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Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook (AP)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:05:30 GMT

Wii and PlayStation 3 versions of Madden NFL 10, an Electronic Arts game, are shown at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Electronic Arts Inc. is showing a smaller net loss in its last quarter even though its video game sales declined. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump.


Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked (AP)
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:31:39 GMT

In this Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 photo, Chris Tarnovsky poses for photos after speaking at the Black Hat Briefings in Arlington, Va. Tarnovsky figured out a way to break chips that carry a 'Trusted Platform Module,' or TPM, designation. Such chips are billed as the industry's most secure and are estimated to be in as many as 100 million personal computers and servers, according to market research firm IDC. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.


MySpace Music experiments with audio ads (AP)
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:46:53 GMT
AP - Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.

Chinese police shut down hacker training business (AP)
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:26:44 GMT
AP - Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday.

Google cuts fee to break Nexus One contract (AP)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:22:45 GMT
AP - Google Inc. has lowered by $200 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone on the T-Mobile USA Inc. network.

PayPal halts certain payment transactions in India (AP)
Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:25:43 GMT
AP - The online payments service PayPal has taken the unusual step of suspending many transactions in India for more than a week.

Google warns Chinese knock-off to stop using logo (Reuters)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:13:49 GMT
Reuters - Google Inc has sent a cease and desist letter to the operators of a Chinese search website whose logo bears a close resemblance to its own.

LG, Samsung Go Social With Latest Handsets (PC World)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:40:11 GMT
PC World - South Korea's two biggest cell phone makers previewed on Tuesday handsets they plan to unveil at next week's Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona.

Nuance Communications narrows 1Q loss (AP)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:10:47 GMT
AP - Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. said Monday it narrowed its loss in the fiscal first quarter as revenue in the company's two largest divisions, health care and dictation, and mobile and enterprise, increased.

TiVo: Doritos' 'House Rules' Ad Wins Super Bowl (PC Magazine)
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:17:33 GMT
PC Magazine - Doritos' ad featuring a tough-as-nails kid slapping some sense into his mother's date stole the show as the most-watched Super Bowl ad, according to data collected by the TiVo "Stop Watch" service.

Gamer to pay Nintendo $1.3 mln for illegal upload (AFP)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:35:37 GMT

A screen displays an image from Japanese video game giant Nintendo showing its Super Mario character. An Australian man has agreed to pay Nintendo $1.3 mln for illegally uploading a game to the Internet six days before its global release.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - An Australian man has agreed to pay Nintendo 1.3 million US dollars for illegally uploading a game to the Internet six days before its global release, the firm said Tuesday.


Rumor: Core i7 Coming Soon to MacBook Pro? (PC World)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:54:00 GMT
PC World - Rumors are hinting that an upgrade to Apple's MacBook Pro notebook line could be coming in the near future. The rumor comes courtesy of French site Nowhere Else, which claims that Apple will reveal updated Macbook Pro's featuring Intel's newest Core i7 chips. '

Toyota to recall over 50,000 Prius in Europe (AP)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:03:35 GMT
AP - Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it is recalling some 50,000 Prius cars in Europe to modify the software for the anti-lock brake system, part of a wider global recall and the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.

IBM Launches Eight-core Power7 Processor, Servers (PC World)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:25:00 GMT
PC World - IBM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time.

Summary Box: New attack shows security chip hole (AP)
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:54:33 GMT
AP - CRACKING THE UNCRACKABLE: A former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has found a way to break into a type of chip that protects the most important secrets inside many personal computers.

InfoWorld review: Windows on the Mac (InfoWorld)
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT
InfoWorld - Why choose between Windows 7 and Snow Leopard when you can have both? A Mac with virtualization software is a great platform for running Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, or other Intel-based operating systems, all at the same time. There's also Mac OS X's native Boot Camp, but it only supports Windows and doesn't give you access to Mac OS X without rebooting.

Apple iPad Price Cut: Blunder or Brilliance? (PC World)
Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:37:00 GMT
PC World - If Apple is really considering price cuts on its just-introduced iPad, the best advice is to make them before launch, not after.

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