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Submission + - Big content killing innovation (hbr.org)

Submitted by TAGmclaren
TAGmclaren writes: America is at risk of losing its place as the leading place to innovate — not because of China or India, but rather because of the big content industries like the music and movie industry. So says the Harvard Business Review. It's interesting to see a big business publication come down on the technology side. From the article: "despite making their living relying on it, the Big Content players do not understand technology, and never have. Rather than see it as an opportunity to reach new audiences, technology has always been a threat to them. "

Submission + - 21yrs of the Internet in New Zealand celebrated (downtothewire.co.nz)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: New Zealand is celebrating 21 years since it became the first country in Asia Pacific to hook up to the global Internet with an online party — hosted by actress and singer Madeleine Sami with video interviews and contributions from around the world. The site claims that NZ's first internet link was 50% funded by NASA as part of a USA push for the TCP/IP standard in the region to influence Japan's adoption.
Security

Submission + - Thousands lost in rising VoIP attacks (zdnet.com.au)

Submitted by mask.of.sanity
mask.of.sanity writes: Australian network companies have told of clients receiving phone bills including $100,000 worth of unauthorised calls placed over compromised VoIP servers. Smaller attacks have netted criminals tens of thousands of dollars worth of calls.

A Perth business was hit with a $120,000 bill after hackers exploited its VoIP server to place some 11,000 calls over 46 hours last year.

VoIP networks are a cash cow for criminals who can earn money from unscrupulous telecommunications carriers profiting from calls placed over victim's networks or to ramp up calls to premium numbers. The genesis of the practise dates back some two decades when phreakers busted into phone companies to make free calls. VoIP attacks are now an established practice but victims are still easy pickings for criminals.

Local network providers and the SANs Institute have reported recent spikes in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) scanning — a process to identify poorly configured VoIP systems — and brute-force attacks against publicly-accessible SIP systems, notably on UDP port 5060.
Google

Submission + - Google has Full-Page Preview,Twitter Integration (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by jhernik
jhernik writes: Full-page Website previews in Google searches and Twitter links within news feeds are being tested

Google is currently testing full page previews of Websites entered as queries into the search box, a search engine optimisation expert discovered.

When information seekers type in a search query and hit Enter, they may see search results highlighted in blue. Hovering over these results pops out a preview of the Website associated with query to the right of the results pane. It has certain similarities with Microsoft’s Bing search pages where “hover preview” pops up extra information for selected search items.

In the current litigious climate of patent suits, Google could find it costly if it decides to implement this feature. It all depends on which patents cards Microsoft has in its hand and whether Google holds a trump card up its sleeve.

Could Be Another Instant Hit

Submission + - Website assets being stolen - What can I do? (ledgrowlight.cc) 5

Submitted by
Khyber
Khyber writes: "My site assets are being ripped off, in some cases word-for-word, other cases frame shots of animations on my page. Here's the violating site, and here is my site for comparison. Unfortunately, it appears this site is foreign, and I'm not entirely sure what to do next. I've already contacted my legal advisors and site maintainers. What other steps should I take? I don't think I can get the DMCA to apply here, are there any treaties that could hold any hope for me?"
NASA

Submission + - Houston, we have a family reunion (skunkpost.com)

Submitted by crimeandpunishment
crimeandpunishment writes: It's a brother act that's really out of this world. If all goes according to plan, the only space sibling team will be hooking up in orbit. And not only are Scott and Mark Kelly brothers, they're identical twins. Scott took off Friday on a Russian Soyuz rocket to begin a five and a half month mission as the next commander of the International Space Station. Mark is the next commander of the space shuttle Endeavour, scheduled to lift off in February and hook up with the space station March 1st.
Apple

Submission + - Turning PC into Apple Macintosh: Hackintosh Guide (benchmarkreviews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: BenchmarkReviews.com: A "Hackintosh" is a computer that runs Apple's OS X operating system on non-Apple hardware. This has been possible since Apple's switch from IBM's PowerPC processors to Intel processors a few years ago. Until recently, building a PC-based Mac was something done only by hard-core hackers and technophiles, but in the last few months, building a Hackintosh PC has become much easier. Benchmark Reviews looks at what it's possible to do with PC hardware and the Mac Snow Leopard OS today, and the pros and cons of the building a Hackintosh computer system over purchasing a supported Apple Mac Pro.
Bug

Submission + - Security Firms Scramble for SCADA Talent (threatpost.com) 1

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Three months after the world first learned of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, insiders say that there's a scramble to find and hire engineers with knowledge of both security and the industrial control systems that were Stuxnet's intended target.

Anti virus companies admit their research teams were ill prepared for Stuxnet and are still coming up to speed on the functioning of Siemens industrial control systems and programmable logic controllers that Stuxnet infected. At the same time, the companies are searching high and low for technical talent with knowledge of the kinds of systems that run power plants, factories and industrial machinery — preparing for a future in which malicious hackers increasingly put critical infrastructure and an Internet of things in the cross hairs.

"We realize we need new knowledge, but not new skills," Symantec's Liam O' Murchu said. "Its not like Stuxnet changes how AV researchers work, but new fields of expertise are needed. This is an area we're not well equipped for."
Space

Collision of Two Asteroids Spotted For the First Time 31

Posted by timothy from the delicious-space-dust dept.
sciencehabit writes "Astronomers report that a small asteroid located in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter took a major hit early last year. Previously rendered only in artists' conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet. Instead of a steady stream of dust, however, they found boulders near the object with dust moving away from them."
The Military

Mystery of the Dying Bees Solved 347

Posted by Soulskill from the flower-counterattack-theories-disproved dept.
jamie points out news of a study attempting to explain the decline of honeybee populations across the US. As it turns out, the fungus N. ceranae that was thought to be killing off bee colonies had a partner in crime — a DNA-based virus that worked in tandem with N. ceranae to compromise nutrition uptake. From the NY Times: "Dr. Bromenshenk's team at the University of Montana and Montana State University in Bozeman, working with the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center northeast of Baltimore, said in their jointly written paper that the virus-fungus one-two punch was found in every killed colony the group studied. Neither agent alone seems able to devastate; together, the research suggests, they are 100 percent fatal. 'It's chicken and egg in a sense — we don't know which came first,' Dr. Bromenshenk said of the virus-fungus combo — nor is it clear, he added, whether one malady weakens the bees enough to be finished off by the second, or whether they somehow compound the other's destructive power. 'They're co-factors, that's all we can say at the moment,' he said. 'They're both present in all these collapsed colonies.'"
Internet Explorer

Microsoft IE Browser Share Dips Below 50% 297

Posted by CmdrTaco from the stop-supporting-it-already dept.
alphadogg writes "Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has dominated the Web browser market since blowing by Netscape in the late 1990s, last month fell below the 50% market share level for the first time in years. IE's share of the worldwide market fell to 49.87% in September, down from 51.3% in August and 58.4% a year ago. It is followed by Firefox, which increased its share slightly from 30.09% to 31.5% and Google Chrome, which grabbed 11.54% share, more than triple its September 2009 share, according to market watcher StatCounter."

Submission + - Verizon Wireless to issue $90 Million in refunds (tekgoblin.com)

Submitted by tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: Verizon Wireless had somehow been charging customers extra money on their bills for data that they actually hadn't been using. Approximately 15 million customers were affected by the erroneous billing error. According to BGR the FCC had been pressuring Verizon to resp0nd to the hundreds of complaints that had been piling up. So Verizon's answer was to refund all of the overcharged money as soon as possible.

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