Archives: 2011 July
Man charged with hacking into Australian broadband (AP)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
Canberra, Australia – An unemployed truck driver was charged Wednesday with hacking into a broadband provider Australia in an alleged crime that police said could have caused significant damage to the national Internet infrastructure. David Cecil, 25, was accused in a court of the State of New South Wales for hacking into one of the [...]
Gaming the GRE test in China, with a little online help (Reuters)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
BEIJING (Reuters) – When 21-year-old Zhang, an average student in college, got set for the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) in Beijing this year, she felt so unprepared that she skipped the exam entirely. Forty days later, she flew to Vietnam and nailed a near-perfect score in the test, which is taken by candidates applying to [...]
‘Evil’ Australian hacker faces 49 charges (AFP)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
"Evil" hackers Australia faces 49 charges SYDNEY (AFP) – A man who uses the online nickname "evil" has been accused of attacks by suspected pirates on Wednesday that the police could have caused considerable damage to Australia s national infrastructure?. The truck driver 25 years of unemployment, which had been unable to find a job [...]
Amazon 2Q profit falls but results beat Street (AP)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
Leacroft Green SAN FRANCISCO – Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday that second quarter profit was spent, despite a 51 percent increase in revenue as a strong leading online retailers to expand their business. The results easily beat analysts' expectations, as well as in the third quarter, Amazon forecast sales. The shares rose 6 percent in after-hours [...]
Reid’s debt plan could speed wireless auctions (Reuters)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The efforts to offer to auction U.S. regulators the power to some TV-ether for mobile broadband gets a boost in the debt brake, as the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid suggested. The auctions have the potential to increase 15000000000 $ turnover, according to Reid's plan, with a portion of the proceeds to [...]
Internet privacy controls challenge tech industry (AP)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON – The federal government has put Google, Microsoft, Apple and other technology companies on notice: Give consumers a way prevent advertisers from tracking their movements across the Web — or face regulation. Yet for all its innovative know-how and entrepreneurial spirit, the technology industry has yet to agree on a simple, meaningful solution to [...]
Google Shopper for iPhone Now Surfaces Nearby Offers (Mashable)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
Google offers with Google and Google Wallet, has long shown interest in winning the daily game is poker against the current market leader and once a takeover candidate Groupon. Tuesday Google is going all in with A business-focused update to Google Shopper for iPhone. Google Shopper for iPhone application [iTunes link], with a focus on [...]
Blogger wants Conn. ‘take up arms’ charges tossed (AP)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
Hartford, Connecticut – a blogger's lawyer accused of inciting violence, urging readers to "bear arms" against lawmakers in Connecticut, said his client's comments when baseball fans shouting " Kill the referee! " Public Defender John Stawicki told a Superior Court judge in Hartford on Tuesday that the charges against Harold "Hal" Turner was fired because [...]
Amazon Calls for Feds to Decide Online Sales Tax Issue (PC Magazine)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
Amazon executives said Tuesday that the company does and will be sales tax on goods purchased online, but the retailer's preference for a federal solution to pay and not leave it to the States. Thomas J. Szkutak, company chief financial officer, also declined to comment on whether Amazon will use its agreements with certain of [...]
Samsung, Verizon Release First LTE 4G Tablet (NewsFactor)
July 29th, 2011, No Comments
Samsung and Verizon Wireless will begin selling the first 4G Long Term Evolution compressed Thursday. The Galaxy card for the first time in November, is now ready for download speeds of 4G from five to 12 Mbps and upload speeds of 2-5 Mbps in areas of broadband 4G. Verizon has also announced a netbook LTE, [...]
