New Ubuntu release reaches for the clouds

April 24, 2009

The latest edition of the Ubuntu operating system, is out today. Aside from various stability and performance tweaks, it’s main new feature is a cloud computing technology designed to match that offered by Amazon. The new edition is version 9.04, dubbed in characteristically alliterative style as Jaunty Jackelope. Among the claimed changes are: a new [...]

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New iPhone OS to have voice recognition?

April 21, 2009

The rumor mill has been put into high gear this morning by a discover of some code in the latest iPhone OS 3.0 beta release indicating that voice recognition may be a part of the new operating system. Even though the newest beta developer code for for Apple’s iPhone 3.0 operating system has been out [...]

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Malware Swipes Millions of Credit Cards

April 19, 2009

A security breach shows failings in security rules. Tens of millions of credit cards could be at risk of fraudulent use thanks to a serious computer-security breach at financial-transactions company Heartland Payment Systems. Earlier this week, Heartland revealed that a piece of malicious software, apparently installed inside the company’s transaction-processing system last year, had compromised [...]

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Hijacking Mobile-Phone Data

April 19, 2009

Researchers claim to be able to hijack cell-phone data connections. In a presentation today at Black Hat Europe, a computer-security conference in Amsterdam, a group of researchers claimed to have found a way to hijack the data sent to and from mobile phones. The researchers say that the attack might be used to glean passwords [...]

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