets so hot to the touch, while others say the casing turns pink with the heat. 'I am definitely experiencing issues with the iPhone running warm and quick battery life lost,' writes Tom Goldstein on one discussion board. 'The phone seems to warm up almost immediately if I am doing anything that pulls data over the network.' Some users have said the device has been too hot to put to their ear while making a phone call, and others say the overheating seems to occur when owners are using the iPhone's mapping software, which uses the handset's built-in GPS technology. Melissa J. Perenson writes at PC World: 'I became aware the handset had become very hot. Very, very hot &mdash; not just on the back, but the entire length of the front face, too.' Some gadget experts believe faulty batteries could be the cause of overheating and poor battery life. 'My guess is there's going to be a whole lot of batteries affected because these [iPhones] are from very large production runs,' said Aaron Vronko, who fixes iPods and iPhones. 'If you have a problem in the design of a series of batteries, it's probably going to be spread to tens of thousands [of device], if not hundreds of thousands, and maybe more.'"<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/2356228/Some-Overheating-3GS-iPhones-Glow-Pink?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/30/2356228"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/2356228/Some-Overheating-3GS-iPhones-Glow-Pink?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZzWPvrBTQfXSe2g6SXRZ8jKyT7Q/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZzWPvrBTQfXSe2g6SXRZ8jKyT7Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZzWPvrBTQfXSe2g6SXRZ8jKyT7Q/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZzWPvrBTQfXSe2g6SXRZ8jKyT7Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/K66tytxDops" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-07-01T08:51:00+00:00 bug twenty-first-century-hearth it 351 351,346,275,211,60,45,34 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/2356228/Some-Overheating-3GS-iPhones-Glow-Pink?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/PvbFMqHa1_4/Controversy-Over-San-Francisco-Public-Transportation-Data paimin writes "A struggle is breaking out in San Francisco over whether the developer of a publicly-funded installation of real-time tracking for the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency has a right to control the use of data from the system. The situation is not totally clear, but this sure seems like an attempt to use patent threats to hijack public data. The city paid for the system, and the developer claims he lost money on the deal, so now he's shutting down applications like Routesy and Munitime that use data from the system unless they license the 'copyrighted' data from him."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/28/1150253/Controversy-Over-San-Francisco-Public-Transportation-Data?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/28/1150253"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/28/1150253/Controversy-Over-San-Francisco-Public-Transportation-Data?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G9_gc5-Xko8QEtAslo-gyjgoGGU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G9_gc5-Xko8QEtAslo-gyjgoGGU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G9_gc5-Xko8QEtAslo-gyjgoGGU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/G9_gc5-Xko8QEtAslo-gyjgoGGU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/PvbFMqHa1_4" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-06-28T13:20:00+00:00 cellphones information-wants-to-be-expensive-sometimes yro 109 109,108,93,70,27,15,8 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/28/1150253/Controversy-Over-San-Francisco-Public-Transportation-Data?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/gdNH9xNnJ98/Hospital-Confirms-Steve-Jobss-Liver-Transplant CNet is reporting that the hospital where Apple's CEO reportedly got a liver transplant two months ago has now confirmed the truth of these reports. "Steve Jobs underwent his liver transplant about two months ago at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, the hospital confirmed Tuesday. Jobs, who returned to work Apple's campus in Cupertino, Calif., on Monday after a six-month medical leave, 'is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis,' according to a statement by Dr. James D. Eason, the program director of the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute. ... While Eason said the confirmation was being provided with Jobs's approval, he cited patient confidentially in saying that he could not reveal any further information on the specifics of Jobs's surgery."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/0251213/Hospital-Confirms-Steve-Jobss-Liver-Transplant?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/24/0251213"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/0251213/Hospital-Confirms-Steve-Jobss-Liver-Transplant?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gczWcyBSd7GYrTjS1QVvZVosyVU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gczWcyBSd7GYrTjS1QVvZVosyVU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gczWcyBSd7GYrTjS1QVvZVosyVU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gczWcyBSd7GYrTjS1QVvZVosyVU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/gdNH9xNnJ98" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-06-24T03:26:00+00:00 business so-just-say-so-already apple 402 402,396,296,218,63,35,27 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/0251213/Hospital-Confirms-Steve-Jobss-Liver-Transplant?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/ZczSOlWBbuE/Apples-Obsession-With-Secrecy-Grows-Stronger Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times has a story on the culture of secrecy at Apple (registration possibly required). Secrecy is not just the prevailing communications strategy; it is baked into the corporate culture that had its origin in the release of the first Macintosh. 'It really started around trying to keep the surprise aspect to product launches, which can have a lot of power,' says marketing veteran Regis McKenna who advised Apple in its early days. Today few companies are more secretive than Apple, or as punitive to those who dare violate the company's rules on keeping tight control over information. Employees have been fired for leaking news tidbits to outsiders, and the company has been known to spread disinformation about product plans to its own workers and sue bloggers who cover the company. Apple's decision to severely limit communication with the news media, shareholders, and the public is at odds with the approach taken by many other companies, and many experts agree that the secrecy that adds surprise and excitement to Apple product announcements is not serving the company well in corporate governance. Some say that recent reports that Steve Jobs may have had a liver transplant, still not confirmed by the company, now makes one of Apple's assertions from January &mdash; that Jobs was suffering only from a hormonal imbalance &mdash; seem like a deliberate untruth."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/205244/Apples-Obsession-With-Secrecy-Grows-Stronger?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/23/205244"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/205244/Apples-Obsession-With-Secrecy-Grows-Stronger?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4kE3sPJZXGeEGpmfiq4Ox4ue3So/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4kE3sPJZXGeEGpmfiq4Ox4ue3So/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4kE3sPJZXGeEGpmfiq4Ox4ue3So/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4kE3sPJZXGeEGpmfiq4Ox4ue3So/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/ZczSOlWBbuE" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-06-23T21:42:00+00:00 business tell-no-one apple 305 305,298,236,184,56,32,22 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/205244/Apples-Obsession-With-Secrecy-Grows-Stronger?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/zoA_7CPuBLg/The-Commodore-64-vs-the-iPhone-3G-S Harry writes "The unfortunate news about Apple rejecting a Commodore 64 emulator from the iPhone App Store inspired me to compare the C64 to the new iPhone 3G S, in more detail than any rational person is likely to compare them, ever again. If nothing else, it's a snapshot of just how far technology has come since the C64's release in August of 1982."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/1442223/The-Commodore-64-vs-the-iPhone-3G-S?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/23/1442223"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/1442223/The-Commodore-64-vs-the-iPhone-3G-S?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0OE-9GKw7P-riQTAp-cc3vDQr2I/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0OE-9GKw7P-riQTAp-cc3vDQr2I/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0OE-9GKw7P-riQTAp-cc3vDQr2I/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0OE-9GKw7P-riQTAp-cc3vDQr2I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/zoA_7CPuBLg" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-06-23T15:19:00+00:00 humor next-week-chocolate-torte-vs.-charles-manson tech 238 238,234,184,144,43,24,15 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/1442223/The-Commodore-64-vs-the-iPhone-3G-S?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/8R6y-suYjLw/Apple-Issues-Firmware-Upgrade-For-MacBook-Pro Lucas123 writes "After declining comment on an apparent downgrade to the serial ATA hard drive interface in its new MacBook Pros, from 3Gbps to 1.5Gbps, Apple today issued a firmware upgrade to fix a problem reported by 'a small number of customers' using drives based on the latest SATA specification. Apple warned that it has not shipped drives operating at the higher-speed specification, saying, 'While this update allows drives to use transfer rates greater than 1.5Gbit/sec, Apple has not qualified or offered these drives for Mac notebooks and their use is unsupported.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/1338211/Apple-Issues-Firmware-Upgrade-For-MacBook-Pro?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/23/1338211"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/1338211/Apple-Issues-Firmware-Upgrade-For-MacBook-Pro?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KDnwfZRXl6Po58XMB7Hneaue67o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KDnwfZRXl6Po58XMB7Hneaue67o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KDnwfZRXl6Po58XMB7Hneaue67o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KDnwfZRXl6Po58XMB7Hneaue67o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/8R6y-suYjLw" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-06-23T14:01:00+00:00 macbook there-there-here-you-go apple 52 52,48,34,25,12,7,4 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/23/1338211/Apple-Issues-Firmware-Upgrade-For-MacBook-Pro?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/c6rZA8f793I/Tracking-Thieves-With-Find-my-iPhone An anonymous reader wrote in to say "A friend of mine who just got an iPhone 3GS and has Mobile Me just used the "Find my iPhone" feature to track down his lost and subsequently stolen iPhone. This story involves three nerds wandering sketchy streets with a MacBook, and ends with a confrontation at a bus stop."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/1412234/Tracking-Thieves-With-Find-my-iPhone?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/22/1412234"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/1412234/Tracking-Thieves-With-Find-my-iPhone?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2bu_xhvM_KN4ILGpLTE4e8gLtoY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2bu_xhvM_KN4ILGpLTE4e8gLtoY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2bu_xhvM_KN4ILGpLTE4e8gLtoY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2bu_xhvM_KN4ILGpLTE4e8gLtoY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/c6rZA8f793I" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2009-06-22T15:11:00+00:00 macbook because-you-can apple 423 423,417,302,247,72,49,40 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/1412234/Tracking-Thieves-With-Find-my-iPhone?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/avLB_uX1Qkk/Licensed-C64-Emulator-Rejected-From-App-Store Miasik.Net writes "A fully licensed Commodore 64 iPhone emulator has been rejected from the App Store. The excuse Apple used is a clause in the SDK agreement which doesn't allow for applications that run executable code. It seems Sega is exempt from that clause, because some of its games on the iPhone are emulators running original ROM code."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/21/167239/Licensed-C64-Emulator-Rejected-From-App-Store?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/21/167239"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/21/167239/Licensed-C64-Emulator-Rejected-From-App-Store?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1j5cepEPlucIkq6XJ2w3flqrq0I/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1j5cepEPlucIkq6XJ2w3flqrq0I/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1j5cepEPlucIkq6XJ2w3flqrq0I/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1j5cepEPlucIkq6XJ2w3flqrq0I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/avLB_uX1Qkk" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-06-21T16:54:00+00:00 cellphones insufficient-quantities-of-hip games 277 277,273,218,179,59,32,23 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/21/167239/Licensed-C64-Emulator-Rejected-From-App-Store?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/RR9VnCrMZuo/Steve-Jobs-Had-a-Liver-Transplant-Two-Months-Ago evw writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago (subscription required, alternative coverage is available based on the WSJ's report). He is on track to return to work at the end of June. 'William Hawkins, a doctor specializing in pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgery at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., said that the type of slow-growing pancreatic tumor Mr. Jobs had will commonly metastasize in another organ during a patient's lifetime, and that the organ is usually the liver. ... Having the procedure done in Tennessee makes sense because its list of patients waiting for transplants is shorter than in many other states.' There are no residency requirements for transplants."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/20/1119221/Steve-Jobs-Had-a-Liver-Transplant-Two-Months-Ago?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/20/1119221"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/20/1119221/Steve-Jobs-Had-a-Liver-Transplant-Two-Months-Ago?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/U5KxKH9JANp2jJeHcmfHpKWPJaU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/U5KxKH9JANp2jJeHcmfHpKWPJaU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/U5KxKH9JANp2jJeHcmfHpKWPJaU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/U5KxKH9JANp2jJeHcmfHpKWPJaU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/RR9VnCrMZuo" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-06-20T12:16:00+00:00 medicine need-it-to-live-hence-the-name science 436 436,418,351,269,88,51,32 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/20/1119221/Steve-Jobs-Had-a-Liver-Transplant-Two-Months-Ago?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/ioCJhBE7Cos/iPhone-30-Update-Delivers-Prodigious-Patch-Batch CWmike writes "Apple patched 46 security vulnerabilities in the iPhone and iPod Touch, half of them in the Safari browser and its WebKit rendering engine, as it released iPhone OS 3.0 on Wednesday. One of the patched WebKit vulnerabilities stands out because of the attention it received in March, when a German college student, Nils, walked away with a $5,000 cash prize for hacking Safari at the Pwn2Own challenge. Nils used a bug in WebKit's handling of SVGList objects to crack Safari."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/1948230/iPhone-30-Update-Delivers-Prodigious-Patch-Batch?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/18/1948230"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/1948230/iPhone-30-Update-Delivers-Prodigious-Patch-Batch?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RlDaSA8Y6J89RoG3LtJ31ohAqxU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RlDaSA8Y6J89RoG3LtJ31ohAqxU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RlDaSA8Y6J89RoG3LtJ31ohAqxU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RlDaSA8Y6J89RoG3LtJ31ohAqxU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/ioCJhBE7Cos" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-06-18T20:00:00+00:00 macbook switched-housemate's-iphone-to-danish apple 150 150,138,117,90,32,14,8 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/06/18/1948230/iPhone-30-Update-Delivers-Prodigious-Patch-Batch?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/pvR7uVhvu8k/iPhone-Shakes-Up-the-Video-Game-Industry Hugh Pickens writes "Troy Wolverton writes in the Mercury News that in less than a year, the iPhone has become a significant game platform, but its bigger impact could be to help change the way the game industry does business. 'It's got everything you need to be a game changer,' said Neil Young, co-founder and CEO of ngmoco, which develops games solely for the iPhone. With a year under its belt and an installed base of iPhone and iPod Touch owners at around forty million, the iPhone/iPod Touch platform has eclipsed next-gen console penetration numbers and started to catch up to the worldwide penetration of both Sony's (50 million) and Nintendo's (100 million) devices. Wolverton writes that not only is the iPhone one of the first widely successful gaming platforms in which games are completely digitally distributed, but on the iPhone, consumers can find more games updated more often, and at a cheaper cost per game than what they'd find on a typical dedicated game console. While an ordinary top-of-the-line game for Microsoft's Xbox 360 sells for about $60, and one for Nintendo's DS about $30, a top-of-the-line iPhone game typically sells for no more than $10. With traditional games, developers might wait a year or two between major releases; ngmoco is planning on releasing new versions of its games for the iPhone every four to five months. 'You have to think differently,' says Young. 'It's redefining what it means to be a publisher in this world.'"<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/17/1611259/iPhone-Shakes-Up-the-Video-Game-Industry?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/17/1611259"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/17/1611259/iPhone-Shakes-Up-the-Video-Game-Industry?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/41UiaAPbzYXn3hAn8kxG56JYiv4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/41UiaAPbzYXn3hAn8kxG56JYiv4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/41UiaAPbzYXn3hAn8kxG56JYiv4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/41UiaAPbzYXn3hAn8kxG56JYiv4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/pvR7uVhvu8k" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-06-17T16:29:00+00:00 cellphones shakes-down-customers games 325 325,321,271,204,61,33,28 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/17/1611259/iPhone-Shakes-Up-the-Video-Game-Industry?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/6hGD6S3olyU/Hackers-Find-Remote-iPhone-Crack Al writes "Two researchers have found a way to run unauthorized code on an iPhone remotely. This is different than 'jailbreaking,' which requires physical access to the device. Normally applications have to be signed cryptographically by Apple in order to run. But Charles Miller of Independent Security Evaluators and Vincenzo Iozzo from the University of Milan found more than one instance in which Apple failed to prevent unauthorized data from executing. This means that a program can be loaded into memory as a non-executable block of data, after which the attacker can essentially flip a programmatic switch and make the data executable. The trick is significant, say Miller and Iozzo, because it provides a way to do something on a device after making use of a remote exploit. Details will be presented next month at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas." The attack was developed on version 2.0 of the iPhone software, and the researchers don't know if it will work when 3.0 is released.<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/0017221/Hackers-Find-Remote-iPhone-Crack?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/16/0017221"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/0017221/Hackers-Find-Remote-iPhone-Crack?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AAXS4WCLtgqWIrOBZQ9jXPgCCqw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AAXS4WCLtgqWIrOBZQ9jXPgCCqw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AAXS4WCLtgqWIrOBZQ9jXPgCCqw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/AAXS4WCLtgqWIrOBZQ9jXPgCCqw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/6hGD6S3olyU" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2009-06-16T12:13:00+00:00 security jailbreaking-via-mortar it 114 114,108,85,66,25,12,5 http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/16/0017221/Hackers-Find-Remote-iPhone-Crack?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://apple.slashdot.org/search.pl