The individual who found the lost iPhone prototype and held it for weeks before delivering it to Gizmodo for a reported $5,000 has been identified as Brian Hogan, a 21 year old resident of Redwood City, California.
Archive for April, 2010
Fourth generation iPhone prototype’s finder, keeper revealed
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Development Release: NetBSD 5.1 RC1
Friday, April 30th, 2010Soren Jacobsen has announced the availability of the first release candidate for NetBSD 5.1: “On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am proud to announce that the first release candidate of NetBSD 5.1 is now available for download. Those of you who prefer to build from….
iPhone apps rise to 21 percent of Gameloft sales
Friday, April 30th, 2010
French company Gameloft, one of the largest mobile game publishers in the world, reports that in the first quarter of 2010, iPhone apps accounted for 21 percent of its sales. The number compares against a figure for the whole of 2009, during which iPhone games represented only 14 percent of the company’s sales. Some 63 Gameloft titles are at the App Store, including N.O.V.A., Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front and Earthworm Jim….
FCC takes first step towards Universal Service Fund reform
Thursday, April 29th, 2010The Federal Communications Commission issued a notice of proposed rulemaking — taking the first step towards transitioning the Universal Service Fund from funding for telephones to broadband.
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Communications Workers of America Proposes “Middle Ground” to Protect an Open Internet
Thursday, April 29th, 2010In comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Communications Workers of America mapped out a middle course for crafting rules to protect an open and free Internet.
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The Quality of Code is Not Strained…
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
A proprietary vendor supplied us with their code and details of performance for one of our teams to integrate with our existing systems. No news there, happens every day across the enterprise. However, as the implementation scaled it exposed fatal flaws in the proprietary code when under load -…
Ubuntu One Music Store: iTunes for Linux
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Scaling NSClient++ with Nagios
Thursday, April 29th, 2010When you are using Nagios to check a Windows server and you have a lot of different checks you are performing, you can leverage your checks with one check that does it all. Multiple checks with one connection will allow you to save bandwidth and likely system resources on the Windows box. NSClient++ has a [...]
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HP to Acquire Palm in $1.2 Billion Deal
Thursday, April 29th, 2010HP today announced that it will acquire Palm in a deal valued at $1.2 billion. The deal brings Palm, struggling to reinvent itself as a smartphone company after being a major player in the PDA market, in…
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Police Have Identified The Person Who Found Lost iPhone 4G Prototype
Thursday, April 29th, 2010San Jose Business Journal is reporting that Apple had requested for the criminal investigation of lost iPhone 4G prototype incident. Police have apparently identified and interviewed the person who had found the next generation iPhone prototype that was left by an Apple engineer in a San Jose bar. It is…