Big surprise: Spammers find their way into Apple’s Ping social network Published Sep 3rd, 10 Now that we’re little more than a day from the launch of Apple’s social network Ping , reports are coming in that spammers are beginning to target the service — surprising no one. The biggest scam right now appears to be an offer for free iPhones which is popping up on many high-profile Ping accounts, reports MacRumors . Even though Apple has said that it has 160 million iTunes accounts tied to credit cards, you can also easily create an account without one — which opens the doors for spammers to flood the service.  |
TUAW’s Daily App: Mirror’s EdgePublished Sep 3rd, 10 Usually, we like to use this space to highlight developers and apps that could use a little more exposure, not call out big-budget titles from developers like Electronic Arts. But this one’s worth it — Mirror’s Edge is a pretty terrific, completely original translation of the plaforming game that arrived on consoles last year. It was out on the iPad at launch earlier this year, and now the game has made its way to the iPhone , bringing Retina Display graphics and the same well done gameplay. Out of all of the “major” game publishers, EA has shown Apple quite a bit of love in the past, and this is probably the company’s best original (in mechanics, if not actually name or premise) title for the iOS platform |
NVIDIA GTX 470M highlights rollout of 400M mobile GPU seriesPublished Sep 2nd, 10 Not everybody needs the world’s fastest mobile GPU , so NVIDIA is sagely trickling down its Fermi magic to more affordable price points today. The 400M family is being fleshed out with five new midrange parts — GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M, to give them their gorgeous names — and a pair of heavy hitters known as the GTX 470M and GTX 460M. Features shared across the new range include a 40nm fab process, DirectX 11, CUDA general-purpose computing skills, PhysX, and Optimus graphics switching . 3D Vision and 3DTV Play support will be available on all but the lowest two variants. |
Asteroid survey gathers mixed bagPublished Sep 2nd, 10 WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) — A survey of near-Earth asteroids shows they come in a far wider variety of shapes, sizes and surfaces than previously thought, U.S. researchers say. Near-Earth object – Solar System – Astronomy – United States – Small Bodies |
Mixed bag of space rocks found near EarthPublished Sep 2nd, 10 A new survey of asteroids near Earth by a NASA space telescope has found a much wider variety of the space rocks than previously thought, with some shiny and bright while others are dark and dull. |
Mark Zuckerberg Is On iTunes Ping — But Only One Is RealPublished Sep 2nd, 10Perhaps you’ve heard that Apple and Facebook are having a little bit of an issue at the moment. Despite launching with Facebook Connect |
iTunes Ping And Facebook Were Friends Yesterday. And I’m Still Connected.Published Sep 2nd, 10 There seems to be some confusion out there right now about iTunes Ping, Apple’s new music social network, and Facebook. Some people seem to think it was never a part of iTunes, that Apple decided against connecting; while other reports say they think it was at one point integrated, but that it wasn’t working and has since been removed. I can tell you for sure that yesterday Facebook Connect was a part of Ping — because I used it. When I first loaded iTunes 10 yesterday and started up Ping, connecting with Facebook was the first thing I did to find friends. |
