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HockeyPuck writes:
The prevalence of American-made goods in Iran has led US officials to crack down on the cottage industry of smugglers in nearby Dubai who purchase everything from iPhones to Bratz dolls to sell in Iran. HP printers have become a top seller here, despite a comprehensive 1995 embargo that prohibits the California-based company from sending its products to Iran. Despite the crackdown on US companies who sell their products in Iran, some American firms whose products are sold through third-party distributors like Redington Gulf have so far avoided scrutiny. http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2008/12/29/hp_uses_third_party_to_sell_printers_in_iran/
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HockeyPuck writes:
Google Inc. fell out of the top 20 of an annual survey ranking of companies most trusted on privacy by consumers. American Express was ranked No. 1 and eBay Inc. at No. 2 in the fifth annual survey ranking by information security research company Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe.
While the financial services sector slipped amid industry-wide woes, the technology sector showed marked improvement as eBay Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, and HP all bettered previous rankings. Also of note, Facebook moved into the top 20 for the first time, signifying an increased trust in social networking as a mainstream communications tool. Full list is here:
http://truste.org/about/press_release/12_15_08.php
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HockeyPuck writes:
"Since the iPhone's touchscreen only responds to electrical charges emitted by your bare fingertips, women with long nails are left out in the cold. The claims is that Apple was being misogynistic because it did not include a stylus for women and didn't consider womens' fingers and nails when designing the phone." http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/29052
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HockeyPuck writes:
After a group of teens filmed themselves throwing a 32oz drink at a woman working at a fast food restaurant http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/NEWS01/806090325, the judge then ordered the teens to apologize for their actions on youtube. Police and prosecutors point to the increasing nationwide problem of young people who film violent or lewd acts and cruel pranks and post them online in a bid for fame. This is just one example.
Apology Video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3njSrIa2PVU
The beating of a 12-year-old Brevard, Florida girl was posted last year on the photo- and video-sharing site Photobucket.com. This spring, Polk County officials said six girls and two boys filmed the beating of a cheerleader so they could post it online.
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HockeyPuck writes:
In a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The attack happened when hackers exploited a security hole in the foundation's publishing software that allowed them to quickly make numerous posts and overwhelm the site's support forums. Within the hackers' posts were small flashing pictures and links — masquerading as helpful — to pages that exploded with kaleidoscopic images pulsating with different colors.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080507/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_epilepsy_foundation_hacked
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HockeyPuck writes:
The 5-billion-instructions-per second Power6 processor from IBM would beat such rivals as the 3.73 gigahertz Pentium Extreme and the 2.4 gigahertz UltraSparc T2 from Sun. "Hold your index finger out in front of your face," Meyerson said in a telephone interview from IBM headquarters in New York. In less time than it would take a beam of light to travel from your knuckle to your fingertip, the new IBM chip would complete one task and start looking for the next, he said. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/09/BUBI10258F.DTL
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HockeyPuck writes:
Under pressure from federal regulators, Comcast Corp. reversed its stance over hampering online file-sharing by its subscribers and promised Thursday to treat all types of Internet traffic equally. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080327/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_bittorrent
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HockeyPuck writes:
IBM's Building 25 at it's Cottle Rd San Jose, CA facility — the focus of preservation lawsuits and a planned big-box retailer [Lowe's] — was destroyed in a Saturday fire, leaving a charred husk of a structure that preservationists had hailed as the precursor to modern high-tech campuses and where the forerunner to the hard drive was invented. It was here IBM researchers invented the flying head disk drive, which allowed real-time online transactions such as airline reservations. When Soviet Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev visited the United States in 1959, his hosts took him to Building 25. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8511428
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HockeyPuck writes:
Microsoft Corp. said it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba Corp. ceded the high-definition video format battle to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray.
Microsoft said Saturday it would continue to provide standard warranty support for its HD DVD players. Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida last week estimated about 300,000 people own the Microsoft video player, sold as a separate $130 add-on for the Xbox 360. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080224/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_hd_dvd
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HockeyPuck writes:
Looks like not all 1-800 numbers are universal. Cisco/Linksys placed an 800 techsupport number on it's router that connects to a callcenter when dialed from within India. However, if you call it from the US, you get something slightly different http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/toll-free-sexy-time/linksys-tech-support-and-phone-sex-hotline-327686.php.
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HockeyPuck writes:
Sony announced on Thursday that owners of any Internet-connected PS3 will be able to participate in a wide-ranging, distributed, scientific experiment led by Stanford University's Folding@home program, which is seeking to better understand a process called protein folding and its relationship to several serious diseases.
http://news.com.com/PS3+power+requested+for+resear ch+project/2100-11393_3-6167491.html
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HockeyPuck writes:
Chris Hughes, hacked the Roomba vacuum cleaner so that he could make the rugbot do his bidding. He's also posted the modified source code online so that you can do the same.
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HockeyPuck writes:
An Indian chessplayer was recently banned from competing in chess tournaments for 10 years for using a bluetooth enabled hat to communicate with accomplices outside who were using a chess program to determine his moves.
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HockeyPuck writes:
http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/index.php Tells the stories of a few unlucky individuals and their experiences of breaking windows, TVs or body parts while playing the Nintendo Wii...
