Gadget & Tech

If you’re using Apple’s Safari browser, PayPal has some advice for you: Drop it, at least if you want to avoid online fraud.
Safari doesn’t make PayPal’s list of recommended browsers because it doesn’t have two important anti-phishing security features, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer.

“Apple, unfortunately, is lagging behind what they need to do, to protect their customers,” Barrett said in an interview. “Our recommendation at this point, to our customers, is use Internet Explorer 7 or 8 when it comes out, or Firefox 2 or Firefox 3, or indeed Opera.”

Safari is the default browser on Apple’s Macintosh computers and the iPhone, but it is also available for the PC. Both Firefox and Opera run on the Mac.

Unlike its competitors, Safari has no built-in phishing filter to warn users when they are visiting suspicious Web sites, Barrett said. Another problem is Safari’s lack of support for another anti-phishing technology, called Extended Validation (EV) certificates. This is a secure Web browsing technology that turns the address bar green when the browser is visiting a legitimate Web site.

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“Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features.”

Apple mailed out its invitation on Wednesday to a Cupertino campus for next Thursday about its iPhone SDK. Part of the invitation is the promise of a roadmap for developers and for customers.

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The Celrun TV comes with a WiFi, Ethernet, 320GB hard drive, USB ports, an integrated digital TV tuner and more. Celrun TV support DivX, XviD, AVI, MPEG1/2/4, ASF, OFF, FLAC, WAV, H.264, WMV and lots more. Price or release date not available yet.
Eat your heart out Apple tv.

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New versions of the MacBook Pro have been released today. They come loaded with up to 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Penryn processors, and the MacBook Air’s trackpad which allows for multi-touch gestures. The low-end MacBook has also been upgraded. For full specs and prices click on Read More.

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Russian scientists have claimed in a research paper, time travel could be possible in just a few months. A pair of mathematicians, Irina Aref’eva and Igor Volovich, noticed a phenomenon as a by product of using Cern’s Large Haldron Collider (LHC). The LHC is the world’s largest scientific instrument, a giant 27 kilometer loop internationally-run collider located under France and Switzerland.They claim that the atom-smashing of the LHC creates conditions to open a wormhole in the future.

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The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is a Windows Mobile phones. With a 800×480 pixel display, joystick , touch screen and Arc slider QWERTY keyboard. It has WiFi, 3.5G and assisted-GPS and more

Bluetooth could get a lot faster next year by taking advantage of Wi-Fi technology already built into many gadgets. Michael Foley, director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, said the first devices with the technology could be on the market in the middle of next year. The industry group behind Bluetooth, which has more than 10,000 member companies, plans to announce Monday that it is pursuing the technology and will make it available next year.
Linking Bluetooth and Wi-Fi may make it easier and faster to transfer large amounts of music between computers and cell phones, or send pictures from a camera phone to a printer, or video from a camcorder to a TV.

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Microsoft, IBM, Google and Yahoo have joined the board of the Open ID Foundation which aims to streamline login systems across the web. The Foundation wants to bring about a system that could mean one ID acts as a guarantor of a person’s identity across all the sites they have signed up for.
Already more than 10,000 websites have adopted the Open ID approach.
Open ID aims to remove some of the need to keep creating new login names and passwords by adopting the approach used by your computer when it looks up a site name you type into an browser address bar.
“Open ID was always intended to be a decentralized sign-on system,” said Brad Fitzpatrick, a Google software engineer who created OpenID while at blog software maker Six Apart. “It’s fantastic to join a foundation committed to keeping it free and unencumbered by proprietary extensions.”

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