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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The iPhone rumor mill kicks up again
With the Apple 3G iPhone coming out Friday, there are rumors flying all over the blogosphere.
Techcrunch.com is speculating that the Apple App Store, where users will be able to download cool applications for their new phone, will open ahead of the cell phone’s launch because mobile software developers had to get their applications in by Monday so they could be reviewed.
And InformationWeek.com and others were saying that Apple and AT&T, the iPhone carrier in the U.S., would limit sales to one phone per person. Customers could buy two during the last iPhone rave.
Maybe that’s not so bad. Many buyers last time got stuck with two because demand on eBay and Craigslist slacked off quickly a year ago.
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Swiss spam & cheese
Think you get a lot of spam? Be glad you’re not in Switzerland.
The land of alps and edelweiss was the most spammed country int he world last month, according to the latest figures from email security and anti-spam company MessageLabs.
Nearly 85 percent of all e-mails in June in Switzerland were spam, according to the company. Canada was second on the world spam list, followed respectively by China, the United Kingdom and Germany. The United States was ninth on the list in June, with about 69 percent of all email traffic being spam.
Here are some other frightful facts from MessageLab’s June vulnerability report:
*One out of every 134 emails in June contained malware such as a virus or worm.
*One out of every 277 emails were part of a “phishing attack” designed to trick users into visiting Web sites and giving up sensitive personal or financial information.
*Among the most common (and most cheesy) spam emails included subject lines such as “What a stupid face you have!,” “Scandal rocks Obama as lurid sex video leaked!” and “Brad Pitt strips naked for Playgirl.”
Those spam emails led anyone who opened them to phishing sites linked to a search engine (Dogpile) and a porn site (PornTube), where further interaction could lead to user to inadvertently download a computer virus.
Perhaps the worse experience with spam wasn’t in Switzerland, however, but in the Marshall Islands. There, the nation’s only Internet service provider was taken off-line for about 18 hours when it was hit by a tidal wave of spam that quadrupled the ISP’s volume, according to MessageLabs.
