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Weekly Rumour Mill: Can Apple can wipe your Iphone?, remote iTunes, Dark Knight on BD-Live

by Daniel Long on Aug 8, 2008

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We take each week's best rumours from around the world and list them here in the Weekly Rumour Mill.

21/07/08 – 27/07/08

Apple: Resistance is futile - we can destroy your IPhone apps remotely! (ok, so we made that bit up)

The Inquirer are reporting that an iPhone expert(aren't we all?), named Jonathan Zdziarsk has discovered an evil backdoor hidden in the new Apple iPhone firmware 2.0 update, which allow Apple to “delete any unsuitable or unauthorised applications”.

This will probably not come as surprising news to Apple disciples, as they are likely be remain unaffected, since Apple engineered a backdoor into many of their brains already, causing them to line up for stupidly long periods of time and spend huge amounts of money on overpriced kitschy T-shirts on eBay.

Dark Knight to go BD-Live?

The second highest grossing film of all time could grab another record soon; the first film to get a BD-live release, a format that allows film geeks to sit around a TV set and have a boring conversation (or argument) about the film they’re watching.

We're not sure what’s worse - a bunch of superhero nerds hankering about their Batman fetish, or those pesky kids who play their 50 Cent ringtones from the back of the cinema, whilst throwing popcorn and other assorted projectiles at the screen.

HP gets the touch

Just when you thought all the hype behind touchscreens would simmer down, another manufacturer has thrown their gloves into the ring. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, HP is pushing to have new touchscreen notebooks released within the next 18 months.

Remote iTunes streaming a reality?

Macrumours are reporting that “Apple are proposing that mobile device owners could instead access their entire collection (of ITunes) over Wi-Fi or cellular networks”. This would in effect, allow users to sync their iPhones or iPods with a lifetime supply of music without ever having to use cables.

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totoaus Aug 8, 2008 10:37 PM	Based on my IT experience over many years, I am not overly concerned about back doors whether in iPhines, Macs, PCs or even mainframes. My reason is simple: stupidity beats malice every day. Far more people each day are going to have technology problems through mistake, carelessness, lack of knowledge and manifest other causes than through back doors and other defects that allow intruders to trash their tech toy. The end result will of course, sadly be the same, grief stricken and angry people yelling at people like me to fix their damaged toy and recover their data. They won't accept the reality that sometimes things cannot be fixed, nor the responsibility of well known preventative actions. The most depressing of all, are those deluded souls who actually believe the marketing and sales comments and have unrealistic expectations for their gizmo. i just wish it wasn't me that got depressed by their complaints and problems. Comment made about the PC Authority article: Weekly Rumour Mill: Can Apple can wipe your Iphone?, remote iTunes, Dark Knight on BD-Live? We take each week's best rumours from around the world and list them here in the Weekly Rumour Mill. What do you think? Join the discussion.
Slatts Aug 9, 2008 11:22 AM	A back door is a back door. Doesn't matter what your IT experience. More on this in the peripherals forum. Is there an echo in here?
.:Cyb3rGlitch:. Aug 9, 2008 12:37 PM	Slatts wrote: Is there an echo in here? Not anymore. ;)
Slatts Aug 9, 2008 12:49 PM	.:Cyb3rGlitch:. wrote: Slatts wrote: Is there an echo in here? Not anymore. ;) Mr fixit strikes again :)