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31 August 2010

 

Hurricane Earl may test IT teleworkers

 

How a mediocre iPad knock-off could foretell Steve Jobs' eventual doom

 

Open source benefits from 7th circle of Apple hell

 

HP agrees to pay $55M to settle fraud charges

 

Old Apple QuickTime code puts IE users in harm's way

 

Cisco patches bug that crashed 1% of Internet

 

Microsoft Increasing Price of Xbox Live Gold Membership

 

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30 August 2010

 

Microsoft's Windows Live Sync is Now Live Mesh, With More Storage

 

RIP ATI: AMD Rebrands Graphics Products

 

Malware Convention -- Not a Good Idea

 

Paul Allen's Lawsuits: What's up With That?

 

Clearwire launches Rover pay-as-you-go 4G service

 

28 August 2010

 

Paul Allen Sues Google, Apple, AOL, Netflix, others

 

Blockbuster to file for 'pre-planned bankruptcy'

 

Personal Computer Security: Using Uncommon Sense

 

How Google Gmail Calling Affects Skype

 

Murder by Malware: Can a Computer Virus Kill?

 

Google Maps Misplaces Lincoln Memorial

 

Research Experiment Disrupts Internet

 

How to Murder a Flash Cookie Zombie

 

Apple tops the IBM security list with the most vulnerabilities

 

27 August 2010

 

Rootkit with Blue Screen history now targets 64-bit Windows

 

HP out for Dell blood: Goes to $30 a share for 3Par

 

Researchers Warn of .Zip File Spam Surge

 

Gmail Users Make One Million Calls in 24 Hours

 

The Anti-Facebook Arrives September 15: Will You Switch?

 

uTorrent patches application against DLL vulnerability

 

Google fixes Gmail bug that re-sent e-mail messages

 

MIT builds swimming, oil-eating robots

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

26 August 2010

 

Adobe Patches Shockwave Player Flaws

 

Attorneys General Want Craigslist 'Adult Services' Shut Down

 

Scammers Hit Twitter, Facebook, Send Free IPad Spam

 

Facebook Ends IE6 Support, and You Should Too

 

Infected USB drive blamed for '08 military cyber breach

 

Adobe Overhauls Photoshop.com, Ditches Sign-Up Requirement

 

The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS

 

Daily wrap-up in the world of video games,
technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

25 August 2010

 

RIAA can't search for copyright violators; still wants Web sites to help

 

Apple Mac Security Update Plugs 13 Vulnerabilities

 

Voice Calling Coming to Gmail?

 

RIP, Yahoo Search: Why I'm Not Shedding a Tear

 

Security secrets the bad guys don't want you to know

 

Yahoo moves to Microsoft's Bing in North America

 

Privacy group charges Apple plans to patent 'traitorware'

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

24 August 2010

 

Dell launches first U.S. smartphone, the Android-powered Aero

 

Fact check: malware did not bring down a passenger jet

 

Iomega Moving All New Portable Storage Drives to USB 3.0

 

Glasses-Free 3DTVs Coming This Year Courtesy Of Toshiba?

 

Spray-On Solar Cell Technology Powers The Future

 

Malicious Spam Exploits Fake Celebrity Deaths

 

Microsoft releases tool to block DLL load hijacking attacks

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

23 August 2010

 

The dirty little secret about Google Android

 

To jailbreak or not to jailbreak: That shouldn't be Apple's decision

 

Details emerge on new DLL load hijacking Windows attack vector

 

Verizon 3G Network Expands, Even as 4G Rollout Underway

 

Apple Can't Stop Ongoing ITunes Charge Scam

 

Intel releases faster dual-core Atom netbook processor

 

Big Brother is searching you

 

AU Optronics CEO barred from leaving US

 

NASA Turns to Public for Final Shuttle Wakeup Songs

 

20 August 2010

 

Friday Rant: Time to get rid of the legacy support on motherboards

 

Intel's McAfee Acquisition Means Chip-Level Security

 

Intel, McAfee Deal Questioned by Analysts

 

Cameron Diaz: Web's Most Dangerous Celeb

 

Places could spark new privacy fire

 

South begins blocking North Korean Twitter account

 

NAND flash memory pricing to plummet to $1 per GB

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

19 August 2010

 

Intel buying McAfee for 7.68 billion - Good move or bad move?

 

Why did Intel buy McAfee?

 

Lobbyists Spur Network Neutrality Talks with Verizon, Not Google

 

Consumer Groups Protest Industry Net Neutrality Talks

 

10 Facebook Quirks That Need to Be Expunged Soon

 

Facebook Places: What You Need To Know

 

Michael Dell Faces Investor Anger Before Quarterly Report

 

Yahoo to Close SearchMonkey as Bing Takes Hold

 

40 Windows apps contain critical bug, says researcher

 

Microsoft touts Mac-Windows compatibility in Office 2011

 

Laugh at work: True tales from the IT trenches

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

18 August 2010

 

Facebook Warns of Clickjacking Scam

 

Oracle suit overwhelms Ubuntu launch

 

3 bit-per-cell flash coming soon

 

Google Android Game Doubles as Spy App

 

The World's Worst PowerPoint Presentations

 

Adobe to patch Reader zero-day bug Thursday

 

NSS Labs: Testing shows most AV suites fail against exploits

 

Old School Color Cycling with HTML5

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

17 August 2010

 

FCC Takes Another Step Towards Regulating the Internet

 

Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record

 

Apple Suppliers Start Kickback Investigation: Report

 

Lost Memorabilia, Including the Hatch's Apple-II, Headed for Auction

 

Android Game Is a Spy App in Disguise

 

DOJ Won't File Charges in School Webcam Spying Case

 

Facebook reportedly launching location service Wednesday

 

Auto finance company scopes GPS tracking

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

16 August 2010

 

Malicious widget hacked millions of Network Solutions Hosted Web sites

 

BFG Tech, once a primary partner of NVIDIA,  winding down,
"lifetime warranty" no longer being honored

 

Internet Explorer - 15 years old today

 

Apple Manager Charged in $1 Million Kickback Scheme Due in Court

 

Beware the Facebook "Dislike" Button Scam

 

13 August 2010

 

Star Wars Convention V

 

Critical Apple QuickTime flaw dings Windows OS

 

Memo from Oracle: let's sue our way to world domination

 

Oracle vs. Google over Java: Android lawsuits may begin to pile up

 

Microsoft could be a winner in Oracle's patent attack over Java

 

Get ready to pay $50 to watch a new movie in your home

 

ASUS adopts long-life notebook battery

 

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta Due Sept. 15

 

Ricoh Introduces HotSpot Multifunction Printers

 

Dell Refutes Withholding Evidence in Faulty-PC Case

 

Facebook fixes e-mail notification problem

 

HP hit with lawsuit over Hurd's departure

 

iFixit Teardown Reveals Droid 2's Deepest, Darkest Secrets

 

1979 Apple Graphics Tablet vs. the 2010 Apple iPad

 

Image gallery: Building an Apple-1 replica from scratch

 

Sold on eBay: New-in-box Apple II, never opened

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

12 August 2010

 

The newly-released Adobe Flash Player for Mac supports GPU decoding
of H.264 video only for some Mac models

 

Google takes aim at critics of net neutrality proposal

 

Starbucks planning a 'Digital Network' with five specialized channels

 

Dell Streak Arrives Friday -- Then What?

 

'Dangerous' iPhone exploit code goes public

 

Revisions to credit card security standard on the way

 

Hotmail users get hot under the collar after upgrade

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

11 August 2010

 

 

Google, Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal Is 'Socially Irresponsible': Analyst

 

Google, Verizon Deny Paid Prioritization for Web Services

 

First Google Android SMS Trojan Found, Researchers Report

 

Microsoft Releases Massive Patch Tuesday Security Update

 

Adobe fixes 6 critical Flash bugs

 

The scary side of virtualization

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

10 August 2010

 

How long will Microsoft support XP, Vista, and Windows 7?

 

DRAM Market Facing Supply Challenges, Report Finds

 

Verizon iPhone Prepped by Apple: Report

 

ATandT Prepared to Lose Apple iPhone: SEC Filing

 

Google, Verizon Net Neutrality Plans Are Announced

 

Net Neutrality Advocates Blast Google, Verizon Plan

 

South Korean Police Raid Google's Office Over Street View

 

Skype Files for IPO

 

Registry hack allows Windows XP SP2 patching

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

9 August 2010

 

Next HP CEO needs to deliver growth and vision not just cost cuts

 

Woman at center of HP's Hurd probe 'surprised, saddened'

 

Softcore Porn Star Linked to Former HP CEO's Resignation

 

Hurd's HP severance: $12.2M cash, $16M in stock

 

The Truth About Google, Verizon and Net Neutrality

 

Google Buys Slide to Get Facebook Data

 

Apple Exec Out after iPhone 4 Antenna Controversy

 

Toss Your Cookies

 

Flash for iPhone Now Available, Thanks to Jailbreak

 

6 August 2010

 

FCC painted into corner after fallout over Google-Verizon talks

 

End of Net Neutrality Negotiations Good News for Internet

 

Michael Dell Under Fire From AFL-CIO

 

VOIP Provider Vonage Gives Facebook a Voice

 

Microsoft to Release Most Patch Tuesday Bulletins Ever

 

Adobe Rushes Patch for PDF Hole

 

Yoko Ono: 'Don't Hold Your Breath' for Beatles on iTunes

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

5 August 2010

 

Fighting Today's Malware

 

Your tax dollars are being used to train foreign IT workers to take your jobs

 

Russian firm releases iPhone 4 password cracker

 

Patch or we go public, says bug bounty program

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

4 August 2010

 

Massive Anti-Trust Lawsuit May Lower PC Prices

 

Get out your decoder rings: More Microsoft codenames

 

Microsoft Adds Taxi Fare Calculator, OpenStreetMap, Color

 

HP, DOJ Agree on Settlement of Kickback Case

 

AMD Starts Talking 'Bulldozer'

 

What's Scarier: Apple, Google, Microsoft or God?

 

Motorola, Verizon to launch TV tablet, report says

 

Microsoft sticks to plan, denies emergency patch for XP SP2

 

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technology and popular culture on The Feed

 

3 August 2010

 

Microsoft Issues Shortcut Vulnerability Patch

 

BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone debuts on AT&T

 

Microsoft Turns On the LightSwitch for Non-Programmers

 

Firefox Is Losing the Browser War to Internet Explorer, Chrome: 10 Reasons Why

 

Google Earth 5.2 Gets Real-Time Weather Layer

 

Windows 7 Passes Vista in Users, XP Still King

 

StarCraft II Sales Tops 1.5 Million Copies in 48 Hours

 

The Price of Free Internet: a Piece of Your Soul

 

iPhone jailbreak exploit 'sweet' and 'scary'

 

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2 August 2010

 

Open source is increasingly unAmerican

 

Qualys does more than complain about insecure open source

 

Windows 7 up, Mac OS X down

 

IE up, Firefox down

 

Google Chrome Loses Market Share to IE, Safari

 

Microsoft Releasing Windows Security Fix Next Week

 

Jailbreaking an iPhone is a Snap Thanks to New Website

 

Hackers Update iPhone Jailbreak App

 

Free Android apps scrape personal data, send it to China

 


 

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Microsoft adds free Web development tools

 

Microsoft to offer cheap Windows 7 for students

 

Microsoft DreamSpark
 

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