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Apple patching serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone
Apple is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone.
Conficker cost Manchester council £1.5m
Manchester City Council has cancelled hundreds of fines for drivers caught on camera in bus lanes, after the Conficker worm hit its fine processing systems.
Star Trek-like universal translator a step closer
The first iterations of something akin to the universal translators used on Star Trek may soon be arriving via your smartphone.
US teams with Italy to fight cyber crime
The head of the US Secret Service has signed a memorandum of understanding with the head of the Italian police and the CEO of the Italian Postal Service to set up an international task force to combat cyber crime.
Apple CEO Jobs returns to work
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has returned to work on schedule after taking a six-month leave of absence due to medical issues, the company says.
Blind phone hacker gets 11-year sentence
A blind Boston-area teenager has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him.
DOJ pushes probe of Oracle-Sun deal beyond deadline
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) needs more time to examine Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems beyond an initial review period, Oracle says.
Microsoft charges Europeans double for Windows 7
European customers will pay up to twice as much for Windows 7 compared to US users, even though the new operating system will ship without a browser in Europe, according to Microsoft.
Long-awaited PC upgrade cycle coming - Gigabyte
A long-awaited PC upgrade cycle among SMEs may lie just around the corner, according to an executive at a Taiwanese hardware maker.
New chips don’t deliver, Facebook says
The latest generations of server processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices don’t deliver the promised gains in performance, according to the head of technical operations at Facebook, a massive consumer of servers.
Reporters find Northrop Grumman data in Ghana market
A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to US government contractor Northrop Grumman.
China appears to block Google sites
Google Web sites, including its English search engine, became inaccessible in China late Wednesday, following the country’s criticism of Google last week for serving up pornographic search results.
US government blocks imports of Sharp TVs
The US International Trade Commission has issued a decision that blocks the US import of LCD panels and LCD televisions made by Sharp, ruling that the company violated a patent held by rival Samsung Electronics.
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Software sales drop, but Oracle beats expectations
Oracle has reported a 13% dip in new software sales, but posted quarterly financial results that were ahead of analyst expectations.
Trans-Atlantic Internet cables may be filled by 2014
Voracious Web surfers, e-mailers and downloaders will use up the trans-Atlantic cables that were overbuilt early in this decade within the next five years, forcing carriers to invest in new ones in a market that has become used to adding bandwidth cheaply, according to research company Telegeography.
RIM posts rare drop in BlackBerry subscriber growth
Research in Motion said that it has had a rare drop in subscriber growth when it reported its fiscal first quarter results, while shipment growth of its popular BlackBerry handsets apparently stalled.
Jury orders music swapper to pay $1.92m
A woman who won a retrial after a $220 000 verdict against her for sharing music files has now been ordered to pay $1.92m by a jury in Minnesota.
Blogger: Windows 7 UAC feature still vulnerable
The Microsoft blogger who first called attention to a security vulnerability in Windows 7’s User Account Control (UAC) feature claims it still exists, and that Microsoft won’t fix it, even as the company nears final code completion on the OS.
Nine Ball attack strikes 40 000 Web sites
More than 40,000 Web sites have been hit by a mass-compromise attack dubbed Nine Ball that injects malware into pages and redirects victims to a site that will then try to download Trojans and keylogger code, Websense says.
Nielsen: Microsoft’s search queries fell by 14% in May
Microsoft’s search engine suffered a steep usage drop in May, right before the company launched Bing, a new version of its search engine, according to the latest market share figures from Nielsen Online.
MySpace staff slashed by almost 30%
The restructuring continues at MySpace, whose staff will get cut by almost 30%, the News Corp. division has announced.
IRS wants to repeal cellphone tax
The US Internal Revenue Service is now recommending that a complicated law that would tax personal usage of business cellphones be repealed, after the agency caused an uproar last week with attempts to simplify the law.
11.9% decline for worldwide mobile phone market
The worldwide mobile phone market shipped 35m fewer units than it did during the same period one year ago, and all indications point to that trend continuing through Q4 2009.
Microsoft settles anti-trust suit for $100m
Microsoft has settled an anti-trust case with Mississippi worth as much as $100m, the state says.
EC to pursue anti-trust case despite Microsoft’s IE decision
The European Commission will proceed with its anti-trust case against Microsoft regardless of the announcement that the software giant is stripping its browser, Internet Explorer (IE), from the next incarnation of its operating system, Windows 7, in Europe.
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