Although there are more signs lately that the worst of the recession is over, Apple is one of the few companies that has seen little of the effects of the recession to begin with.

We’ll find out if the company’s good health has remained during the quarterly checkup Monday afternoon. According to Wall Street, it’s been another good three months for the Cupertino, Calif.-based company. Apple’s stock price jumped 43 points during the quarter to close at $185.35. Because of a string of impressive earnings announcements dating back a year ago, the launch of the… Read the rest

The Internet telephone service provider said it’s conducting a beta test of the app and that general availability will be announced at a later date.

Last week Apple confirmed that Vonage’s request for app approval was being held up by technical issues with the Vonage software. An Apple spokesperson told CNET News at the time that Apple was working with the developer to resolve the issue but would not elaborate on the nature of… Read the rest

Will the design philosophy spring from the notion of an upsized iPhone or a downsized MacBook? I believe it will be the former since this is a more natural evolution of the hardware and software. But I will entertain both options.

Because this tablet is rumored to appear in 2010, the Intel silicon possibility–however remote–is, I believe, as follows.

First scenario: Intel’s next-generation "Pine Trail"… Read the rest

Unnamed sources told TechCrunch that no formal, written agreement exists, and that employees of one company were welcome to apply for jobs at the other, but that the two companies said they would not actively pursue hiring away each other’s workers.

It is unclear whether any such agreement would still be in effect now that Eric Schmidt has stepped down from Apple’s board of… Read the rest

In David Pogue’s Friday column regarding the ongoing saga of Apple and Google Voice, he reveals that Google has already found a loophole:

Already, Google says it is readying a replacement for the Google Voice app that will offer exactly the same features as the rejected app–except that it will take the form of a specialized, iPhone-shaped Web page. For all intents and purposes, it

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"We appreciate the information provided to us about SMS vulnerabilities which affect several mobile phone platforms," Apple representative Tom Neumayr told CNET.

"This morning, less than 24 hours after a demonstration of this exploit," Neumayr continued, "we’ve issued a free software update that eliminates the vulnerability from the iPhone. Contrary to what’s been reported, no one has been able to take control of the iPhone to… Read the rest

- Tested on: Apple MACOS X 10.5.1 (xnu-1228.0.2~1/RELEASE_I386)
              Apple MACOS X 10.5.2 (xnu-1228.3.13~1/RELEASE_I386)

workqueue_additem and workqueue_removeitem do no validate the
user defineable parameter prio.
                                    (bsd/kern/pthread_synch.c)

Note: this requires quite a large amount of memory for the heap spray!

Compile: gcc -Wall -O0 -m64 xnu-workq-v2-64.c -o xnu-workq-v2-64
                  (compile 64-bit ONLY)

   – Private Source Code -DO NOT DISTRIBUTE -
http://www.digit-labs.org/ — Digit-Labs 2008!@$!

Scouce Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include <fcntl.h>
#include

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Intel marketing chief Sean Maloney

"It’s clear that people like devices to be thin and light," said Maloney, who was speaking from the Computex conference in Taipei where he will be giving a keynote on Tuesday.

"We’ve really taken that to heart and come out with a complete top-to-bottom range of microprocessors that enable radically longer battery life and much smaller designs," said Maloney, referring to Intel’s new lineup… Read the rest