A hot new smartphone can be Incredible, Vibrant, Epic or just “eh,” but no matter how it stacks up, it’s a safe bet that it will start selling at $199. On the four major wireless networks — Verizon Wireless (VZ, Fortune 500), AT&T, Sprint (S, Fortune 500) and T-Mobile — there are 13 smartphones priced [...]
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A new rogue has started making its appearance from compromised websites: Rogue:MSIL/Zeven. We received a sample (70be8ca73142922fd78acf2aafa9f141a977f15a) and a URL and began our investigation. Let us say from the beginning that the guys behind this rogue like to copy big-time.
After a flood of leaks, Verizon’s just officially announced its prepaid data plan for smartphones. The new 3G Prepaid data package will offer smartphone users “unlimited” data for $30 a month, while feature phone users can score 25MB of data a month for $10 with a 20-cent-per-meg overage fee — all contract-free, of course.
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GRAND ISLE, La. – An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Friday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP’s undersea well spilled after a rig explosion. The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the blast, which was reported by a commercial helicopter flying over the [...]
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Don’t take Sony’s silence on a recent USB hack that bypasses the PlayStation 3′s copy protection mechanics as soundless sanction. The company’s actively working to block sales of the device, and already has a temporary injunction from Australia’s Federal Court against sales of the device in the land down under. The hack, dubbed PS Jailbreak, allows [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO – As the world’s biggest maker of computer chips, Intel Corp. can’t afford to ignore its huge blind spot in mobile phones. Eighty percent of today’s personal computers use Intel processors. But Intel is absent in smart phones, which are threatening PCs as gateways to the Internet.
Xbox Live Gold subscribers might want to renew before November 1, when the price of a yearly subscription to the service jumps $10 in North America. According to a post on Major Nelson’s blog, after eight years’ of Xbox Live at the $50 a year price point, the service is finally seeing a price hike.
If you’re an iTunes user, when you get a new machine you probably want to transfer all of your content to it. Here we show you a few different ways to everything from one computer to another. If you get a new computer and have a bunch of multimedia and apps (purchased or not)installed on it, [...]
Think you can guess which Americans talk or text the most on their cellphones? According to Nielsen, African-Americans use the most voice minutes – on average more than 1,300 a month. Hispanics are the next most talkative group, chatting an average of 826 minutes a month.
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The BlackBerry Torch isn’t setting the smartphone world ablaze. Research In Motion and AT&T sold no more than 150,000 of the devices over the weekend, according to estimates by RBC Capital Markets and Stifel Nicolaus analysts. By comparison, Apple’s iPhone 4 sold 1.7 million units in its first weekend of sales.
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Say goodbye to those wimpy, eight-letter passwords. The 12-character era of online security is upon us, according to a report published this week by the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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For the last 20 years, hackers and antivirus software programmers have played a cat-and-mouse game over computer security. Whenever one side would innovate, the other would catch up. And for most of that time, the conflict remained a benign contest between tech savvy vandals looking for street cred and the professional programmers trained to counter [...]
Can you be 100% sure all of your pertinent data is secure as a small business? This question and answer should fill you in on some of the details. My business partner and I recently opened our own consulting firm. In an effort to be more environmentally friendly and increase storage efficiencies, we have decided [...]
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