25th April 2007 Archive

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QuickTime, not Safari, to blame for MacBook vuln

Updated pwn-2-own update

The zero-day vulnerability that allowed a hacker to commandeer a brand new MacBook Pro late last week resides in a flaw in Apple's QuickTime media player, the exploit's author says. The revelation corrects descriptions given last Friday that the exploit targeted Safari. Dino Dai Zovi set the record straight in a blog posting …

Mac 25 Apr 2007, 02:37
Nvidia updates multi-GPU SLI box for DirectX 10 era

Nvidia has updated its graphics-cards-in-a-box Quadro Plex VCS rendering unit to include workstation-class GPUs derived from the GeForce 8800 family. The VCS Model IV packs in a pair of Quadro FX 5600 boards and a G-Sync card for frame locking. The cards have 1.5GB of GDDR 3 graphics memory each and together are capable of …

Bits 'n' Chips 25 Apr 2007, 08:34
LG brings Google phone to Europe

'Super 3G' slider debuts

LG rolled out its latest 'super 3G' handset this week, pitching its Symbian-based slider phone, the KS10, as a web-browsing wonder: it has Google pre-installed. The KS10 incorporates a 2.4in, 240 x 320, 262,144-colour display; two-megapixel autofocus camera; Bluetooth stereo audio and all the other features you'd expect …

Phones 25 Apr 2007, 08:57
Samsung sends S60 slider phone West

Samsung's new i400 slider phone may not set the world alight with its technical details, but with its curvy styling and Nokia-designed S60 software it sure is a looker. Aimed at "young professionals", the tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset sports a 2.3in, 240 x 320, 262,144-colour display; two-megapixel camera; Bluetooth 2.0 …

Phones 25 Apr 2007, 09:18
Dell to fit laptops with Flash drives

SanDisk driven?

Dell has begun allowing anyone buying its Latitude D420 sub-notebook to kit out the machine not with a regular hard disk but one of SanDisk's 32GB Flash drives. The PC giant is charging a whopping $549 for the solid-state drive. You can knock off the price of the hard drive you no longer need, of course, but that doesn't …

PCs 25 Apr 2007, 12:55
Ads police say 128Kbps AAC is CD quality

Nokia 1, Consumers 0

Nokia - unlike Creative - has been allowed by UK advertising watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to claim that its Nokia 5300 Xpress Music phone can deliver CD quality sound from compressed, lossy audio formats. The ASA today said it had ruled against a complaint that Nokia's claim was misleading. The …

Phones 25 Apr 2007, 13:05
AMD aids Dell tree-planting fund

Cash-strapped AMD has given Dell $16,000 to plant trees. That's just $1 for each of the chip maker's $16,000 employees. Well, times are hard for the chip maker at the moment... The money will go to Dell's Plant a Tree for Me fund, the PC giant's attempt to reduce the carbon footprint of its customers. Launched in January this …

PCs 25 Apr 2007, 13:48
Anti-Apple lawsuit cites 20-year-old patent

Xerox UI technique dusted down, sent to court

Apple is facing a jury trial over allegations it ripped off a US patent filed by Xerox way back in 1987. At issue: Mac OS X 10.4's use of tabs and other UI elements to flip between different panels within a single window. The lawsuit was filed on 18 April in the Texas District Court by intellectual property holding company IP …

Mac 25 Apr 2007, 14:27
Apple board backs Jobs against ex-CFO allegations shock

Sales rise despite Apple

Apple's Board of Directors is backing CEO Steve Jobs after former CFO Fred Anderson accused Jobs approving the company's stock option backdating. Anderson settled civil charges against him Tuesday without admitting any guilt, but agreeing to pay back approximately $3.5m to make up for personal gains in the scandal. Anderson's …

Mac 25 Apr 2007, 23:43