A flaw that could open up every iPhone in the world to attack was made public by a pair of hackers earlier this week. Now Apple has moved to patch the hole in the iPhone's security.

With the game breaking the 11 million mark last month and the unprecedented success of the 2 previous Map Packs, Activision and Treyarch have revealed today the first details of the upcoming Map Pack 3 for Call of Duty: World at War (PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii).

Stepping up the Call of Duty: World at War (PS3, Xbox 360) gameplay came Map Pack 1 earlier this month, which brought you the burning streets of Berlin in Nightfire, the Japanese bunkers of Knee Deep, a less-than-well-maintained Station, and the Zombie Asylum, which features the immensely popular Nazi Zombies! It did so well that it actually set a record for Xbox Live, find out what.

Get your pens and calendars out, the first Call of Duty: World at War map pack has been given a release date: March 19 for both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. Check out the map pack details and screenshots in the full article.

The first batch of DLC for Call of Duty: World at War has finally been detailed. The content will come in the form of a map pack that features three new multiplayer maps and an additional level for the fan-favorite Nazi Zombies mode.

UK tabloid The Sun reports that an average of 10 Brits are hospitalized a week for Wii-related injuries. If that statistic was higher, I'd know what to give my annoying neighbor for Christmas.

Samsung has revealed their plans for the future: Blu-ray is clearly winning now (with maybe five more years left in its lifetime), so they might want to focus on other technological areas in which they can win. If Sony's got the media format down pat now, Samsung will be striving to bring us competitive OLED displays in the future.

One of Russia's most distinguished game developer and publisher, 1C company, has announced two new game projects that will be their first on the next generation consoles. The two games are based on Captain Blood novels and the successful IL-2 Sturmovik flight combat simulation series.  Both are now heading to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (to North America with help), but even handhelds will feel some love as well.

World in Conflict for the PC has finally passed its final stages and is ready to hit the stands on September 18 in the US and September 20 in Australia and New Zealand!

 

Both the standard and collector's edition of WIC will be available with a not-so-final-as-the-game price of US$ 49.99 and US$ 59.99, respectively. If you remember, the collector's edition will include not only great bonus stuff like behind-the-scenes videos and a documentary from The History Channel, but also an authentic piece of the Berlin Wall. Not bad for an extra ten bucks.

No word yet on the final release date for the Xbox 360 version.

 

The highest capacity we've heard of for current optical storage media is the Blu-Ray disc, whose double-layer format comes in at a monstrous 50GB capacity. That just might change in the next few years, as an ongoing research project has found a way to cram three times that capacity (150GB) into a DVD-sized disk, with plans to pump it up to a further 500GB by 2008.

The program, dubbed the Microholas Project, is under the supervision of the Institute of Optics and Optical Technologies at the Technical University of Berlin. The project team, under the direction of Dr. Susanna Orlic, managed to pull off this engineering feat by a process called microholographic recording, which they described as such on their home site:

On a microholographic disk the pit-land structure of a CD or DVD is replaced by microscopic volume gratings. These "microgratings" are holographically induced in the focal region of two counter propagating, highly focused laser beams: one beam is focused into the photosensitive layer and reflected back. The interference pattern of the incident and reflected beam results in a grating-like modulation of the refractive index of the storage medium.

In layman's terms, microholography recording creates three-dimensional holographic grids within the disk's nanostructure for storing and reading data. In comparison, traditional CD/DVD recording techniques use a two-dimensional pit-land structure that only uses the disc's surface for recording data.

Don't start turning in your HD-DVD/Blu-Ray players, though, as the Microholas Project's 150GB disk mentioned earlier is just a demonstrator of things to come. The team expects to have an even bigger 1 Terabyte disk out by 2010, with an expected read speed of 250 Mbits.