Saturday, March 19, 2011

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Eric Schmidt 's next gig: Obamaman?

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 09:16 AM PDT

Google boss in line for Secretary of Commerce post

Google's soon-to-be-ex CEO Eric Schmidt may be joining the Obama administration in a Cabinet-level position, according various reports bouncing around the interwebs.…

Pure Contour DAB/FM and Internet radio

Posted: 19 Mar 2011 01:00 AM PDT

The do it all dock?

Review The Contour is an elegantly designed music hub from radio specialist Pure. It features DAB+,FM and Internet radios, as well as an iPod dock in a slide-out drawer.…

Pr0n domain approved by ICANN

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 05:34 PM PDT

.XXX gets thumbs up. Again

The ICANN approved the porn domain. Again.…

Google patches Flash bug <em>before</em> Adobe

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 04:33 PM PDT

Rest of world must wait

Google has already released an update for its Chrome browser that fixes a critical vulnerability in Adobe's Flash Player that's under attack. Users of the animation software on other browsers and operating systems will have to wait until next week for the same patch.…

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Programmer gets 8 years for theft of stock trading software

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 03:03 PM PDT

Wall Street-ware generated $500m in profits

A former Goldman Sachs software developer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing proprietary code used in the firm's high-speed trading platform.…

Microsoft: IE9's web privacy hole? A feature, not a bug

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:59 PM PDT

When do-not-track lists clash

A hole has been spotted in Internet Explorer 9's do-not-track technology, and Microsoft says it's a feature not a bug.…

IBM: Our appliance servers smoke Ellison's 'phony baloney'

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:45 PM PDT

Blue versus Red. Watson versus Exadata

IBM is spoiling for a fight with Oracle, as was abundantly in evidence at Big Blue's recent Investor Day at the company's TJ Watson Research Center north of New York City.…

Anonymous DoS attacks thwarted with Aikido hip throw

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 01:46 PM PDT

War stories from 'Operation Avenge Assange'

In early December, researchers from security firm Radware were dispatched to repel attacks against a company being targeted by the Anonymous hacking collective and could only be described as fierce and potentially devastating.…

Dell: 'Yes, we will offer <i>multiple</i> Amazonian public clouds'

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 01:45 PM PDT

Round-Rock-as-a-service is a go

Dell director of storage strategy Carter George has confirmed that the company will offer at least two "public clouds" – one based on Microsoft's Azure platform and another based on, well, something else.…

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IBM accused of bribery in China, South Korea

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 01:41 PM PDT

SEC says thanks for $10m fine

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging that the company paid bribes to government officials in China and South Korea to secure deals for the sale of mainframe and PCs among different government agencies.…

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