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Submission + - California Seeks To Prohibit Tracking Ads (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

StormDriver

on Thursday May 05, 2011 @08:29AM

StormDriver writes: "Still, it's the first time such a bill has made it out of committee, and that's a big deal, according to John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project. "This is the first time that a 'do not track' bill has actually had a hearing and been debated and then voted forward in the legislative process," he said.

The bill would give California consumers a simple way of opting out of data collection systems that keep track of their online activities. "It puts up a no trespassing sign on our device," Simpson said."

Submission + - the Motorola docking smartphone .. (zdnet.com.au)

Submitted by doperative on Thursday May 05, 2011 @07:56AM

doperative writes: The Motorola Atrix is a smartphone of a familiar shape and size, but once it's placed into one of two docking accessories, the Atrix offers an experience more like a computer than a phone.

Submission + - Robert Vamosi: Gadgets degrade our common sense (silicon.com)

Submitted by

ShelleyPortet

on Thursday May 05, 2011 @07:55AM

ShelleyPortet writes: "In a world where gadgets are growing more sophisticated, human behaviour is changing — and not in a good way.

That is what Robert Vamosi, author of When Gadgets Betray Us argues in his book, which examines the dangers of our growing dependence on technology.

As gadgets develop the ability to multitask seemingly endless functions, Vamosi argues that people are increasingly unable to think for themselves.

"Instead of lifting our heads, looking around and thinking for ourselves," Vamosi writes, some of us no longer see the world as human beings have for thousands of years and simply accept whatever our gadgets show us."

Submission + - Sony confirms Anonymous involvement in PSN hack (geekword.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05, 2011 @07:51AM

An anonymous reader writes: Sony claimed that Anonymous was the intruder behind PlayStation Network attacks, further stating that they have found a file on their server with words ‘We are legion’ attached to it.

On other side the hackers group Anonymous has denied their involvement in the PSN outage by issuing a press release.

Submission + - Salutes to past generations (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by

Runaway1956

on Thursday May 05, 2011 @07:47AM

Runaway1956 writes: "Chief Petty Officer Charles Choules
Chief Petty Officer Charles Choules, who died in Australia on May 5 aged 110, was the last surviving man to have seen action in the First World War.

On the outbreak of war in 1914 he tried to join the British Army as a boy bugler by lying about his age. Instead he was sent in 1915 to the boys' training ship Mercury, under the headmastership the athlete CB Fry, moored in the Hamble river. He then completed his training in the former 140-gun wooden Impregnable, berthed in the Hamoaze. He was still in her when he heard the news of the battle of Jutland.

In October 1917 he joined the 40,000-ton battleship Revenge as a boy seaman, first class. The ship had fired more than a hundred 15in shells at Jutland, and Choules's next ship was another veteran of the battle, the fast battleship Valiant.

Choules witnessed the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet off the Firth of Forth in November 1918 and King George V's review of the fleet at Southend in 1919."

Submission + - Does Microsoft need bug bounties? (threatpost.com)

Submitted by chicksdaddy on Thursday May 05, 2011 @07:39AM

chicksdaddy writes: The threats and attacks may have changed in the last decade, but one thing has remained constant: software giant Microsoft doesn’t pay for information on vulnerabilities in its products. Never has. Never will — even as rivals like Mozilla and Google have introduced successful bug bounty programs. But with the value of zero day vulnerabilities rising and targeted hacks making headlines, the company may be forced by circumstance to start paying vulnerability researchers for their work.

Submission + - Sony Hit With $1B Suit Over Data Breach (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider on Thursday May 05, 2011 @07:34AM

RedEaredSlider writes: Sony has been hit with a class action suit in Canada, seeking 1 billion Canadian dollars ($1.04 billion) in damages, in the wake of the security breaches of the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment.

The company has already been sued in the U.S. by a resident of Alabama, who said the company was negligent in keeping his personal information safe.

Submission + - HP tx1000 Convertible Notebook (hptx1000convertiblenotebook)

Submitted by thaddeusbird922 on Thursday May 05, 2011 @07:33AM

thaddeusbird922 writes: HP tx1000 Convertible Notebook is an hp quickplay notebook from the category of Tablet PCs. The show of this notebook can make it rather special as it has comes in a style and design resembling a wave. The inner watch of the notebook is silver in shade with the keyboard surroundings as silver and the outer view has a black glossy seem and really feel.

It has a 12.one Inches WXGA Higher Definition Brilliant View Widescreen having configuration of 1280*800. It also has a Touch display screen readily available. This notebook is positioned in the loved ones of Tablet PCs because of to the availability of the characteristic that the notebook display screen can be turned into a Tablet view.

On the appropriate hand side of the screen there are media Quick Play Buttons for your entertainment and ease. The screen is slightly grainy, but you will get this with any Tablet Computer due to the added layer essential for tablet performance. The glossy display screen is good for presenting bold shades and viewing videos, but poor when executing a whole lot of looking at in strongly lit locations as it is fairly reflective. A person small annoyance is the actuality it is challenging to see what degree brightness you've acquired the screen adjusted to since there is no on screen feedback when you toggle brightness, the similar goes for volume.

The notebook comes with many functions like the of webcam one.3-megapixel, digital media reader which is 5-in-1. There is also a mini remote control with the support of which the customers can very easily observe the films and pictures, pay attention audio.

Microsoft Windows Vista House Top quality is the inbuilt running method coming with the HP tx1000 Convertible Notebook and therefore makes it properly protected and safe to be accessed without the risk of any unwanted attacks from viruses.

The Notebook has all the functions required and that too in the. The tablet Computer has brought a assortment of accessories this kind of as display wipe and the bodyweight saver and all this also in the sensible price tag.

Submission + - Huge UK government agreement with CSC weeks away (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by DMandPenfold on Thursday May 05, 2011 @07:04AM

DMandPenfold writes: An agreement between the UK National Health Service and CSC is due to be signed in the “next few weeks”, according to the supplier.

The news follows months of extensive negotiations between the parties, as CSC system deployments under its £3 billion contract missed a series of deadlines and a major NHS IT deployment site reportedly dropped the supplier over a “lack of confidence”.

Submission + - Cybercriminals Expand Repertoire of Tricks (net-security.org)

Submitted by Orome1 on Thursday May 05, 2011 @06:40AM

Orome1 writes: Cybercriminals are not averse to exploiting tragedies in order to spread malware. They create malicious websites with content connected in some way to the disaster and sent out letters making emotional requests for money to be transferred to the message sender in order to help those who have suffered. March also saw cybercriminals use Java exploits as a weapon of choice. Of the five exploits to appear in the Top 20 malicious programs on the Internet in March, three of them were for vulnerabilities in Java.

Submission + - Cambridge Consultants - New design of through-wall (cambridgeconsultants.com)

Submitted by

Phoghat

on Thursday May 05, 2011 @05:40AM

Phoghat writes: "Leading technology product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has launched the latest evolution of its popular Prism through-wall radar product line. The Prism 200c is a lightweight and inconspicuous device that fits covertly inside a backpack. By simply placing the device against the outside wall of a room or building, the user is provided with intelligence on the location and movement of any people that might be inside that particular room."

Submission + - Lawsuit accuses Apple of foxing worker pay (forbes.com)

Submitted by mangu on Thursday May 05, 2011 @05:38AM

mangu writes: Siddarth Hariharan, a former software engineer for Lucasfilm, filed a class action suit in California accusing a number of companies of antitrust violations and unfair competition. At the core of the suit is a series of agreements among the corporations, with Apple in the central role, to limit the competition among them for technology workers. Besides Apple, the companies mentioned are Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Google, Intel, and Intuit. Basically, the interconnected agreements consisted in not to “cold call” one another’s employees. Considering that switching jobs is one of the few opportunities a technology worker has to get a significant pay raise these agreements imposed strong limits on career evolution.

Submission + - Lawsuit accuses Apple, others of fixing worker pay (cnet.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun on Thursday May 05, 2011 @05:30AM

suraj.sun writes: A new California lawsuit accuses Apple, Google, Adobe Systems, Intel, and other tech companies of violating antitrust laws by allegedly conspiring to fix employee pay, as well as working out "no solicitation" deals with one another. The suit seeks class action status, was filed today with the California Superior Court in Alameda County and alleges that because senior executives from Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm, and Pixar "entered into an interconnected web of express agreements to eliminate competition among them for skilled labor," affected employees from those companies are entitled to compensation.

CNET News: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20059875-38.html

Submission + - Apple, Google, And Others Sued For Fixing Salaries (cnet.com)

Submitted by

StormDriver

on Thursday May 05, 2011 @05:28AM

StormDriver writes: ""My colleagues at Lucasfilm and I applied our skills, knowledge, and creativity to make the company an industry leader," said Siddharth Hariharan, a former Lucasfilm employee who filed the class action suit and is listed as the plaintiff. "It's disappointing that, while we were working hard to make terrific products that resulted in enormous profits for Lucasfilm, senior executives of the company cut deals with other premiere high tech companies to eliminate competition and cap pay for skilled employees," Hariharan said in a statement."

Submission + - Another Milestone For Virgin Galactic (virgingalactic.com) 1

Submitted by

Phoghat

on Thursday May 05, 2011 @05:21AM

Phoghat writes: "Early on Wednesday 4th May 2011, in the skies above Mojave Air and Spaceport CA, SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first commercial spaceship, demonstrated its unique reentry ‘feather’ configuration for the first time. This test flight, the third in less than two weeks, marks another major milestone on the path to powered test flights and commercial operations.
SpaceShipTwo (SS2), named VSS Enterprise, has now flown solo seven times since its public roll-out in December 2009 and since the completion of its ground and captive -carry test program."

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