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Qualcomm Offers Devs Fastest, Priciest Android Tablet

Android devs can now get their hands on the fastest, priciest tablet so far that runs that operating system Based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, the Mobile Development Platform/Tablet (MDP/T) can be pre-ordered from Bsquare for US$1,300....

Iran Promises Knuckle Sandwich if US Cyberattacks Persist

Iran has reportedly threatened the United States with a "teeth-breaking" response if cyberattacks against it continue. Last month, Iran claimed to have discovered and foiled plans by the U.S., Israel and the UK to launch what it claimed was a massive cyberstrike against its nuclear facilities, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.

Enyo's Out of Beta - but Will Devs Give it Love?

HP brought Enyo -- the open source object-oriented JavaScript framework for webOS -- out of beta this week, six months after the ill-fated operating system was contributed to the open source community Enyo 2.0 now has a community of developers, a broad set of cross-platform user interface widgets, and a layout library for building apps that work a...

YouTube Paws Feebly at Foul-Mouthed Anonymous Commenters

YouTube now requests users who want to post comments on the site to let it pull their full names from their Google+ accounts and use them instead of remaining anonymous. However, users can refuse to do so, at which point they are confronted with a pop-up menu and must choose from a list of reasons to justify their decision....

Skype's Server Upgrade Triggers Wiretapping Worries

Fears have surfaced that Skype may be eavesdropping on communications over its service. The concern is that supernodes Microsoft is introducing to Skype could make it easier to monitor calls, because they route the voice data in addition to initiating communications between parties.

Virtual Organism Reveals Secrets of Cellular Processes

Bioengineering researchers at Stanford University have created a computational model of an entire organism, according to a report published in Cell. ...

Can Sparrow Teach Gmail to Sing?

Google has acquired Sparrow, the maker of an email client available for various platforms, including Apple's iOS and Mac OS X The news comes one week after Sparrow announced that its product is ready for Mac OS X Mountain Lion and for Apple's Retina Display technology....

FCC Gives ISPs Gold Star for Keeping Speed Promises

More Internet service providers are delivering on the download speeds they advertise, according to the United States Federal Communications Commission In a report released on Thursday, the FCC stated that tests conducted in April showed that more ISPs delivered their promised speeds, compared to tests conducted in August....

Band of Botnet Busters Grounds Grum

A joint effort by antimalware company FireEye, law enforcement authorities and other antispam activists has taken down Grum, believed to be the world's third-largest botnet, accounting for nearly 20 percent of worldwide spam After three days of work, all of Grum's known command and control (CNC) servers are now dead, according to FireEye's Atif Mus...

Middle East's Latest Malware Malady Does It Old-School

Security researchers have discovered yet another piece of malware that appears to be targeting computer systems in the Middle East Dubbed "Mahdi," it was discovered about one and a half months after researchers found the Flame malware, which also hit computers in that region....

AT&T Does Data-Sharing Verizon's Way

AT&T on Wednesday announced new shared wireless data plans, which are similar to the ones Verizon Wireless unveiled in June Both carriers' offerings let users put up to 10 devices, including laptops, netbooks, tablets and wireless connection USB sticks or cards, on plans that typically feature unlimited talk and texting....

AT&T Does Data-Sharing Verizon's Way

AT&T on Wednesday announced new shared wireless data plans, which are similar to the ones Verizon Wireless unveiled in June Both carriers' offerings let users put up to 10 devices, including laptops, netbooks, tablets and wireless connection USB sticks or cards, on plans that typically feature unlimited talk and texting....

OnStar Rental System Turns Texts Into Tickets to Ride

Owners of GM vehicles who subscribe to the automaker's OnStar service can now rent their vehicles out to other people when they're not in use RelayRides is the first third-party developer to integrate with OnStar's proprietary application programming interface (API). The API will be made available to other devs later this summer....

World's Most Powerful Laser Could Pew Pew Its Way to Fusion Power

The United States National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has successfully fired the most powerful laser beam ever recorded It took 192 laser beams to deliver more than 500 trillion watts, or terawatts (TW), of peak power and 1.85 megajoules (MJ) of ultraviolet laser light to a target 2mm in diameter....

Skype IMs Go Rogue

Some users of Microsoft's Skype service are having problems with their text messages, as detailed in the Skype support network Skype instant messaging contacts are getting messages originally addressed to others. A few users who got messages from one Skype contact found those messages were somehow sent from their accounts to yet other Skype contact...

Can Google Drive and Docs Add More Shine to Chrome OS?

Despite light sales of its Chromebook laptops, Google on Wednesday released version 20 of its Chrome operating system. Chrome 20 contains various new features and tweaks, as well as improvements to security and stability features. It also now supports Google Drive and lets users edit Google Docs offline....

Yahoo Voice Crack Spills 400K+ Usernames, Passwords

The passwords and usernames of more than 400,000 contributors to the Yahoo Voices website have been stolen and posted on the Internet The hack was carried out by an organization calling itself "D33Ds Company," which posted the data on the Web....

Amazon Smartphone Speculation Snowballs

New details about a possible forthcoming smartphone from Amazon continue to surface. The Internet retailer's testing a smartphone right now and may begin mass production late this year or early in 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported. The phone could have a screen measuring between four and five inches The putative Amazon smartphone could use a T...

Smart Headlights Create Fair-Weather Visibility in Rain and Snow

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have announced a smart headlight system that could improve visibility for drivers of automobiles in bad weather The system uses cameras and a processor to predict the path of raindrops and snowflakes in front of an automobile and redirect headlight beams to shine between those particles...

Will the Real Higgs Boson Please Stand Up?

The search for the elusive Higgs boson continues as scientists analyze the data from two recent experiments conducted at CERN, the European organization for nuclear research On Tuesday, scientists raised the possibility that the data might indicate that the particle they observed was a Higgs impostor....

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