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Symantec Japan website bamboozled by hacker
The RegisterA Symantec-run website was vulnerable to Blind SQL Injection problems that reportedly exposes a wealth of potentially sensitive information.Romanian hacker Unu used off-the-shelf tools (Pangolin and sqlmap) to steal a glimpse at the database behind Symantec's Japanese website. A peek at …
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AOL Stock To Start Trading Tomorrow
Silicon Alley InsiderAOL won't spin-off from Time Warner until December 9, but the company told the SEC today it expects trading of its stock will begin as early as tomorrow.How is that possible?Through the magic of "when-issued" trading, where people can trade stock they don't physically have in th …
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Microsoft targets 2012 for Windows 8
Ars TechnicaAccording to a Microsoft roadmap, Windows 7's and Windows Server 2008 R2's successors are slated for somewhere around 2012.When we first started posting news tidbits regarding Windows 8, we warned readers not to expect the operating system to arrive until 2011 at the earliest, and we not …
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Broadpoint AmTech Analyst Would Like His Verizon iPhone NOW, Please
AllThingsD June of 2010. That’s when ATT’s (T) iPhone exclusivity contract with Apple (AAPL) expires - according to Broadpoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall, anyway. In an interview with Bloomberg, Marshall said once again that he believes Apple will bring the iPhone to Verizon (VZ) in the second ha …
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Ask Nicholas Carlson Anything!
Silicon Alley InsiderEvery Tuesday, we address reader questions and feedback on video.Tomorrow, Nicholas Carlson will answer readers' questions in a video segment, which we'll post at about 11AM ET.So if there's anything you want to ask or complain about -- be it AOL, Google, Facebook, or Nicholas's …
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GrandCentral Shutting Down in December
LifehackerIf you've been using GrandCentral to consolidate your phones since before Google bought the service and turned it into Google Voice, you could still log into your GC account to listen to old messages even after you were upgraded to Voice. If you want to save those old messages for posterit …
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AOL Tries to Get Its Swagger Back With Lowercase Letters
MashableThe Time Warner-AOL marriage officially comes to an end on December 10th, when AOL once again becomes its own publicly traded company. How will AOL convince investors that it’s ready to get back on the track? With new, shiny logos of course. Oh, and by lowercasing the “o” and the “l” in AOL. …
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New analysis points to ancient Martian ocean, river valleys
The RegisterNASA-funded boffins say they have found convincing evidence that much of Mars was once covered by an ocean of liquid water, and that rain fell on the red planet long ago.The new research comes from scientists at Northern Illinois University and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Housto …
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End of iPhone exclusivity means boosted sales in Europe
AppleInsiderAs exclusive contracts for the iPhone begin to expire throughout Europe, sales of Apple's handset have increased dramatically thanks to expansion to multiple carriers.In the U.K., carrier Orange recently began selling the iPhone, after the exclusive contract with O2 expired. According to …
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Shhh! EMI Posts Quietly Surprising Results.
AllThingsDThe people who own EMI Music Group may regret the purchase, but here's a tiny bit of good news: Sales are creeping up, even as the rest of the business contracts.The company's revenue climbed 7.4 percent in the 12 months ending March 31, the company disclosed (via PaidContent).That's due t …
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Wind turbines to power phone masts
The RegisterForget mobile phone covers made of recycled plastic bottles or handsets powered by sunlight. If you really want to make a green phone call then move to California, where some phone masts will soon run on wind energy.Wind turbine manufacturer Helix Wind has announced plans to fit “two sma …
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Plato’s Forms Gets Seed Money To Open Dialogue Between Bloggers And Companies
TechCrunchAs a blogger, sometimes the most difficult part of writing a post is contacting the company it is about. First, you either have to search your contact list, or the web, to figure out who to reach out to. And then you might not get a response right away. And finally, if you do get a respons …
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Use a Magic Mouse on a Windows PC
LifehackerIf you've been intrigued by Apple's pricey Magic Mouse but run Windows, or want its multi-touch scrolling powers to work in a Windows installation in Boot Camp, you're in luck. Windows-compatible drivers have been extracted to install at your leisure.From the comments found at the Uneasy S …
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Apple And Android Now Make Up 75 Percent Of U.S. Smartphone Web Traffic
TechCrunchWhen it comes to the mobile Web, increasingly there are only two mobile platforms which matter: Apple and Android. According to AdMob's October, 2009 mobile metrics report, the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted for 75 percent of mobile Web traffic in the U.S., as measured by a …
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Look ma, no connection! Energizer Wiimote Induction Charger
Ars TechnicaThe induction charger for Wiimotes from Energizer needs no direct connection between the batteries and the charging station, and the charging pad is an attractive piece of hardware. The catch? Luckily, there isn't much of one.There are few worse feelings than getting ready to play a new …
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New Apple Black Friday Sale Leak?
Mac RumorsBoy Genius Report posts a supposed leak of Apple's forthcoming Black Friday sale items. Among the discounted items are iMacs ($101 off), MacBook Pros ($51-$101 off), iPod nanos ($11 off), and iPod touches ($21-$41 off). Also included are the Apple TV, AirPort products, Magic Mouse, iWork, …
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T-Orange won't share the airwaves
The RegisterT-Mobile and Orange won't be handing over any radio spectrum when they merge, despite the fact that T-Orange will own almost half the available airways.The combined force will have licences to operate in 170MHz of radio spectrum, compared to Vodafone's holding of 76MHz and Orange's 66MHz …
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Exascale computing: How do we get there from here?
The RegisterExascale supercomputers, the computing industry’s next frontier, will run 1,000 times quicker than the fastest computers of today – and the world’s scientific researchers are sure to drum up plenty of projects to harness their compute power. But how do we get there from here?It won't be …
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AdMob Data Reveals Android's Growth, Device Market Share
GigaOMAdMob, a mobile advertising network, which has been releasing mobile metrics for a while now and touting the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch metrics as headlines, is instead focusing on RIM, Symbian, Android and even Windows Mobile devices in its October 2009 mobile metrics report.Android gobbles …
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Smartphone Price Cuts Ruining Long-Term Price Potential?
AllThingsDAs we head into the holidays smartphone prices are dropping to points that belie their advanced feature sets. And while that’s great news for consumers, it may well be problematic for smartphone manufacturers. According to NPD Group’s latest Mobile Phone Track study, price cuts on devices …
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