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December 30 — Google is most probably set to launch its Nexus One smartphone, designed by HTC, during ‘Android press gathering’ at its headquarters in Mountain View, California on Jan. 5.
Reportedly, the press conference invitation does not mention Nexus One that is creating a buzz in the mobile market for quite some time now,...
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A German computer scientist has cracked the encryption algorithm that secures 80% of the world’s mobile phones, but it’s far from a practical attack.
A German computer scientist working with a team of experts has broken the code used to secure about 80% of the world’s mobile phones. But the group responsible for protecting GSM...
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Microsoft Corporation (MSTF), one of the world’s largest software companies, has lost another battle. The company has been slapped with a $290 million penalty for infringement of Canada-based i4i’s patent number 5787449.
The description of the i4i patent is very broad—“A system and method for the separate manipulation of the architecture and content of a...
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A not-so-merry holiday gift for Amazon.com: hackers say they’ve successfully cracked copyright protections on the company’s Kindle e-reader, making it possible to export e-books to other devices.
One hack reportedly resulted from a Kindle DRM challenge issued on Israeli forum Hacking.org. On that site, an Israeli hacker known as Labba claims to have created a...
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Founder Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia asked in a letter to please Donate or else accept advertising.
I say allow some advertising and use the money to improve wikipedia. Read the Jimmy Wales letter below
An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales
Today, I am asking you to make a donation to support Wikipedia.
I started Wikipedia in 2001,...
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Last week, the U.S. Cyber Challenge, a nationwide recruiting venture for America’s digital army, was wrapped up when 21-year-old Chris Benedict, of Nauvoo, Illinois, was crowned, in CNN’s words, “king of the hacker hill.” The series of three competitions, which pitted hackers from around the country against one another and included an electronic version...
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Almost one in five online divorce petitions dealt with by one firm cite Facebook in one way or another.
Divorce lawyers claim the explosion in the popularity of websites such as Facebook and Bebo, which connects old friends and allows users to make new ones online, is tempting people to cheat on their partners.
Suspicious spouses...
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PARIS – A Paris court ruled Friday that Google Inc.’s expansion into digital books breaks France’s copyright laws, and a judge slapped the Internet search leader with a €10,000-a-day fine until it stops showing literary snippets.
Besides being fined the equivalent of $14,300 for each day in violation, Google was ordered to pay $430,000 in...
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Twitter was attacked by a group of Iranian hackers last night. A group, calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army, compromised DNS records and redirected visitors to a page showing the Iranian flag.
The attack lasted over an hour, according to Twitter boss Biz Stone.
Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed....
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A producer from Uruguay who uploaded a short film to YouTube in November 2009 has been offered a $30m (£18.6m) contract to make a Hollywood film.
The movie will be sponsored by director Sam Raimi, whose credits include the Spiderman and Evil Dead films.
Fede Alvarez’s short film “Ataque de Panico!” (Panic Attack!) featured giant robots...
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Windows 7 isn’t just getting good reviews, it’s also selling well, CEO Steve Ballmer told shareholders Thursday.
Balmer selling Windows 1.0 24 years agoo
Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft’s shareholder meeting, Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a “fantastic start.”
“We’ve already sold twice as many units as any OS in a comparable time frame,”...
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The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.
Other events singled out by the New York-based International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences which bestows the annual Webby Awards were Iran’s election...
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Intel’s Core i9 chips won’t hit the market for a few more months, but that hasn’t stopped Polish site PCLab from putting the new 32 nanometer processors through its paces in a recent series of benchmark tests.
While testing pre-release 2.8 GHz Gulftown chips, PCLab found a significant speed increase with certain applications. According to...
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Google is to limit the number of news articles users can read for free on its website.
The search engine said it was changing its First Click Free programme so that readers would not be able to look at more than five pages in one day.
The move follows scathing criticism of Google by Rupert Murdoch...
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The search giant on Tuesday released a public beta of its Google Chrome Web browser for Macs and Linux. Somewhat lost in the hubbub of the Chrome for Mac release, Google on the same day launched both a beta version of Chrome for Linux operating systems and Chrome Extensions, a gallery of about 300...
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