Briefly: S&P ups Apple to "Strong Buy", Apple posts teaser
Standard and Poor's have upgraded Apple Computer to a 5-start stock. Meanwhile, one security analyst has officially kicked-off the "Month of Apple Bugs." And over at Apple.com, the company is having some fun with its faithful -- posting its first pre-Macworld teaser in five years.
S&P upgrades Apple
Standard and Poor's analyst Richard Stice on Friday upgraded shares of Apple from a 4-star "Buy" to a 5-star "Strong Buy," saying the most recent formal disclosures surrounding its stock-option issues are helping to alleviate lingering uncertainty for the company.
"While the entire scenario is cause for concern, we believe these formal disclosures will help alleviate lingering uncertainty for the company," he wrote. "Moreover, we think fundamental business drivers remain intact."
Stice maintained his 12-month target price of $110 on shares of Apple.
Month of Apple Bugs tips-off
A security analyst who vowed that January would be the "Month of Apple Bugs," is making good on his promise this week with an inaugural bug listing titled "Apple Quicktime rtsp URL Handler Stack-based Buffer Overflow."
"A vulnerability exists in the handling of the rtsp:// URL handler," the analyst wrote. "By supplying a specially crafted string (rtsp:// [random] + semicolon + [299 bytes padding + payload]), an attacker could overflow a stack-based buffer, using either HTML, Javascript or a QTL file as attack vector, leading to an exploitable remote arbitrary code execution condition."
The issue has been successfully exploited in QuickTime Version 7.1.3 and Player Version 7.1.3, according to the report. Previous versions should also be vulnerable on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Apple posts teaser on website
Apple this week updated the landing page of Apple.com with a new graphic and teaser for the new year. "The first 30 years were just the beginning," the company wrote. "Welcome to 2007."
As noted by MacRumors, the last time Apple posted pre-Macworld teasers was in 2002. In that instance, the company changed its teaser text daily in the week leading up to Macworld San Francisco 2002.
Graphic teaser appearing at Apple.com | Source: Apple Computer, Inc.
"This one is big. Even by our standards," read one message. "Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond," said another.
The 2002 conference eventually gave way to the flat-panel iMac, a 14-inch iBook, iPhoto and the first Macs to ship with Mac OS X as the default operating system.
S&P upgrades Apple
Standard and Poor's analyst Richard Stice on Friday upgraded shares of Apple from a 4-star "Buy" to a 5-star "Strong Buy," saying the most recent formal disclosures surrounding its stock-option issues are helping to alleviate lingering uncertainty for the company.
"While the entire scenario is cause for concern, we believe these formal disclosures will help alleviate lingering uncertainty for the company," he wrote. "Moreover, we think fundamental business drivers remain intact."
Stice maintained his 12-month target price of $110 on shares of Apple.
Month of Apple Bugs tips-off
A security analyst who vowed that January would be the "Month of Apple Bugs," is making good on his promise this week with an inaugural bug listing titled "Apple Quicktime rtsp URL Handler Stack-based Buffer Overflow."
"A vulnerability exists in the handling of the rtsp:// URL handler," the analyst wrote. "By supplying a specially crafted string (rtsp:// [random] + semicolon + [299 bytes padding + payload]), an attacker could overflow a stack-based buffer, using either HTML, Javascript or a QTL file as attack vector, leading to an exploitable remote arbitrary code execution condition."
The issue has been successfully exploited in QuickTime Version 7.1.3 and Player Version 7.1.3, according to the report. Previous versions should also be vulnerable on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Apple posts teaser on website
Apple this week updated the landing page of Apple.com with a new graphic and teaser for the new year. "The first 30 years were just the beginning," the company wrote. "Welcome to 2007."
As noted by MacRumors, the last time Apple posted pre-Macworld teasers was in 2002. In that instance, the company changed its teaser text daily in the week leading up to Macworld San Francisco 2002.
Graphic teaser appearing at Apple.com | Source: Apple Computer, Inc.
"This one is big. Even by our standards," read one message. "Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond," said another.
The 2002 conference eventually gave way to the flat-panel iMac, a 14-inch iBook, iPhoto and the first Macs to ship with Mac OS X as the default operating system.
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Standard and Poor's have upgraded Apple Computer to a 5-start stock. Meanwhile, one security analyst has officially kicked-off the "Month of Apple Bugs." And over at Apple.com, the company is having some fun with its faithful -- posting its first pre-Macworld teaser in five years.
S&P upgrades Apple
Standard and Poor's analyst Richard Stice on Friday upgraded shares of Apple from a 4-star "Buy" to a 5-star "Strong Buy," saying the most recent formal disclosures surrounding its stock-option issues are helping to alleviate lingering uncertainty for the company.
"While the entire scenario is cause for concern, we believe these formal disclosures will help alleviate lingering uncertainty for the company," he wrote. "Moreover, we think fundamental business drivers remain intact."
Stice maintained his 12-month target price of $110 on shares of Apple.
Month of Apple Bugs tips-off
A security analyst who vowed that January would be the "Month of Apple Bugs," is making good on his promise this week with an inaugural bug listing titled "Apple Quicktime rtsp URL Handler Stack-based Buffer Overflow."
"A vulnerability exists in the handling of the rtsp:// URL handler," the analyst wrote. "By supplying a specially crafted string (rtsp:// [random] + semicolon + [299 bytes padding + payload]), an attacker could overflow a stack-based buffer, using either HTML, Javascript or a QTL file as attack vector, leading to an exploitable remote arbitrary code execution condition."
The issue has been successfully exploited in QuickTime Version 7.1.3 and Player Version 7.1.3, according to the report. Previous versions should also be vulnerable on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Apple posts teaser on website
Apple this week updated the landing page of Apple.com with a new graphic and teaser for the new year. "The first 30 years were just the beginning," the company wrote. "Welcome to 2007."
As noted by MacRumors, the last time Apple posted pre-Macworld teasers was in 2002. In that instance, the company changed its teaser text on a daily basis in the week leading up to Macworld San Francisco 2002.
Graphic teaser appearing at Apple.com | Source: Apple Computer, Inc.
"This one is big. Even by our standards," read one message. "Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond," said another.
The 2002 conference eventually gave way to the flat-panel iMac, a 14-inch iBook, iPhoto and the first Macs to ship with Mac OS X as the default operating system.
Holy rigatoni!
Holy rigatoni!
Haven't enough of your posts been deleted? Are you going for a record or something?
I turned out to be an early investor.
I hope .mac will finally rock with a living community of creative pros! I sincerely hope they will abandon the awkward iWeb idea in favour of an advanced homepage with straightfwd navigation and networking facilities! Yes! Kinda MySpace but alotmore user friendly!!
Also in 2007, the Cover Browser (introduced in iTunes) finds its way into Finder, the Address Book and iPhoto!
Yes! It's definitely gonna be the year of the Leopard!
Haven't enough of your posts been deleted? Are you going for a record or something?
Don't playa hate...congratulate!
This is along the same lines as when S.J. said the previous year will be "the year of HD",
And we all know how that turned out.
And we all know how that turned out.
just smashing
fooking...
wait!!!
can't...
fooking...
wait!!!
How are you going to manage that?
Holy rigatoni!
Wilco,
No offense, dude. But this is getting real old and lame. Please stop with the pointless replies. They'll be deleted from here on out.
Thanks,
K
Wilco,
No offense, dude. But this is getting real old and lame. Please stop with the pointless replies. They'll be deleted from here on out.
Thanks,
K
THANK YOU! The dumb replies are bad enough, but quoting the entire article just to reply with an exclamation involving pasta drives me up the wall. I really want to ripe this kid a new one.
Wow, we can come up with some pretty out there crap on these rumor sites. I am even more excited for the year now... can Apple really out do evenour greatest hopes?
"Beyond the rumor sites. Way beyond,"
Wow, we can come up with some pretty out there crap on these rumor sites. I am even more excited for the year now... can Apple really out do evenour greatest hopes?
I think you misread the badly constructed article. The "Way Beyond" crap was what apple pontificated leading up to the macworld expo in 2002. And it was so not even close to the rumor sites that they were ridiculed.
Let's hope for more of the same this year!
just smashing
Yeah, just great. Except it was a couple of years later then he'd hope, to the point that perhaps we might get there in 2007. Or maybe it turned out that HD was just a fad, and as such, Apple decided not to bother using it for any of their video stuff.
just smashing
Really? What HD innovations did Apple produce that year?
Really? What HD innovations did Apple produce that year?
The market decides when it makes economic sense to adopt, not a marketing slogan.
Wilco,
No offense, dude. But this is getting real old and lame. Please stop with the pointless replies. They'll be deleted from here on out.
Thanks,
K
Aaaaaaaw...... poor Wilco.
I'll admit to initially being one of the VERY irritated members (in fact, I originally signed on to AI to respond to him).
But I have to say that it has, for me, acquired that "crazy aunt-in-the-cellar" quaility. I will miss it TERRIBLY if his queerness (I am using it in the traditional English sense of the term) were censored.
Just my 2¢.