Daily News Alert | Saturday, August 1, 2009 12:01 AM PDT |
Security researchers offer caution on smart grids
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:05 am PDT
AP - The race to build a "smarter" electrical grid could have a dark side. Security experts are starting to show the dangers of equipping homes and businesses with new meters that enable two-way communication with utilities. Full Story | Top |
EBay working on alternative software for Skype
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:55 pm PDT
AP - EBay Inc. is developing software it might use to continue running the online telecommunications service Skype if it cannot resolve a legal dispute with a separate company run by the service's founders. Full Story | Top |
Yahoo comes full circle with retreat from search
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:16 am PDT
 AP - Yahoo Inc. invested billions of dollars in its Internet search engine during the past six years before realizing it made more sense to entrust the job to an outsider — hearkening back to a conclusion the company's co-founders reached shortly after they started their Web directory in the mid-1990s. Full Story | Top |
Game makers pause, reload: Are price cuts next?
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:13 pm PDT
 AP - Kathleen Byrnes and Justin Choi, a married couple attending medical school at Tulane University, say $40 is just too much to fork over for a Nintendo Wii game they might not enjoy. They haven't bought one since last fall, when they picked up "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed." Full Story | Top |
Global mobile market bottoms, grows anew: iSuppli
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:02 pm PDT
 Reuters - Global handset shipments grew nearly 5 percent in the second quarter, the first quarter- on-quarter growth in 9 months, marking a reversal of course for the struggling market, researchers at iSuppli said on Friday. Full Story | Top |
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:12 pm PDT
AP - Student who admitted downloading, sharing music ordered to pay $675,000 to record labels. Full Story | Top |
Exclusive: Sony Answers 12 Questions about PlayStation 3 Motion Control
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:26 am PDT
PC World - "Take that, Microsoft," may not be what PlayStation 3 special projects manager Dr. Richard "EyeToy" Marks actually said when he took the stage back in early June at E3 2009. Still, you could practically hear it whispered in the rare downbeats as Marks divulged Sony's own two-fisted take on precision motion-control. Full Story | Top |
Apple warns iPhones vulnerable; fixes bug
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:50 pm PDT
Reuters - Apple Inc has released an iPhone software patch to fix a critical software bug uncovered by two independent researchers that make the devices susceptible to secret attacks by hackers. Full Story | Top |
Former Google VP Suggests User-Based Security at Black Hat
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:46 am PDT
PC World - At the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday, former Google VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill gave the opening keynote presentation, and it wasn't a traditional security industry talk. The takeaway: Let users dictate enterprise security needs. Full Story | Top |
FCC Questions Apple Over Google Voice
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:00 pm PDT
PC World - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has written to Apple, AT&T and Google questioning the rejection of Google Voice and related applications from the iPhone App Store. Full Story | Top |
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