ShareBy Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
The Black Hat conference is an annual security get-together that frequently demos newly exposed security holes. And boy, this iPhone SMS hack is a doozy.
Cybersecurity researcher Charlie Miller and his fellow researcher Collin Mulliner plan to present research on a huge iPhone security hole. Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
After 1 1/2 years of negotiations, which all began with a $44.6 billion bid by Microsoft for Yahoo!, the two companies have come to a more limited agreement, one involving their search businesses only.
That first deal was flatly turned down by Yahoo! and then-CEO Jerry Yang, but since Carol Bartz took over [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Kevin Cheng: The Wacom Intuos 4 is an excellent professional pen tablet that allows creative professionals or even consumers to have their movement captured so precisely in digital form.  With an excellent sense of style while bringing in productivity features, this product allows you to get your drawings in digital from [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

DigitalReviews Network has been approached by Shenzhen ZHC Technology Co to roadtest their latest high definition HDD media player, the i-Box Z400W.  Their approach expresses full confidence in their equipment, and has graciously offered an unit for us to test their faith.
If you have ever considered buying a networked media player, [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Windows 7 has reached the “Release to Manufacturing” (RTM) stage, which means it’s done, folks. Now all that’s left is the wait.
The build is still 7600, but the full build string differs from the previously leaked build which people thought was RTM. 7600.16384 was what [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Imagine the pressure of working on Apple products, not just in terms development but also in terms of secrecy. Imagine what that did to Foxconn employee Sun Danyong, 25, who committed suicide last week after a prototype model of a fourth-generation iPhone he was looking after went missing.
The level of secrecy [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
On Tuesday, Apple (AAPL) reported its fiscal Q3 2009 earnings for the quarter ended June 27, 2009. Revenue was $8.34 billion with a net quarterly profit of $1.23 billion, or $1.35 per diluted share. In the year-ago quarter, Apple had revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
In February announced it was going to being opening retail stores. On Wednesday, the company announced stores would be opening in the fall, some of them next to Apple Stores.
Now that ought to be fun.
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner told attendees at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans on [...]