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- MacBook batteries susceptible to hack attacks
- Apple eyeing Hulu acquisition, insiders say
- Marketer taps browser flaw to see if you're pregnant
- RIM PlayBook nabs first US gov't tablet certification
- Rescue privacy before it vanishes forever
- Mac Lion's breath causes Celerra NAS storage to die
- Toyota tech to steer cars round jaywalkers
- Nuclear Mars tank to roam imposing crater
- HP board gives Leo $10bn more funny money
- Anonymous hackers hacked by young Turks
- Evil '666' auto-whaler tool is even eviler than it seems
- Acer to deliver ARM notebook within nine days
- Nokia reaps the Dilbert years
- Sony calls time on 8mm video format
- Feds investigate $17m of missing kit at CompUSA
- Activision: Guitar Hero to re-form
- Murdoch parliamentary pandemonium: Shock snap
- Angry Birds, other iPhone games shotgunned by Lodsys
- Phone-hack backlash BBC in embarrassing headline gaffes
- Cameron: Murdoch son of Murdoch needs another grilling
- RM shares take a caning following Board warning
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Blu-ray extended edition
- Copyright Kitemark plan flutters aloft
- Speaking Clock to celebrate diamond anniversary on Sunday
- Ofcom posts broadband, mobile punter satisfaction scores
- Pfizer's Facebook page jacked by script kiddies
- Go Daddy spokes-totty: I'm on the elephants' side
- Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G2 USB 3.0 Flash drive
- Four illegal ways to sort out the Euro finance crisis
- Big Blue boffins scan 10 billion files in Flash in a flash
- Corporates love iPhone, iPad more than Android kit
- Japanese judge jails serial malware author
- Heathrow to get new facial recognition scanners
- Phishers target frequent flyer schemes in Brazil
- Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Part One
- NSW stalls on R18+ games classification: report
- TSA to revise nudie scanner software
- On first day, Apple sells 50 Lions for every lion
- AMD readies Bulldozers to ship next month
- Sony insurer says it's not liable for costs of data breach
- 'Green' trans-Atlantic cable set to launch in 2012
| MacBook batteries susceptible to hack attacks Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:16 PM PDT Default passwords raise bricking threat, maybe moreNow that Apple has endowed the Mac operating system with state-of-the-art security protections, a researcher has devised new attacks that target the machine's battery.… |
| Apple eyeing Hulu acquisition, insiders say Posted: 22 Jul 2011 02:37 PM PDT Just a tiny nibble from $76.2bn Jobsian nest eggApple is in talks to acquire video-streaming and subscription service Hulu, according to sources speaking with both Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal… |
| Marketer taps browser flaw to see if you're pregnant Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:06 PM PDT A gaffe of Epic proportionsA prominent online marketer that helps websites deliver targeted ads has been exploiting a decade-old browser flaw that leaks the history of websites that users visit, a researcher from Stanford University reported.… |
| RIM PlayBook nabs first US gov't tablet certification Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:05 PM PDT Lifeline tossed to floundering fondleslabResearch in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook has received a much-needed shot in the arm by becoming the first tablet to earn US government security certification.… |
| Rescue privacy before it vanishes forever Posted: 22 Jul 2011 11:07 AM PDT The architecture of forced participationOpen...and Shut I used to be able to bowl alone on the internet. Now I'm constantly forced into social interaction. I blame Tim O'Reilly. Or, rather, the misinterpretation of one of his core principles: "architectures of participation" – meaning systems that default to user participation.… |
| Mac Lion's breath causes Celerra NAS storage to die Posted: 22 Jul 2011 08:48 AM PDT Get the patch, don't fear the pussyWhen the Lion roars, Celerra bleats and plays dead.… |
| Toyota tech to steer cars round jaywalkers Posted: 22 Jul 2011 08:41 AM PDT 'These aren't accidents. They're throwing themselves into the road gladly.'Toyota has taken automatic collision-avoidance a step further by allowing a car to steer itself around an obstacle if it can't slow down in time.… |
| Nuclear Mars tank to roam imposing crater Posted: 22 Jul 2011 08:39 AM PDT Red planet 'firmly in our sights', declares NASA bossNASA has announced that its Mars Science Laboratory, aka Curiosity, will touch down in Mars' Gale crater, described as boffins' "top choice to pursue the ambitious goals of this new rover mission".… |
| HP board gives Leo $10bn more funny money Posted: 22 Jul 2011 08:10 AM PDT Financial engineering 101The board of directors at IT giant Hewlett-Packard think that HP's stock is undervalued and that the company needs to bolster the earnings per share that the company will report in future quarters. Thus the board has given CEO Leo Apotheker an additional $10bn in funny money to send in |
| Anonymous hackers hacked by young Turks Posted: 22 Jul 2011 07:25 AM PDT 'Snobby, arrogant, IGNORANT little f*cking children'AnonPlus, the social network set up by anarcho-hacktivista collective Anonymous, has itself been hacked.… |
| Evil '666' auto-whaler tool is even eviler than it seems Posted: 22 Jul 2011 07:03 AM PDT Robs the robbers who rob the robbersHackers have created a fake tool especially designed to exploit the laziness of the most clueless and unskilled phishing fraudsters.… |
| Acer to deliver ARM notebook within nine days Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:58 AM PDT Tegra 2 ousts Intel, Android ousts WindowsAcer needs to hurry. Apparently, it's going to launch the first ever notebook based on an Nvidia Tegra 2 chip this month, and there only nine more days to go.… |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:57 AM PDT Margin on the ridiculousAnalysis Nokia took a long, long time to turn consistent profits into a gigantic quarterly loss, but nobody can be surprised by yesterday's results. With so few (and such lacklustre) products in the pipeline for the past two years, it is remarkable how well it has done for so long, with so little.… |
| Sony calls time on 8mm video format Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:24 AM PDT And... cutSony has pulled the plug on another iconic format from yesteryear, calling time on the 8mm video format.… |
| Feds investigate $17m of missing kit at CompUSA Posted: 22 Jul 2011 06:02 AM PDT CEO out, SEC and FBI in as gear disappears in MiamiThe FBI have taken charge of investigations into the reported theft of $17m (£10.4m) worth of electronics allegedly stolen from Systemax-owned CompUSA by two brothers of fired exec Gilbert Fiorentino and other former employees.… |
| Activision: Guitar Hero to re-form Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:50 AM PDT Plucking marvellousLess than a year since Activision announced the franchise had performed its final farewell gig, Guitar Hero is to make an unexpected comeback. In fact, Activision never planned to kill it off in the first place, apparently.… |
| Murdoch parliamentary pandemonium: Shock snap Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:46 AM PDT What really went down at the faceful-of-pie hearingExclusive We gather there's an isolated tribe of Papuan headhunters who have not yet caught up with the News of the World mobe-tapping outrage, but it's surely just a matter of time before the scandal reaches even the remotest pockets of humanity.… |
| Angry Birds, other iPhone games shotgunned by Lodsys Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:27 AM PDT Furious feathered Finnish Android version also citedRovio, makers of crack-like mobile game Angry Birds, is facing a patent claim from Lodsys – the patent-holder suing Apple – and its third-party developers for alleged infringements.… |
| Phone-hack backlash BBC in embarrassing headline gaffes Posted: 22 Jul 2011 05:09 AM PDT Auntie can't get mouth around clockUpdated We at Vulture Central know only too well that it has been an extremely busy week in the world of phone-hacking for reporters across the land, but that's surely no excuse for this worrisome piece of sloppy copy from none other than Auntie this morning.… |
| Cameron: Murdoch son of Murdoch needs another grilling Posted: 22 Jul 2011 04:48 AM PDT Princeling tries to get behind himselfPrime Minister David Cameron has called on News Corp chairman James Murdoch to face further questions from MPs about the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed his family media empire.… |
| RM shares take a caning following Board warning Posted: 22 Jul 2011 04:27 AM PDT When will somebody think of the childrenSpecialist education IT supplier RM has issued a warning that results for the year ending September may fall below expectations as market conditions remain challenging on both sides of the pond.… |
| The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Blu-ray extended edition Posted: 22 Jul 2011 04:00 AM PDT PreciousReview 26 Hours of extras, 15 discs, 3 movies, one ring. Finally, the extended Blu-ray version of Peter Jackson's The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy has been released. Time to finally Orc-up and buy.… |
| Copyright Kitemark plan flutters aloft Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:59 AM PDT Just click the skull and crossbones icon for free tunesWe first revealed a cunning plan to persuade search engines to "kitemark" serial pirate music websites back in April. Now the Performing Rights Society, which hatched the idea, has talked about it publicly for the first time. The PRS calls it "traffic lights", and the idea is that search engines flag known and persistent copyright infringement enablers in their results pages.… |
| Speaking Clock to celebrate diamond anniversary on Sunday Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:52 AM PDT At the thaird strairke, I will be - beep, beep, beeeep - 75 yairs earldAt the third stroke - or this Sunday, to be precise - Britain's famous Speaking Clock will be 75 years old.… |
| Ofcom posts broadband, mobile punter satisfaction scores Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:36 AM PDT 'Are you happy with your wash?'Orange has topped Ofcom's latest broadband customer satisfaction poll, though it remains some way behind the lead in the regulator's equivalent survey of mobile networks.… |
| Pfizer's Facebook page jacked by script kiddies Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:29 AM PDT Viagra firm not hard enough to beatPharmaceutical giant Pfizer's Facebook page has been defaced by mischief makers.… |
| Go Daddy spokes-totty: I'm on the elephants' side Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:23 AM PDT Tusky chums should be free to roam - and get shot by my bossCelebrity Go Daddy spokesmodel Jillian Michaels has led a protest against circuses' unethical treatment of elephants, just a few months after company chairman Bob Parsons came under fire for shooting one dead while on holiday.… |
| Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate G2 USB 3.0 Flash drive Posted: 22 Jul 2011 03:00 AM PDT SuperSpeed file swapperAccessory of the Week If Apple won't go USB 3.0, at least almost every other computer maker has. While eSata, Firewire 800 and Thunderbolt are certainly better for desktop drives, SuperSpeed is the only choice when you want to copy files quickly onto a stick and go.… |
| Four illegal ways to sort out the Euro finance crisis Posted: 22 Jul 2011 02:53 AM PDT And one of them is about to be usedComment Saving the euro isn't the easiest of things: solving the current problems actually would be quite easy, if expensive, except for all the laws and regulations that rule out all of the easy ways.… |
| Big Blue boffins scan 10 billion files in Flash in a flash Posted: 22 Jul 2011 02:08 AM PDT Enticing developments at the labIBM and Violin have announced a great big GPFS numbers record: the software scanned 10 billion files in a flash – well, 43 minutes – using four Violin flash memory arrays.… |
| Corporates love iPhone, iPad more than Android kit Posted: 22 Jul 2011 02:01 AM PDT True, says GoodGood Technology makes BlackBerry-style infrastructure and client software for big businesses. Good is popular with a fair few corporates, and it released some interesting data last night about the mobile platforms these giants are implementing.… |
| Japanese judge jails serial malware author Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:56 AM PDT VXer riddled P2P with 'squid-octopus' download zapperJapanese authorities have jailed a serial malware writer for two-and-a-half years over his latest creation.… |
| Heathrow to get new facial recognition scanners Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:24 AM PDT If your face doesn't fit ...Passengers going through terminals one and five at Heathrow will have their faces scanned from September before they board their planes, airport operator BAA has announced.… |
| Phishers target frequent flyer schemes in Brazil Posted: 22 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT Phly-phishing phreebooters pillage air milesPhishing fraudsters have latched on to a new target, with attacks designed to gain compromised access to frequent flyer accounts.… |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Part One Posted: 21 Jul 2011 11:00 PM PDT The mane event?Review There was a time when I'd be excited about the launch of a new version of Apple's Mac operating system. I'd count the days leading up to the launch with the same fervour as opening the windows on a yuletide advent calendar.… |
| NSW stalls on R18+ games classification: report Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:14 PM PDT New classification may yet arrive, howeverThe meeting of Australian attorneys-general came within one voice of deciding to add an R18+ games classification to Australia's censorship regime.… |
| TSA to revise nudie scanner software Posted: 21 Jul 2011 06:30 PM PDT Security theatre gets a 'G' ratingAmerica's Transport Security Administration has decided it doesn't need full nude outlines to work out whether or not someone is carrying a bomb under their clothing.… |
| On first day, Apple sells 50 Lions for every lion Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:29 PM PDT Panthera leo leo outrun by one million Mac OS X salesDuring its first day of availability, Apple sold 50 copies of its new Mac OS X Lion operating system for every living copy of the actual African Lion for which it is named.… |
| AMD readies Bulldozers to ship next month Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:06 PM PDT Profitable, but desperately seeking chipper CEOThe hybrid CPU-GPU chips for mobile PCs gave Advanced Micro Devices some breathing room in the second quarter, but it's going to take continued ramping of these APU processors and an upswing in Opteron server sales to get the company back to the profit levels it should be enjoying during a retooling phase in the IT market – and it looks like AMD and its server partners won't have to wait too much longer.… |
| Sony insurer says it's not liable for costs of data breach Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT Sues game maker for saying otherwiseSony has been sued by its insurance company, which says the policy it issued doesn't cover a series of high-profile security breaches that exposed personal information associated with more than 100 million accounts.… |
| 'Green' trans-Atlantic cable set to launch in 2012 Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:01 PM PDT Iceland landing to promote data centre bizThe Wellcome Trust charitable foundation has stepped outside the world of healthcare research funding and taken a stake in a new trans-Atlantic cable system.… |
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