Daniel Eran Dilger
According to the Unavoidable Malware Myth, Microsoft’s Windows security epidemic of viruses, spyware, and adware will be passed on to the next major computing platforms as an inevitable symptom of platform popularity. Were this to be true, it would be bad news for both Apple’s Mac platform, which is growing several times faster [...]

Neglecting to release any specifics on how the development environment will integrate with Apple’s official SDK, Unity Technologies has announced that its multiplatform 3D game development tool, called Unity, will soon be able to create titles that run on the iphone.

A brief statement from Unity reads:

“The Unity engine is the core technology that facilitates visually [...]

Despite disconcerting notices that were interpreted as rejection letters, Apple is now sending acceptance letters to a much broader swath of those who applied to the $99 iphone Developer program — including many who received the initial, dismissive notes. iphone Atlas has, in the past 24 hours, received messages from a number of developers [...]

As suspected, iphone OS 2.0 — which was included with the Aspen Emulator in iphone SDK beta 2 — has been issued to approved iphone developers, and subsequently leaked as an IPSW file that can be installed on physical devices.

The new release, like iphone OS 1.2, is highly unstable and requires the use of “pwnage,” [...]

Ziphone, the most popular tool for automatically jailbreaking and unlocking iphones, has been updated to version 3.0. The new release includes these enhancements:

No more need of fix nvram
Solution for GREYED wifi
No need for YouTube Fixes
Embedded apps installer
Customized plugins

The new release is available in both Mac and Windows versions from this download page. For further instructions [...]

Earlier versions of the WiFi specification all used the 2.4GHz radio spectrum. The new 802.11n standard, supported in Time Capsule, the square AirPort Extreme, and recently shipping AirPort Express units, allows users to alternatively select the use of 5GHz channels. This segment, the third of six, compares the pros and cons of using this new [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger
Engadget profiled RIM’s new iphone styled BlackBerry 9000 (above on the right, aping the iphone’s chrome and black style but lacking its touchscreen), calling it sexy and praising its “beautiful user interface, which has been totally revamped from the ground up; gone is the cartoonish look and feel of the current lineup, replaced [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger
Responding to the article “Mac Shot First: 10 Reasons Why CanSecWest Targets Apple,” Thom Holwerda of OSNews wrote a point by point essay titled “Countering Misinformation” that described my article as “an unrivaled wealth of misinformation, [with] some things even bordering on slander.” Of course, one can’t write slander (it’s called libel), but [...]

Daniel Eran Dilger
The details emerging from the CanSecWest security contest fill out a story that is bigger than the simple “Mac Shot First” headlines convey. This was not a contest where three systems were placed in an equal foot race and the Mac simply lost due to being a slower runner. Here’s why.
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Time Capsule, announced earlier this year, is a base station with an integrated hard drive and power supply. The previous segment of this series exploring Time Capsule in depth looked at the differences in members of the AirPort family. This segment, the second of six, compares the differences between the hypothetical maximum data transmission speed [...]