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After three days of attacks by leading hackers, a laptop running Ubuntu remained untouched while two others, running Mac OS X and Windows Vista Service Pack 1, succumbed The attacks were launched at the CanSecWest PWN 2 OWN contest in Vancouver, Canada....
Microsoft has teamed with Hollywood production company Safran to create original content available only to owners of its Xbox 360 gaming console, the two companies announced Monday Safran has helmed the production of several films, including "Scary Movie," and it has produced recent films such as "Meet the Spartans" and the upcoming "Chilled in Mia...
The Linux community got a double dose of Adobe on Monday when the San Jose, Calif.-based company announced it rolled out some Linux-friendly software and joined the Linux Foundation Adobe made available an English-only prerelease version of AIR (Adobe Integrated Run-Time) for Linux, which enables developers to apply various Web technologies -- HTML...
Plunging prices in a glutted memory-chip market served as a weight on semiconductor sales worldwide, although sales did increase by 1.5 percent in February, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association Fueled by sales of computers and mobile phones outside the U.S., global year-on-year semiconductor sales increased to US$20.44 billion in Feb...
Seeking to tap deeper into a key demographic for advertisers, Yahoo on Monday launched Shine, a Web site meant to become an Internet starting point for women between the ages of 25 and 54 Shine will offer content licensed from publishers such as Conde Nast and Hearst in nine categories, including fashion, beauty, relationships, healthy living and p...
SynerG, formed in 2005 to develop interactive business mashups, has released its first product -- a contact center application -- from beta SynerG Contact Center targets a familiar pain point -- one that all agent desktop apps have tried in various ways to address: the difficulty of accessing and integrating data from a company's back end so that a...
Computer technology in the workplace is all about hardware speed and connection bandwidth. To help IT managers augment their systems in both regards, vendors have been developing tweaking strategies to boost application speed beyond design limits. This process is called "application acceleration." However, this race has changed quite a bit over the...
North American manufacturers have faced years of intense, globalized competition. This onslaught compelled them to modernize their manufacturing processes to compete effectively. The result has been that many plants have become models of efficiency and agility. This modernization allowed manufacturers to more quickly adjust production to address shifts in demand and business goals...
Candidates, political parties and money might seem to dominate the upcoming 2008 U.S. presidential election, but when it comes to voter relationship management (VRM), software rules campaigns and politicking When qualified U.S. citizens cast a legal ballot to express a preference for a candidate or for a proposed resolution of an issue, they do so ...
Too many of us -- and I include myself -- are too willing to go to war and not willing enough to find harder, but often more successful, collaborative ways to solve problems. I often look at both the U.S. and Microsoft as similar entities in their respective spaces, and I'm often fascinated by how examples of good and bad judgment can be applied to both...
The LiMo Foundation has launched the first release of its Linux-based mobile handset software platform There are 18 handsets from various manufacturers that are ready to use the platform, Andrew Shikiar, Director of Global Marketing for the LiMo Foundation, told LinuxInsider. Handsets are in the works from Motorola, NEC, Samsung and Panasonic, amon...
Phishing is a tactic known to malicious hackers ever since the first one crawled out of a swamp and onto dry land. It's another variation on social engineering. The phisher's goal is to get people to open themselves up to technical vulnerabilities through nontechnical means. However, even though most e-mail users have become more savvy about obvious scams, phishing is evolving...
Radio giant Clear Channel Communications warned Thursday that it cannot estimate when its planned sale to a private equity consortium may be closed The buyers, which include Bain Capital and other private equity firms, stand ready to close on the US$19.5 billion deal at the end of the month as planned, Clear Channel said....
A newly launched global position system (GPS) service allows its users to access real-time traffic data -- generated by the customers -- in cities around the country The GPS service, run by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Dash Navigation, helps drivers find directions; however, the Internet-based service constantly updates driving directions based on infor...
Scarborough, Maine-based Hannaford Bros. in a Boston Globe report Friday confirmed that malware that had been installed on the 271-store chain's servers led to a data breach that compromised as many as 4.2 million debit and credit card accounts Hannaford told Massachusetts regulators that it found the malware but it didn't know how it got into the ...
Electronic Arts' hostile takeover attempt for Take-Two Interactive continued Friday with EA's announcement that it has amended its offer for the fellow gaming publishers' investors Included in EA's amendments to its bid is an extension of the tender offer deadline from April 11 to April 18. The change puts the deadline for investors to respond to E...
AT&T will launch AT&T Mobile TV on Qualcomm's MediaFLO in May The service will be available on two new handsets available exclusively at AT&T, the LG Vu and the Samsung Access....
Linux software maker Red Hat saw its stock move briskly higher Friday as investors digested a strong earnings performance and an optimistic outlook The open source software developer posted record software license sales and issued guidance that topped Wall Street estimates for 2009....
Sony won the high-definition DVD format war with Blu-ray. Now, Blu-ray is becoming more mainstream by edging into a budget-friendly Dell laptop Dell is now offering a Blu-ray-equipped laptop -- the Inspiron 1525 model -- starting at $879. The 1525 features a 15.4-inch high-definition wide-aspect display with 720p resolution and an HDMI (high-defini...
The London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market has been a resounding success. There are now more than 1,689 companies on AIM -- more than on the UK's official list. The LSE promotes AIM as the most successful growth market in the world when marketing itself to international companies Much of AIM's success is due to the implementation of U....
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