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Article | 11/02/2008 Web site of UK landmark hacked to serve malware
The Web site of one of the UK's most famous landmarks, the Forth Road Bridge, has been torn open in embarrassing fashion to serve malware, researchers...
Article | 11/02/2008 Microsoft buys 3D company for Virtual Earth
Microsoft has bought Caligari, a developer of 3D modeling software, in a move that could help enrich the graphics experience in Microsoft's Virtual Ea...
Article | 11/02/2008 MWC - Samsung shows latest Ultra-edition handset
Samsung Electronics will present the latest model in its popular Ultra edition range of mobile phones at the Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barce...
Article | 5/02/2008 ISSCC - Intel lifts veil on Silverthorne processor
Intel will offer a first look at technical details of its low-power Silverthorne processor during a presentation at the International Solid State Circ...
Article | 11/02/2008 MWC - Sony Ericsson to make Windows Mobile phone
Sony Ericsson will begin selling its first phone using Windows Mobile software this year, Microsoft was due to announce on Sunday, just ahead of the M...
Article | 11/02/2008 Check Point merges security clients
Check Point is combining two of its separate desktop clients and adding antivirus software into a single security client that can help simplify the di...
Article | 11/02/2008 'Undercover' looks to replace PINs
Security researchers have tested the first prototypes of a secure authentication system that could one day replace PIN entry at cash points.
Article | 11/02/2008 Nokia Invites Some Customers to Test N-Gage Games
Nokia last week invited some phone users to start playing with its delayed new N-Gage gaming service and rebranded its video- and photo-sharing servic...
Article | 11/02/2008 Yahoo Live streaming video site goes live, dies, comes back
Yahoo's launch of its Yahoo Live site had a rocky start last week as an initial onslaught of traffic caused the experimental site, which allows users ...
Article | 11/02/2008 Keep Windows XP until 2009, analysts tell Microsoft
Microsoft should keep Windows XP available until at least 2009, not end the majority of sales on June 30 as currently planned, said analysts at Gartne...
Article | 11/02/2008 Mozilla patches 11 Firefox bugs
Mozilla late last week patched Firefox to quash 11 bugs, including one from three weeks ago that posed a threat to users who had installed any of the ...
Article | 11/02/2008 Study revived this week ties mobile phone use to sperm count
Reports on the Web of a three-year-old study that linked mobile phone usage to men's fertility has created new interest in a follow-up study headed by...
Article | 11/02/2008 Discovery Earth Live gives 3-D view of weather patterns
The Discovery Channel has launched a cool Web application that gives users a three-dimensional view of planet Earth and lets them manipulate the globe...
Article | 8/02/2008 Telco Titans: Soul to merge with TPG
Soul Pattinson Telemedia (SPT), better known by its brand Soul, has announced its proposal to merge with the private Australian ISP company TPG, in an...
Article | 8/02/2008 Report: Yahoo said to beef up talks with Google
Yahoo has beefed up its talks with Google as it looks for alternatives to Microsoft's unsolicited US$44.6 billion takeover bid, according to a report ...
Article | 8/02/2008 Microsoft to end digital downloads for Vista upgrades
Microsoft is revising a program that allows Windows Vista customers to upgrade from a basic version of its OS to one of the premium editions.
Article | 8/02/2008 Major vendors join OpenID board
IBM, Google, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo have joined the corporate board of the OpenID Foundation, giving a boost to the group's efforts to simplify...
Article | 8/02/2008 Google intros Apps edition to bypass the IT department
Google is releasing a new edition of its hosted applications suite that end-users can bring into the workplace without the involvement of their IT dep...
Article | 8/02/2008 'Anonymous' group declares online war on Scientology
A mysterious anti Church of Scientology group is using YouTube and other social networking sites to gather people for a day of action against the chur...
Article | 8/02/2008 Storage on demand set to Mozy its way into Australian enterprise
Driven by the demand for infrastructure savings and the growth of Web 2.0 applications, EMC is set to expand its Software as a Service (SaaS) offeri...

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