Aug 27
BOSTON (Reuters) - Monster.com waited five days to tell its users about a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information from some 1.3 million job seekers, a company executive told Reuters on Thursday.
Hackers broke into the U.S. online recruitment site’s password-protected resume library using credentials that Monster Worldwide Inc said were stolen from its clients, in one of the biggest Internet security breaches in recent memory.
They launched the attack using two servers at a Web-hosting company in Ukraine and a group of personal computers that the hackers controlled after infecting them with a malicious software program known as Infostealer.Monstres, said Patrick Manzo, vice president of compliance and fraud prevention for Monster, in a phone interview. Continue reading »
Aug 27
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Sunday unveiled its new vPro chip technology aimed at making business personal computers more secure, as the world’s largest chipmaker seeks to solidify its brand.
vPro is a collection of a Core 2 Duo processor, chipset and other elements that together the company calls a platform. Intel’s first platform technology was Centrino, which it announced in 2003.
Since then, under Chief Executive Paul Otellini, the company has moved from selling and branding discrete processors and chipsets to selling them together as related technologies, or platforms, in a bid to sell more chips overall. Continue reading »
Aug 27
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Sunday it was giving its e-mail users more ways to reach friends and online contacts by allowing them to trade messages with mobile phone users.
The new e-mail-to-phone connection is one of the features the Internet media giant plans to add as it makes available to the more than 250 million Yahoo Mail users a new version of the world’s most popular e-mail program in coming weeks.
The Yahoo Mail overhaul is part of a drive to transform its e-mail franchise into more of a social activity that blends the convenience of instant communication with the implicit network of relationships found in one’s online address book.
Already this year Yahoo has been testing another feature that lets its e-mail users communicate using conventional e-mail or via instant messages using either Yahoo Messenger or Microsoft Live Messenger. Continue reading »
Aug 27
SEOUL (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N: Quote, Profile, Research), which recently said it would spend up to $5 billion on a mobile high-speed wireless standard by 2010, said it had awarded the New York WiMax market to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research).
Samsung had previously been awarded the Washington, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Providence, R.I. and Boston markets as part of Sprint’s push to use the mobile WiMax wireless standard.
“Those are very good markets that we’ve given to Samsung,” Barry West, president of Sprint’s high speed wireless unit, told Reuters on Monday after Samsung made the official announcement on the sidelines of the Samsung 4G Forum. Continue reading »
Aug 27
(CNN) — Insulating foam that covers brackets of Discovery’s external fuel tank needs to be removed before the shuttle can fly again, NASA said Friday.
A new X-ray analysis shows small cracks that probably make the material prone to shedding, officials said.
NASA engineers said the foam — called Super Light-weight Ablative, or SLA — should be removed from the brackets.
The work will take about nine days and is not expected to delay Discovery’s next launch, scheduled for October 23.
Insulating foam covers a shuttle’s external tank to prevent ice from building up when super-cold liquid oxygen and hydrogen fuel is pumped into it in the hours before launch. Continue reading »
Aug 27
NEW YORK (AP) — A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple’s iPhone to AT&T’s wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones.
eorge Hotz, 17, confirmed Friday that he had unlocked an iPhone and was using it on T-Mobile’s network, the only major U.S. carrier apart from San Antonio-based AT&T that is compatible with the iPhone’s cellular technology.
While the possibility of switching from AT&T to T-Mobile may not be a major development for U.S. consumers, it opens up the iPhone for use on the networks of overseas carriers.
“That’s the big thing,” said Hotz, in a phone interview from his home in Glen Rock. Continue reading »
Aug 12
SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) — Microsoft Corp said Monday it will cut the price of its main Xbox 360 video game console model by about 13 percent in the United States, hoping to boost sales ahead of the crucial holiday season.
The move reduces the price of the Xbox 360 Premium model by $50, to $350, and follows a move last month by rival Sony Corp to cut the price of its PlayStation 3 machine by 17 percent, to $500.
Faced with unexpectedly strong competition from Nintendo Co Ltd’s cheaper Wii console, Microsoft is aiming at expanding the appeal of the Xbox 360 to an audience outside its core fan base of young men.
“As we look to the holidays we want to bring in more gamers and lower the price for those customers,” the Xbox 360’s group product manager, Aaron Greenberg, said in an interview.
“We’re always trying to bring down cost of the box and … we always try to pass on the savings to our consumers. We feel like this is the right time to do it.” Continue reading »
Aug 12
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — Maneuvering a laser-tipped boom, astronauts closely inspected a gash to shuttle Endeavour’s belly Sunday, providing 3-D images that NASA hopes will rule out the need for risky spacewalk repairs.
A chunk of insulating foam smacked the shuttle at liftoff last week in an unbelievably unlucky ricochet off the fuel tank and carved out the gouge.
The unevenly shaped gouge — which straddles two side-by-side tiles and possibly the corner of a third — is 3.5 inches long and just over 2 inches wide. The laser survey will determine its depth, crucial information for mission managers who must decide whether to send two astronauts out to fix the difficult-to-reach area. Continue reading »
Aug 12
Blockbuster, one of the nation’s largest video-rental companies, has acquired Movielink, a video-on-demand service owned by five of the top six movie studios.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Movielink offers digital movie downloads, but none of the competitors in the sector has managed to find much of an audience.
Founded in 2002, Movielink is backed by Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Warner Bros. Studios. Continue reading »
Aug 12
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Hasbro, Inc. (HAS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday said they have made a licensing agreement to create electronic versions of some of Hasbro’s most popular games including Monopoly, Scrabble and Yahtzee.
Under the agreement, which runs through 2013, Redwood City, California-based Electronic Arts will hold worldwide rights to create the digital games for electronic devices including mobile telephones and over the Internet. Continue reading »
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