In the wake of somewhat, and I use this in a very loose sense, catastrophic events over at RBS and NatWest a few weeks back, there is increased demand for the internal security systems of banks to be better regulated – or so say eScope Solutions. No one’s of a particular mind to return to the grim, murky past where cash machines offer no money and banks must open on Sundays to placate mobs of angry villagers. We should hope we’ve evolved as a society, as a civilisation even, to the point where we can check for software glitches before installing a massive update.
Perhaps I’m just a dreamer, perhaps it’s all nothing but optimistic drivel, but I believe engineers should probably run a few basic checks first. Still, I’m going to keep my pitchfork and flaming torch handy.
Let’s play a game, it’s called “what have Apple been up to this week”? Here are the possible answers:
- Move into the world of trading cards, creating Apple brand Pokemon.
- Become involved in yet more legal difficulties over its IP, patents and property.
- Form its own island nation and supplant Cuba as the world's finest suppliers of cigars.
- It should be fairly obvious that both a) and c) are plans in development, not quite ready for showing yet, so our answer is inevitably b). Apple have started demanding certain hosting sites take down test versions of iOS6 (due to be released later this year) as the version is for developers only, the OS being still in beta. Without early access, developers would be unable to create apps for launch, but some sneaky devils have been selling the pass codes that Apple charge $10 for.
We’re not at all for these sorts of shady shenanigans and here’s hoping this doesn’t impact developers getting their hands on test versions and having the time to develop astounding apps before launch. I'm not a terribly big fan of Apple, their products, the business or its user base but the popularity of Apple means others are willing to offer competition in the market - without Apple there'd be no Android as we know it.
I read this little story and was not too far from actually ROFLcoptering.
ROFLcopter, to, v. to become so animated with ones movements whist laughing as to actually take off.
It seem Android has a botnet – a BOT-net…on Android! Because they’re both robot names…pfft, whatever – it is funny. Anyway, it seems this little blighter is sending malicious emails from users, claiming to be a legitimate account (i.e.Yahoo etc.). You could pick up some nasty viruses from these emails, so keep an eye out if you’re on Droid, and avoid getting apps from anywhere that’s not the Play Store – they tend to have a fair number of bugs crawling around in them.
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