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Former NSA Director Calls for Clear Understanding of Cyber-war - eWeek
AFP
eWeek
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, former NSA Director Michael Hayden examines the concept of cyber-war and the role attendees need to play. As a former National Security Agency director, retired Gen. Michael Hayden has seen firsthand ...
US should seek world cooperation on cyber conflict, says ex-CIA directorComputerworld
US military cyberwar: What's off-limits?CNET
Ex-CIA chief shuns claims of China 'cyberwar'Financial Times
AFP -InternetNews.com -Infosecurity Magazine (US)
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Lab tested: 21.5-inch Core i3 iMac/3.06GHz - BusinessWeek
Macworld UK
BusinessWeek
On Monday, Apple updated its entire line of iMac and Mac Pro systems. And while the new Mac Pro models won't be available until sometime in August, the new iMacs are in the Macworld Lab right now! The first system to finish our ...
Unboxing: Apple's mid-2010 iMac has changes on the insideApple Insider
Lab Tested: 21.5- and 27-inch Core I3 IMacs/3.2GHzPC World
New iMac vs Old iMac: Is it Worth It?Digitaltrends.com
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Amazon?s Revamped Kindle DX Improves Display - Washington Post
Telegraph.co.uk
Washington Post
What a difference a display can make. Turning on the $380 Amazon Kindle DX (Graphite) second-generation large-format e-reader was all it took to see that Amazon's claims of a higher-contrast display than its predecessor were true. ...
Heard on the Street: The High Cost of Amazon's Cheap KindleWall Street Journal
The Kindle, FlipBoard for the iPad, and the Connected ReaderPC Magazine
Kindle First Impressions: It's All GoodPC World
InformationWeek -Bloomberg -Christian Science Monitor
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YouTube Gives Users 15 Minutes of Upload Time - eWeek
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eWeek
YouTube filled the top request from its users July 29, increasing its upload time from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. YouTube attributed the minute increase to its ability to protect copyrights for videos uploaded to the Website. YouTube, looking to make ...
Secrets to Maximizing Your 15 Minutes on YouTubePC World
YouTube Increases Video Upload Length to 15 MinutesPC Magazine
YouTube now gives you full 15 minutes of fameFortune
VentureBeat -TG Daily -The Associated Press
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Microsoft execs spend day with financial analysts outlining future - Seattle Times
TG Daily
Seattle Times
The most jaw-dropping number of the day Thursday: $169 billion is how much Microsoft has returned to shareholders over the last 10 years... By Brier Dudley The most jaw-dropping number of the day Thursday: $169 billion is how much Microsoft has ...
Ballmer: Microsoft feels tablet 'urgency'CNNMoney
Ballmer Pushes Slates but Reveals Few DetailsPC World
Holman Jenkins: The Microsoft SolutionWall Street Journal
MarketWatch -CBS News -CNET
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Skull Security Offers Up 100 Million Facebook Profiles to Anybody - DailyFinance
New York Times (blog)
DailyFinance
Facebook's been beaten to a pulp over privacy issues, but the latest flap is someone else's doing. Skull Security, an Internet security consultant, has noodled around on Facebook's public ...
Another ugly reminder to check your Facebook settings — NOW!msnbc.com
Searchable Facebook user data posted to Pirate BayCNET
Facebook data hoarder speaks outBBC News
FOXNews -ChannelWeb -TechNewsWorld
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2 Chinese ISPs Serve 20% of World Broadband Users
suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "If you need a reminder of just how big China is—and just how important the Internet has become there—consider this stat: between them, two Chinese ISPs serve 20 percent of all broadband subscribers in the entire world and both companies continue to grow, even as growth slows significantly in more developed markets. Every other ISP trails dramatically. Japan's NTT comes in third with 17 million subscribers, and all US providers are smaller still. 'The gap between the top two operators and the world's remaining broadband service providers will continue to grow rapidly,' said TeleGeography Research Director Tania Harvey. 'Aside from the two Chinese companies, all of the top ten broadband ISPs operate in mature markets, with high levels of broadband penetration and rapidly slowing subscriber growth.'"
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Android leader Motorola still well behind Apple's iPhone - Apple Insider
MiamiHerald.com
Apple Insider
Motorola reported a phenomenal 600 percent leap in earnings this quarter, but is still behind Apple in mobile units sold and is far behind in smartphone sales, leaving Apple the top US phone vendor by units for the second quarter ...
Motorola profit beats estimates, powered by AndroidLos Angeles Times
Motorola Android Strategy Pays Off as Smartphone Sales RiseeWeek
Motorola Mobile Devices Generate $87 Million ProfitInformationWeek
PC Magazine -ABC News -AFP
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Apple Investigates iOS 4 Bogging Down iPhone 3G - Tom's Guide
Macworld UK
Tom's Guide
If you have an iPhone 3G and you've installed iOS 4, you've probably noticed that your phone is now slower than molasses in winter. Some users who have upgraded to the new iOS 4 have forced a downgrade back to iOS 3.1.3, while others may be thinking ...
Apple's iOS4 Issues Take Center StagePC World
Apple probes complaints after iPhone upgradeSan Francisco Chronicle
Apple Aware of iOS 4 on iPhone 3G ComplaintsThe Mac Observer
Ars Technica -Register -TG Daily
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Google Suspends Android Wallpaper Apps - Tom's Guide
Sydney Morning Herald
Tom's Guide
Wednesday during the Black Hat security conference held in Las Vegas, mobile security firm Lookout--which provides free anti-virus software for the Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile platforms--said that a batch of wallpaper applications found on ...
'Suspicious' Android wallpaper app nabs user dataRegister
Google adds 'phone home' DRM to Android MarketAfterdawn.com
Android App Data Theft: Advantage Apple?PC World
Apple Insider -PC Magazine -BetaNews
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Google cleared in Britain over personal data collected from wireless networks - Los Angeles Times (blog)
CNET
Los Angeles Times (blog)
In the United States, Google Inc. is defending itself against lawsuits, a congressional probe and a 37-state investigation led by Connecticut Atty. Gen. Richard Blumenthal regarding personal information the Internet giant collected from unsecured ...
Judges ponder location for Google privacy lawsuitsThe Associated Press
Google cleared in Britain over collection of private dataAFP
Google cleared of wi-fi snoopingBBC News
Digitaltrends.com -Ars Technica -Dslreports
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World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production
thecarchik writes "The Porsche 918 Spyder hybrid supercar, first shown as a concept at this spring's Geneva Motor Show, got official approval as a production model today from the company's board of directors. Just consider the specs: a 500-horsepower, 3.6-liter V-8 engine with a 9200-rpm redline, 0-to-62-mph acceleration of 3.2 seconds, and top speed of 198 miles per hour. Oh, and did we mention it gets 78 miles per gallon on the European cycle? The astounding fuel efficiency comes courtesy of an E-Drive mode that lets the 918 Spyder drive up to 16 miles on pure electric power, though [ahem] not at 198 mph."
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Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games
spidweb writes "One Indie developer has written a nuanced article on a how software piracy affects him, approaching the issue from the opposite direction. He lists the ways in which the widespread piracy of PC games helps him. From the article: 'You don't get everything you want in this world. You can get piles of cool stuff for free. Or you can be an honorable, ethical being. You don't get both. Most of the time. Because, when I'm being honest with myself, which happens sometimes, I have to admit that piracy is not an absolute evil. That I do get things out of it, even when I'm the one being ripped off.' The article also tries to find a middle ground between the Piracy-Is-Always-Bad and Piracy-Is-Just-Fine sides of the argument that might enable single-player PC games to continue to exist."
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Thermoelectrics Could Let You Feel the Heat In Games
myshadows writes "Tech Review has an interesting article on how Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers have been able to give a sensory addition to gaming peripherals — namely, temperature. 'As the range of interactions with digital environments expands, it's logical to ask what's next: Smell-o-vision has been on the horizon for something like 50 years, but there's a dark horse stalking this race: thermoelectrics. Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices are easy to incorporate into objects of reasonable size, i.e. video game controllers. In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference, a pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a virtual environment.'"
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Microsoft Says Tablets Top of Mind Amid Apple Success - BusinessWeek
TrustedReviews
BusinessWeek
July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said tablet computers are high on his priority list as Apple Inc. takes the lead in a market his company has tried to foster for more than a decade. ...
Microsoft Plans Intel 'Oak Trail'-Based TabletsInformationWeek
Ballmer: Microsoft Working on Better TabletsWall Street Journal
Microsoft feels tablet 'urgency'CNNMoney
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