Woman Named in HP Scandal Had 'Intimate' Past

From DailyTech: The bizarre departure of HP CEO Mark Hurd made headlines late Friday. According to HP, accusations of sexual harassment were brought against Hurd which in turn uncovered discrepancies with Hurd's expense reports. This breach of HP's “standards of business conduct”...

Microsoft shows off prototype mobile phone

From CNET News.com Microsoft apparently has no intention of letting its failure with Kin keep it out of the smartphone market.

The tech giant is working on a touch-screen phone under the codename "Menlo," according to a Microsoft Research paper titled "User Experiences with Activity...

Sling working to restore streaming access

From CNET News.com Sling Media is scrambling to address service issues that have left many of the company's users unable to access their Slingbox video streamers during the past several days.

For the uninitiated, Slingbox is a "placeshifting device." Connect it to a video source...

Hewlett-Packard's Chief Executive Resigns Over Scandal

From X-bit Labs: Hewlett-Packard on Friday said that the chairman, chief executive officer and president Mark Hurd has decided with the board of directors to resign his positions effective immediately. The decision was made following an investigation by outside legal counsel of the...

First Details About Intel MIC Accelerators Emerge

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has disclosed specifications of its test vehicle for MIC (many Intel cores) accelerators aimed at servers. The first one - code-named Knights Ferry - seems to resemble infamous Larrabee graphics processing unit.

The Knights Ferry has 32 x86 cores...

Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1000W (Page 1 of 4) | Reports

Some of you may be wondering, "Isn't Preston tired from doing writing? He finished his first one review just recently, and now he has this article ready to roll, AND he has another one lined up already..." (Yes, we work hard here at APH Networks eh.) Well, let me quickly relieve you of your concerns. I must admit, going through the International Baccalaureate program back in high school was much tougher, haha. With that aside...

Apple Highlights Free Trial Apps Section

From PC World: Apple on Thursday introduced a new Try Before You Buy section to its popular App Store, highlighting 'lite' and free apps in the storefront. The new section is intended to make up for the lack of a return and free trial policy in the App Store. Still it's not exactly a...

More than 1 in 10 Mozilla bug finders turn down cash reward

From InfoWorld: The open source Mozilla project has been offering cash bounties for security bugs for six years now, but often bug finders simply turn down the cash.

Between 10 percent and 15 percent of the serious security bugs reported since Mozilla launched its bug bounty program...

Droid X to Get Froyo in September, EVO 4G Leaked ROM Fix Available

From DailyTech: Earlier this week, analysts announced that Android OS is now the smartphone market leader, despite critics charges that the ubiquitous operating system is too fragmented for consumers to stick with it. This fragmentation is evident in today's Android news.

First, the...

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