Hackers of the world,unite!You have nothing to lose but the lousy stock firmware your routers shipped with. Apart from smartphones,routers and wireless base stations are undoubtedly the most widely hacked and user-modded consumer ...
Tags: DD-WRT, Vyatta, security, Hackers, routers, Tomato, OpenWRT, M0n0wall, PfSense
Web content is great,when you don't mind visiting a multitude of Web sites in order to peruse all that you want to see.Wouldn't it be great if you could grab the content you wanted to read and put it in one place,almost like a virtual ...
Tags: Paper.li, personalized online newspaper, web content, three-column layout
Google has released its latest transparency report in which it details the extent to which public bodies have requested the removal of content and the amount of requests it has received for access to its users' private information. ...
Tags: Google, private data, search engine, Microsoft
AT&T announced general availability of its Enhanced Push-to-Talk service on Tuesday,taking on Sprint's Direct Connect Now app as the carriers vie to attract users of the fading Nextel network. Nextel pioneered push-to-talk(PTT)long before ...
Tags: AT&T, Enhanced Push-to-Talk service, Sprint's Direct Connect Now app
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced this evening that Steven Sinofsky -- long rumored as Ballmer's replacement, and the man who fixed the Windows Vista debacle and championed the radical and largely unloved overhaul that became Windows 8 ...
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Pontiac Township High School recently teamed up with Ace Hardware in Pontiac to bring more recognition to their current fluorescent light bulb recycling program. Compact fluorescent lights (CFL) (which are described as the curly-cue ...
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Web users and people shopping online during the upcoming holiday season should watch out for a new crop of scams, some of them targeting users of mobile devices, cybersecurity vendor McAfee warned. Many of the scams in McAfee's 2012 ...
Tags: McAfee, holiday season, mobile devices, operating systems
Kobo, a global leader in eReading with more than 10-million users, announced that its much-anticipated 7" Android tablet, the Kobo Arc, has hit shelves across Canada and the United Kingdom today and will be heading to France on Monday. The ...
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Twitter has apologised for a security error that saw large numbers of users' passwords being reset. Many users of the micro-blogging site received an email earlier this week stating their accounts had been compromised, leading to Twitter ...
Tags: Twitter, security error, passwords reset, MySQL
Sharp have cooperated with Al Muftah Trading to release Qatar's first commercially available 80 inch AQUOS LED TV, and Sharp's latest Double French refrigerators. The two new products are part of the "From Bigger to Biggest" products ...
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IDG News Service-Access to Google services in China appeared to return Saturday morning after they were blocked briefly as the country prepares to appoint new leadership. The blocking appeared to last for about 12 hours,with Internet ...
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This November marks the ninth year for which we will be announcing the Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards... To refresh your memories,these awards recognize those individuals,companies or entities that don't,won't or can't come to grips with ...
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Twitter has apologised after telling members their accounts had been hacked and forcing them to reset their passwords. Twitter sent out a"large number"of emails telling members to change their log-in details,but gave no indication of the ...
Tags: Twitter, apologises, unnecessary hacking warnings, protect users
Computerworld-Wireless smartphone and tablet users helped both presidential candidates raise funds and support in 2012,while mobile computing contributed directly to President Barack Obama's edge in Tuesday's presidential election. Most ...
Tags: Obama, Smartphone, tablet users, presidential election
VMware has confirmed that the source code for its enterprise-level virtualisation platform – ESX hypervisor – has been leaked online and is urging users to apply security patches. This is the second time the ESX source code ...
Tags: VMware, virtualisation platform, security patches, leaked online