Archive for December, 2009

Nuance scoops up Spinvox

Voice-to-text-to-human. Or something US speech recognition outfit Nuance Communications has bought Spinvox for £64m ($102.5m).…

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Nuance scoops up Spinvox

TJX kingpin pleads guilty to Heartland hack

Forest Gump of cybercrime face 17 years plus TJX hacking mastermind Albert Gonzalez faces a minimum of 17 years behind bars after pleading guilty to further cybercrimes.…

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TJX kingpin pleads guilty to Heartland hack

MS dismisses IIS zero-day bug reports

It ain’t vulnerable, just ‘inconsistent’ Microsoft has dismissed reports that there’s an unpatched critical flaw in the latest version of its webserver software.…

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MS dismisses IIS zero-day bug reports

Apple ejects Dalai Lama from Chinese iTunes

Protects Great firewall of China from ‘devil’ iPhone apps based on the teachings of the Dalai Lama don’t exist on the Chinese incarnation of iTunes, it has emerged, demonstrating that even Apple has to bend to do business in China.…

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Apple ejects Dalai Lama from Chinese iTunes

X-Box 360 theft suspect busted after online gaming sesh

From tagged to fragged An alleged X-Box 360 thief was tracked down after he forgot to disable the game console’s auto sign-in feature before hopping on the net.…

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X-Box 360 theft suspect busted after online gaming sesh

Samsung’s Galaxy stuck in history

This isn’t the Android I was looking for Comment   It seems no one will be updating the Galaxy to Android 2, annoying customers whose purchase decision was based on what it would do rather than what it could do.…

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Samsung’s Galaxy stuck in history

Apple censors Dalai Lama iPhone apps in China

China App Store deletes Lama Apple appears to have blocked iPhone apps related to the Dalai Lama in its China App Store, making it the latest US technology company to censor its services in China.

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Apple censors Dalai Lama iPhone apps in China

Adobe to surpass Office is biggest hacker target

Flash & Reader will be preferred targets in 2010 Adobe’s Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsoft Office applications, a security vendor predicted this week.

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Adobe to surpass Office is biggest hacker target

Top 10 social media stories of 2009

Top 10 social media stories of 2009…

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Top 10 social media stories of 2009

Googlephone debuts Jan. 5, says everyone but Google

We will not compete with customers Updated   A Tuesday press-conference invitation and a T-Mobile leak make it ninety-nine per cent certain that Google will announce its Android-based Googlephone Nexus One smartphone at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 5, at its Mountain View Googleplex.…

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Googlephone debuts Jan. 5, says everyone but Google

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