In the latest twist in the Apple stock option backdating scandal: Steve Jobs himself has been subpoenaed by US securities regulators over the matter.
It doesn’t look like they’re accusing him of anything yet, but just seeing what he has to say about other’s roles.
09.20Inquisitor
Inquisitor: one of my favorite safari plugins got a new version today, up to 3.0 v47, it’s developed by the same guy that makes Newsfire and Xtorrent: David Watanabe
Download it, i highly recommend it, it gives pretty much instant auto completes and works brilliantly even if you’re looking for something obscure.
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USB 3.0 improves upon its successors by adding fiber-optic cable inside alongside the copper wiring, greatly increasing the speeds to somewhere in the region of 4.8gb/s.
All in all, this looks to kill firewire dead, but better than that, it allows very fast connections to drives, so it can only be a good thing. It’d also be pretty [...]
Three stages of cool above an iPhone, comes this crazy mod to a Macbook Pro: gold plating all over, with a diamond encrusted Apple logo, just for kicks. While it won’t make it any faster, it does look cool (along the same idea as racing stripes on an already fast car).
At $3749, or £2409 for [...]
09.18iPhone: UK
Apple’s event today has given the UK the iPhone on November 9th, with a £269 price tag. It locks you into an 18 month contract on o2: £35 a month for 200 texts 200 minutes, £45 a month with 600 minutes 500 texts or £55 a month for 1200 minutes and 500 texts. All bundles [...]
It may not sound all that much, but compare it to Encyclopedia Britannica: who have only 120,000 articles on its online version.
The upside to this is that Wikipedia goes into detail on very niche things, unreleased video games, bands, people, companies and events that no other service has to offer. In its early day, Wikipedia [...]
In a pretty obvious statement from symantec, the security firm released a statement about their view over the tech world and security. They have stated that toolkits are becoming more and more synonymous with hackers, rather than them making their own hacks, people are now moving to using the toolkits to get by with hardly [...]
Microsoft has lost it’s antitrust battle against the EU again, after the courts decided that it was being monopolistic by selling windows with windows media player back in 2004.
Not only do Microsoft have to fully comply with the ruling, but they also have to pay 80% of the legal fees of the commission. It won’t [...]
09.17UK’s iPhone gets O2
As Apple’s European iPhone plans get closer to reality, the details of each arrangement are beginning to see the light of day. O2 is set to announce the iPhone on their UK network on Tuesday, but the agreement didn’t come easy for the carrier. The Guardian is reporting that O2 will be forced to hand [...]
Oddly, this piece comes from Yahoo! so I just thought it was a bit apt. Google’s turned 10, and has pretty much become the standard for search, video, ad revenue and statistics on the net. The real genius came when they moved from being simply a search company to an ad provider, that’s the thing that [...]