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The Linux running on a Sony Vaio remained undefeated at the end of a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
Sponsors had wagered three laptops to anyone who could hack into one of the systems and run their own software. A $20,000 cash prize sweetened the deal.
The MacBook Air went first; Independent Security […]

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Philip Rosedale, the founder of Linden Labs, the company behind the popular virtual world Second Life, said Friday he will resign as CEO.
Rosedale will become chairman after a new CEO is found. Rosedale founded Linden Labs in 1999.
In a related move, Mitch Kapore, chairman of the private Linden Labs, will move from that spot to […]

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NBC Universal will pay around $6 million to acquire 35 percent in DriverTV, an online service aimed at potential automobile buyers. The service includes a Web site and video-on-demand.
DriverTV, also partially owned by video production company Radical Media, earns about $8 million each year from creating slick Web videos for automakers, the Wall Street Journal […]

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Microsoft announced Monday it has licensed Adobe’s Flash Lite and Reader applications for Windows Mobile smartphones. While the licensing fee was not provided, the move allows Windows cell phones to offer more attractive advertising, as well as support for PDF documents.
Although Microsoft has a competing application, Silverlight, it’s not available, where Flash Lite is running […]

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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to halt an antitrust lawsuit brought by Novell against the software giant. Microsoft had said an earlier federal court ruling for Novell stretched antitrust rules too far.
In 2004, Novell sued Microsoft, alleging the software maker “deliberately targeted and destroyed” WordPerfect and QuattroPro because they would work on other operating […]

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Internet ad company ValueClick has agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle spam claims brought by the government. The settlement is the largest under the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act.
In February, ValueClick announced it would pay $2.9 million to close the case without admitting guilt to the Federal Trade Commission complaint.
The government charged a ValueClick unit, Hi-Speed […]

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Apple has put wireless Internet technology on the forefront of its product line with an updated version of its portable base station, the AirPort Express. The new version comes with 802.11n, offering five times the data transfer speed and double the range of the older 802.11g models.
Another notable feature will be the AirPort Express’s capacity […]

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The controversial video game “Manhunt 2″ will now be released for sale after a ban has been lifted on the game.
The Video Appeals Committee, after a nine-month legal battle between developers Rockstar and the U.K. censors, upheld an earlier decision allowing the game to be released. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), however, vows […]

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Hitatchi said Friday it forecasts a $680 million net loss instead of a profit for the fiscal year. The turnaround was blamed on an ailing flat panel television unit.
In a statement, Hitatchi pointed to a “protracted decline in market prices” for older models combined with inability to meet sales targets for large-screen flat panel displays.
The […]

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Computer security company Trend Micro, in the business of preventing attacks, earlier this week instead became the victim of one seeming to emanate from China.
The attack on the company’s site happened Tuesday and spread to 20,000 Web pages, according to one report. Trend Micro said Thursday the pages were removed and “corrective” action taken.
The attack […]

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Verizon Communications will announce Friday a plan to improve peer-to-peer networks, departing from the confrontational tactics of Internet providers, such as cable giant Comcast. The key is cooperation, according to the telecom.
Verizon said if peer-to-peer networks cooperate with ISPs to route data through nearby connections, rather than using random links, file-sharing speeds can increase by […]

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In the first few days after Apple released a beta of the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK), it was downloaded a surprising number of times.”Developer reaction to the iPhone SDK has been incredible with more than 100,000 downloads in the first four days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Also, […]

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Research firm NPD has released its game console sales figures for February 2008, and to no one’s surprise the Nintendo Wii continued to dominate traditional console sales, moving 432,000 units during the month. Sony’s PlayStation 3 managed a second-place finish along the so-called “next generation” consoles with 281,000 units sold, although Sony managed to beat […]

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In response to the Nike/iPod partnership, Samsung and Adidas have come together to create the SGH-F110 miCoach, a mobile phone for the fitness conscious person. Aside from all the features of a normal phone, the miCoach is equipped with a heart rate monitor and a step counter.The heart rate monitor will store information while you […]

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Yahoo is still struggling but, for Microsoft’s top man, the future of the internet pioneer - as part of Microsoft’s web infrastructure - has already been settled. Ballmer hinted that his integration plans were all set.
In the second key-note speech at Microsoft’s Mix web developer conference, Steve Ballmer did not make his normal solo […]

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