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Opinion: More iPhone attacks likely in the future
Techradar - All the latest technology news — Computer security headlines are dominated today by the discovery over the weekend of the world's first iPhone worm, dubbed Ikee. No doubt the fact that it changed your lock wallpaper to a picture of 1980s pop throwback Rick Astley and displayed a message saying "Ikee is never going to give you up" didn't do it any harm in catching attention. The Ikee worm can only infect jailbroken phones (those iPhones which have been tinkered with by their owners to run applications not approved by Apple) that have installed SSH and not changed their default root password. That may sound like quite a combination of factors, but it's surprising how many people have chosen to ...

Confirmed: Latest OS X won't work on Atom netbooks
Techradar - All the latest technology news — Apple's latest build for Mac OS X has been changed to not run on Intel's Atom processors, much to the dismay of the 'hackintosh' community that specialise in running the operating system on PCs. Rumours of the change surfaced earlier in the month after the release of the devleoper build, and users have confirmed that this is the case. One of the favourite tricks of the hackintosh brigade has been running OS X on netbooks, but Apple has now cut that off with build 10.6.2, which will not run on computers that use an Atom processor. This rules out the majority of netbooks, with Intel's low-power chip the industry standard for the low-cost, small form-factor ...

Each Apple store handling £15 million in sales
Techradar - All the latest technology news — Apple's retail stores generate a whopping £15.5 million in sales each, with the company stating that it has done $6.6 billion (£3.95bn) in sales this year. Apple's stores have sprung up across the planet, with the likes of Regent Street in London proving immensely successful. $4,300 per square foot At the launch of the latest store, in Manhattan, Apple's Senior Vice President of retail – the brilliantly named Ron Johnson – gave out some impressive figures. Apple is currently pulling in $4,300 (£2.5k) for every square foot of retail space that it has, and that it has had over 100,000 applications to work in Apple stores. Of course you don't ...