• Kinect Sets Guinness World Record As The Fastest-Selling Consumer Electronics Device

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    According to the guys at the Guinness World Records, Microsoft’s Kinect sold on average 133,333 units per day over a 60 day period. That totals a mind-blowing 8 million units in two months.

    Gaz Deaves, Editor of Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition, said:

    The sales figures here speak for themselves. We can confirm that no other consumer electronics device sold faster within a 60-day time span, an incredible achievement considering the strength of the sector.

    These numbers mean MS shifted more Kinects than Apple sold iPads or iPhones during their first 60 days of being on sale.

    Labeled as a fad by many, Kinect took the world by storm with its futuristic approach to gaming, though a lack of titles since launch has left existing Kinect owners with shiny new kit but few games to use it with. It’s early days though, and few can argue with the hardware’s promise.

  • Untethered Jailbreak To Be Postponed Until Apple Releases iOS 4.3.1

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    After the successful iOS 4.3 Untethered Jailbreak (video below), the hacker behind the exploit seemingly will hold his jailbreak until Apple releases iOS 4.3.1.

    With Apple already baking 4.3.1 the first one releasing an iOS 4.3 jailbreak will pretty much burn the exploit 😛

    Well Apple should release 4.3.1 very soon, because tomorrow everybody knows that @0xcharlie popped an iPhone 4 at #pwn2own through Safari.

    The hacker expected that Apple will release iOS 4.3.1 specially after the hackers (at Pwn2Own contest) has successfully hacked iPhone 4 via vulnerability which found in Mobile Safari running iOS 4.2.1.

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  • Charlie Miller Wins Again by Hacking into iPhone 4

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    After The French security firm Vupen hacked Safari in just a few seconds here comes a new winning story but this time hacking into iPhone 4.

    Charlie Miller kept his Pwn2Own winning streak intact with another successful hack of an Apple product. This time by successfully hacking into iPhone 4 using an exploit found in Mobile Safari to swipe the address book of the compromised iPhone.

     

    The attack simply required that the target iPhone surfs to a rigged web site.  On first attempt at the drive-by exploit, the iPhone browser crashed but once it was relaunched, Miller was able to hijack the entire address book.

    Miller said the attack works perfectly against an iPhone running iOS 4.2.1 but will fail against the newest iOS 4.3 update. Apple has quietly added ASLR (address space layout randomization) to iOS 4.3, a key mitigation that puts up an extra roadblock for hackers.

    In an interview with ZDNet, Miller said:

    If you update your iPhone today, the [MobileSafari] vulnerability is still there, but the exploit won’t work. I’d have to bypass DEP and ASLR for this exploit to work.

    As of 4.3, because of the new ASLR, it will be much harder.

  • iPhone 5 Design Images with Larger Edge-to-Edge Screen Leaked

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    We’ve just got claims showing an iPhone mold with a larger display and a thinner bezel, iDealsChina posted several “mold engineering drawings” for the fifth-generation iPhone.

    We just got what appears to be mold engineering drawings for iPhone 5. These would be used by case designers to create plastic, TPU, aluminum, silicone and leather cases. A while back we hear rumors that iPhone 5 would have a curved back but these images show iPhone 5 with the same form factor as iPhone 4 but with an edge to edge screen.

    Apparentely, The design looks pretty much like an iPhone 4 with the exception of a larger screen which seems to take up a larger portion of the front face. News that we previously heared by reports from Digitimes and the Wall Street Journal,

    Macrumers also said that:

    Chinese accessory manufacturers clearly get access to early design documents as has been evidenced multiple times. The early iPad 2 cases were indeed accurate representations of the iPad 2. iDealsChina was also the source of a design rendering of the 4th Generation iPod Nano which turned out to be an accurate depiction of the then-unreleased iPod Nano.

    Apple’s iPhone 5 will also sport a dual-core A5 processor, according to code in the latest iOS builds, in addition to enhanced voice control and iOS 5. The iPhone 5 is expected to be revealed at WWDC 2011 with a launch date in either June or July.