Loading ...A computer hacker who helped orchestrate the theft of tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major retailers in one of the largest such thefts in U.S. history pleaded guilty Tuesday in the last of three cases brought by federal prosecutors. Albert Gonzalez, a one-time federal informant from Miami, faces a prison [...]
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Consumer outrage about AT&T’s 3G service for iPhones is boiling over, but the dropped calls and spotty service reflect a greater lack of foresight in the wireless industry.Analysts say AT&T’s problems would have happened on any network that carried Apple’s (AAPL, Fortune 500) iPhone because of the overwhelming amount of data downloaded by iPhone users. [...]
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Research In Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, provided few details about the breakdown in service. Given their dependence on the device, it is no surprise that many BlackBerry owners are quick to complain when their smartphone fails to deliver on its promise of offering e-mail anywhere, at any time. But will a major disruption [...]
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A well-timed employee stock option exchange has delivered a generous windfall to nearly all of Google’s 20,000 workers–about $117,000. Like many companies, Google has a tradition of giving holiday presents to its employees – an Android phone last year, $1,000 in cash net of taxes the year before. This year, they got Google’s soon-to-be-released phone. [...]
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XROAD’s G-Map US & Canada navigation app offers spoken turn-by-turn directions, and has now been updated with real-time traffic reports. The original version of G-Map which was the first navigation software for iPhone and iPod Touch to offer turn-by-turn guidance. The new version includes several new features including spoken street names (using text-to-speech technology) and [...]
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The bloggers over at Inside Line have a scoop from Japan claiming that the 2013 Nissan GT-R will be offered with hybrid power. The thinking goes that a hybrid form of “Godzilla” would use the 158-hp electric motor setup seen in the Infiniti Essence concept coupled to the current GT-R’s twin-turbo V-6. Combined output would [...]
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Reports continue to surface that Google will release its first smartphone early next month, and a full set of specifications of this upcoming Android 2.1 model have now leaked out, detailing its many high-end features.Google has already handed out proto-type units of the Nexus One to many of its employees, and reportedly plans to start [...]
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In the final dash, habitually late holiday shoppers are spurning the madness of malls and e-commerce sites and offering cash gifts instead as a practical, efficient gift during the economic crunch. On PayPal, eBay’s online payment unit, the number of cash gifts through PayPal Send Money grew 164% from June to December. Start-up Lottay.com, an [...]
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Aston engineers spent last week running high-speed tests on the One-77 supercar in southern Europe—we’re supremely jealous—and managed to hit 220 mph. That makes the One-77 the fastest factory Aston ever: the V12 Vantage and DBS, for example, can “only” muster 190 mph. Devout readers of these pages know that velocity is achieved courtesy of [...]
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