5 Reasons Why New Macs and iPhone are Lacking

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5 Reasons Why New Macs and iPhone are Lacking
7:41 PM - June 8, 2009 by Tuan Nguyen

(from tomshardware.com posting)

Today at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, many things were unveiled.

The new MacBook specs and MacBook Pro, slashed prices, the new iPhone 3G S, and of course, Apple's next installment of OS X, Snow Leopard. Despite the fanfare however, Apple's announcements were largely non-exciting.

Yeah it's true. I do use Macs. But it's true too I have several custom built PCs at home. The announcements shown off today however, reveal that Apple is indeed not a hardware company. It's a software company at heart, and monetizes those products through its hardware sales. One of the most obvious proofs of this is the company's iPhone. Just about the only good nugget of today's presentation was Apple's talk about Snow Leopard. Indeed the next-generation of OS X with its BSD underpinnings has great features going for it. In fact, installing Snow Leopard will free up 6 GB of space if you upgrade from Leopard.

But anyway, let's move on to my top 5 reasons why Apple's hardware is really still lacking and behind the curve.

1. Hardware Support
2. Price / Evolution Strategy
3. Odd Hardware Adoption
4. Small Steps Appear Big
5. Sometimes Removing Hardware Support

Here's the complete posting and detailed information for each of the 5 sections.

Spammers find new ways to flood corporate networks

From Computerworld.com posting.

Spammers find new ways to flood corporate networks

By Robert McMillan
June 1, 2009 12:01 AM ET

Computerworld - Unsolicited e-mail accounted for 90.4% of all messages received on corporate networks during April, an increase of 5.1% from a month earlier, according to a report released May 26 by Symantec Corp.'s MessageLabs Intelligence unit.

The monthly MessageLabs report on threat trends also found that nearly 58% of all spam can be traced to botnets.

Adam O'Donnell, a researcher at Cloudmark Inc., a provider of antispam tools, noted that in addition to using botnets, spammers in recent months have been experimenting with a new way to sneak unwanted e-mail past corporate filters.

Often, he said, a spammer will rent legitimate network services, often in an Eastern European country, and then blast a large amount of spam at the network of a specific ISP. The idea is to push as many messages as possible onto the network before any kind of filtering software detects the incident. O'Donnell estimates that hundreds of thousands of such messages are sent each day without detection.

Social networks are also becoming an increasingly important tool for spammers.

Security experts note that social-networking spam can't be filtered at the corporate firewall and appears to come from friends of the recipients.