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This latest security vulnerability hits along the same lines as the recently fixed Nokia (NYSE: NOK) “Curse of Silence” bug that caused S60-based smartphones to stop accepting SMS text messages upon receiving a specifically formatted text message. A new security hole has been found to affect some Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) handset that allows some malicious ne’er-do-well to force a hardware reboot with a simple text message.
Mobile security researchers at Mobile Security Lab have discovered a vulnerabilit... |
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Feb 2009 |
The U.S. government has hired IBM to build a supercomputer with more power than all the supercomputers on the Top 500 supercomputer list combined.
It's an ambitious claim by IBM in a business where jumbo-sized claims are the norm. The planned Sequoia system, capable of 20 petaflops, will be used by the U.S. Department of Energy in its nuclear stockpile research. The fastest systems today can only reach 1 petaflop, a remarkable achievement in its own right that was met only last year.
It "is the bigges... |
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Feb 2009 |
A glitch at Google in which every site on the internet was labeled as potentially harmful to users' computers has been blamed on human error.
Surfers across the world complained as search results came back with the ominous warning 'this site may harm your computer' for every single web site on 31 January at around 15.00 GMT.
The problem, which lasted for about 40 minutes, was initially blamed on bad data from StopBadware.org, a non-profit group run by Harvard and Oxford universities. But Maxim Weinste... |
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Feb 2009 |
Seagate Technology LLC today launched its first 2TB enterprise-class disk drive as part of a new family of near-line SAS and SATA drives.
The new Constellation 2.5-in. and Constellation ES 3.5-in. drives come in Serial Attached SCSI 6Gbit/sec. or Serial ATA 3Gbit/sec. models and include a feature that allows them to shut down when not in use to save power. The Constellation ES stores up to 500GB on four platters with an areal density of 368 gigabits per square inch
Western Digital Corp. released a 2... |
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Feb 2009 |
FACEBOOK is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150 million members by creating one of the world's largest market research databases.
In an attempt to finally cash in on the social networking site, once valued at $US15 billion ($23.6 billion), it will soon allow multinational companies to selectively target its members in order to research the appeal of new products. Companies will be able to pose questions to specially selected members based on such intimate detai... |
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Jan 2009 |
Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions. With a newly launched website, Google is now helping out by supporting applications that distinguish the good ISPs from the bad.
measurement labISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years, but only recently has this become a hot topic. In collaboration with New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and th... |
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Jan 2009 |
Leading VoIP service Skype goes from strength to strength, with revenues rising by 26 per cent last quarter. Yet despite this success, parent company eBay is rumoured to be looking to offload its cash-cow to none other than Google.
The rumours seem credible when you consider that eBay's latest financial results were pretty poor (revenue down 7 per cent to $2.04bn), well below the market expectations for what is traditionally retail's busiest quarter.
No eBay/Skype synergy
"Even eBay has now admitte... |
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Jan 2009 |
APPLE HAS AGREED to pay disgruntled Ipod owners up to $25 a pop for first generation Nanos which attracted more scratches than an 80s DJ convention.
The suit alleged that Apple was well aware that the material used on the front panel of the music player was marked easily, in some instances becoming heavily damaged even if wiped with a paper towel, but failed to warn its customers about the problem.
The first iteration of the popular Nano media player was released in September 2005 and it was a matter ... |
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Jan 2009 |
There are a billion people on the internet. So says ComScore, a company that counts such things. In December 2008, it claims, there were 1,007,730,000 unique visitors to sites around the world — "a billion global users".
There are plenty of discussions about how, when and what to measure online, and nobody's claiming ComScore is inaccurate in its numbers. On one point, however, it's plain wrong. It hasn't measured how many people are connected to the internet. It's measured how many people are on the web... |
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Jan 2009 |
Japanese researchers have come up with a paint that they say will block high-speed wireless signals, giving businesses a cheap option to protect their wireless networks.
This is nothing new though, as RF-blocking paints have been available for a number of years now.
Indeed, EM-SEC Technologies successfully tested its own RF-blocking paint back in March 2007 to shield wireless devices and other electronic equipment within a building. Due to the relatively cheap materials used in the paint the paint is ... |
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Jan 2009 |
The Nokia 5800 is the Finnish giant’s first bona-fide touch phone and while it may not be the Appe iPhone killer everyone was hoping for, it still has oodles of multimedia potential. In fact, this Symbian S60-powered music-centric smartie has some features that will make the Jesus Machine blush with embarrassment. Read our review to find out more.
Because the Nokia 5800 is more of an affordable mid-range handset, perhaps the iPhone’s comparisons are a bit harsh. But when Apple’s tickler is the benchmark ... |
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Jan 2009 |
The Touch HD is a fantastic phone, if you can afford one. It out-performs every HTC phone previously and looks fantastic doing it.
Design
Considering the announcement of the Palm Pre and the leaked images of the HTC road map, 2009 looks like the year everyone tries to out-play Apple with iPhone look-alikes. Last year, we saw touchscreens from Samsung, HTC and LG try to vary the formula, but with limited success compared to the front-runner. HTC has reconsidered its approach and the Touch HD is a fitting... |
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Jan 2009 |
The worldwide economic meltdown finally derailed Nokia (NYSE: NOK), sending the firm's fourth quarter earnings down 69% and dropping its dominance of the global handset market to 37%.
In its earnings report Thursday, the handset and mobile services provider said its sales plunged nearly 20% to 12.7 billion Euros ($16.4 billion) from 15.8 billion Euros. Net profit was $744 million.
Teardown TV takes a deep dive inside the HTC Google Android phone, taking it apart and pointing out some of its main compo... |
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Jan 2009 |
President Obama won the first fight of his presidency: He can keep his BlackBerry.
A ruling has been reached among the president’s advisers – and the Secret Service – that will allow him to keep his e-mailing device. The decision is set to be explained this afternoon at the first White House briefing of the new administration.
For two months now, Mr. Obama has been waging a vigorous public relations campaign among his aides and his minders to keep his BlackBerry, which he has relied upon for years. He... |
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Jan 2009 |
Intel on Monday cut the prices of many of its mainstream processors, with some of the cuts lopping off as much as 48 percent.
The prices of five different versions of the Intel Core 2 Quad processor were cut by as much as 40 percent, with the 3GHz Q9850 dropping from US$530 to US$316. Meanwhile the 2.33GHz Q8200 dropped in price by 16 percent, from US$193 to US$163.
The Pentium Dual Core processor line also saw price cuts, with the 2.5GHz E5200 chipset having a cut of 24 percent from US$84 to US$64.
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