Category: 711: Mac Treat #147, Madame C. J. Walker, App Store Subscriptions Announced, iOS Security Flaw Exposed

Small Dog is a socially responsible business who measures our success by the triple bottom line of People, Planet and Profit. While we recognize that profit makes this machine run, we also care equally about how community involvement, workplace quality, customer satisfaction and protecting this planet. None of these measures of success stand alone; they…

Last week, TUAW “*reported*”:http://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/10/iphone-passcode-bypassed-by-security-researchers/ a group of researchers had cracked the passcode system implemented in iOS 4 across Apple’s range of portable devices. This exploit bypasses the initial passcode lock and allows access to any password saved on the device in a matter of minutes. The bypass is accomplished by first jailbreaking a target device…

This Tuesday, Apple “*announced*”:http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/02/15appstore.html a new subscription model for the App Store. Arriving nearly two weeks after the launch of “*The Daily,*”:http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=19XpSnZWhPI&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fthe-daily%2Fid411516732%3Fmt%3D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30 the subscription service is available to all publishers of content-based apps. While the most obvious application for the service is digital magazines and newspapers, the subscription service is open to makers of video…

Sarah Breedlove Walker (1867-1919) was one of the first American women to become a millionaire, and she ran the largest business owned by an African American at the time. She made a prosperous business out of selling her self-made hair care products for African American women. The story of Madame C. J. Walker is a…

This past weekend, I took a trip up to Montreal. As I approached the Canadian border, I received an alarming text message on my iPhone. It was AT&T offering a friendly reminder that if I continued to use my iPhone in Canada as vigorously as I do in the States, they would bleed my wallet…

_Dear Friends,_ We have had some sunny warm days and cold nights, and while it may seem a bit early, the sap in the maple trees is running and maple sugaring operations are starting up here in the nation’s largest (and by far the best) maple sugaring state. I used to sugar the old fashioned…