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Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months 514

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @01:05PM from the more-competing-please dept.

tomhudson writes "Despite all the hype about Apple's latest iPhone, Android has sold more in the last 6 months (27% of all smartphone sales) than Apple (23%). The gains for Android are coming at the expense of RIM (still #1 at 33%, down from 45% a year ago), Windows Mobile (11%, down from 20%) and the iPhone (down from 34% at it's peak 6 months ago). If the current trend continues, Android is expected to be #1 within the year."

Olympus Digital Camera Ships With a Worm 249

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @09:11PM from the do-not-get-too-close-to-the-viewfinder dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Olympus Japan has issued a warning to customers who have bought its Stylus Tough 6010 digital compact camera that it comes with an unexpected extra — a virus on its internal memory card. The Autorun worm cannot infect the camera itself, but if it is plugged into a Windows computer's USB port, it can copy itself onto the PC, then subsequently infect any attached USB device. Olympus says it 'humbly apologizes' for the incident, which is believed to have affected some 1,700 units. The company said it will make every effort to improve its quality control procedures in future. Security company Sophos says that more companies need to wake up to the need for better quality control to ensure that they don't ship virus-infected gadgets. At the same time, consumers should learn to always ensure Autorun is disabled, and scan any device for malware before they use it on their computer."

US Confirms Underwater Oil Plume 353

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @05:46PM from the told-you-so dept.

oxide7 writes "An underwater three-dimensional map of the oil spill is closer to becoming a reality, now that the US has for the first time confirmed the discovery of a subsurface oil plume resulting from the ruptured BP well. The government agency in charge of ocean science has received the first of several expected reports from university investigators aboard research ships detailing specific locations where oil has been found below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. The government, which denied reports of giant underwater oil plumes in mid-May, said researchers at the time had not confirmed the presence of conglomerated oil." The New York Times talked with scientists on a two-week mission in the Gulf and reported them "awed" at the size and density of the underwater plume.

Comment that's OK, there's always rape (Score 1) 240

by dartmongrel on Sunday May 30, 2010 @11:16PM (#32403198) Attached to: Porn Ban Being Considered In South Africa

who else can picture the number of rapes to skyrocket if there was suddenly no porn?

Comment late night call from tier 2 (Score 1) 299

by dartmongrel on Saturday April 17, 2010 @12:20AM (#31880346) Attached to: ClamAV Forced Upgrade Breaks Email Servers

Once recently I had to call a guy in noc to tell him all our people were getting warnings from Thunderbird that an email about to be sent contained a virus attached in a pdf. When he looked into it, (he had just gotten home to his terminal as he talked to me on his mobile) he started doing stuff. He started getting me to test mail.example1.com, then mail.example2.com ...etc. the three servers that handle mail in out company. In the end, he just said 'fuck it' and disabled it completely.

Comment I GOT MINE (Score 1) 15

by dartmongrel on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @01:14AM (#28357859) Attached to: Bill Gates Helps Fund Mass Circumcision Program

fuck am I ever glad to be european. Americans are all wannabe jews.

Comment Re:Somebody had to do it... (Score 1) 427

by dartmongrel on Friday September 19, 2008 @04:21PM (#25077111) Attached to: Canonical Offers Sale of Proprietary Codecs for Ubuntu

I hope you were being sarcastic. How do you figure you get that functionality for free with Windows? Is Photoshop free? is PowerDVD? Is Windows?

Feed Science Daily: New National Park For Russian Tigers (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday January 01, 2008 @10:12PM

Endangered northern Amur tigers have received a boost to their protection through the creation of a new national park in Khabarovsk province, located in the Russian Far East. Tiger habitats in the Russian Far East face extreme pressures from uncontrolled logging, construction and wildfires.

Wikia Search Engine to be Launched on January 7th 189

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 01, 2008 @10:01PM from the wisdom-of-crowds dept.

cagnol writes "The Washington Post reports that Jimmy Wales, the founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has announced the launch of a new open-source search engine, Wikia Search, on January 7th, 2008. The project will allow the community to help rank search results, in a model close to Wikipedia. However the company is a for-profit organization. This new search is supposed to challenge Google and Yahoo."

Feed New York Times: Tech Sales to China Questioned (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday January 01, 2008 @09:52PM

The Bush administration is facing questions from weapons experts about whether some equipment — newly authorized for export to Chinese companies — could instead end up helping China modernize its military.

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