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Next generation iPhone now in testing phase

Filed under: Hardware, Rumors, iPhone

Mac Rumors has received word from Pandav, creator of iPhone application iBart [iTunes Link], that they’ve spotted usage records for the next-generation iPhone.

PinchMedia, the firm that provides analytics for the iBart app, allows Pandav to see what devices its apps are running on. Pandav noticed an identifier for “iPhone3,1″ in their logs. The iPhone 3GS hardware identifier is “iPhone2,1″, which means the next-generation iPhone is already being tested.

iBart is a guide for San Francisco’s train system, which lends further credence to the rumor. The iPhone 3GS was spotted in October of 2008, again by PinchMedia statistics, and was also being used in the San Francisco area.

Based on the past three years of releases and comments by Apple’s senior VP of marketing, Phil Schiller, the most likely launch date for the next-generation iPhone (iPhone 3GSS? iPhone 3GX? iPhone 4G?) is either June or July of 2010.

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IT search company Splunk reaches profitability

Splunk, which provides IT managers with a search engine to find problems in their company networks, just released its latest numbers on customer and revenue growth. The big message: Splunk is now profitable, and has been for two consecutive quarters.

Splunk’s downloadable application allows users to search (in real-time) the logs of all the hardware and software in their networks. So Splunk should help IT teams find and solve problems much more quickly. The San Francisco company makes money by charging for services around its free software.

In its most recent quarter (July to September), the company released Splunk 4, which now has been downloaded 40,000 times. Chief executive Godfrey Sullivan also just completed his first full year with the company. Sullivan, who was chief executive of Hyperion Systems when it sold to Oracle for $3.3 billion, was appointed CEO in 2008 to help get Splunk’s business into shape. Looks like he managed to do that.

Also in Q3, Splunk says it added 153 customers, bringing the total to more than 1,300. New customers include NATO, Credit Suisse, and the United States Department of State and Department of Energy.

Splunk has raised $40 million in venture funding from Ignition Partners, August Capital, JK&B Capital, and Sevin Rosen Funds. Competitors include LogLogic and Sensage.

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Viagra spam brings bulging returns of more than $4,000/day

Pharmaceutical spam can generate more than $4,000 per day in sales, confirming that spam continues to thrive because of those gullible few who click through and ruin it for the rest of us. And that’s not just an estimate: a security researcher from Sophos have combed through sales logs as part of his investigation into the growth of spam networks, noting that Russian affiliate partner networks—also known as “partnerka”—are responsible for some of the largest Canadian pharmacy spam businesses.

Dmitry Samosseiko’s report, “The Partnerka — what is it, and why should you care?” (PDF) focuses largely on these Russian networks and how they drive traffic, advertising, and more. Not surprisingly, online pharmaceuticals tend to be a very popular affiliate business, with one of the largest being one called GlavMed. GlavMed itself claims to be strongly anti-spam, but it has a sister company called “SpamIt,” a private group of e-mail spam affiliates that researchers suspect are also behind the Storm, Waledec, and Conficker botnets.

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Social networks make it easy for 3rd parties to identify you

By now, it’s no secret that social networks (or really any websites) are sharing some of your usage data with advertising partners in order to provide more targeted ads. Most of the time, this data gets anonymized when it gets passed on so that there’s no personally identifiable information attached to your browsing history. Or does it? I turns out that some social networks—including the majors that we all know and love—have an interesting definition of “anonymous,” essentially making it possible for lots of personally identifiable information to be exposed in connection to browsing habits.

Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Digg, and LiveJournal (among others) are all guilty of “leaking” personally identifiable information (PII) to partners, according to a recent study by Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Craig E. Wills and AT&T Labs’ Balachander Krishnamurthy. A “leakage,” by the study’s definition, is the opportunity for a third party to link the information they get from the social networks (either in the form of logs or browser cookies) to someone’s PII—your name, phone number, and dog’s favorite treat aren’t passed on directly, but can easily be pieced together.

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IDrive Lite, A Contacts Backup App For iPhone And BlackBerry, Gets Even Better

IDrive Lite is easily one of my favorite iPhone applications.

It backs up my contacts to the cloud so I don’t have to worry about losing that vital information were I to lose the device or accidentally drop it into a river (don’t ask), it works like a charm and it’s absolutely free. And today the company behind the app, Pro Softnet Corporation, made the tool even more useful.

IDrive Lite for iPhone and Blackberry (links go to respective app stores) got upgraded with a number of reliability and performance fixes, and now allows you to restore contacts that you saved to a different device.

That means you can now backup your contacts from your BlackBerry and switch to the iPhone – or vice versa – and still be able to restore all the contact details you saved using the tool. The same goes for when you’re sticking with the same brand but switching from an earlier version to a newer model.

If you’d like to view and manage your contacts database online, you can head to idrivelite.com and log in with your IDrive account. The dashboard allows you to add, edit or delete contact information, import contacts from Facebook and view logs of the activities performed from the app and/or the website.

I’ll repeat it again: the mobile application is totally free.

For an alternative solution, check out My.Memova.

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