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Social-engineering contest reveals secret BP info
Defcon A hacker competition that challenges contestants to trick employees of large companies into divulging potentially sensitive information aims to show how human gullibility is the biggest security vulnerability of all. During its first day at the Defcon hacker contest in Las Vegas, it had clearly achieved its goal.…
'Death to browsers!' cries Apple mobile-app patent
A trio of Apple filings seek to patent mobile-application "systems and methods" for travel and online shopping — and to move us three steps closer to a Google-free world.…
Microsoft gets dirty with Gmail cloud cash fight
Microsoft is so committed to the cloud that it's throwing everything at rivals like Google to crack open the door on sales and gain momentum online.…
RIM answers Apple iPad with...The BlackPad*
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is preparing to launch an iPad competitor in November, and it will be called the BlackPad, according to a report citing two people familiar with the company's plans.…
AMD, GlobalFoundries, and the Intel gap
When AMD spin-off GlobalFoundries broke ground on its fab in upstate New York last year, the chip manufacturer boasted it was "closing the gap" on Intel. "We were a year behind Intel at the 45nm node, and that difference will be cut significantly at the 32nm generation," said vice president of manufacturing systems technology Tom Sonderman. "By 22nm, there will be no difference. It will be in the noise level."…
Arizona and Florida Senate Races, Plus Government Spending
Boffins authenticate Apple 'Antennagate'
More evidence has surfaced that Apple's beleaguered Judas Phone does, indeed, have serious reception challenges — and today's facts and figures come from a sophisticated source.…
MS preps emergency patch for Windows shortcut peril
Warning of an uptick in attacks, Microsoft plans to issue an emergency update to patch a critical Windows vulnerability that hackers are exploiting to seize control of PCs.…
Microsoft cries foul on Yahoo!-Google Japan deal
Microsoft will try to stop Yahoo! from hooking up with Google in Japan.…
Bengals Sign Terrell Owens To One-Year, $2 Million Ordeal
Strongside/Weakside: Stephen Strasburg
Microsoft Street Slide: Street View done properly
Leaving aside the creepy privacy aspects, Street View is one of Google's most valuable services. The ability to familiarise yourself with somewhere strange, before you arrive, is genuinely useful.…
