Security-Protocols

Apple (AAPL) will be providing a live audio streaming of its Q1 2008 financial results via conference call on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 2pm PST/5pm EST. The live audio webcast will be available through Apple’s website located at

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq108/

The conference call will be available as a continuous rebroadcast beginning Tuesday, January 22 at 5pm PST / 8pm EST through Tuesday, January 29 at 5pm PST / 8pm EST.

“Apple reports earnings next Tuesday, and while the shorts and naysayers continue to beat the uncertainty drum, the company is probably sitting prettier than any other big name in big name tech nowadays. We can harp on recession worries, though Steve Jobs himself tells me that it’s a non-issue for his company,” Jim Goldman writes for CNBC. “Further, he scoffed at my suggestion that Apple is pricing itself out of competition with high-priced Macs, the iPhone and Apple’s iPods since all have seen noticeable price drops and the company, for the first time in its history, offers a broad array of products with a broad range of price tags. It’s a good and fair point.”

Full Story: http://www.cnbc.com/id/22728339/site/14081545

Lets see if AAPL shares will “break out” on Tuesday…

Don’t like Windows Vista, and or are you not much of a Mac fan? Well, maybe you should check out gOS 2.0 which is now available for download.

gOS is the unofficial Google OS which is a Linux based operating system which works with Google applications right out of the box. gOS gained popularity when it was announced that it would be sold at Wal-Mart with a low end PC for $200 dollars. Although its not the official Google OS which everyone has been waiting for, but its defiantly a user friendly Linux version which your grandma might just like and wont have much of a problem using.

gOS Rocket 2.0.0 has serveral new improvements:

Support for Google Gears
Virtual desktops
Online storage drive via the online storage service Box.net
Adobe Flash 9 for Linux
Updated Wi-Fi manager

Site link: http://thinkgos.org
Download link: http://thinkgos.org/downloads.html

Steal This Film II has finally been released and of course its available for free. The League of Noble Peers announced that the film is intended to ‘bring new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think ‘after intellectual property’, think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity’. Steal This Film 1 was a huge success with nearly 3 million downloads and I think the second one will double the amount of downloads. The film features people from the BitTorrent community such as Erik from mininova and Brokep from ThePirateBay.org. Also, Dan Glickman from the MPAA makes a short appearance stating that the MPAA will never be able to stop piracy. You can download the film at the following link below:

Steal This Film II

Apple (AAPL) stock hit an all time high today closing at $198.80. Apple now has a market cap of $174 billion rising 134.32 percent this year. Investors and shareholders are most likely reacting to possible strong holiday sales plus the upcoming introductions of new products at Macworld this January. Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to everyone else as well.

I have been waiting to see when someone was going to do something like this.

Nick Breese, a senior security consultant at Auckland-based Security-assessment.com, has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords, using a PS3.

By implementing common ciphers and hash functions using vector computing, Breese has pushed the current upper limit of 10–15 million cycles per second — in Intel-based architecture — up to 1.4 billion cycles per second.

Breese, who has been working on the project, called “Crackstation”, for the past six months, used the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console for his break-through research. PS3’s Cell Broadband Engine technology was created by IBM, Toshiba and Sony. The companies collaborated to create the CBE, commonly known as Cell, processor, which consists of one scalar processor and eight vector processors.

Source: PC World