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January 25, 2011
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Hackers 'School' a New Jersey School Data System Users of the 4chan online message board managed to get access to the online student information system used by a New Jersey school district
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Mobile Phone Hacking - Can You Stop It? Royal phones hacked, the former prime minister demands a police investigation of possible snooping on his mobile messages, the current prime minister’s director...
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Govt May Soon Force Banks to Impose New Online Authentication Steps The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) could soon release new guidelines for banks to use when authenticating users to online banking
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Hitachi Ships First 3TB SATA Hard Drive Hitachi announced its highest density enterprise-class 3.5-in drive, the Ultrastar 7K3000, which comes with SATA or SAS interfaces and can store up to 3TB
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Facebook Settles With Germany Over Annoying Friend Finder Feature Germany is stopping short of legal action against Facebook after reaching a 14-point agreement on Monday over how the site handles data from non-Facebook users.
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Microsoft Embraces Phone Jailbreakers, Kinect Hackers, and We All Win If you want buzz and a thriving ecosystem for your product, you have to put up with some unruliness --- people hacking your hardware and software in ways you might not be pleased with -- and that's what Microsoft has realized.
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Google Cloud Print: A Hands-On Tour Google's long-anticipated online printing solution, which the company has launched as a public beta for Windows users, is extremely easy to use.
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Samsung, TeliaSonera Launch LTE Laptop Operator TeliaSonera has joined forces with Samsung Electronics to launch an LTE-equipped laptop, which will go on sale Friday in Sweden, they said on Tuesday.
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Do-Not-Track in Chrome and Firefox: Different Approaches, Same Fatal Flaw Google and Mozilla want to give you more browser privacy controls, but they're not fixing the real problem.
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First Official PSP2 Shots? Confirmation 'As Powerful As' PS3? Rumored shots of Sony's PSP2 leak on a Japanese forum, and a British game publishing CEO "confirms" reports that the device is as powerful as Sony's PlayStation 3.
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Car Gadgets Threaten Drivers' Privacy Insurance company devices and GPS systems are intruding on drivers' rights, making it easier to find out what's going on behind the wheel.
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Memory Prices Set to Rise Taiwan’s largest computer memory chipmaker on Tuesday forecast a jump in demand for its components in the second quarter of the year driving memory prices higher
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Hackers 'School' a New Jersey School Data System Users of the 4chan online message board managed to get access to the online student information system used by a New Jersey school district
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