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Well-honed Attacks Sneak Under the Radar

(Erik Larkin) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:27:00 GMT

Samples of documents used in carefully prepared targeted attacks make clear that while a suspicious eye is a great security tool, some especially dangerous attacks might slide right by you.

Wanna be @the_real_shaq? That'll be $50,000...

(David Murphy) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:22:00 GMT

If you're a nobody who wants to be somebody in the online Web world, you don't need friends--just a thriving bank account. That's where uSocial comes into play. The company converts your cash into background support on the Web's top social sites: You can buy Diggs, votes on Yahoo Buzz, eyeballs for StumbleUpon ... and now, Twitter followers.

iPhone 3GS heats up, DOJ takes aim at Google

(Nancy Weil) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:25:00 GMT

The iPhone scored quite a few headlines related to overheating problems with the 3GS this week. Depending on whom you believe, those issues are either real, exaggerated, the fault of users or some combination of the three. Otherwise, as warm weather takes hold above the equator and Bostonians contemplate whether it's time to brush up on our ark-building skills (rain, rain go away), we find this week's IT news offerings cover a broad range.

San Francisco misses the NextBus

(Robert McMillan) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:52:00 GMT

I live in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. If you've visited San Francisco you may know it as the Italian district, where Joe DiMaggio learned to play baseball and where beat writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg forged their countercultural vision of the American dream. If you live here, though, you also know that it's the worst place in the city to try to find a parking spot.

iPhone 3GS Gets Jailbroken, Hack Available Online

(Daniel Ionescu) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:53:00 GMT

The first jailbreaking application for the iPhone 3GS is now available. The tool, called purplera1n, will only allow the installation of unofficial third-party applications, but will not unlock the iPhone 3GS.

Final Draft AV 2.5

(Tim Haddock) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:52:00 GMT

For years, documentary-style film and video makers have struggled to use jury-rigged tables within word processing programs to create the unique two-column scripts needed for planning documentaries, commercials, and corporate videos. Final Draft AV 2.5.2 aims to put a smile on those creative faces by taking over such time-consuming formatting duties so that filmmakers can focus their time where it matters--on content.

Oracle may cut up to 1,000 European jobs, union says

(Mikael Ricknäs) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:47:00 GMT

Oracle may lay off between 850 to 1,000 European employees, according to the French union CFDT.

Deathmatch rematch: BlackBerry versus iPhone 3.0

(Galen Gruman) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:09:00 GMT

The carrier coup must be stopped

(Mike Elgan) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Wireless carriers have made connecting consumer gadgets to the Internet very complex, but it doesn't have to be that way, writes columnist Mike Elgan. The best and simplest plan is what Amazon.com is using with the Kindle.

RSA's Coviello: Cloud computing not secure enough

(Sumner Lemon) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:24:00 GMT

Cloud-based services are being rolled out without enough attention being paid to securing these services and the information they handle. That was the finding of a recent study commissioned by RSA Security.

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