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FBI Grabs Botnet’s Wheel, Steers Into Tree

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have hammered the Coreflood botnet, which its owners used to conduct cyberfraud on a massive scale They have seized five command and control (C&C) servers and 29 domain names registered in the United States, obtained a temporary restraining order that lets the gov...

Kyocera’s Dual-Screen Echo May Not Reverberate With Consumers

The Kyocera Echo, a dual-screen Android smartphone on the way from Sprint, will arrive Sunday for buyers who've pre-ordered the device ...

Europe’s Android-iOS Resistance Movement

Europe is becoming increasingly nervous as Android and Apple's iOS continue to dominate the smartphone market worldwide "There's a concerted effort on three different fronts where European carriers and manufacturers, mainly carriers, are sounding alarms about not wanting an Apple-Google duopoly," Marc Beccue, a senior analyst at ABI Research, told ...

T-Mobile to Get HTC’s 4G-ish Sensation but AT&T Merger May Chill Demand

T-Mobile Tuesday unveiled what it called its most powerful handset -- the HTC Sensation 4G It will be available this summer, and T-Mobile is talking up a storm about the device. Among other things, T-Mobile repeatedly refers to the device as the "HTC Sensation 4G."

Groklaw Calling It Quits After a Job Well Done

Groklaw will stop publishing new articles May 16 -- exactly eight years to the day after it was launched This is because its reason for existence is gone, according to founder Pamela Jones....

Adobe’s Creative Suite 5.5 Gives Devs a Flash Alternative

Adobe on Monday announced Creative Suite 5.5, a mid-point update between major releases of the suite In a tip of its hat to the realities of browser display, Adobe has included HTML5 support in CS 5.5....

Acer’s Iconia Takes Its Turn in the Tablet Thunderdome

Acer's Iconia Tab A500 tablet is now available for pre-order exclusively from Best Buy at US$450 Consumers will be able to pre-order the device from other stores beginning April 14, Acer said. It will hit retailers' shelves and be generally available online April 24....

Facebook Opens Door to New Data Center, Invites the World In

Facebook launched the Open Compute Project Thursday in a move that might reshape the IT hardware industry The project offers for public use tech specs and data about the custom-engineered technology developed for Facebook's first dedicated data center in Prineville, Ore....

Keeping your Third-Party Service Provider in Line

It seems that every time we turn around, another major security breach has occurred The latest was the data breach at Epsilon, which manages customer databases and provides third-party email marketing services to 2,500 corporate clients, including some of America's biggest firms....

Tevatron Experiment Could Send Particle Physicists Back to the Drawing Board

Experiments conducted at the Tevatron particle accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois seem to indicate that a new particle has been found A paper posted on the laboratory's website Monday brought out this point....

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SugarCRM’s Wandering Road Map

The mumbling and fiddling with equipment as SugarCRM prepared to brief analysts and the media in the Napa events room at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on Monday pretty much set the tone for things to come The Windows XP laptop shut down during the setup. "Why do we buy crappy XP boxes?" growled SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin....

AMD Ships 32nm Llano APUs at Long Last

AMD has begun shipping production units of its 32nm quad-core "Llano" A-series accelerated processor units (APUs) with discrete-level graphics, it announced Wednesday That's well behind Intel, which began working on the 32nm process in 2009 and began shipping 32nm processors in 2010....

Grand Jury Probe May Deter Smartphone App Privacy Abuses

A federal grand jury has subpoenaed Pandora to produce documents in what could be an industry-wide investigation of smartphone apps In an SEC filing, Pandora said the subpoena was served early 2011, and it was told it wasn't a specific target of the probe....

SugarCRM, IBM Band Together to Socialize Business in the Cloud

In yet another step binding it closer to IBM, SugarCRM has acquired iExtensions, the CRM solution for Lotus Notes A big part of our business is international," SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin announced to an audience of analysts and reporters at SugarCon in San Francisco on Monday. "Quite a number of our big customers in Europe are on Notes and need No...

RSA ‘Explanation’ Foggy About Breach Details

IT security giant RSA is still trying to figure out exactly what was stolen from its systems, more than two weeks after announcing that they had been breached The company detailed how the attackers broke into its systems, in a blog post by Uri Rivner, its head of new technologies, consumer identity protection....

Agilyx Alchemists Turn Plastic Into Black Gold

Plastics make our lives convenient, but they're the gift that keeps on taking -- they pollute the environment, and they're often difficult to get rid of in an ecologically sound way. Plastics don't break down readily, which is why they're such a nuisance. Worse yet, some of them contain chemicals that give off noxious fumes in a fire....

LizaMoon Madness: Fast-Spreading SQL Attack Shills Bogus AV Software

An SQL injection attack dubbed "LizaMoon" by security vendor WebSense has spread itself all over the Web WebSense, which spotted the attack, asserts that Google search results show more than 1.5 million URLs have a link with the same URL structure as the initial attack and that more than 500,000 URLs have a script link to lizamoon.com....

CONFERENCE REPORT

Your Gadgets and the Enemy Within

Your cellphone, your digital camera and your color laser printer may be betraying your privacy without your knowing it, Eva Galperin, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), told a sparse audience at the Web 2.0 Expo Thursday The EFF classifies software or devices that act behind the user's back to actively betray their privacy a...

Look Before You Leap: A Consumer’s Guide to the Cloud

We've had cloud-based services for consumers for years. That includes online storage services, photo sites like Picasa and Flickr, social networks like Facebook and Twitter, Web apps like Google Apps and even online email systems Amazon took things to the next level when it announced its entry Tuesday into cloud music storage with its Cloud Drive o...

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Design Dogma, Mobile Musings and the Social Sweet Spot at Web 2.0

Succeeding with social media marketing was one of the keynote topics at the Web 2.0 conference Thursday Others involved tips on going mobile, while some touched on the subject of design, which seems to be gaining new importance, judging from the number of keynotes focusing on that topic at the conference....

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