Archive for July, 2009
July 8, 2009 
According to the NY Times, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser.
The software, called the Google Chrome Operating System, is initially intended for use in the tiny, low-cost portable computers known as netbooks, which have been selling quickly even as demand for other PCs has plummeted. Google said it believed the software would also be able to power full-size PCs.
The move is likely to sharpen the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of the vast majority of personal computers. (more…)
Given the hype surrounding Apple’s iPhone, we’re actually surprised that we haven’t seen more holes to plug over the years. In fact, the last major iPhone exploit to take the world by storm happened right around this time two years ago, and now — thanks to OS X security expert Charlie Miller — we’re seeing yet another come to light.
Over at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Mr. Miller disclosed a hole that would let attackers “run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator’s network in order to monitor the location of the phone using GPS, turn on the phone’s microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a distributed denial of service attack or a botnet.” Charlie’s planning to detail the vulnerability in full at the upcoming Black Hat conference, but Apple’s hoping to have it all patched up by the end of this month.
Domain brokerage Sedo has sold the domain name Talk.com for $500,000. The seller, according to whois records, is Cavalier Telephone, LLC of Virginia. The Buyer is National A-1, the same company that bought Contests.com from Yahoo for $380,000 two weeks ago and runner up in the $5.1M Toys.com auction.
Sedo also turned in another six figure sale this past week, completing a transaction for TimeManagement.com at $100,000. The seller was Roy Messer, famous for his sale of Vodka.com for $3 million (also brokered through Sedo). The buyer is in the Philippines.
Some of you may have noticed that I’ve added a slide for KariFosse.no on the front page. The website is almost finished but some minor adjustments are still made every now and then. Let me know what you think :)
Oh, and by the way - Kari Fosse is a norwegian singer/artist with a fantastic voice and a very bright future ahead of her.
Fabnomena.com is one of the latest projects I’ve been working on. It’s my personal blog where I talk about whatever comes to mind that isn’t suited for the DL blog ;) The theme was designed by me and I think it turned out pretty good. Let me know what you think.
