Tech Digest daily roundup: Turkey overtakes Brazil as most expensive place in world to buy iPhone

For years, Brazil was known for having the most expensive iPhone in the world. This happened with iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and even the third-generation iPhone SE. This time, however, another country has taken the top spot in the ranking. According to research by Nukeni shared with 9to5Mac, Turkey now has the world’s most expensive iPhone 14....Using iPhone 14 Pro as…

Microsoft on viruses and malware: It's not our fault, guv.

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Turns out that the vast majority of virus attacks are against badly-written third-party software, rather than Windows itself. So claims Microsoft, anyway, in the graph to the right. In XP, 58% of attacks target third party software, and in Vista, 94% target third-parties. The most popular targets are Apple’s Quicktime, Realplayer and Winzip.

When you drill down to the top ten browser vulnerabilities, Microsoft admit that they account for half of the biggest flaws on XP, including by far the top one, but on Vista, they don’t feature in the top ten at all – the number one place goes to a bit of software called Baofeng, which I suspect is a toolbar of some sort…

Alanis Morissette releases single on Motorola W270 phone, now isn't that ironic, don't you think?

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Alanis Morissette must’ve turned green with envy when Ricky Martin collaborated with Kingston to release some new tracks on a USB stick, as it’s just been announced she’s teamed up with Motorola to offer the song ‘Underneath’ on the W270 phone.

It’ll be in the form of a preloaded track on the W270, and will be a sneak peek at the angsty songstress’s album being released in June. Sadly (for the diehard Alanis fans) it’ll only be available in Brazil, where it will…

LG rolls out world's smallest Plasma TV, the 32PC5RV *tumbleweed*

LG-32PC5RV.jpgYou can tell it’s the world’s smallest Plasma telly, that was the largest photo of it we could find on the intertubes – actual life-size dimensions. FACT.

Ok, that’s as factual as Chuck Norris facts, but you get the drift. The 32PC5RV measures 32-inches, as you’d guess from the model name, and of all the places in the world to launch a new TV, they…