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Comment Wasn't this an april fools joke this year? (Score 1) 149

by adzy on Saturday December 31, 2011 @01:22AM (#38546010) Attached to: Orangutans To Skype Between Zoos With iPads

Is it just me, or was there a similar story to this on April Fools day this year? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372297/April-Fools-Day-2011-Best-world-round-up.html Forth one down the page.

Two Unpatched Flaws Show Up In Apple iOS 171

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @07:55PM from the rotten-apple dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "The technique that the Jailbreakme.com Web site is using to bypass the iPhone's security mechanisms and enable users to run unapproved apps on their phones involves exploiting two separate vulnerabilities. One of the vulnerabilities is a memory-corruption flaw that affects the way that Apple's mobile devices, including the iPad and iPod Touch, display PDFs. The second weakness is a problem in the Apple iOS kernel that gives an attacker higher privileges once his code is on a targeted device, enabling him to break out of the iOS sandbox. The combination of the two vulnerabilities — both of which are unpatched at the moment — gives an attacker the ability to run remote code on the device and evade the security protections on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The technique became public earlier this week when the Jailbreakme.com site began hosting a set of specially crafted PDF files designed to help users jailbreak their Apple devices and load apps other than the ones approved by Apple and offered in its official App Store."

BlackBerry Tablet Confirmed, Supports Flash 159

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @08:49AM from the isn't-that-cute dept.

HouseMuzik writes "Betanews' Tim Conneally reports that sources close to RIM have confirmed the existence of a BlackBerry Tablet device, with a ship date by the end of the year. Previous reporting on the device was confirmed by the source, including a 7" screen and a 1GHz processor. The source added that the device would support Flash, and would include a hardware-based Flash accelerator. Betanews' reporting seems to confirm an earlier report that quoted Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar as saying the BlackBerry Tablet indeed existed."

Submission + - 1-Click Rejection Rejected

Submitted by

theodp

on Friday September 28, 2007 @01:30AM

theodp writes: "On Wednesday, a three-judge USPTO panel convened at Amazon's request rejected a USPTO Examiner's rejection of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 1-Click patent application, ruling that it wasn't obvious to them what the Examiner found obvious. The application has been remanded to the Examiner with instructions to make the obviousness more obvious."

Submission + - CUPS Purchased by Apple Inc. (cups.org)

Submitted by Rick Richardson on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @11:26PM

Rick Richardson writes: CUPS Purchased by Apple Inc.

In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS.

CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.

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