Earlier this week, IBM announced its plans to buy Transitive, a small cross-platform virtualization company.

MacRumors readers will remember the company for providing the technology behind Rosetta, Apple’s PowerPC emulator for Mac OS X. Rosetta played a major role in allowing Apple to transition from PowerPC to Intel architectures and remains a part of Mac OS X. Apple’s need for Rosetta, of course, has lessened over the years as the switch to Intel has progressed.

It’s not clear if this will affect Apple’s ongoing license for Transitive technologies.

Article Link: IBM to Acquire Transitive

CNet confirms some earlier rumors that Apple is in ongoing negotiations with the major music studios to offer more DRM (copy protection) free music in iTunes. Earlier rumors had suggested that Sony BMG had already agreed but CNet was unable to confirm this.

Apple first started selling DRM Free tracks known as iTunes Plus in May, 2007.

Despite Apple’s willingness to sell DRM-free music, the other major record labels have withheld this ability from the company in an effort to reduce iTunes’ marketshare in digital music downloads. The biggest beneficiary appears to be Amazon who currently offers DRM-free digital downloads from all four major music studios.

CNet warns that talks have been on and off for months so there is no guarantee that they will be able to come to a deal.

Article Link: Apple Negotiating More DRM-Free Music for iTunes

Recycling in my building is vetted by an angry old man who knows exactly what to do with Tetra Pak, then loudly berates anyone who doesn’t get it right. For those of you who don’t have such a helpful neighbor there’s Recycler. Siavash Ghamaty developed a free iPhone app that helps you keep track of [...]

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The company behind many popular Facebook-based games has found a creative way to harness the iPhone’s accelerometer. ‘iFun’ will allow users to play computer games using either the iPhone or the iPod touch as a handheld controller in the style of the Nintendo Wii.

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Image: http://www.macrumors.com/images/macrumorsthreadlogo.gif (http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/20/iphone-vulnerability-fix-coming-on-november-21st-in-firmware-2-2/) German publication Spiegel.de (http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/mobil/0,1518,591707,00.html) reports an newly announced iPhone vulnerability that can force a (potentially expensive) phone call to be made simply by visiting a webpage in Safari. The vulnerability was to be announced in ComputerBild (http://www.computerbild.de/) on Monday but was detailed today in a press release (http://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/pressedownloads/pressemitteilungen/iPhoneHack.jsp) from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT). A video of the exploit (http://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/pressedownloads/pressemitteilungen/iPhoneHack.jsp) is also available. SIT reports that they notified Apple of the issue a month ago and that a fix will become available on November 21st through a firmware upgrade. This seems to confirm (http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/11/iphone-2-2-firmware-10-days-away/) an earlier report that we would see iPhone Firmware 2.2 released on that date. The iPhone 2.2 firmware contains a number of small new features we have previously detailed (http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/11/iphone-2-2-firmware-10-days-away/). Article Link: iPhone Vulnerability, Fix Coming on November 21st in Firmware 2.2? (http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/20/iphone-vulnerability-fix-coming-on-november-21st-in-firmware-2-2/)

German publication Spiegel.de reports an newly announced iPhone vulnerability that can force a (potentially expensive) phone call to be made simply by visiting a webpage in Safari. The vulnerability was to be announced in ComputerBild on Monday but was detailed today in a press release from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT). A video of the exploit is also available.

SIT reports that they notified Apple of the issue a month ago and that a fix will become available on November 21st through a firmware upgrade.

This seems to confirm an earlier report that we would see iPhone Firmware 2.2 released on that date. The iPhone 2.2 firmware contains a number of small new features we have previously detailed.

Article Link: iPhone Vulnerability, Fix Coming on November 21st in Firmware 2.2?

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For an anti-virus software company, especially one that’s a Mac specialist, finding fresh or, just as good, repackaged malware is an opportunity that can’t be passed up.

Intego has announced that a new variation of an existing Mac OS X-specific trojan (RSPlug) has been spotted on a number pornographic websites.

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