Gawker Media Hacked, Warns Users to Change Passwords

From PC World: E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords -- including on other sites, if they use the same...

Seagate's 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive hits 1TB

From CNET News.com: Though general consumers have had access to 3.5-inch desktop hard drives with up to 3TB of storage or portable external hard drives with 1.5TB, business users have had to live with hard drives with much less space.

That changed today, as Seagate announced its...

Google Latitude app for iPhone finally arrives

From CNET News.com: Nearly two years after Google announced its Latitude for tracking friends' locations, the service is available as an application for iOS.

Google had promised the Latitude app would arrive on iPhones "very soon" when the service debuted in February 2009. But Apple...

Price of AMD Fusion-Based Computers to Start at $349

From X-bit Labs: Systems powered by AMD’s code-named Ontario and Zacate accelerated processing units (APUs) will cost starting from $349. The world’s second largest supplier of microprocessors for personal computers hopes to revolutionize the markets of low-cost netbooks and...

Intel Starts to Sample Next-Gen SoC for Smartphones

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. placed high hopes onto its code-named Moorestown (Atom Z600-series) system-on-chip (SoC) and expressed hopes that the first smartphones based on it would be released already in 2010. But at the recent Barclays Capital Technology Conference 2010 the head...

Oracle seeks $212 million in interest from SAP

From InfoWorld: Oracle wants SAP to pay it $212 million in interest on top of the $1.3 billion awarded to it last month by a jury in the companies' TomorrowNow lawsuit, court papers show.

Including the $120 million that SAP paid Oracle for its attorney fees, the additional money...

Apple quietly drops iOS jailbreak detection API

From InfoWorld: Apple has disabled, without explanation, a jailbreak detection API in iOS less than six months after introducing it. Device management vendors say the reasons for the decision are a mystery, but insist they can use alternatives to discover if an iPhone, iPod Touch, or...

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (PC) Review

When I read about the impending release of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit earlier in June this year, I was kind of confused. Was it a mistake? One can only think it was -- especially if you stopped paying attention for just a short moment. Normally, when new game titles are released, developers tend to increase the version number, not decrease it. Case in point: Pretty much everything that has ever been made. If we take things just...

Firefox Security Holes Plugged

From PC World: Mozilla on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Firefox, including a re-patch for a bug that was thought quashed in March 2010.

Eleven of the 13 were rated "critical," the threat level representing bugs that hackers could conceivably use to hijack a system or infect...

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