Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Boot up: Apple's iPhone jailbreak hire, ignoring Google+, Twitter Bootstrap and more

Google+ / Google Plus growth chartGoogle+ growth chart by Paul Allen: heading towards 20m in July. Now you can ignore and block them too!

A burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

"Nicholas Allegra, better known as 'comex', the creator of the JailBreakMe website which made it child's play for iPhone owners to jailbreak their devices, has been given an internship at Apple. "The 19-year-old from Chappaqua, New York posted the news of his new position on Twitter."
As Eric Schmidt says, we need to up our game. Where are the British 19-year-olds getting hired (rather than, say, arrested and charged) for their hacking skills?

"We want to make sure you can represent your real-life relationships on Google+ -- whether you want to connect with someone or not :-) So starting today, we're rolling out a new option to Ignore people, in addition to the existing (and stronger) option to Block them."
Now, where have we heard of that before?

"Researchers at anti-malware company F-Secure say they have found the actual infected Excel file that was used in the attack on RSA earlier this year, eventually forcing the company to replace millions of its SecurID tokens. The Outlook email message containing the malicious file apparently was uploaded to Virustotal in March and the researchers dug it out this week."
An Excel file with Flash content which Excel executes. As the researchers say, why does Excel need to execute Flash content? Ever?

Good points. It's been clear for years that Steve Ballmer is not a visionary. But does Microsoft need one?

"Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more."
Er.. thanks.

Some surprises among there, including one which lasted a glorious minus one days.

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