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Google showcases Chrome web store
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Google and VMware form joint Cloud venture
Google and VMware have teamed up to facilitate the rapid expansion of the lucrative Cloud computing market.
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IRS mulls tighter security for electronic filing
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is poised to implement a new security procedure that will make it harder for tax professionals to access the agency's electronic filing portal.
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YouPorn, iPad’s killer app
The puritanical Steve Jobs many not want adult content sullying his shiny devices, but porn on an iPad is clearly a no-brainer for the lucrative sex industry.
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Phillips touts 12 watt LED bulb as incandescent replacement
Phillips has introduced a 12 watt LED bulb that could eventually replace the ubiquitous 60 watt incandescent bulb.
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Hewlett Packard wants WebOS on printers and tablets
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Hackers penetrate Carder forum
Hackers have penetrated German underground forum carders.cc, copied several thousand members data and published it on RapidShare. The data includes logged IP addresses
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Hijacked Twitter controls botnet
Security researchers have positively identified an automated toolkit that creates a custom bot using Twitter as a virtual command and control (C&C) platform.
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mSpot streams music from the cloud
mSpot has debuted its great gig in the sky: a free, cloud-based service that allows users to access their entire music collections across smartphones, PCs and Macs.
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Report: Symantec to take over VeriSign's authentication business
The Wall Street Journal, quoting insider sources, reports that Symantec is about to finalise the takeover of VeriSign's authentication business
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Lost+Found: SQL injection, Twitter, CarShark and PDF scanning
Too short for news, too good to lose; Lost+Found is a round up of useful security information. Today: SQL injection prevention, botnets via twitter, sniffers in cars and testing infected PDFs
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Android gains on iPhone in global smartphone sales
Android's dominance of the US smartphone market hasn't yet spread to the rest of the world, says Gartner, but Google is narrowing the gap with Apple.
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Microsoft warns of critical hole in 64-bit version of Windows 7
Microsoft says that a flaw in the driver for rendering images can potentially be exploited to compromise a system. It is not quite clear whether the hole can be exploited remotely
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Scientist disciplined over fruit bat sex story
As a method of seduction, it's probably not that great. But a scientist at University College, Cork, has been accused of sexual harrassment for showing a colleague a scientific paper on fruitbats.
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