Apple’s new iPhone 3G will be shipped on July 11 in a potato starch paper tray. Apple placed an order with Dutch company PaperFoam, which also makes packages for Motorola.
The company was established in 1998 in the Dutch rural town of Barneveld - best known for its poultry farming and egg production - with the idea to make products using potato starch as an important ingredient. Once the injection molding…
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It is an article of faith, of course, that whatever Steve Jobs does is right. And so, since the iPhone currently has no keyboard on it, it must logically follow that it is wrong to have a keyboard, and therefore that Steve Jobs will never produce a version that does have a keyboard.
Worldwide, it has not escaped the attention of mobile network execs that the bulk of corporate sales are not into the executive corridor. Rather, they are phones which are provided for staff, and the vast bulk of them have full-QWERTY…
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Article about a company who refuses to accept that they are at fault for poor security and the fallout when an employee brings it to the attention of the IT security community.
Benson's May 8 posting was prompted by news that managers had changed the password for employees to access the store server. Inexplicably, it was set to blank. When Benson first began working for TJX, his password was the same as his user…
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Next time you get nagged to install Apple’s Safari browser keep this in mind: The company’s security team has dismissed research that shows a simple way for miscreants to use the browser to litter an end user’s machine with malicious files.
This is unfortunate because the vulnerability allows miscreants to dump hundreds of malicious files into a user's default download location (in Windows it's the desktop and in OS X it's the download folder). As Nate McFeters at…
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Mark Shuttleworth, head of Canonical and founder of the Ubuntu project, has called on other Linux developers to synchronize releases of new versions of their distros. He also pledged to deliver the next Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu, version 10.4, in April 2010.
He pledged: “If two out or three of Red Hat (RHEL), Novell (SLES) and Debian are willing to agree in advance on a date to the nearest month, and thereby on a combination of kernel, compiler toolchain, GNOME/KDE, X and…
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Exclusive: Google has murdered the AdSense account run by one of the web’s most influential anti-Scientology sites. Yet another example comes to light that makes it look like Google is courting a new title of being the leading benefactor of the deep pockets of corruption the church of Scientology is so widely known for.
“While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers,” read Google's letter to Enturbulation, a kind of home base for the now famous Anonymous movement….
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The first supported first version of Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris, AKA Project Indiana, makes its debut today with additional backing from Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud.
Sun is introducing three levels of paid support for the OpenSolaris 2008.5 code drop for developers and end users. Support starts at $49 per incident for developers and runs to $2,160 per system per year for tailored customizations, and includes…
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ALL travellers to and from the US - including US Citizens - beware. US Customs have got carte blanche for confiscating and copying all of the data from your electronic devices and are not forced to tell you what they are doing with it, or how long they have it.
Over the past few months, several news reports have raised eyebrows after detailing border searches that involved electronic devices. The best known of them is this story from The Washington Post, which recounted the experiences of individuals who…
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A German company has introduced a disposable DVD that can be viewed for 48 hours, then thrown away.
So, it's about the same price as a new video rental in Europe - and it used to be about the same price as in the US, before the Mighty Dollar shrank into the Pygmy Dollar. But there are no late fees and no need to pop the disk in the post…
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The rest of the server world can play with their piddling 2-3GHz chips. IBM, meanwhile, is prepared to deal in the 5GHz realm.
Usually, IBM will hit customers with a massive TPC benchmark score when it rolls out a new 595-class system - just to let HP know how much it cares. Apparently, the company is saving that gem for a later date, opting instead just to show…
Microsoft today lifted the lid on 14,000 pages of sketchy versions of tech documentation for core software code. On show for the first time in public are underlying protocols for Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.
The EC is scrutinising several server products and Office Open XML (OOXML) on the grounds that the specification doesn't work with those of competitors. Just last week OOXML bagged enough votes to be passed as an international…
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A hacker club has published what it says is the fingerprint of a Wolfgang Schauble, Germany’s interior minister and a staunch supporter of the collection of citizen’s unique physical characteristics as a means of preventing terrorism.
“Each individual’s fingerprints are unique,” he is quoted as saying in this official interior department press release announcing a new electronic passport that stores individuals' fingerprints on an RFID chip….
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As spotted by our Italian friends at setteB.IT, Apple’s Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on no more than “a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.” This means that if you install Safari for Windows on a Windows PC, you’re violating the license.
But you'll also notice that in pushing Safari onto Windows machines, Apple Software Update points out that Safari is subject to an Apple licensing agreement. “Use of this software is subject to the original Software License…
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The acceptability of P2P took another big step forward over the weekend, as accounts claiming to be the official profile for NIN appeared on a number of torrent sites, including The Pirate Bay and the private trackers What.cd and Waffles.fm. NIN has now confirmed that these accounts indeed belong to the band.
NIN are probably getting more per purchase now than they did with the label and more purchases at that but i do agree with the “admin” it isn’t really fair having the good one with some tracks and the bad one with all…
