Steve Jobs, presumably speaking from a hyperbaric chamber where he’s being nourished with an infusion of liquified developer-souls before his next public appearance, had a few interesting tidbits about the AppStore for the Wall Street Journal this morning. Namely, users have downloaded some 60 million programs for the iPhone representing sales of…
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This is the story of the OLPC project since it was announced in January of 2005. Intel and Microsoft are monopolies that used brute force to delay the OLPC non-profit open-source project from starting the cheap laptop revolution, taking away the profit margins from a multi-hundred-billion dollar laptop and PC industry.
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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has sued three MIT students — Zackary M. Anderson ‘09, Russel J. Ryan ‘09, and Alessandro Chiesa ‘09 — and MIT to prevent the disclosure of security weaknesses in subway ticketing systems.
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Struggling AMD may look to unload its chipmaking facilities to a partner to concentrate on battling the industry’s giant
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If you use Gmail and haven’t yet taken advantage of a feature Google
unveiled last week to prevent hackers from hijacking your inbox, now would be an excellent time to do that.A security researcher at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas demonstrated a tool he built that allows attackers to break into your inbox ..
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It’s been a while since we previewed what we thought would be the biggest games of 2008, so I thought it would be fun to take an updated look at the best the rest of the year has to offer. Things sure have changed! Obviously, games get delayed, but here are the ten biggest unreleased PC titles that we’re looking forward to here at VE.
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Intel has announced that the upcoming Nehalem processor will be officially known as the Core i7. Nehalem has been the code name for Intel’s upcoming processors first due in Q4 2008. Nehalem represents a major overhaul of Intel’s processor technology and introduces a number of improvements over…
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Dustin Waller was a happy guy with a loving fiancee who was kind enough to buy him a PlayStation 3. But one day police knocked on his door and informed Waller that they’d tracked his stolen Playstation 3 through the internet. That bitch!
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Under the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, colleges and universities that get federal funding, have to come up with ways to deal with “Campus-based Digital Theft Prevention”. While the bill doesn’t give specific methods, there are industry favourites that have done the rounds of Capitol Hill, but universities can come up with their own me
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The existence of a prototype management system for anti-piracy company ‘Logistep’ was revealed at the weekend. The online system called ‘Logistep Data Management Tool’, was located at eparken.com but since the revelations the site has been taken down. It is still available in limited form via Google’s cache.
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