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Ill-willed players on the Microsoft Xbox Live system managed to gain access to other players' accounts by using pretexting and other forms of social engineering to trick customer service staffers into revealing private information. By making numerous calls to the Xbox Live customer support center, t...
Roughly two weeks and 2 million viewings since the controversial "Hillary 1984" video was posted on YouTube, its maker has stepped forward: It's Phil de Vellis, an Internet professional, and he's "proud of it." In a post on the Huffington Post Web site on Wednesday afternoon, de Vellis -- a strategi...
Rumors have been circulating for months about a black Xbox 360, and now they appear to be confirmed: The Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite, due at the end of April, will reportedly be shipped in black -- but just for a limited time. With HDMI output and a 120 GB hard drive, the $479 Xbox 360 Elite will inclu...
Bill Gates is not used to finishing in second place but the Microsoft chairman did just that this week, losing a virtual soccer match on penalty kicks to star Mexican player Rafael Marquez 2-1. Commemorating Microsoft's 20th anniversary in Mexico, Gates dropped the match to the international soccer ...
A new software update for Sony's PlayStation 3 consoles includes Bluetooth support, enhanced downloading and the ability to help a Stanford University distributed-computing program hoping to cure protein-related diseases. Dubbed "Firmware 1.60," the upgrade can be installed directly to Internet-conn...
Imagine a home with cheerful splashes of natural sunlight in every room at once -- even the interior ones -- all day long. Now imagine a world in which all citizens have access to the very best medical care, regardless of where they live. These are just two of many new applications of fiber optics t...
I'm spending some time thinking about missed and anticipated opportunities this week. In looking at Windows Server, I've become convinced that it is the wrong product for the Unix displacement market. In fact, in my head, it really always has been -- I just don't talk about servers much, so it doesn...
Mario must be feeling super today. The latest game console sales figures for America, compiled by NPD Group, show his creator, Nintendo, outdistancing the competition by thousands of units. There were 485,000 Nintendo DS units sold in February and 335,000 sales of Nintendo's newest console, Wii, acc...
The evolution of video gaming took another quantum leap forward this week with the announcement that Stanford University researchers are now enlisting Sony's PlayStation 3 in the fight against diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and several forms of cancer. The Tokyo-based Sony s...
Cybersquatters, typosquatters and domain tasters were targeted by Microsoft Wednesday in a series of lawsuits filed in California, Washington and the United Kingdom. "Domain name abuse is a growing global challenge, and so Microsoft is expanding its efforts in this area for two reasons," explained M...
Now that IBM and Intel have both created chips using 45nm process technology, it's clear chip technology will continue at least a little longer on the path predicted by Moore's Law, with ever-tinier creations coming out every two years or so. High-k metals, in particular, appear to help solve one o...
Nintendo Wii owners will be able to do battle against each other online for the first time beginning in June, after partnering with a company that specializes in multiplayer gaming technology. Nintendo says it has partnered with GameSpy, a division of Fox Interactive Media, to provide Wii gamers onl...
Coming closer to founder Bill Gates' goal of providing gamers the chance to play online almost anywhere, Microsoft Wednesday said its Games for Windows Live will be activated May 8. When that happens, people playing PC games on computers running the new Windows Vista operating system will enjoy many...
Although I may be unappreciative of the value of Post-it notes, I can appreciate the rationale behind them. That's why I can appreciate a program like NotesHolder by A!K Research Labs. NotesHolder reminds me of Google Notebook in a number of ways, but it has a few bells and whistles that make it a l...
As the video game market has matured over the past few years, so, apparently, has its fan base. No longer are video games the exclusive domain of young kids and teens; the age of gamers is on the rise, according to a new study. In fact, more than one in three U.S. adults who go online -- approximate...
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