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Technology (Apple)

Submission + - One month on the app store - not rich yet (blogspot.com)

Submitted by iamflimflam1
iamflimflam1 writes: One month ago I published an iPhone application. I wasn't expecting a huge number of sales — after all, who wants to buy yet another Sudoku application! I was slightly disappointed by the initial sales figures (Who doesn't dream of hitting the jackpot). It's been an interesting month though so I thought I'd share my sales statistics.

For anyone planning to make a living from iPhone apps — take a look at the first couple of weeks of sales and make note of the fact that the app is selling for only $0.99. For those of you who like to dream of making it to the big time — take a look at the last few days of sales on the UK app store and imagine what it would like if that was happening in 50 countries!

If you don't want to read the artical, then here's the executive summary, first couple of weeks 0-10 sales a day, last couple of days 300-350 sales a day.
The Internet

Submission + - Conficker to Create Dark Google? 1

Submitted by
The Narrative Fallacy
The Narrative Fallacy writes: "John Markoff has a story on the NY Times speculating on what will happen on April 1 when the conficker worm is scheduled to activate. Already on an estimated 12 million machines, conjectures about Conficker's purpose ranges from the benign — an April Fool's Day prank — to far darker notions. Some say the program will be used in the "rent-a-computer-crook" business, something that has been tried previously by the computer underground. "The most intriguing clue about the purpose of Conficker lies in the intricate design of the peer-to-peer logic of the latest version of the program, which security researchers are still trying to completely decode," writes Markoff. According to a paper by researchers at SRI International, in the Conficker C version of the program, infected computers can act both as clients and servers and share files in both directions. With these capabilities, conficker's authors could be planning to create a scheme like Freenet, the peer-to-peer system that was intended to make Internet censorship of documents impossible. On a darker note, Stefan Savage, a computer scientist at the University of California at San Diego, has suggested the possibility of a "Dark Google." "What if Conficker is intended to give the computer underworld the ability to search for data on all the infected computers around the globe and then sell the answers," writes Markoff. "That would be a dragnet — and a genuine horror story.""
XBox (Games)

Submission + - Xbox Live accounts collected by Phishers (hdtvinfo.eu)

Submitted by
Xbm360
Xbm360 writes: "A collection of approximately 270 sets of login details that have apparently been phished via a fake XBox Live login page, appeared on Hacker sites.

http://xbox.hdtvinfo.eu/news-sections/4-xbox-live/13-xbox-live-accounts-collected-by-phishers.html

The list, 27 pages long in Word format, would allow people to access stolen XBox Live accounts, some of which may have credit card details stored against them.

This list seems to be in circulation on a number of hacking forums; the majority of the accounts were phished between November and December of last year."
Intel

Submission + - Intel threatens to revoke AMD's x86 license

Submitted by theraindog
theraindog writes: AMD's former manufacturing division opened for business last week as GlobalFoundries, but the spin-off may run afoul of AMD's 2001 cross-licensing agreement with Intel. Indeed, Intel has formally accused AMD of violating the agreement, and threatened to terminate the company's licenses in 60 days if a resolution is not found. Intel contends that GlobalFoundries is not a subsidiary of AMD, and thus is not covered by the licensing agreement. AMD has fired back, insisting that it has done nothing wrong, and that Intel's threat constitutes a violation of the deal. At stake is not only AMD's ability to build processors that use Intel's x86 technology, but also Intel's ability to use AMD's x86-64 tech in its CPUs.

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