Posted on June 30th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
4.5M-strong botnet ‘most sophisticated threat today’ to Windows PCs A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is “practically indestructible,” security researchers say. “TDL-4,” the name for both the bot Trojan that infects machines and the ensuing collection of compromised computers, is “the most sophisticated threat today,” said Kaspersky Labs [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
More than a half-million Android devices are now being activated every day, and the number is growing at 4.4 percent worldwide, the head of Google’s mobile platform has revealed. Rubin disclosed the numbers in a message posted on his official Twitter account Tuesday morning. Rubin is Google’s vice president of engineering, the mastermind behind Android, [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
A small asteroid, estimated between 16 and 65 feet in diameter, whipped past Earth this afternoon – missing by a mere 7,600 miles. Asteroid 2011 MD approached Earth at 1 p.m. EDT a full three and-a-half hours later than astronomers first predicted, the AP reports. The space agency had earlier predicted no probability of the [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
It’s a big day of firsts for Sprint. The carrier launched its first Android tablet on Friday compatible with the new 4G “Wi-Max” network. The device is also the first Android tablet out there capable of running Netflix. Unfortunately, despite being first in line for 4G and Netflix, Sprint’s HTC Evo View tablet ships with [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
High on a rocky ridge in the desert, nestled among 5,000-year-old bristlecone pines, is the topmost part of a clock that has been ticking for thousands of years. It looks out over the ruins of a spaceport, built by a rich man whose name was forgotten long ago. Most of the clock is deep inside [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Meaner and greener. Here’s hoping for the former. When news broke of Mitsubishi killing the all-wheel-drive turbocharged goodness that is the Lancer Evolution, the tuner crowd was in an uproar. Not since the death of the Supra, NSX or Tupac Shakur did the exhaust-burble and flush-rim-loving crowd see such an outpouring of sorrow. But just [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Sprint just released a software update for the HTC EVO 4G Android phone that addresses minor issues and bug fixes. One of the issues that was fixed was apparently causing the Netflix app and possibly others to fail. This has been resolved. It is recommended that you apply the latest software update to your EVO [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Firefox 5 was launched as planned and on schedule this week–and also marked the “end of life” for support of Firefox 4. Mozilla’s rapid release schedule, and the strategy to essentially make each new release a requirement to continue support paint Firefox into a corner where only loyal hobbyists can reliably use the browser. The [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2011 by ElectroGeek
After applying the Android 2.3.3 update to my EVO 4G it was apparent that it resolved many bugs and added a few cool features. Oh yeah, it also broke the Netflix app. Oops. I am a big Netflix fan so when the Netflix app for Android came out I was all over it. Well, that [...]
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