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Inside Factory China 135

Posted by kdawson from the making-it dept.
blackbearnh writes "While China is attempting to pull its industry up out of mere manufacturing mode, for now the country is the production workhorse of the consumer electronics industry. Almost anything you pick up at a Best Buy first breathed life across the Pacific Ocean. But what is it like to shepherd a product through the design and production process? Andrew 'bunnie' Huang has done just that with the Chumby, a new Internet appliance. In an interview with O'Reilly Radar, he talks about the logistical and moral issues involved with manufacturing in China, as well as his take on the consumer's right to hack the hardware they purchase."
Media (Apple)

Submission + - Brad Stone Ruins a Near Perfect Blog

Submitted by mattatwork
mattatwork writes: NY Times writer Brad Stone figured out the real identity of Fake Steve Jobs. With classic nick names like 'freetards' and 'beastmaster' Fake Steve captured an audience of 700,000 visitors to the site and around 50 emails a day. There is no definite plan for the future of FSJ, according to Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine who maintained the blod himself....
Programming

Submission + - iPhone Can Now Run Apache, Python and Even Vim (gizmodo.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: After the first Hello World application, hacker NerveGas and the people at #iphone-shell have built Apache, Python and other Open Source apps for the iPhone using NightWatch's toolchain. Yes, your iPhone can now be a Web Server and do all sort of 1337 things. This also means that third-party applications for iPhone will happen no matter what. People, iPhone Doom could be just around the corner.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft bows to complaint from Linpro

Submitted by Martin
Martin writes: Microsoft has agreed to change the terms of its School Agreement contract with Norwegian regional municipalities, following a complaint by Norwegian open-source software company Linpro to The Norwegian Competition Authority (NCA). The only article in English, so far, is available from Linpro. However, some articles in Norwegian are available from other parties, like the NCA, and the Norwegian newspaper Dagens IT.
XBox (Games)

Submission + - XBOX360 Hypervisor Security Protection hacked

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ACTRAiSER
ACTRAiSER writes: "A recent Post on Bugtraq claims the hack of the XBOX360 Security Protection Hypervisor. It includes sample code as well. "We have discovered a vulnerability in the Xbox 360 hypervisor that allows privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full hardware access.""

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