06.19.07 - 01:34pm
When Apple CEO Steve Jobs stood up to deliver his keynote last week he introduced to the world the new web browser Safari. Upon its introduction he showed a pie chart depicting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Safari with no other browsers depicted and stated “this is what we’d love.”
This graph and statement has caused much ire in John Lilly, Mozilla’s CEO, who defined the statement to mean that Apple wanted to create a “duopoly” of browsers and take over Firefox’s market share and any others.
Lilly wrote in a his blog stating that the graph, “betrays the way that Steve, and by extension Apple, so often looks at the world.”
“But make no mistake: this wasn’t a careless presentation, or an accidental omission of all the other browsers out there, or even a crummy marketing trick. Lots of words describe Steve and his Stevenotes, but ‘careless’ and ‘accidental’ do not. This is, essentially, the way they’re thinking about the problem, and shows the users they want to pick up.”
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06.14.07 - 05:29pm
Apple has been quick to the punch to fix some of the security holes found in their beta released Safari.
They released the fix today which is downloadable from their website bundled with versions of Quicktime and iTunes for windows or you can just download the new version Safari 3.0.1 Public Beta for Windows.
As a quick side note many companies will release their software in the beta format and let hackers have at it so they can then fix the bugs found. Apple should be quick to fix any and hopefully all bugs before the final version is released.
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06.13.07 - 01:02pm
Hackers are finding numerous security holes in Apple’s new web browser Safari punching holes into Apple’s statement “Secure from Day One”, prompting hacker Avin Raff to say “I guess we can now call it ‘Day Zero’.”
In total hackers found over 18 bugs in the interface and are still counting.
David Maynor of Errata Security, was the first to find a flaw just two hours after Safari’s release and found six by the end of
the day. Maynor said four could be exploited to crash the browser and/or PC in a denial-of-service attack and the other two were remote execution vulnerabilities.
Aviv Raff, an Israeli security researcher posted a bug shortly after Maynor. Raff said, “I found it using a fuzzer tool, Hamachi, that was developed by HD Moore and I. This is a memory corruption vulnerability, which is potentially exploitable for remote code execution.
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06.12.07 - 02:20pm
The iPhone will “go live” on June 29th and try as he might Steve Jobs couldn’t really get people interested in anything else during his keynote speech at the WWDC conference yesterday.
With just over 2 weeks to go for the much hyped release, nothing else will take the place of the iPhone. The only thing Jobs did say was that the phone will open up third party applications, something that was revealed just before the conference leaving attendees disappointed and wanting more. 
Mainly the keynote focused on Leopard, the new operating system that will be released in October, and the new web browser Safari which takes direct aim at Microsoft Internet Explorer and will work on PCs that run on Microsoft Windows.
Safari was created as a way to introduce Mac to PC owners and analysts are saying it has the potential to act as a Trojan horse - showcasing the way Mac works to current PC owners and quietly stealing them over to Apple’s way of doing things.
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