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• Saturday, 04-February-2012 00:55

  F.B.I. Admits Hacker Group’s Eavesdropping

  The group known as Anonymous listened in on a call between the bureau, Scotland Yard and other forei..

• Saturday, 04-February-2012 00:36

  AMD's move could pave the way for ARM in future chips

  Advanced Micro Devices has loosened its commitment to the x86 architecture, announcing a new design ..

• Saturday, 04-February-2012 00:35

  In Silicon Valley, Socks Make the Tech Entrepreneur

  In Silicon Valley, wearing flashy socks is more than an expression of your personality. It signals t..

• Saturday, 04-February-2012 00:17

  Gray Matter: Is GPS All in Our Heads?

  Relying on GPS devices can erode our ability to develop mental maps.

• Friday, 03-February-2012 23:40

  Micron chief dies in small plane crash

  Steve Appleton, chairman and chief executive of the US chipmaker, was killed in an aircraft crash in..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 23:38

  Satellite Phone Encryption Cracked

  New submitter The Mister Purple writes "A team of German researchers appears to have cracked the GMR..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 23:28

  Apple, Motorola in patent struggle in Germany (AP)

  AP - Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 23:12

  Gadgetwise Blog: App Smart Extra: Super Bowl Apps

  Most football fans will be forced to spend at least part of the weekend away from televised Super Bo..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 22:48

  Small-cap week: Coms surges on Smith share deal

  Internet telephone service provider gains 168% after chief executive of MXC Capital increases stake

• Friday, 03-February-2012 22:43

  Social, networked executive finds perfect company

  Facebook's chief operating officer has found the company to match her personality, writes April Demb..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 22:22

  Virus Hits Part Of U.S. Commerce Dept.

  Economic Development Administration has disabled its website and email while attack is investigated...

• Friday, 03-February-2012 22:04

  Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call (AP)

  AP - Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the confe..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 21:41

  iPhone App Contains Secret Tethering Capability

  By entering the codes "1984" and "31337" in iRandomizer Numbers, you can create a sharable Internet ..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 21:30

  Micron's Appleton dies in crash

  Steve Appleton, the chief executive of memory-chip maker Micron, has died in a plane crash near Bois..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 21:30

  Star Wars, Ferris Bueller drive Super Bowl ad buzz (Reuters)

  Reuters - The Super Bowl is still two days away but some advertisers already are looking like winner..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 21:27

  Cuban blogger says government bars trip to Brazil (Reuters)

  Reuters - The Cuban government has denied a request by dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez to travel to ..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 21:25

  Facebook malware scam takes hold

  A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page repor..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 21:09

  Google Rejects EU Request On Privacy Policy Consolidation

  EU regulators want Google to delay its plan to combine privacy policies. But Google doesn't like tha..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:54

  Hackers breach FBI-UK police call

  Hackers Anonymous release a recording of an intercepted conference call between the FBI and UK polic..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:47

  Micron CEO Steve Appleton killed in small-plane crash

  Micron Technology chief executive Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash in Boise, Idaho, early ..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:23

  National Security Agency Plans Smartphone Adoption

  NSA is piloting secure smartphones now and plans broader adoption of commercially available devices ..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:18

  South Korea Indicts Park Jung-geun Over Twitter Posts

  South Korean prosecutors indicted Park Jung-geun, a social media and freedom of speech activist this..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:12

  How To Spot A Fake Facebook Profile

  Check out these telltale characteristics of the phony Facebook 'Friend,' courtesy of Barracuda Netwo..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:08

  Facebook chief faces tax bill of $1.5bn

  The liability ranks Mark Zuckerberg among all-time highest taxpayers and leaves a big question mark ..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:04

  The numbers are vast, but beware the bite of reality

  Investors should not be overawed by the numbers presented in Facebook's IPO nor in the proposed Glen..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:04

  Law enforcement websites under attack by hackers (AP)

  AP - Saboteurs have hacked into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attac..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:02

  Misys / Temenos: playtime

  Investors should hope for a bidding battle to break out for UK and Swiss banking software groups

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:01

  Micron CEO dies in plane crash

  Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory and semiconductor maker Micron, was killed in a small pla..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 20:00

  E.U. Presses Google to Delay Privacy Policy Changes

  The European Union justice commissioner supported a request by E.U. governments that Google delay ch..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 19:59

  Hacking group infiltrates call into own case

  Anonymous, the hacking group being investigated by the Met and the FBI for a range of online attacks..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 19:55

  DHS Simulation Software Predicts Bomb Blast Paths

  New tool uses interface based on Google Earth plus modeling and simulation to predict how car or tr..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 19:28

  Anonymous publishes FBI call on hacking (Reuters)

  Reuters - Internet activist group Anonymous published a recording on Friday of a confidential call b..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 19:27

  Bizarre nestfellows: Angry Birds and KISS

  KISS frontman Gene Simmons says the band will be teaming up with wildly popular video game Angry Bir..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 19:21

  Office 365's Lync Online to gain interop with consumer IM networks

  Lync Online, the instant messaging, online meeting and PC-to-PC voice and video communications tool ..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 19:20

  BT vow fibre optic 'game changer'

  Fibre optic connections to at speeds of 300 Mbps will be available 'on demand' in the UK next year, ..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 19:09

  Google aims for higher government security accreditation for Apps

  Google is looking to gain higher security accreditations that would enable wider use of Google Apps ..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 19:01

  House ready to consider insider trading ban (AP)

  AP - Legislation that would ban insider trading by lawmakers and thousands of executive branch offi..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 18:59

  Mark Zuckerberg Remains the Undisputed Boss at Facebook

  Mark Zuckerberg’s success is a lesson in what works in Silicon Valley: Stay in charge, stave ..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 18:57

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• Friday, 03-February-2012 18:57

  Don't Trust Satellite Encryption, Say German Researchers

  Researchers have cracked two common voice encryption protocols, enabling low-tech interceptions of s..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 18:41

  Apple removes, than replaces products from German online store

  Apple on Friday removed some of its products from its online store serving Germany due to a court in..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 18:37

  Incoming Chief Takes On a Sony That Is a Shadow of Its Former Self

  The company warned it expected to post a fourth consecutive annual loss, of $2.9 billion, as sluggis..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 18:31

  Video Games: Curt Schilling, Former Red Sox Pitcher, Makes Video Games

  Curt Schilling, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher, left baseball to start 38 Studios, a video game c..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 18:27

  Amazon sales data put focus on ebooks shift

  Online retailer reported sales for the Christmas quarter that were roughly4 per cent short of Wall S..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 18:05

  Health IT Managers Say Tablets Can Cause Problems

  IT managers at healthcare organizations say tablets pose challenges for entering data into enterpris..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 18:00

  EMC launches Isilon NAS with Hadoop integration

  EMC has launched its latest Isilon Network Attached Storage (NAS) offering, introducing native suppo..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 18:00

  DZone's Different!

  Hello DZoners!My name is Austin Kowitz and I’m DZone’s lead designer. And you can mostly blame (prai..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 17:59

  Anonymous Hacked FBI Conference Call

  FBI confirms legitimacy of 16-minute call, posted by hacktivists, that discussed sentencing and futu..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 17:41

  New Sony chief vows to make 'painful choices'

  It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Kazuo Hirai's promotion is designed to take the electronics ..

• Friday, 03-February-2012 17:24

  Are you afflicted by 'tech envy'?

  A new survey shows that the Bring Your Own Device ethos sweeping enterprises is creating "tech envy"..

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