Bryan Chaffin

The free concert film stream is to promote the addition of both the album from the event and the concert film to iTunes. Apple said that the album will include an iTunes LP version with special features and other material from the concert. The Concert for Bangladesh was a one of the first major charity…

In other words, Mozilla wants to free us from the tyranny of not only proprietary smartphone OSes like Android and Windows Phone, but whole widget devices like Apple’s iOS ecosystem, too. The group thinks it can accomplish this mission with an open source OS and Web apps. In a blog post announcing the project, the…

In an interview with Fortune published over the weekend, Mr. Miller said that he found these controller chips all used default passwords, and that with this knowledge, a hacker can learn how to reverse engineer the firmware Apple uses to program and control the chips.Security Researcher Charlie MillerPhoto by Garrett Gee, posted to Flickr “These…

Mr. McAdam is set to become CEO of Verizon next week, as Ivan Seidenberg leaves the position to become the chairman. CNBC asked Mr. McAdam to explain where future revenue growth was going to come from for Big Red, asserting that some investors have been concerned about that subject. As part of that line of…

“Lion is off to a great start, user reviews and industry reaction have been fantastic,” Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, said in a statement. “Lion is a huge step forward, it’s not only packed with innovative features but it’s incredibly easy for users to update their Macs to the best…

The titles: Mac OS X Snow Leopard Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server iLife iWork Aperture Apple Remote Desktop Xsan GarageBand Jam Packs Mac Box Set Of those, three of iLife’s component apps, iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand, are on the MAS, as are Pages, Keynote, and Numbers from iWork. Aperture and Apple Remote Desktop are…

  Apple has seven directors on its board, including Mr. Jobs himself. According The Journal’s sources, some of the other six directors (likely the independent ones), talked to high-powered executive recruiters to discuss their options. The report is somewhat contradictory, in that the beginning of the article characterized these meetings as “more of an informal…

The case was part of a back-and-forth battle between Apple and Kodak relating to digital cameras in Apple’s iPhones. Kodak has been quite successful in using ITC complaints and lawsuits in forcing companies to pay licensing royalties for some key patents that Kodak owns. Today’s ruling concerned counter claims that Apple had filed in response…

Many U.S. readers may not realize that Nokia was until quite recently the top smartphone maker in the world, and is still the top mobile handset manufacturer. Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platform have swiftly surpassed Nokia in recent months in the smartphone market, a trend accelerated by Nokia dumping its own Symbian OS in…

Flurry’s data is a subset of all iOS and Android app development, as it comes from developers who use the company’s platform-specific SDKs to add Flurry analytics tracking to their apps. That said, the company claims a total of 45,000 developers who have embedded Flurry’s tools in some 90,000 apps, a significant sample from both.…

Microsoft opened its first retail store in 2010, and since then the company has opened ten more in California, Washington, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, and Georgia. The expansion the company plans is concentrated on the East (mainly the Northeast) and West Coast, in Florida, and in Texas. During Wednesday’s WPC 2011 Day Three keynote,…

Oracle has been seeking licensing royalties for every Android device sold, something that would turn Android from a “free” open source OS to a “not-free” open source OS, which would benefit Apple, Microsoft, RIM, and any other competitor in the smartphone business. Any form of stay in the case would put Oracle’s case in serious…

GetJar offers apps for Android and BlackBerry devices, as well as Java apps and apps for Nokia’s soon-to-be-defunct Symbian OS. Users can also find Web apps, some of which will work on Apple’s iOS devices. The company claims some 1,969,259,455 downloads to date, with more than 160,000 total apps and 332,472 registered developers. Between all…

At the heart of Bloomberg’s report is the idea that Apple has been forced to lower its minimum buy because the company is finding it difficult to sell all the space it has, but price decrease is specifically for a minimum buy, as opposed to a decrease in actual advertising rates. From the still-steep entry…

HP TouchPadMr. Rubinstein is a former Apple executive who left the company to become Palm Inc.’s CEO, where he eventually orchestrated the sale of his company to HP. The HP TouchPad was the first major new product to come out of that acquisition, but it has been broadly panned in the mainstream and tech media…

“From our research,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post announcing the new version of Bing for iPad, “we know that many searches are inspired by things people see on the web. Today, it can be somewhat painful to search on a tablet when you’re engaged in reading something; just copying and pasting pieces of text…

Better yet, it’s based on Android 2.2, a version of Google’s platform that’s a couple of generations old. Never fear, though, because you can have your Android 2.2 device with a steel, 18-carat rose gold, or titanium finished case, and you can get it accented with rubber; calfskin, alligator, lizard or carbon leather trims. According…

At issue is that YGA said found a “vulnerable code portion in developer.apple.com [called] URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (‘Open Redirect’),” according to Networkworld. Turning to the Common Weakness Enumeration definition from MITRE for this term, we learn that: “By modifying the URL value to a malicious site, an attacker may successfully launch a phishing…