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Kramer of Mad Money: Buy Apple & Hang On

Jan 26 6:10 pm – just heard him say it’s cheap. Also called it “Red Hot”. But predicts short-term rough ride for stock price, so strap in. Targets $300 per share.

Caller mentioned rumor of Electronic Arts deal.

And the World Holds Its Breath…

Apple’s big announcement is Wed at 1:00 pm EST…

Mac & iPhone Developers GOTO Atlanta

The Mac Developer Network (a Europe-based group) is hosting a convention in Atlanta in cooperation with the Big Nerd Ranch (a programmer training company) on February 21st to 24th.

Year in Mac Security Report

Intego,  a maker of Mac security software, published a report on their findings for the year.

The PDF file can be downloaded from their blog: http://blog.intego.com/

An interesting security issue was the increase in trojan horses in pirated Mac software.  The malware writers had such success with the relatively cheap iWork, they quickly moved into putting out [...]

AP News: AT&T Problem Logs Users into Wrong Sites

The Linux Users Group (LEAP-CF.org)  brought this to my attention.

http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/9000/10043664/AP_Exclusive_Network_flaw_causes_scary_Web_error

The conjecture is that some problems left web cookies in an AT&T computer. The cookies were each assigned to an IP address.  When the IP address was re-issued to a different smart-phone so it could connect to the internet, that phone was now considered logged into [...]