A team of computer security experts have found a “serious flaw” in the operating system used on Google’s first ever mobile phone, the T-Mobile G1.
The phone, which runs the Android operating system, an open source platform developed in part by Google, went on sale in the US last Wednesday, and hits UK stores on Thursday.
Experts [...]
DVD rental company Redbox has filed a lawsuit against Universal Studios, alleging that the company is engaging in anticompetitive behavior and is abusing copyright law. According to the complaint, filed in US District Court for the district of Delaware, Universal attempted to coerce Redbox into signing a predatory revenue sharing deal and then threatened to [...]
A top Mexican immigration official has been arrested after U.S. border inspectors found about 169 pounds of marijuana in his pickup truck, a U.S. law enforcement official said Monday.
The law enforcement official identified the Mexican official as Francisco Celaya-Carrillo. The law enforcement official, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to discuss [...]
If you’re wondering whom to thank for the Web 2.0 explosion in interactive websites, consider sending a bouquet to Congress. Today’s internet is largely an outgrowth of the much-reviled Digital Millennium Copyright Act that lawmakers passed in 1998, and President Clinton signed into law exactly a decade ago Tuesday.
Blogs, search engines, e-commerce sites, video and [...]
How about a 64-bit operating system with that 64-bit processor?
The 64-bit version of Windows Vista is not new. It arrived when Vista did. But making it standard on a crush of new consumer laptops being sold at Best Buy is a recent change.
All PCs now ship with Intel or Advanced Micro Devices 64-bit processors. Until [...]
Some buyers of Apple’s fancy new Macbooks are complaining about a loose battery/HDD latch and slanted function keys on the keyboard. Apparently, Apple agreed to refund or replace certain notebooks, unless the notebook isn’t build-to-order and dead on arrival. These new notebooks also come with liquid detection sensors to help service technicians figure out whether [...]
I know people don’t like this subject. But we must confront it, right now, with our eyes open to prevent total chaos and, more importantly, total heartache from happening on November 4th.
ES&S iVotronics touch screens have already been observed now in four completely separate States, flipping the votes, in the early voting that has taken [...]
A federal jury has ordered Target Corp. to pay a Greer woman $3.1 million after the jury found that the company distributed information that wrongly accused her of trying to pass a counterfeit bill while shopping.
The jury ruled in favor of Rita Cantrell following a three-day civil trial in U.S. District court in Greenville, according [...]
The Pennsylvania Democrat who has sued Sen. Barack Obama demanding he prove his American citizenship – and therefore qualification to run for president – has confirmed he has a recording of a telephone call from the senator’s paternal grandmother confirming his birth in Kenya.
The issue of Obama’s birthplace, which he states is Honolulu in 1961, [...]
When Chris Read bought a mobile phone through eBay, it was described as being in good condition.
But when the phone arrived a few days later, he was disappointed to find it was the wrong model and appeared to be damaged.
After returning his purchase and receiving a refund from the seller, Joel Jones, he used the [...]