Apple has already announced the US pricing for the iPhone (US$499 for
the 4MB model, and US$599 for the 8MB) but what would the monthly
operating costs be. A journalist has put together his approximation:
If purchased from ATT/Cingular, the monthly iPhone costs have been
estimated to be:
- AT&T 450 minute individual plan - US$39.99/month (There may be a
minimum required voice plan to get the iPhone.)
- Unlimited data plan - US$39.99 (final data price still unknown for
iPhone)
- Estimated monthly taxes and fees - US$15
- Total cost of montly services - US$94.98
Just for comparison, similar service from Rogers Communications in
Winnipeg would be:
- Rogers Business Plan 500 (500 minutes) - C$50
- Unlimited data plan - doesn't seem to exist. They do have 5MB/month
for $5.00 and 10MB/month for $10.00 (each additional MB costs 3 ¢
with, it seems, no cap on the charges.
There is also a BlackBerry plan for $95 with 350 Weekday + Unlimited
Evenings & Weekends and 50 MB/month. Each MB over the initial 50 is
$7 with, apparently, no cap on the charges.
Sources for the above information:
ATT pricing: http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=400
Rogers pricing:
- cell phone plan: http://www.shoprogers.com/business/wireless/
plans_services/business_plans.asp?
shopperID=RGS2RJ6DGNUV9PKNXF1ER64K99GC4PNF&plan=business&cat=1&typ=1?
shopperID=Q0VQA923PLXQ8KCF85F84UA1LX88DHK0&
- OR the tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/yoe4fg
- mobile internet plan: http://www.shoprogers.com/store/wireless/
services/voice/navigate-mobile-internet.asp?
shopperID=3GGLJL1KL8VJ9ME6N2GJ7RQELEKU8UCD
- OR the tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ysr3pm
BlackBerry plan pricing: http://www.shoprogers.com/business/wireless/
plans_services/business_plans.asp?
shopperID=W6053CQGDAC99N2WPV9HXM3UBU2SAD30&plan=blackberryvoicenemail&ca
t=3&typ=2
- OR the tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ywj4xz
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...from:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.
20070617.wiphone0617/BNStory/Technology/home
Why you can't buy Apple's new phone (in Canada)
CATHERINE MCLEAN
Globe and Mail Update
June 17, 2007 at 9:06 PM EDT
The most hyped consumer electronics device in years will make its
debut on June 29, but Apple Inc. [AAPL-Q]'s iPhone will be
conspicuously absent from Canadian store shelves. Sold out? No — just
not for sale.
[...]
Rogers Communications Inc. [RCI.B-T], recently admitted little was
happening on that front. "The truth is we aren't very far with
Apple," Bill Linton, Rogers' chief financial officer, told a
conference last month. "They're concentrating on this launch and the
U.S., and when they decide to turn their mind to other markets, we'll
be in line."
[...]
...from:
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/botnet061307.htm
Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime
Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an
ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle “bot-
herders” and elevate the public’s cyber security awareness of
botnets. OPERATION BOT ROAST is a national initiative and ongoing
investigations have identified over 1 million victim computer IP
addresses. The FBI is working with our industry partners, including
the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University, to notify
the victim owners of the computers. Through this process the FBI may
uncover additional incidents in which botnets have been used to
facilitate other criminal activity.
A botnet is a collection of compromised computers under the remote
command and control of a criminal “botherder.” Most owners of the
compromised computers are unknowing and unwitting victims. They have
unintentionally allowed unauthorized access and use of their
computers as a vehicle to facilitate other crimes, such as identity
theft, denial of service attacks, phishing, click fraud, and the mass
distribution of spam and spyware. Because of their widely distributed
capabilities, botnets are a growing threat to national security, the
national information infrastructure, and the economy.
“The majority of victims are not even aware that their computer has
been compromised or their personal information exploited,” said FBI
Assistant Director for the Cyber Division James Finch. “An attacker
gains control by infecting the computer with a virus or other
malicious code and the computer continues to operate normally.
Citizens can protect themselves from botnets and the associated
schemes by practicing strong computer security habits to reduce the
risk that your computer will be compromised.”
The FBI also wants to thank our industry partners, such as the
Microsoft Corporation and the Botnet Task Force, in referring
criminal botnet activity to law enforcement.
Cyber security tips include updating anti‑virus software, installing
a firewall, using strong passwords, practicing good email and web
security practices. Although this will not necessarily identify or
remove a botnet currently on the system, this can help to prevent
future botnet attacks. More information on botnets and tips for cyber
crime prevention can be found online at www.fbi.gov.
The FBI will not contact you online and request your personal
information so be wary of fraud schemes that request this type of
information, especially via unsolicited emails. To report fraudulent
activity or financial scams, contact the nearest FBI office or police
department, and file a complaint online with the Internet Crime
Complaint Center, www.ic3.gov.
To date, the following subjects have been charged or arrested in this
operation with computer fraud and abuse in violation of Title 18 USC
1030, including:
James C. Brewer of Arlington, Texas, is alleged to have operated a
botnet that infected Chicago area hospitals. This botnet infected
tens of thousands of computers worldwide. (FBI Chicago);
Jason Michael Downey of Covington, Kentucky, is charged with an
Information with using botnets to send a high volume of traffic to
intended recipients to cause damage by impairing the availability of
such systems. (FBI Detroit); and
Robert Alan Soloway of Seattle, Washington, is alleged to have used a
large botnet network and spammed tens of millions of unsolicited
email messages to advertise his website from which he offered
services and products. (FBI Seattle)
The FBI will continue to aggressively investigate individuals that
conduct cyber criminal acts.
| Press Releases | FBI Home Page |
...from:
http://zdnet.com.com/1606-2_2-6189050.html?tag=nl.e622
During a presentation Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Sun CEO Jonathan
Schwartz said his company's open-source file system, ZFS (Zettabyte
File System), will be introduced into Mac OS X [with the release of
OS X 10.5].
...from:
http://www.sun.com/software/media/real/zfs_learningcenter/
06D00555_09_100.rm
In this video, Bill Moore (Lead ZFS Engineer at Sun) introduces ZFS
and describes how ZFS provides provable data integrity for disk
storage and shows how ZFS allows immense storage capacity to any OS
which implements ZFS.
...from:
http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/
Creating Immense Capacity
Sun engineers wondered if the 64-bit capabilities of current file
systems will continue to suffice over the next 10 to 20 years. Their
answer was no. If Moore's Law holds, in 10 to 15 years people will
need a 65th bit. As a 128-bit system, ZFS is designed to support more
storage, more file systems, more snapshots, more directory entries,
and more files than can possibly be created in the foreseeable future.
This scalability also means that storage can be dynamically added to
or removed from storage pools without interrupting services,
providing new levels of flexibility and availability for globally
accessed application services.
To efficiently use all of this capacity, file systems grow and shrink
automatically as users add or remove data. Administrators can set
quotas to limit space consumption and reservations to guarantee
future availability of space. ZFS also provides compression to reduce
disk space and I/O bandwidth requirements.
Logically, the next question is if ZFS' 128 bits is enough. According
to Bonwick, it has to be. "Populating 128-bit file systems would
exceed the quantum limits of earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a
128-bit storage pool without boiling the oceans."
[NOTE: for more info on the "boiling the oceans" comment, see http://
www.hodulik.com/2006/12/18/boiling-the-oceans/]
-------------------------------
What is ZFS and how will this affect my disk storage?
...from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs
In computing, ZFS is a file system (a method of arranging data on
computer storage) originally created by Sun Microsystems for the
Solaris Operating System. It features high capacity, the integration
of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, a novel on-disk
structure, lightweight instances, and easy storage pool management.
ZFS is implemented as open source software, licensed under the Common
Development and Distribution License (CDDL).
...from: http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/
The ZFS will provide for disk storage which is/will provide:
- Always-valid on-disk state
- Consistent, reliable backups
- Data rollback to known point in time
- Dynamic striping across all devices to maximize throughput
- Copy-on-write design makes most disk writes sequential
- Multiple block sizes, automatically chosen to match workload
- Explicit I/O priority with deadline scheduling
- Globally optimal I/O sorting and aggregation
- Multiple independent prefetch streams with automatic length and
stride detection
- Unlimited, instantaneous read/write snapshots
- Parallel, constant-time directory operations
Or, more simple ZFS delivers virtually unlimited disk storage
capacity, provable data integrity, and near-zero administration.
...More details about ZFS:
ZFS Storage Integrity, Security, and Scalability - http://
www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/zfs_part1.scalable.html
ZFS Learning Center: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/
zfs_learning_center.jsp
Videos describing ZFS: http://www.sun.com/software/media/real/
zfs_learningcenter/high_bandwidth.html
