Gizmodo Summer Internships
A great opportunity to stain your career right off the bat.
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★ Adobe Flash: Almost as Open as Microsoft Office
“Open” is one of those terms that means a lot of different things to different people. Most should be able to agree, though, that open-vs.-closed is a continuum — shades of gray, not just black and white. A light enough shade of gray is “open”, dark enough is “closed”. The arguments are over where those [...]
How Secure Is Flash?
Ed Bott:
Yesterday, I rattled off some disturbing statistics about
vulnerabilities in Flash Player and asked Adobe, “So, how are
you planning to convince us that you’ve gotten serious about
security?” No one from Adobe has gotten back to me on that one.
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Litl ‘Webbook’ Drops in Price from $699 to $399
I sincerely wish them luck, but I think they’re a year too late to have a chance.
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Brian Lam’s Email to Steve Jobs Regarding Gizmodo’s Stolen iPhone Prototype
OCR’d from today’s unsealed affidavit (PDF) by Jason Snell. I love how Lam is trying to get better access from Apple in the future while simultaneously extorting written admission that the unit was indeed Apple’s.
Also, Lam misreported the contents of his own email to Apple chief counsel Bruce Sewell. As published on Gizmodo, Lam’s email [...]
Apple Sort of Kind of Maybe Responds to Adobe
MG Siegler:
Now, it may be a complete coincidence, but the timing is
interesting, to say the least. This morning, Apple starting
emailing its customers to let them know that “Adobe CS5 is
here.”
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★ Where in the World Is Jesus Diaz?
Speaking of the stolen iPhone prototype saga, an anonymous tipster emailed me this week claiming that Gizmodo editor Jesus Diaz left the United States and is now in his home country of Spain — and that he decided to leave after California police acted on the warrant against his Gizmodo colleague Jason Chen, because he [...]
Roommate Informed Apple and Police Regarding iPhone Thief
Kim Zetter:
Police closed in on the man who found and sold a prototype 4G
iPhone after his roommate called an Apple security official and
turned him in, according to a newly unsealed document in the
ongoing police investigation.
The tip sent police racing to the home of 21-year-old Brian Hogan,
and began [...]
NEWS: LG on the look out for the UK’s best home entertainment setup
Top prizes for people who make the effort to entertain this summer
LG has launched its Home Entertainment Heroes competition in which it hopes to uncover the nation’s best host. With Wimbledon and the World Cup just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to get your gaff set up to play host to the best [...]
Roommate Ratted on iPhone Thief
Kim Zetter:
Police closed in on the man who found and sold a prototype 4G
iPhone after his roommate called an Apple security official and
turned him in, according to a newly unsealed document in the
ongoing police investigation.
The tip sent police racing to the home of 21-year-old Brian Hogan,
and began [...]
