Gunkerty Jeb writes “Embattled CEO Aaron Barr says he is stepping down from his post at HBGary Federal to allow the company to move on after members of the online mischief making group Anonymous hacked into HBGary Federal’s computer network and published tens of thousands of company e-mail messages on the Internet. In an interview [...]
MobileNotifier is a complete re-write of the iOS notifications system and it’s pretty amazing. It takes inspiration from Android’s notification system while adding the elegance of iOS, preventing notifications from interrupting you and allowing you to easily respond from a drop-down drawer. More » Original post by Adam Dachis
jfruhlinger writes “Details of the conditions that the Department of Justice required to approve Comcast’s purchase of NBC have emerged today. Blogger Kevin Fogarty looks at the details — Comcast is forbidden from blocking Netflix over its pipes, and must sell NBC shows via iTunes and other similar services — and concludes that Internet access [...]
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters Life!) – Workers at a Google data center combined 12 century know how and space age technology to trigger a medieval weapon that was used to hurl rocks, balls of fire and dead animals over castle walls. Original post by Eric Ravenscraft
According to Sanjay Jha, Chairman and CEO of Motorola Mobility, the company will begin including Webtop functionality on all “high performance” smartphones in the second half of 2011. Webtop is the name Motorola has given to the application that provides an interface between the laptop-dock accessory — currently being used by the ATRIX 4G — and [...]
Retesting at NETGEAR’s request, we found minor improvement in 5 GHz performance with a new test sample and new firmware. Original post by Dave Drager
An anonymous reader writes “A 48-year-old Illinois man has experienced an online scam that was particularly devastating, both financially and emotionally. A woman he believed to be his online girlfriend turned out to be a fake, and his money has disappeared with her. The scam was recently revealed because he went to the police asking [...]
snydeq writes “InfoWorld’s Woody Leonhard takes a look at the past 20 years of innovative Windows malware — an evolution that provides insights into the kinds of attacks to come. From macro viruses, to interstitial infections, to spray attacks, to industrial espionage, ‘there’s been a clear succession, with the means, methods, and goals changing definitively [...]
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