Motorola Droid X in serious lockdown
Friday 30th of July 2010 03:08:24 AM
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| Motorola's eagerly anticipated Droid X smartphone is expected to hit the hot summer streets in just a few hours. But don't plan on hacking, rooting or modding the Android-powered device anytime soon. 
In addition to locking down the smartphone with an encrypted bootloader, Motorola has instructed its obedient Droid to brick itself if the kernel, bootloader or ROM becomes noticeably compromised. |
Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks
Friday 30th of July 2010 03:08:24 AM
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| What can you do with a few gigabytes and a USB port? Quite a lot, with the right software. Learn how to encrypt your work, run whole systems, rescue Windows, and customize your thumb drive with these USB-geared tricks.Photo by Debs (ò‿ó)♪.Note: Gina previously rounded up 10 thumb drive tricks in April 2007, and we've borrowed a few of those ideas here. But many of the apps have updated, some have been replaced with better offerings, and a few totally new cool things (Chrome OS! XBMC!) have made their way into this mix.10. Give Your Drive a Custom Icon An... |
My First Week With The Dell Streak
Friday 30th of July 2010 03:08:24 AM
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| My First Week With The Dell Streak Yes, after a couple of years with the iPhone, I figured it was about time I checked out "the other side" and visited Android land. I went the whole hog and decided on a Dell Streak. I figured if I was going to contemplate jumping ship, I may as well do so in spectacular fashion! These are really just my initial thoughts after a week or so with the device. Almost suffice to say I haven't felt the need to use my iPhone once in the past week. In fact, a couple... |
FedEx tracking crashes - iPhone 4's fault?
Friday 30th of July 2010 03:08:24 AM
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| NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Just as Apple fans were at their jitteriest about the impending delivery of their iPhone 4s, FedEx's online tracking system crashed Wednesday afternoon. Customers who pre-ordered the new iPhone 4 are slated to start receiving their devices on Wednesday. But early adopters, take heart: "Package deliveries are proceeding as normal," FedEx (FDX, Fortune 500) said in a statement on its website. "However tracking updates are temporarily being delayed. Please try back later." Some superfans wouldn't settle for "later." On the site MacRumors.com, customers were tracking a flight headed out of Hong Kong in hopes that it... |
Ubuntu 'more secure' than Windows, says Dell
Friday 30th of July 2010 03:08:24 AM
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| Dell reckons Ubuntu offers more protection than Windows online as it convinces consumer PC shoppers they shouldn't be scared of Linux. In a statement flagged here by TheVarGuy.com, Dell picked on security as one of ten reasons why people should buy PCs running Canonical's Linux rather than Microsoft's operating system. According to Dell's site (here, and a PDF here (pdf) in case the page is moved): 6) Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft Windows: The vast majority of viruses and spyware written by hackers are not designed to target and attack Linux. Dell does not provide further details, but continues to... |
Computer Virus
Friday 30th of July 2010 03:08:24 AM
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| Has anyone in the last week gotten a computer virus from Antispyware Soft? It was a real bear to get rid of. I picked it up over the past weekend, and wondered if I could have possibly gotten it from FR or perhaps the alternate FR site when FR was inoperative sometime over the weekend. When I typed Start/run/msconfig and went to the start menu, there was an item ending in tssd.exe which is the virus. Also in start/run/regedit, there was AV Soft and AV Suite. After many times, restarting and unchecking tssd.exe, and running Microsoft Security Essentials, I believe... |
Sony's Flexible OLED is Thinner Than a Strand of Hair
Friday 30th of July 2010 03:08:24 AM
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| One of the main advantages of OLED is that it can be flexible—so flexible, in fact, that it can be wrapped around a pencil. Taking 2007's .3mm prototype Sony's made a new one just 80μm-thick. That's about ten times the size of a red blood cell, or just a tiny bit thinner than a single hair. The whole OLED measures 4.1-inches in size, and has a 432 x 240 resolution and a contrast ratio of under 1,000:1. |
Photocopier Fallout - Congress, FTC "Concerned"
Friday 30th of July 2010 03:08:24 AM
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| (CBS) A CBS News investigation last month found that nearly every digital copier built after 2002 stores an image of documents copied, scanned or emailed by the machine on hard drives. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports parents and students at Dos Palos High School in Sacramento found out the hard way recently, when CBS affiliate KOVR pulled hundreds of student names, home addresses, cell phone and social security numbers off the hard drive of an old school copier. "The fact that information that we treat very, very carefully somehow got out of our system and is out... |
"You wrecked my coffee brewer?! Who do you think you are??!"
Friday 30th of July 2010 03:08:24 AM
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| Some folks just have no respect for other people's property. Especially when they rip parts out of it for their own pet projects. NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thanks! |
How an unfixed Net glitch could strand you offline
Friday 30th of July 2010 03:08:24 AM
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| NEW YORK – In 1998, a hacker told Congress that he could bring down the Internet in 30 minutes by exploiting a certain flaw that sometimes caused online outages by misdirecting data. In 2003, the Bush administration concluded that fixing this flaw was in the nation's "vital interest." Fast forward to 2010, and very little has happened to improve the situation. The flaw still causes outages every year. Although most of the outages are innocent and fixed quickly, the problem still could be exploited by a hacker to spy on data traffic or take down websites. Meanwhile, our reliance on... |
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