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Assuming this is all true, it's not the first time an outsourced worker in India has been guilty of using personal info from U.S. citizens for financial gain.

 

On Friday, a pair of security researcher released a tool that they say can be used to hack into Android phones at the Defcon hackers conference in Las Vegas.

 

My arch-nemesis and his death ray/air multiplier. The ancient Persians had air conditioning.

 

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has reached a deal with the Cape Wind offshore wind energy project that she says will save consumers up to $465 million during the first 15 years of operation.

 

As more and more Americans go green, environmentally sustainable innovations are translating into big bucks for entrepreneurs.

 
At dusk, a car stops at a checkpoint in Afghanistan. Because an interpreter is not available, U.S. Marines use hand gestures to ask the driver to step out of the car and open the trunk and hood for inspection. There's a lot of room for error.
 

Samsung confirmed on Friday what has been suspected: the Galaxy Tab tablet PC that it earlier said would ship during Q3 2010 will be Android-powered. A Samsung executive announced in June that the company would begin selling a tablet named the Galaxy Tab in Q3.

 

It's begun. First came the Nexus One, which Google promised would be the first Android phone to get Froyo.

 

It appears the Android wallpaper apps what were accused of being malware after a session at the Black Hat 2010 security conference this week may not have been malware, but simply overzealous in their data gathering, according to the security firm that first highlighted them.

 

You may have heard that Ron Bowes, a security researcher, snagged the information of 100 million Facebook users, and not by hacking either, but simply by accessing their publicly available data using a Web crawler.

 

The number of cell phones shipped worldwide rose 14.5 percent in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, with much of the growth coming from smaller challengers like the iPhone and BlackBerry, according to research firm IDC.

 

That somewhat pithy statement above is one of the tidbits gleaned at a daylong Microsoft meeting with analysts on Thursday.

 

Researchers have uncovered new ways that criminals can spy on Internet users even if they're using secure connections to banks, online retailers or other sensitive Web sites.

 

Google Inc. said Thursday that its search engine was abruptly cut off from mainland China, raising more questions about the Internet company's ability to operate in the country while trying to work around the government's online censorship policies.

 

Microsoft will compete with Apple's iPad, but it isn't saying when. Microsoft Corp.

 
When Apple said the whole problem with the iPhone 4's antenna was the signal bars being incorrect, many mocked them. On the other hand, it sure sounded like throwing AT&T under the bus again.
 

The Sprint HTC Evo 4G will be the first carrier-branded device to get an Android 2.2 update.

 

Google has said people in mainland China are being blocked from using its internet search engine.

 

Apple's fans are so devoted that they have been called a "cult." A pair of researchers at Texas A&M have gone still further.

 


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