http://apple.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2010-02-10T16:10:28+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/bC0eKmxpUeY/Opera-for-iPhone-to-Test-Apples-Resolve Barence writes "Opera is launching a version of its Mini browser for the iPhone in what could prove a landmark decision for Apple's app gatekeepers. Apple has been traditionally hostile to rival browsers, with Mozilla claiming that Apple made it "too hard" for its rivals to develop a browser for the iPhone. However, Opera remains bullishly confident that it's app will be approved. "We have not submitted Opera Mini to the Apple App store," an Opera spokesperson told PC Pro. "However, we hope that Apple will not deny their users a choice in web browsing experience."" I can't imagine what would motivate them to do that.<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/1328245/Opera-for-iPhone-to-Test-Apples-Resolve?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/10/1328245"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/1328245/Opera-for-iPhone-to-Test-Apples-Resolve?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3yk8Y_9LjQuzfVv0p1vGCN3bbmk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3yk8Y_9LjQuzfVv0p1vGCN3bbmk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3yk8Y_9LjQuzfVv0p1vGCN3bbmk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3yk8Y_9LjQuzfVv0p1vGCN3bbmk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/bC0eKmxpUeY" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2010-02-10T13:57:00+00:00 apple that's-not-gonna-work apple 111 111,110,90,81,30,13,6 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/1328245/Opera-for-iPhone-to-Test-Apples-Resolve?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/rHOqQ887_e0/The-iPad-Questions-Apple-Wont-Answer snydeq writes "Apple's reticence to reveal details prior to a product's launch is legendary. But when Apple extends this silence beyond a product's unveiling, historically this has meant that the product cannot deliver the functionality that analysts and journalists are asking about. InfoWorld's Galen Gruman lists eight key questions for the iPad, about all of which Apple has kept silent. Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad? Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email? Does the iPad support VPN? Configuration management? 'I have no doubt the iPad will be compelling to some users. But I now have major concerns that it will fulfill the potential beyond being an iTunes delivery screen that I and other industry observers saw,' Gruman writes."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/0150204/The-iPad-Questions-Apple-Wont-Answer?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/0150204"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/0150204/The-iPad-Questions-Apple-Wont-Answer?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ySbFZjDKn5AK2EYcq2aFJOkXwSI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ySbFZjDKn5AK2EYcq2aFJOkXwSI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ySbFZjDKn5AK2EYcq2aFJOkXwSI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ySbFZjDKn5AK2EYcq2aFJOkXwSI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/rHOqQ887_e0" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-09T10:24:00+00:00 handheld silence-speaks-volumes apple 630 630,623,526,414,81,43,26 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/0150204/The-iPad-Questions-Apple-Wont-Answer?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/ONhqVs12TtE/Mozilla-Puts-Tiger-Out-To-Pasture Barence writes "Mozilla is ready to exorcise support for Mac OS X 10.4 from Firefox's development code, closing the door on Apple's aging OS. The foundation stopped supporting 10.4, codenamed Tiger, in September 2009, but, according to Josh Aas, a Mozilla platform engineer, 'we left much of the code required to support that platform in the tree in case we wanted to reverse that decision." We had come to a point where we need to make a final decision and either restore 10.4 support or remove this (large) amount of 10.4 specific code,' he notes on the Mozilla developer planning forum."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/151240/Mozilla-Puts-Tiger-Out-To-Pasture?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/08/151240"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/151240/Mozilla-Puts-Tiger-Out-To-Pasture?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tVCWdWMbsfqSDReNN5xMrs4uoaY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tVCWdWMbsfqSDReNN5xMrs4uoaY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tVCWdWMbsfqSDReNN5xMrs4uoaY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/tVCWdWMbsfqSDReNN5xMrs4uoaY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/ONhqVs12TtE" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2010-02-08T15:11:00+00:00 mozilla get-a-new-kitty apple 434 434,431,380,293,49,25,18 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/151240/Mozilla-Puts-Tiger-Out-To-Pasture?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/Yqndj0RsHnI/Apples-Change-of-Heart-On-Flash Dotnaught writes "In a blog post, Walter Luh, co-founder of Ansca Mobile and a former employee of both Apple and Adobe, recounts how Apple once promoted Flash on the iPhone then changed its mind because Flash didn't provide the optimal mobile user experience. 'I think that Apple came to the same conclusion I've come to &mdash; namely that Flash has its strengths, but not when it comes to creating insanely great mobile experiences,' he writes. Luh's piece ends with a pitch for mobile development using the Corona SDK, a Lua-based programming environment that strives to recapture the simplicity of early versions of Flash."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1955253/Apples-Change-of-Heart-On-Flash?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/06/1955253"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1955253/Apples-Change-of-Heart-On-Flash?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zsZhr3F0Cez-y0tDwwFIs5KvG88/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zsZhr3F0Cez-y0tDwwFIs5KvG88/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zsZhr3F0Cez-y0tDwwFIs5KvG88/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zsZhr3F0Cez-y0tDwwFIs5KvG88/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/Yqndj0RsHnI" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-06T22:05:00+00:00 cellphones platform-with-a-capital-p mobile 407 407,401,326,263,64,28,14 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/1955253/Apples-Change-of-Heart-On-Flash?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/wQ6A_WoD1fc/Mentioning-Android-Is-a-No-No-In-iPhone-App-Store donberryman writes "Apple has told a software developer that its application cannot be included in the iPhone App Store if it mentions Google Android. The developer just wanted to mention that the app was a finalist in Google's Android Developer's Challenge." The developer complied with apparent good humor. Here is their blog post, which includes the text of the iPhone store's not-quite-rejection.<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/163253/Mentioning-Android-Is-a-No-No-In-iPhone-App-Store?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/05/163253"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/163253/Mentioning-Android-Is-a-No-No-In-iPhone-App-Store?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qTrecxP2l3HuenK1A1044xC-Agc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qTrecxP2l3HuenK1A1044xC-Agc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qTrecxP2l3HuenK1A1044xC-Agc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/qTrecxP2l3HuenK1A1044xC-Agc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/wQ6A_WoD1fc" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-05T16:42:00+00:00 censorship wash-your-mouth-out apple 441 441,434,350,283,70,46,24 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/163253/Mentioning-Android-Is-a-No-No-In-iPhone-App-Store?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/axEZ09GAdX0/New-iPhone-Attack-Kills-Apps-Reroutes-Web-Traffic Trailrunner7 sends in a threatpost.com article on exploiting flaws in the way the iPhone handles digital certificates. "[Several flaws] could lead to an attacker being able to create his own trusted certificate and entice users into downloading malicious files onto their iPhones. The result of the attack is that a remote hacker is able to change some settings on the iPhone and force all of the user's Web traffic to run through any server he chooses, and also to change the root certificate on the phone, enabling him to man-in-the-middle SSL traffic from that phone. ... Charlie Miller, an Apple security researcher at Independent Security Evaluators, said that the attack works, although it would not lead to remote code execution on the iPhone. 'It definitely works. I downloaded the file and ran it and it worked,' Miller said. 'The only thing is that it warns you that the file will change your phone, but it also says that the certificate is from Apple and it's been verified.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1827219/New-iPhone-Attack-Kills-Apps-Reroutes-Web-Traffic?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/02/1827219"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1827219/New-iPhone-Attack-Kills-Apps-Reroutes-Web-Traffic?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iUnsE34b5oM4SnBA7Vlxg1_T70s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iUnsE34b5oM4SnBA7Vlxg1_T70s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iUnsE34b5oM4SnBA7Vlxg1_T70s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/iUnsE34b5oM4SnBA7Vlxg1_T70s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/axEZ09GAdX0" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-02T21:11:00+00:00 cellphones dead-cert apple 125 125,123,96,63,22,13,8 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1827219/New-iPhone-Attack-Kills-Apps-Reroutes-Web-Traffic?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/YWxhdPmrWPc/Apples-Trend-Away-From-Tinkering theodp writes "Having cut his programming teeth on an Apple ][e as a ten-year-old, Mark Pilgrim laments that Apple now seems to be doing everything in their power to stop his kids from finding the sense of wonder he did: 'Apple has declared war on the tinkerers of the world. With every software update, the previous generation of "jailbreaks" stop working, and people have to find new ways to break into their own computers. There won't ever be a MacsBug for the iPad. There won't be a ResEdit, or a Copy ][+ sector editor, or an iPad Peeks &amp; Pokes Chart. And that's a real loss. Maybe not to you, but to somebody who doesn't even know it yet.'"<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/31/1657233/Apples-Trend-Away-From-Tinkering?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/31/1657233"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/31/1657233/Apples-Trend-Away-From-Tinkering?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DkpxD4KZPN-3q08h5bjlDBPLEss/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DkpxD4KZPN-3q08h5bjlDBPLEss/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DkpxD4KZPN-3q08h5bjlDBPLEss/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DkpxD4KZPN-3q08h5bjlDBPLEss/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/YWxhdPmrWPc" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-01-31T18:12:00+00:00 hardhack hey-what's-this-do apple 965 965,956,774,631,141,86,55 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/31/1657233/Apples-Trend-Away-From-Tinkering?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/xdRHO4ONqIc/Boot-Camp-Finally-Supports-Windows-7-On-Macs Dave Knott writes "After some delay Apple has updated Boot Camp to support Windows 7 on Macintosh computers. They have also provided an upgrade utility that facilitates transition to Windows 7 for Mac owners who have existing Vista installations. The new version of Boot Camp requires OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/2026204/Boot-Camp-Finally-Supports-Windows-7-On-Macs?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/30/2026204"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/2026204/Boot-Camp-Finally-Supports-Windows-7-On-Macs?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0Xi2uHwp-TfAf2GkplX2MOy83hA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0Xi2uHwp-TfAf2GkplX2MOy83hA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0Xi2uHwp-TfAf2GkplX2MOy83hA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0Xi2uHwp-TfAf2GkplX2MOy83hA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/xdRHO4ONqIc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-01-30T22:22:00+00:00 macosx just-like-real-boot-camp-only-nicer-colors apple 216 216,194,153,118,30,15,7 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/2026204/Boot-Camp-Finally-Supports-Windows-7-On-Macs?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/rdNbbPVNnIk/Novell-Bringingnobr-wbrnobrNet-Developers-To-Apple-iPad GMGruman writes "Paul Krill reports that Apple's new iPad could be easier to write apps for, thanks to Novell's MonoTouch development platform, which helps .Net developers create code for the iPad and fully comply with Apple's licensing requirements &mdash; without having to use Apple's preferred Objective-C. This news falls on the footsteps of news that Citrix will release an iPad app that lets users run Windows sessions on the iPad. These two developments bolster an argument that the iPad could eventually displace the netbook."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/0111256/Novell-Bringingnobr-wbrnobrNet-Developers-To-Apple-iPad?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/30/0111256"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/0111256/Novell-Bringingnobr-wbrnobrNet-Developers-To-Apple-iPad?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N9T8mbhzvK5ws4-13iXILqbGdVY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N9T8mbhzvK5ws4-13iXILqbGdVY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N9T8mbhzvK5ws4-13iXILqbGdVY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/N9T8mbhzvK5ws4-13iXILqbGdVY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/rdNbbPVNnIk" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-01-30T02:50:00+00:00 novell odd-confluence apple 314 314,309,248,208,52,26,10 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/0111256/Novell-Bringingnobr-wbrnobrNet-Developers-To-Apple-iPad?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/7sr7-Mm-Rk0/Has-Apple-Created-the-Perfect-Board-Game-Platform andylim writes "recombu.com is running an interesting piece about how Apple has created a 'Jumanji (board game) platform.' The 9.7-inch multi-touch screen is perfect for playing board games at home, and you could use Wi-Fi or 3G to play against other people when you're on your own. What would be really interesting is if you could pair the iPad with iPhones, 'Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.' Now that would be cool."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1450255/Has-Apple-Created-the-Perfect-Board-Game-Platform?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/29/1450255"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1450255/Has-Apple-Created-the-Perfect-Board-Game-Platform?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZauTzUMHry-YIj11g1GcVqvNnKA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZauTzUMHry-YIj11g1GcVqvNnKA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZauTzUMHry-YIj11g1GcVqvNnKA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZauTzUMHry-YIj11g1GcVqvNnKA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/7sr7-Mm-Rk0" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-01-29T20:12:00+00:00 apple triple-word-score apple 530 530,527,448,350,61,36,21 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1450255/Has-Apple-Created-the-Perfect-Board-Game-Platform?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/BlEz93lKRrk/ATampT-Admits-New-York-City-iPhone-Service-Sucks RevWaldo notes a post up at The Gothamist on AT&amp;T's admission of its poor cell service in New York. "AT&amp;T has realized that the first step towards recovery is admitting it has a problem. The phone giant has confessed that its New York City iPhone service is not up to par, according to a presentation slide published on Tom's Guide noting that the company's 3G Voice Composite Quality in the New York metro area &mdash; particularly in Manhattan &mdash; is below its performance objective. ... The slide does contain some good news for AT&amp;T subscribers. Apparently, AT&amp;T has had '[t]hree consecutive months of improvement'..."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1551257/ATampT-Admits-New-York-City-iPhone-Service-Sucks?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/29/1551257"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1551257/ATampT-Admits-New-York-City-iPhone-Service-Sucks?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1qwwIIhJyZwv4Hlv6ZioMChFokg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1qwwIIhJyZwv4Hlv6ZioMChFokg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1qwwIIhJyZwv4Hlv6ZioMChFokg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1qwwIIhJyZwv4Hlv6ZioMChFokg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/BlEz93lKRrk" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-01-29T17:02:00+00:00 communications but-we-knew-that mobile 144 144,140,113,88,25,14,8 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1551257/ATampT-Admits-New-York-City-iPhone-Service-Sucks?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/E1w4Z2cvGp0/MSI-Will-Launch-iPad-Alternative itwbennett writes "Underwhelmed by the iPad? Don't give up on tablets just yet, says blogger Peter Smith. MSI has a tablet coming in the second half of 2010 that measures up on price and size and addresses a lot of the iPad's most noted shortcomings. 'The iPad runs iPhone OS while the MSI runs Android,' writes Smith. 'That means the MSI will multitask of course, and Flash support in Android should be a given by launch time (though that isn't certain). It has a camera. It's running on an Nvidia Tegra2 chip which Ars Technica suggests puts it on par with the iPad's A4 as far as computing horsepower. And of course Android doesn't live in a walled garden.'" The post notes that the MSI device does not support multitouch in its built-in apps. Still, would an Android-powered iPad-alike tempt you? Update: 01/29 17:58 GMT by KD : Dave Altavilla suggests Hot Hardware's coverage of Asus's recently announced tablet, also based on the Tegra2 chip.<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1448208/MSI-Will-Launch-iPad-Alternative?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/29/1448208"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1448208/MSI-Will-Launch-iPad-Alternative?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4Par3uqyjpGiLMaQM0eE2HFr6N0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4Par3uqyjpGiLMaQM0eE2HFr6N0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4Par3uqyjpGiLMaQM0eE2HFr6N0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/4Par3uqyjpGiLMaQM0eE2HFr6N0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/E1w4Z2cvGp0" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-01-29T16:18:00+00:00 linux breaking-down-the-walls linux 756 756,748,612,508,72,36,19 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1448208/MSI-Will-Launch-iPad-Alternative?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/jtR5iTzBago/Fujitsu-Readies-Lawsuit-Over-iPad-Name gyrogeerloose writes "In an event eerily reminiscent of Cisco's suit over Apple's use of the 'iPhone' name, Japanese firm Fujitsu is consulting its attorneys in preparation for going to court over Apple's use of 'iPad' for its latest computing device. Quoted in a New York Times story, Masahiro Yamane, director of Fujitsu's public relations division, said 'It's our understanding that the name is ours.' Fujitsu's application to trademark the iPad name stalled because of an earlier filing by another company and the US Patent and Trademark Office listed Fujitsu's application as abandoned in early 2009, but the company revived its application in June. Apple, which has applied for an international trademark on 'iPad' through a proxy company, has filed a number of requests with the US Patent Office for more time to oppose Fujitsu's application."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/2055209/Fujitsu-Readies-Lawsuit-Over-iPad-Name?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/28/2055209"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/2055209/Fujitsu-Readies-Lawsuit-Over-iPad-Name?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T5GQrgFcW1tWmcajHfTLvpluDMo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T5GQrgFcW1tWmcajHfTLvpluDMo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T5GQrgFcW1tWmcajHfTLvpluDMo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T5GQrgFcW1tWmcajHfTLvpluDMo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/jtR5iTzBago" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-01-28T21:02:00+00:00 portables walt-disney's-lesson apple 367 367,358,284,217,68,37,25 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/2055209/Fujitsu-Readies-Lawsuit-Over-iPad-Name?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/xkJJJYsYuSQ/With-New-SDK-VoIP-Over-3G-Apps-Now-Working-On-iPhone silverpig writes "Yesterday marked the announcement of the Apple iPad device, and with it came a new version of the SDK. In this new version, Apple has lifted the VoIP over 3G restrictions that limited VoIP traffic to wifi only. This morning, Fring announced that its iPhone app is 3G-capable starting immediately. No update is needed as apparently the app had 3G capability all along, but a server-side block prevented its use. Furthermore, apparently a 3G-capable version of Skype has been ready for some time now, and has been waiting for this restriction to be lifted."<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/1823211/With-New-SDK-VoIP-Over-3G-Apps-Now-Working-On-iPhone?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/28/1823211"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/1823211/With-New-SDK-VoIP-Over-3G-Apps-Now-Working-On-iPhone?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fA_Se9S0fSnum7NsBMjOaBpi8ag/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fA_Se9S0fSnum7NsBMjOaBpi8ag/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fA_Se9S0fSnum7NsBMjOaBpi8ag/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fA_Se9S0fSnum7NsBMjOaBpi8ag/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/xkJJJYsYuSQ" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-01-28T18:44:00+00:00 cellphones try-reading-that-headline-15-years-ago apple 171 171,170,144,108,36,19,13 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/1823211/With-New-SDK-VoIP-Over-3G-Apps-Now-Working-On-iPhone?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~3/JQRzEgO4LvM/iPad-Is-a-Huge-Step-Backward An anonymous reader writes "FSF's John Sullivan launches the Defective by Design campaign and petition to rain on Steve's parade, barely minutes out of the starting gate. 'This is a huge step backward in the history of computing,' said FSF's Holmes Wilson, 'If the first personal computers required permission from the manufacturer for each new program or new feature, the history of computing would be as dismally totalitarian as the milieu in Apple's famous Super Bowl ad.' The iPad has DRM writ large: you can only install what Apple says you may, and 'computing' goes consumer mainstream &mdash; no more twiddling, just sit back, spend your money, and watch the show &mdash; while we allow you to." What is clear is that the rise of the App Store removes control of the computer from the user. It makes me wonder what the next generation of OS X will look like.<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/1434222/iPad-Is-a-Huge-Step-Backward?from=rss"><img src="http://apple.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/28/1434222"></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/1434222/iPad-Is-a-Huge-Step-Backward?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/W5T2GDaAreuv6J_urhugejbLSAk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/W5T2GDaAreuv6J_urhugejbLSAk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/W5T2GDaAreuv6J_urhugejbLSAk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/W5T2GDaAreuv6J_urhugejbLSAk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotApple/~4/JQRzEgO4LvM" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2010-01-28T15:21:00+00:00 apple who-needs-rights-anyway apple 1633 1633,1623,1269,962,168,100,70 http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/1434222/iPad-Is-a-Huge-Step-Backward?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://apple.slashdot.org/search.pl