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Apple's iPhone may be six months away from its general release, but some eager fans already have smartphones that look just like the user interface company CEO Steve Jobs unveiled last week at the Macworld Conference & Expo. At least one company, MoDaCo, has developed a screenshot of the interface that users can download and install as a skin on their own PocketPC device.

Apple's Lawyers Target iPhone Copycats

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Jack Minsky built a successful business by writing software for Apple's Macintosh computers. So when Apple last week dropped the word computer from its name, and dedicated its annual Macworld trade show to non-computer gadgets, Minsky might have felt concern for his company's future. Not so. Minsky, president of SoftwareMacKiev of Boston, thinks Apple's new strategy is right on target.

Apple Hasn't Fallen far From its Tree

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AppleInsider claims to have nailed down the specs of the recently-announced Apple TV. Along with previously known specifications, the Apple TV is said to include the following hardware assortment:

Apple TV Specs

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Apple's new iPhone appears to be the clearest statement yet of what Steve Jobs' impact has been in the world of consumer electronics. It is not that he invents new technologies. He refines existing ones. Jobs himself acknowledged that when asked during an interview Tuesday whether he considered the iPhone to represent a trend toward the convergence of computing and communications.

Steve Jobs: Blazing the Reinvention Trail

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Researchers have discovered a serious vulnerability in Mac OS X that allows hackers to hijack computers running Apple's Safari Web browser. The flaw was uncovered as part of the Month of Apple Bugs project, which kicked off at the beginning of the month with the goal of discovering one vulnerability or flaw per day. Thus far, the researchers have uncovered 10 or so flaws.

Mac OS X Flaw Exposes Safari Users

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Federal investigators are actively probing the circumstances behind a stock-option grant to Apple CEO Steve Jobs that carried a false October 2001 date, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> reported in Friday's editions. On Dec. 29, Apple said its own investigation had cleared its charismatic leader and the rest of its current management of misconduct involving stock option grants.

Feds Investigate Apple Backdating

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Nearly half of the short films being screened at this month's Sundance Film Festival will be available for purchase at Apple's iTunes store under a deal announced Friday. The digital downloads will supplement the free streaming at Sundance's Web site, which will offer the shorts for only a three-month period beginning Jan. 18.

Sundance Shorts Coming to iTunes