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MySpace Still Denies Security Holes
Following widespread reports that the MySpace pages of music bands are regularly being infected with malware, Andrew Storms, director of security operations for nCircle said he agrees that there is a yet-to-be-reported ...
Study: Online Games More Captivating
October 18, 2007 7:44AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Joshua Smyth, a Syracuse University psychology professor, noted that most of the public debate on video games has centered on their often violent ...
Did China’s Great Firewall Cause Web Outage?
GreatFire.org, a group in opposition to China’s censorship that monitor’s the nation’s Internet goings on, has three theories about the Internet outage in China. Two of them are related to Falun Gong, ...
XO Laptop Promo: Overwhelmed by Demand?
The OLPC’s give-one-get-one strategy to promote XO laptops comes as OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte’s main distribution model — selling huge blocks of XO laptops to developing nations — has failed to produce ...
XO Laptop Promo: Overwhelmed by Demand?
September 25, 2007 10:06AM The OLPC’s give-one-get-one strategy to promote XO laptops comes as OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte’s main distribution model — selling huge blocks of XO laptops to developing nations — ...
Is Unlocking Apple’s iPhone Legal?
The legal status of unlocking an Apple iPhone is somewhat murky, as the main law in this area is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which forbids the circumvention of copy-protection technology. But ...
Patch Tuesday Highlights Web-Based Malware
By Jennifer LeClaire August 15, 2007 9:02AM The number of updates Microsoft issued on August’s Patch Tuesday dwarfs the number of patches released over the past several months and highlights the new ...
Video Site Veoh Sues To Stop Universal
August 10, 2007 10:48AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Faced with a lawsuit from Universal, Veoh has asked a court for declaratory relief, a preemptive defensive move in which the court, if ...
Apple Hit by iPhone Touch-Screen Suit
Apple’s iPhone put touch screens into the spotlight once again, and now the patent hounds have begun to bark, with SP Technologies claiming that the iPhone infringes on an SP Technologies patent, ...
Vista’s First Service Pack Coming Soon
July 31, 2007 9:54AM Digg It! Bookmark to del.icio.us Windows Vista’s first service pack is arriving on August 14 through Windows Update, roughly six months after Microsoft released Vista. It is not ...