Tonight Apple will produce its first-ever live event streamed to the iPhone: a concert by the electronica band Underworld. Apple has apparently kept the event quiet as it doesn’t want to overwhelm the AT&T network, but if you have an iPhone you can queue it up yourself at iphone.akamai.com orunderworldlive.com. The show starts at 9 p.m. PT and the stream is free.
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TechVi is a daily US technology show talking to the experts that matter on the hot topic of the day hosted by Randall Bennett. Today we were on with Cnet’s Tom Merrit talking Twitter downtime and the buzz word du jour – DDoS.
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VIDEO: Twitter goes down we talk with TechVi originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:05:32 +0100
Cyxymu not in someone’s good books
More details are starting to emerge as to who was behind the DDoS attacks against Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google on Thursday.
According to reports, the DDoS attacks were aimed at silencing a pro-Georgian blogger who had been critical of Russia’s activity in the country since last year.
“Yesterday’s attack appears to be directed at an individual who has a presence on a number of sites, rather than the sites themselves,” Facebook said in a written statement.
“Specifically, the person is an activist blogger and a botnet was directed to request his pages at such a rate that it impacted service for other users.”
“The major DDoS campaign which brought Twitter to its knees yesterday (and mildly impacted the likes of Facebook, LiveJournal, Google’s Blogger and possibly YouTube service) may have actually set out to silence only one person – an anti-Russian blogger called Cyxymu from Tbilisi.” Reported security company Sophos.
On Friday Twitter, the worst affected of the sites, Twitter, confirmed that it was still working to resolve the problem.
“In the past 24 hours, we’ve been contending with a variety of attacks that continue to change in nature and intensity. We’re working to restore access to apps built on the Twitter platform that were affected by defensive measures—there was some overcompensation on our part as we tune our system to deal with this scale of attack,” said Twitter’s Biz Stone on the company blog.
Although not wanting to get into the political elements of what had happened, the founder said that the site will continue to “improve system response to these assaults such that they don’t interfere with our normal, everyday Twittering.”
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Twitter, Facebook and LiveJounal DDoS attacks targeted single user originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:37:09 +0100
Applications are for boring people aren’t they?
Android users are a bunch of boring workaholics if results from a new survey are anything to go by.
According to app store analytics company Distimo following some basic surveying the top apps available for both Android and iPhone. Android users are workers, iPhone users are gamers.
In what could be described as a rudimentary test, the company studied the top 15 applications purchased for the iPhone and found nine of them were games. In comparison not one game made it into the top 15 titles available for the Android platform.
This pattern continued when comparing the most popular free applications for the two operating systems
A third of the iPhone’s most popular downloads where games while games didn’t even feature in the Android free chart.
Apple’s adverts for the iPod touch focus on games celebrating the device as the “funnest” iPod yet, however the company’s iPhone adverts focus on productivity and utility applications.
Android has yet to do any specific advertising with the operators currently stocking Android handsets unsure where to place the handset.
Do you play games on your HTC handset? If so what?
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Games are most iPhone apps, study finds originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:52:45 +0100
Former Apple Board of Directors member and current Google CEO Eric Schmidt wasn’t paid for his time at Cupertino. This despite Apple’s habitual practice of offering stock options and a $50,000 retainer to Board members, both of which Schmidt declined during his tenure.
Instead, like other board members, Schmidt settled for some awesome Apple gear in exchange for his contribution to the board. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and BusinessWeek, the Google CEO accepted $8,712 worth of goods, though no specific breakdown of what sort of hardware that number actually represents has been reported.
We do know that board members are entitled to one of each new Apple product released while they’re an active member, and that they receive additional hardware discounts over and above that. Thanks to this sweet deal, Al Gore took home $13,161 and Arthur Levinson $8,923. I’ll bet a hefty portion of those numbers actually accounts for Apple’s ridiculously over-priced customization options.
Apple board members are also allowed up to 30,000 of company stock, with an option to buy up to 10,000 more per year. Schmidt passed up the opportunity, however, choosing instead to buy 10,000 shares on the open market with his own money in 2006.
Schmidt also received a mystery “commemorative gift” valued at $7,580. Many other Apple execs received similar gifts, including COO Tim Cook, but details about what exactly was gifted remain unknown. A MacBook Pro with the Apple logo on the lid replaced with an etched likeness of the giftee’s face, perhaps? Whatever it was, I’m fairly sure I want one.
Turning down the lucrative extras that come along with being a high-ranked tech executive has become Schmidt’s M.O., so it’s not really surprising to find that he was working at Apple for comped hardware. At Google, he famously only receives a $1 per year salary, and in recent years has been turning down stock option perks from the search giant as well.
If nothing else, the FTC’s investigation into the close links between Apple and Google should pull back the curtain and provide more revelatory looks into the inner workings of some of Silicon Valley’s biggest players. Schmidt recently stepped down from the Apple board amid accusations that the two companies were too closely involved with one another, and involved in a relationship that could potentially be construed as a non-competitive arrangement. Google and Apple still share a common board member, however, as Arthur Levinson, former CEO of Genentech, is still a sitting member of both.
