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Submission + - Android is forbidden in iPhone App Store (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by donberryman on Friday February 05, 2010 @10:50AM

donberryman writes: Apple has told a software developer that its application cannot be included in the iPhone App Store if it mentions Google Android. They just wanted to mention that the app was a finalist in Google’s Android Developer’s Challenge. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/05/apple_slaps_iphone_app_for_mentioning_google_android/

Submission + - Cdn Digital Music Sales Beat US For 4 Consec Years (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05, 2010 @10:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: Nielsen Soundscan has just released the Canadian music sales figures for 2009. Notwithstanding the regular claims that the Canadian digital music market cannot develop without copyright reform, the Canadian market grew faster than the U.S. market for the fourth consecutive year. In fact, while the RIAA paints Canada as a piracy haven, it ranks ahead of France, Britain, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa.

Submission + - SPAM: Xbox Live for Original Xbox Games Shutting Down

Submitted by itwbennett on Friday February 05, 2010 @10:18AM

itwbennett writes: Giving no explanation beyond that it 'will provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community,' Microsoft's General Manager for Xbox Live, Mark Whitten, announced that as of April 15th, Microsoft will be shutting down its Xbox Live service for the original Xbox and its games. 'Cold comfort for those of you who still enjoy playing Xbox titles like Halo 2 with your friends,' writes blogger Peter Smith. But Smith notes that Whitten's announcement does hint at some form of restitution for those affected, encouraging users to check their LIVE messages for more details and opportunities.
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Comment I wonder... (Score 5, Insightful) 259

by Ismene on Thursday February 04, 2010 @03:49PM (#31025868) Attached to: IE Flaw Gives Hackers Access To User Files

I wonder how many people have a "passwords.txt" file in their Documents. ;-)

Malware Found Hidden In Screensaver On Gnome-Look 611

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @06:39PM from the sudo-you-know-what-you're-sudoing dept.

AndGodSed writes "OMG! UBUNTU! Reports the following: 'Malware has been found hidden inside an innocuous 'waterfall' screensaver .deb file made available on popular artwork sharing site Gnome-Look.org. The .deb file installs a script with elevated privileges designed to perform a DDoS attack as well as keep itself updated via downloads. The dodgy screensaver in question has since been removed from gnome-look, and this incident was a very basic, if potentially successful, attempt.'" A similar report at Digitizor.com says that similar malware was also found in a theme called Ninja Black. For those affected, both sites also provide instruction on cleansing your system.

Submission + - What If Texas Executed an Innocent Man? (newyorker.com) 3

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Fished

on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @02:05PM

Fished writes: "In the debate on the modern death penalty, proof that an innocent man has actually been executed in modern times has become a grisly milestone--proof that even with all the modern safeguards, the death penalty is still fundamentally flawed. In the words of Sandra Day O'Connor, 'execution of a legally and factually innocent person would be a constitutionally intolerable event.' Regrettably, as detailed in this article from the New Yorker, which includes fascinating details on the science fire investigation, that milestone appears to have been met. On February 17, 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for a fire that killed his 3 daughters, a fire that was not, after all, arson. May he rest in piece."

Submission + - Here there be Dragons... (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by babboo65 on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @11:45AM

babboo65 writes: Dungeons and Dragons Online is enjoying a second life in terms of player count and buzz, all thanks to a new business strategy: giving the game away. Turbine is making their MMO as accessible as possible, and that includes making players who don't pay anything as happy as possible. Subscriptions are up 40 percent. Ars explores how free can be very profitable.

Submission + - SPAM: Twitter: Don't Change Your Log-In Data

Submitted by itwbennett on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @09:05AM

itwbennett writes: Twitter is warning users not to modify their log-in data while the company investigates instances of users who have lost access to their accounts after modifying their usernames, passwords or e-mail addresses. According to an official posting on Twitter's Status Web site, 'This seems to affect new users as well as long term users.' Messages posted on the site's Known Issues section indicate that users first started reporting the problem late last week.
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Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally 291

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 22, 2008 @10:28AM from the or-maybe-it-will-loaf-along dept.

sdougal writes "This site is showing a Pico-ITX board running Ubuntu with no cooling whatsoever. They even let the public guess how long it would last: 'Last week thousands of you placed bets on how long the new Pico-ITX board from VIA, the VIA EPIA PX5000EG, can last without any cooling whatsoever. An ARTiGO Builder Kit was offered as the grand prize. Yesterday afternoon the voting stopped and the Naked Pico Challenge started in earnest. We simply loaded up Ubuntu 8.04, set it to work playing an mpeg-4 video and then removed the heatsink, leaving the CPU and VX700 chipset bare to the world. We recorded the event here in this video and set up a live video stream so you punters can keep a watchful eye on the PX5000EG as it works away.'"

US Firms Read Employee E-mail On a Massive Scale 263

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 22, 2008 @09:12AM from the this-call-may-be-monitored dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In its fifth annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention issues, Proofpoint found that 41% of the largest companies surveyed (those with 20,000 or more employees) reported that they employ staff to read or otherwise analyze the contents of outbound e-mail. 22% of these companies said they employ staff primarily or exclusively for this purpose."

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