| 7/2/2009 | Security guard charged with hacking hospital systems
On Friday the federal authorities arrested Jesse William McGraw on a charge of felony computer intrusion, saying he intended to use the botnet to launch a massive distributed denial of service (DDOS)... Read On
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| 7/2/2009 | United Air Computer Causes Delays at Chicago’s O’Hare
United Airlines said computer malfunctions affecting passenger check-ins are forcing it to delay or cancel some flights today at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, the world’s second-busiest for passenger... Read On
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| 7/2/2009 | Bing Adds Twitter Searches
Microsoft has added a feature to Bing that allows the search engine to query the Internet for so-called real-time data, including postings from Twitter users.
"There has been much discussion... Read On
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| 7/1/2009 | Cisco guns for Microsoft in collaboration market
As Cisco Systems adds more functionality to its online WebEx conferencing service, it's ratcheting up the competitive pressure against partner and rival, Microsoft.
Cisco held a press event... Read On
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| 7/1/2009 | Google: Spammers Regroup After ISP Takedowns
Spammers are pumping out an increasing number of garbage messages as they regain their capacity to send spam through hacked PCs, according to the latest statistics released by Google on... Read On
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| 7/1/2009 | Apple iPhones Could Shut Down in Summer Heat
Whether or not anecdotal reports of iPhones overheating are true, Apple has taken them seriously enough to reveal the presence of a temperature warning screen for the iPhone 3G and... Read On
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| 6/30/2009 | China delays mandatory Internet filter software
China will delay a controversial policy to force manufacturers to install mandatory filtering software on all new computers, state news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday.
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| 6/30/2009 | Pirate Bay founders get rich in jail
Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy free file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, and that it would find ways to compensate copyright owners for... Read On
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| 6/30/2009 | Jobs Returns to Work as Apple CEO After Medical Leave
Steve Jobs is back at work at Apple Inc., returning to his job as chief executive officer as planned after taking medical leave in January.
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| 6/29/2009 | Google service combines home phone, cell, voice mail
Google has expanded access to its new Voice telephone service, which gives users a single telephone number and voice mail box for their home and cell phones.
The Mountain View Internet... Read On
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| 6/29/2009 | YouTube, Gmail raise upload size limits
Google Inc. has raised the size limits on its YouTube video-sharing site and on Gmail attachments in a move that will ease use of high-definition content.
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| 6/29/2009 | Toyota develops technology for brain waves to steer wheelchair
Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command.
Toyota's system,... Read On
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| 6/26/2009 | Garmin Issues Fix for Widespread GPS Glitch
On Wednesday, Garmin issued a mandatory software update for several GPS models that had been plagued by a software glitch that caused them to ask for a software update, then spontaneously shut... Read On
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| 6/26/2009 | Microsoft’s Hohm Hopes to Overpower Google’s PowerMeter
Microsoft released an online power management application designed to help you track your home energy consumption. Called Hohm, the Web-based application also gives you personalized energy-saving... Read On
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| 6/26/2009 | Facebook Tightens Privacy Controls
A beta version of Facebook's publisher gives users more control over who can see their content. The move is meant to improve security and privacy on the social networking site.
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| 6/25/2009 | Users Pressure Microsoft to Fix Outlook
Wednesday morning, the world is sending tweets of dissatisfaction to Microsoft over Outlook 2010's poor display capabilities. The Email Standards Project -- a group dedicated to improving Web... Read On
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| 6/25/2009 | Microsoft rebuffs Twitter protest over Outlook's rendering of HTML e-mails
Showing again the power of Twitter for quick social organizing, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday was forced to defend itself against complaints that its market-leading Outlook e-mail program wreaks havoc... Read On
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| 6/25/2009 | Google brings (Ad)Sense to mobiles
Google has announced an open beta of its AdSense for Mobile Applications platform - allowing developers of Android and iPhone applications to embed advertising from Google into their apps and get... Read On
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| 6/24/2009 | 'Spam King' Enters Guilty Plea
"Spam King" Alan Ralsky will serve up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to leading a fraudulent "pump and dump" stock spamming operation.
Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Mich.,... Read On
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| 6/24/2009 | IBM 'Roadrunner' Holds World's Fastest Computer Crown
IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory held on to its title as the world's fastest computer, followed once again by Cray's Jaguar.
The biannual Top500 list,... Read On
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| 6/24/2009 | Pentagon approves creation of cyber command
The Pentagon will create a Cyber Command to oversee the U.S. military's efforts to protect its computer networks and operate in cyberspace, under an order signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates on... Read On
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| 6/24/2009 | Man uses Twitter to monitor house
Do you often leave your home wondering if you locked the door or turned off the stove?
A British computer engineer has designed a house that will make sure you never forget to do these... Read On
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| 6/24/2009 | PRESS RELEASE: Danube Technologies and Tasktop Team Up
Bellevue, WA—Danube Technologies, Inc., (www.danube.com), the leader in software and training for the Scrum method of agile software development, and Tasktop Technologies (tasktop.com), creators of... Read On
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| 6/23/2009 | Dunkin' Donuts Releases 'Social' iPhone App
Dunkin' Donuts, the popular fast food chain famous for its coffee and baked goods, has released Dunkin' Run, a free app for the iPhone and iPod touch. It's designed to make it easier for Dunkin'... Read On
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| 6/23/2009 | FTC Cracks Down On Blogger Payola
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has plans to crack down on blogosphere payola with guidelines that would impose penalties on bloggers who promote products without adequate disclosure.
The... Read On
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| 6/23/2009 | US: China’s Internet filter mandate should be ‘revoked’
Just a week before China imposes a nationwide Internet filter, the US government came out against the looming mandate.
On July 1, all computers sold within China must come with special... Read On
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| 6/22/2009 | Bozeman to job seekers: We won't seek passwords
The city of Bozeman, Mont., has rescinded its long-standing policy that job applicants provide user names and passwords to social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
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| 6/19/2009 | Collecta Launches *Really* Real-Time Search Engine
Remember not so very long ago how amazed you were that Google could return so many useful search results in just a split-second? Today, that kind of speed isn’t enough for many people.
Into... Read On
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| 6/19/2009 | MS names ship date for free security suite
Microsoft is launching its free security suite next week - the 23rd of June to be precise.
It was going by the funky codename Morro, but is launching under the duller name of Microsoft... Read On
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| 6/19/2009 | China Orders Google to Suspend Foreign Site Searches
China has ordered Google to suspend its foreign Web site search service after warning that the company's filtering of pornography was too weak, state media said Friday.
Google was also... Read On
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| 6/18/2009 | Barclays fixes hardware problem
Barclays says it has fixed a technical fault that left some UK customers unable to withdraw cash from ATMs.
Its online and telephone banking services across the UK were not working... Read On
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| 6/17/2009 | Pew Research Center: Home Broadband Adoption 2009
Home broadband adoption stood at 63% of adult Americans as of April 2009, up from 55% in May 2008.
The latest findings of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project mark a... Read On
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| 6/17/2009 | Microsoft Names Three in 'Click Fraud' Suit
Microsoft said Tuesday that it filed suit against three Canadians and two associated businesses that the software giant had committed a version of "click fraud."
Microsoft sued Eric Lam,... Read On
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| 6/17/2009 | Google considers request to boost privacy
More than three dozen security and privacy advocates and researchers are asking Google to offer better data protection for users of Gmail and other Google apps and Google said on Tuesday that it is... Read On
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| 6/16/2009 | 'Green Dam' Developer Threatens Suit
One of the Chinese developers of the "Green Dam" filtering software pledged to patch the software's vulnerabilities, while intimating that he may take legal action against the authors of a U.S. ... Read On
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| 6/16/2009 | Internet Giants Look For Edge In Real-Time Search
Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter Inc. hasn't figured out how to make money, but that hasn't stopped Web giants Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., and Microsoft Corp. from racing to establish real-time search... Read On
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| 6/16/2009 | Apple Fixes Java Security Hole
After being goaded by the online security community last month to respond faster to software vulnerabilities, Apple on Monday finally fixed a longstanding flaw in the Java code that the company ships... Read On
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| 6/16/2009 | PRESS RELEASE: 2009 voke Innovators: Recognizing Innovation in the Application
2009 marks the inaugural voke Innovator research and recognition. This unique research focuses on innovations occurring within, and in support of,
the application lifecycle market.
voke's... Read On
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| 6/15/2009 | IBM to Unveil Cloud Computing Products, Strategy: Report
IBM will announce a number of new cloud computing products and services June 15, according to The New York Times. In addition, IBM will unveil plans for a new research lab focused on cloud computing. ... Read On
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| 6/15/2009 | Facebook starts digital turf rush
Like concertgoers lined up for a coveted ticket, Facebook users queued up over the weekend to claim their digital turf.
Late Friday and early Saturday, the world's largest social-networking... Read On
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| 6/15/2009 | 'Hunch' Web site will make decisions for you
Stumped on a tough decision? New Web sites are there to help. Hunch, a site open to the public Monday, asks questions and helps people make decisions.
Hunch, a site that launches for the... Read On
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| 6/12/2009 | Vaserv crippled by hackers
Vaserv.com, a very popular UK ISP, has suffered a large cyber attack that has caused over 100,000 websites that relied on a virtualization manager solution known as HyperVM to lose data.
The... Read On
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| 6/12/2009 | Microsoft To Launch Morro Antivirus 'Soon'
Microsoft on Thursday confirmed plans to kill off its Windows Live OneCare subscription security service in favor of a free offering that will feature a core of essential anti-malware tools while... Read On
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| 6/11/2009 | China's computers at hacking risk
Every PC in China could be at risk of being taken over by malicious hackers because of flaws in compulsory government software.
The potential faults were brought to light by Chinese computer... Read On
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| 6/11/2009 | A Double Charge for a Double Espresso
Because of a computer glitch, Starbucks accidentally charged about 1 million customers double for their coffee purchases on May 22 and part of May 23.
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| 6/10/2009 | T-Mobile Data Was Not Taken by Hacking, Company Says
T-Mobile USA data that was posted to the Internet over the weekend is genuine, but the company was not hacked, the U.S. carrier said Tuesday.
On Saturday, hackers posted what appear to be... Read On
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| 6/10/2009 | Google plots Exchange escape with Outlook plug-in
Google has developed a way to help companies move onto Google Apps--and away from Microsoft's Exchange e-mail software--without forcing a migration to the Gmail user interface.
Microsoft's... Read On
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| 6/10/2009 | Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Sets Record
As part of its monthly security update, Microsoft has released 10 new patches that address a record 31 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Windows.
Of the... Read On
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| 6/9/2009 | Twitter to verify accounts to eliminate celebrity impostors
Twitter is planning to crack down on celebrity impersonators who post messages on the service as if they were the real thing.
The San Francisco company said over the weekend that it will... Read On
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| 6/9/2009 | China requires PCs to come with anti-porn software
China is requiring personal computers sold in the country to carry software that blocks online pornography and other Web sites, potentially giving one of the world's most sophisticated censorship... Read On
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| 6/9/2009 | Most firms unaware of Web domain changes: survey
Two thirds of businesses are unaware they will be able to use their own name in place of domain extensions such as .com, .org, or .net when Internet domains are liberalized next year, according to a... Read On
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| 6/8/2009 | Germany, Google Still in Conflict Over Street View Data
Germany and Google remain at an impasse over how long certain data should be retained by the company for its Street View imagery.
Google and German data protection officials from Hamburg... Read On
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| 6/8/2009 | Hampton hacker pleads guilty to federal fraud charges
A Hampton man changed his plea to guilty Wednesday, June 3 on charges he worked with two others in an international scheme to hack into bank accounts in the U.S. in order to drain them of... Read On
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| 6/8/2009 | Yahoo builds PayPal and Picnik into Mail
Yahoo is adding third-party services to its webmail with the launch of Yahoo Mail Apps.
Services such as eBay's payment system PayPal, online photo-editing suite Picnik and cloud-storage... Read On
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| 6/6/2009 | Ouch! Hacker-free email gets hacked
Did you hear the one about the hacker-free e-mail service that was so confident about its enhanced security measure that it offered up $10,000 to anyone who could hack into it?
It got... Read On
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| 6/6/2009 | Hacker ‘Dark Tangent’ Joins DHS Advisory Council
Forget the new cyber security czar position that President Barack Obama announced last week.
The real sign that the White House might be finally taking cyber security seriously came in an... Read On
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| 6/5/2009 | US cuts off 'criminal' net firm
An American ISP allegedly involved in distributing spam and images of child abuse has been thrown off the net.
The US Federal Trade Commission asked for Pricewert LLC's net links to be... Read On
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| 6/5/2009 | PRESS RELEASE: Seapine Software Ships QA Wizard Pro 2009.1
Cincinnati, OH—Seapine Software, a leading provider of quality-centric application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, today announced it has started shipping QA Wizard Pro 2009.1 which features... Read On
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| 6/4/2009 | Opera Edges Safari as No. 1 Mobile Browser. Maybe.
Opera regained a slight lead over Apple to become the most-used mobile browser in May, according to data from StatCounter. Or maybe not.
It all depends on what's being... Read On
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| 6/4/2009 | Malware detected that allows a hacker full control over an ATM
An investigation by Trustwave's SpiderLabs performed an analysis of malware found installed on compromised ATMs in Eastern Europe. It found that the malware is able to capture magnetic stripe data... Read On
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| 6/4/2009 | PRESS RELEASE: Intel to Acquire Wind River Systems for Approximately $884 Million
SANTA CLARA, CA—Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per... Read On
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