SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Monday that passwords belonging to some users of its Hotmail email service were exposed on an Internet site, but had since been taken down. The company did not say how many users were affected, but some reports suggested that passwords to more than 10,000 accounts were exposed. “We […]
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Google Inc is partnering with privately held Energy Inc to provide households with free energy management software, bypassing utilities’ smart meters and potentially boosting energy efficiency, the company said on its blog on Monday. Google launched in February a Web tool called PowerMeter, which lets consumers monitor how much electricity they […]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two independent record labels sued U.S. rock band Guns N’ Roses for $1 million, claiming the group used portions of two songs by a German musician on their last album “Chinese Democracy.” Guns N’ Roses and Universal Music Group’s Interscope-Geffen A&M label were sued by British label Independiente and the U.S. […]
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(CNN) — Scientists at NASA have discovered a nearly invisible ring around Saturn — one so large that it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a massive, nearly invisible ring around Saturn. The ring’s orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet’s main ring plane. The bulk […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – Memory chips for computers are likely to be in short supply by the second half of next year as consumers demand more capacity and companies embark on a delayed drive to replace PCs, industry tracker DRAMeXchange believes. Prices for DRAM chips, the most common type of computer memory, have stabilized over the […]
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(CNN) In a press release Tuesday AT&T announced it will now allow iPhone VoIP apps, like Skype, to run on the cellular network. AT&T previously restricted all VoIP apps, which transmit voice calls over a data network, for use only when an iPhone was on a Wi-Fi network. With these restrictions dropped, iPhone customers can […]
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Earlier this year several publications claimed that P2P and BitTorrent were dying because of the increased popularity of streaming sites. In reality, BitTorrent is about to close a record year in terms of traffic and usage. The misleading reports all based their conclusions on data supplied by a network-management firm, which showed that of all […]
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Last year Jammie Thomas lost her retrial against the RIAA and was ordered to pay $1.92 million in damages for sharing 24 songs using Kazaa. Just days after a judge reduced the $1.92m damages bill handed down to Jammie Thomas to a slightly more sensible $54,000, her legal team have turned down an offer to […]
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Larry Ellison isn’t the only one who has his reservations regarding the legitimacy of cloud computing. Synctus, a bootstrapped Manchester-based startup, is emerging from stealth with the introduction of a hardware product that aims to increase the speed and efficiency of file sharing between different offices of the same company. Traditional file sharing between branches […]
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Today, Google’s social strategy took a big step with the launch of Google Buzz — a new FriendFeed-like feature that’s integrated into Gmail, mobile search, Maps, and more (you can see our live notes from the announcement here). Shortly after the event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin fielded questions backstage from members of the press. Our […]
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