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Article | 19/08/2011 HP lowers financial guidance with webOS shutdown

After pulling the plug on its webOS phones and tablet computers Thursday, Hewlett Packard said it expected to be less profitable than expected during ...

Article | 18/08/2011 The collar bomber's explosive tech gaffe

The man who claimed to have attached a bomb collar to an Australian high school student two weeks ago thought it would be a good idea to leave a ranso...

Article | 17/08/2011 ICANN chief Beckstrom to step down

The head of the organization chartered with managing some of the Internet's complex routing systems is stepping down.

Article | 17/08/2011 Fired techie created virtual chaos at pharma company

Logging in from a Smyrna, Georgia, McDonald's restaurant, a former employee of a U.S. pharmaceutical company was able to wipe out most of the company'...

Article | 16/08/2011 Cell phones stay on, but protesters disrupt SF subway

San Francisco's commuter railway left mobile phone services untouched during a closely watched protest Monday, but for many commuters that didn't matt...

Article | 16/08/2011 FCC looking into BART mobile phone shutdown

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is looking into last week's shutdown of mobile phone services on a San Francisco commuter train line.

Article | 13/08/2011 Bay Area transit police cut mobile service to thwart protest

The agency that runs the commuter trains that rumble beneath San Francisco each day hit the panic button Thursday night, cutting off mobile-phone serv...

Article | 13/08/2011 Study finds Android app-makers careless with some data

A lot of the software written for Google's Android mobile phones falls short when it comes to user privacy and security.

Article | 11/08/2011 South African police arrest man for selling jailbroken PS3s

South African police have arrested a 28-year-old Johannesburg man accused of selling jailbroken Sony PlayStation 3 machines and pirated game software.

Article | 10/08/2011 Booz Allen CEO downplays effect of Anonymous hack

A July cyberattack on Booz Allen Hamilton will not materially harm the company's bottom line, its CEO said Tuesday.

Article | 8/08/2011 Build your own camera, launch it like a grenade

Meet the Firefly.

Article | 8/08/2011 AntiSec hackers dump data after hacking police websites

The war between law enforcement and the Anonymous hacking collective continued this weekend as hackers dumped a 10 gigabyte database that included pri...

Article | 7/08/2011 Three tips for a better Anonymous

Has the Anonymous movement reached a midlife crisis?

Article | 5/08/2011 Spam king Sanford Wallace indicted for Facebook spam

Notorious spam king Sanford Wallace is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly breaking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages...

Article | 5/08/2011 A power plant hack that anybody could use

The night before the start of this week's Black Hat hacker conference here in Las Vegas, security researcher Dillon Beresford gave a demonstration to ...