Rootkit called Carrier IQ discovered phoning home with user data
Locationgate is nothing compared to a rootkit that's been discovered pre-installed on potentially millions of Android handsets.
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Will Apple's AMD Trinity-based MacBook Air see the light of day?
An attack of the MacBook Air clones in underway, funded largely by Intel's $300M Ultrabook Fund. Will it push Apple to jump ship for AMD? We'll have to wait until next year to find out.
MacBook Air coming next week with socketed 128GB SSDs
Several sources indicate that the third-generation (3G?) MacBook Air will arrive next week on either Thursday (7/21) or Friday (7/22). Socketed 128GB SSDs and 4GB RAM will be standard on the new Airs according to the rumor mill.
Money shot: VeriPhone's new dual-mode CDMA/GSM chip
I was expecting the Verizon iPhone teardown to reveal nothing except a CDMA chip, some ASICs, a little antenna re-jiggering and that's it. Boy, was I wrong.
iPhone 4 packing serious heat (512MB RAM)
The iPhone 4 will ship with 512MB of RAM, double the amount in its predecessor, the iPhone 3GS and the iPad. The additional RAM may be the reason that the iMovie app and multi-tasking aren't making it to older devices.
Core processors constrained, holding up new MacBooks
Apple is still hawking MacBook's with the outdated Intel Core 2 Duo processor while PC manufacturers are offering faster notebooks with Intel's new Core i5/i7/i9 processors. When will Apple catch up?
Mac Pro and Xserve go bump in the night
Apple speed bumped its Mac Pro towers and Xserves under the cover of darkness. Should you care?
iPhone 3GS technical specs released
T-Mobile Netherlands has posted some hardware specs for new iPhone 3GS which largely confirm details leaked in the weeks leading up to WWDC.The main difference is the faster, 600MHz processor (up from 412MHz and 532MHz) and 256MB of RAM -- which doubles the previous model's 128MB.
Apple hoarding NAND flash memory, 32GB iPhone here I come!
DigiTimes reports that Apple has purchased 100 million 8GB NAND flash chips from Samsung and others and that it's constricting supply for other smaller players in the market. So much so that downstream suppliers are worried about a supply shortage.
Xserve updated with Nehalem processors
Apple updated its online store today with new Xserve models as was leaked last week on Apple's Hong Kong Web site.Using Intel "Nehalem" Xeon processors and a next generation system architecture, the 1U rack-optimized Xserve delivers up to an 89 percent improvement in performance per watt.