Apple’s OSX iterations have been known to be some of the more securely designed operating systems on the planet. There is no real threat from viruses under OSX because of it’s strict use of access rights, built into it’s BSD base which regulates the access rights of every user on the system. However, basic security in their user interface could be compromised by a very simple, very useful feature known as “Spaces“, a feature lifted and rebranded from X Windows and Amiga (reference: Wikipedia), through a effective Denial of Service.
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A quick follow-up to the challenge MySpace is serving up to Apple with their music service, as I wrote about previously (reference: http://www.thereformed.org/2008/04/07/myspace-gambles-big-on-lost-cause/). As I stated before, I don’t believe MySpace will be able to capture a significant market share in an industry which is experiencing innovations per quarter from the company who established and arguably perfected the vary model industry leaders are salivating to get bigger a piece of and the major economic downturn (an obvious recession.. if it looks like a duck…) which is hitting consumers in the pocketbook. What this brief article addresses is the sheer, implausible numbers game that a small fish such as MySpace is facing in a private pond thats home to a big hungry shark. Continue reading ‘Apple Wins by the Numbers’
MySpace has matured the social networking portal more than any other provider, but how will they fair in the media market - specifically their venture in MySpace music? They’re going after the hallowed ground of Apple’s iTunes and I suspect that we might not necessarily see a failure (because MySpace’s user-base is so very large it can take the hit), but we can forsee that no notable, sustainable gains will be made - Apple’s loyalists will benefit from it extremely however. Why? Continue reading ‘MySpace Gambles Big on Lost Cause’
Well, maybe not so much. However, Google has been pretty light on the keys in fixing a cross-scripting bug that leads to some pretty serious consequences for us, the end-user. The flaw in the handling of the code can compromise our very online privacy that is being taken from us at a snails pace as time goes on. The term is 'Phishing' and it is spreading online like an epidemic of Biblical proportions.
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Sorry, no dice this round. After almost three-quarters of a year waiting, beyond the first and second quarters of 2007, the Office built for OS X will not be available until late into the year (December approximately) for Release to Manufacturer and wouldn't (legally) be seen by consumers on shelves until sometime in the first quarter of 2008. The announcement came earlier today on the Microsoft Mac Development Unit's MSDN blog "Mac Mojo" ( http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo ). As a hardcore Microsoft product end-user, it irks me to have to concede that Microsoft is failing it's buyers.
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We're happy to take you back with us to the past, where Echelon Labs was creating tools free to the public for the good of developers abroad. So, as a reintroduction is in order, say hello once again to Cryptonoya a low-level personal data encryption utility designed by our former Software Engineers in a time where personal privacy and/or security was just beginning to take shape and paranoia of intrusion on those priveleges or rights was becoming more and more justified. Continue reading ‘SOFTWARE: Cryptonoya v1.2′
