Here come the iPhone cases, and the iWood by Miniot is the swankiest one yet, crafted of some fine-looking mahogany. It has a thin sheet of polycarbonate over the iPhone’s screen that will still let you do the touchy-feely thing for which it’s so well loved, but that plastic will still protect the phone at the same time.
It also has a slot for the dock connector, and holes for the camera lens and earbuds. If you’ve already performed a circumcision on your third-party buds so they’ll fit into the iPhone, you may have to take that little prick back to the operating room for this one. Available later this month, pricing wasn’t announced yet.
We say, save your money. This case doesn’t give us any iWood at all. The iPhone’s design is pretty enough; don’t ruin it with some case, even if it is made of the finest endangered woods.
iWood Mahogany Case For The iPhone [Sybarites]
Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A es el nombre de la nueva amenaza que utiliza cuentas de Hotmail y Yahoo! para envíar spam masivo, según un informe de los analistas de BitDefender.
Según los analistas, los spammers han encontrado una manera de violar los sitemas “catcha” (detectan diferencias entre máquinas y personas) a través de los cuales la cuenta no se crea hasta que la persona repite correctamente la serie de números y letras que se le presenta. Al parecer, cada hora se crean 500 nuevas cuentas y es bastante difícil saber cual es creada por una persona o por una máquina, sobretodo ahora que han conseguido burlar los sistemas de detección.
El funcionamiento del spam hace que cada copia activa del troyano accede a una cuenta, atrae spam cifrado desde una web, lo descodifica y los envía a otras direcciones. Actualmente, el spam que se está utilizando es el que publicita productos farmacéuticos, llevando a los usuarios a una página web. Para el cuerpo del mensaje utilizan técnicas de spam como el envenenamiento bayesiano y asuntos de email aleatorios.
Más información [OJObuscador]
SONY IS SET to drop the price of its slow shifting PS3 console by $100.
Although Sony has yet to confirm a price drop officially, GameDaily BIZ has been told by its chums in the retail sector that the PS3 will be dropped to $499 next week and this has been confirmed by a rush of advertisements which have been bought by Sony.
While the advertisements have confirmed what Sony meant when it talked about “refining” the PS3 price it is not clear how permanent the price drop is.
Many analysts have speculated that Sony would drop the price on the console which is widely seen as too expensive. There is no indication if the price is going to drop in Blighty where Sony even charged more than in the US and provided a slightly lighter spec.
More information [GameDaily]
