Blockbuster stock to be delisted from NYSE

From CNET News.com: Blockbuster's stock will no longer be available on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) starting next week, the company announced in a statement Thursday.

The issue, according to Blockbuster, started in November, when the NYSE contacted the company and informed it...

Report: Google issues fix for hacked YouTube

From CNET News.com: Google has plugged the hole hackers used Sunday morning to festoon YouTube videos with off-color pop-ups and adult-site redirects, according to a news outlet.

Hackers took advantage of a cross-site scripting vulnerability that enabled them to insert code onto the...

Opera 10.6, The World's Fastest Stable Browser, Tested vs. IE 9

From DailyTech: With the wealth of browsers out there, it's hard to pick. There are, of course, five major competitors -- Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Apple's Safari. Some time ago we compared those browsers in a four part series [1]...

ITunes Users Accounts Hacked, Hundreds in App Purchases Tallied

From DailyTech: According to a story which TheNextWeb broke over the holiday weekend, hundreds, if not thousands of iTunes accounts have been hacked over the holiday weekend, and a variety of methods used to ring up hundreds of dollars in fraudulent iTunes app store and music charges...

Windows 8 to Have 3 R's: Recovery, Reset, Restore

From Tom's Hardware: We all know about "Windows rot," where the operating system slowly degenerates to a slow, sluggish state after numerous installs, uninstalls, and other things that a system accumulates over time.

Those of us who perform good housekeeping practices on our...

Corsair Dominates with 2.625GHz Memory Modules for Benchmarkers

From X-bit Labs: Corsair Memory on Thursday revealed memory modules that can be formally claimed to be the fastest in the industry. Thanks to hand-picked memory chips, advanced cooling and advanced cooling system, the Dominator GT GTX6 memory modules can achieve whopping 2.625GHz...

Dell to buy Scalent in virtualization play

From InfoWorld: Dell announced Thursday that it is purchasing Scalent, a provider of server-virtualization management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Dell plans to roll Scalent's infrastructure management software into its own AIM (Advanced Infrastructure Manager)...

Apple Emphatically Denies iPhone 4 E-mail Exchange Claim

From PC World: Apple says a recent e-mail exchange between CEO Steve Jobs and an irate customer discussing the iPhone 4 antenna issue is a fake. The e-mail thread, first published by Boy Genius Report, appears to show Jobs telling the customer to "calm down" and not get worked up...

T-Mobile to halt Sidekick sales

From CNET News.com: Well, it looks like the Kin's kin is also getting the ax.

T-Mobile confirmed to CNET on Thursday that it plans to stop selling the two existing Sidekick models.

"As T-Mobile looks to further innovate and raise the bar for the next generation of the T-Mobile...

Apple's first iAds hit the iPhone

From CNET News.com: The first day of July brings the first real-world glimpse of Apple's foray into mobile advertising.

As planned, iAds debuted on iOS 4-based devices on Thursday, with the first examples of Apple's program enabling advertisers to present interactive ads directly...

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