Music Ownership Beats Music Subscription in Reader Poll

By: Joe

In last week’s Faceoff Series we asked about music consumption models : Do Mashable readers prefer to own their entire music collections or do some of you gravitate toward subscription services? One week later and the results are in: Ownership wins the day at a full 50% of the vote. Of all our past Faceoffs, though, this edition had one of the highest “tie” votes constituting people who really like both models See the article here: Mashable

iPhone OS 3.1.3 sees 14% adoption in 6 days, new hack released

By: Joe

A new study has found that 14 percent of iPhone users upgraded to iPhone OS 3.1.3 in less than a week of availability, while a new hack to exploit Apple's latest update has been released. Released last Tuesday, iPhone OS 3.1.3 was a minor update , bringing a battery reporting fix, fixing an issue where third-party applications would not launch, and patching a number of security holes. In its first six days of release, an estimated 14 percent of ...

Dutch hacker seeks out jailbroken iPhones for fame and fortune

By: Joe

Jailbreaking an iPhone certainly brings many benefits , but it's also frought with some peril, as amply demonstrated by a Dutch hacker who decided to go snooping around for vulnerable jailbroken iPhones in the Netherlands. While he apparently didn't actually swipe personal information or cause any damage, he was able to find some jailbroken iPhones with SSH running, which allowed him to display a message saying "Your iPhone's been hacked because it's really insecure! Please visit doiop.com/iHacked and secure your iPhone right now!" A noble gesture of a white hat hacker Read whole story on : Engadget

New App: Control Your TiVo from Your BlackBerry

By: Joe

Way back in September of 2008, RIM and TiVo announced that they would be teaming up to bring a TiVo application to the BlackBerry platform. Read the original post: Mashable

TUAW Labs: VirtualBox

By: Joe

Filed under: OS , Software , Switchers , How-tos , Open Source , TUAW Labs Running other operating systems on a Mac is nothing new, and with the advent of Intel-based Macs we've seen a flood of virtual machine software: Parallels Desktop for Mac , VMWare Fusion , and Codeweavers CrossOver Mac . These products enable you to run Mac OS X and another operating system simultaneously. For many of my consulting clients who are switching from PCs and who already have a licensed copy of Microsoft Windows, I've been using Sun's Open Source xVM VirtualBox product Photo: Read whole story on : TUAW