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News in from AMD today confirms both rumors that I’ve been hearing, along with something that I’ve been expecting for a long time – that the company plans to get rid of the ATI branding on its…
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The analysts at Gartner Inc. are warning that business migrations from Windows XP and Windows 2000 to Windows 7 in the next couple of years could create budgetary and resource burdens on IT shops.
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It’s been a long time coming, but it appears that owners of the HTC Droid Incredible will have more to be thankful for this Friday: a taste of Froyo.
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Early Windows 7 adopters have now had a full year to stress-test Windows 7 and decide whether it’s good enough to replace Windows XP.
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Penn State researchers managed to identify the pass code patterns on two Android smartphones (the HTC G1 and the HTC Nexus One), 68% of the time, using photographs taken under different lighting…
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It seems that the availability of increasingly powerful GPUs , when combined with brute-force password cracking tools, is making it increasingly easy to crack passwords — even if they’re extremely well thought out, with symbols and quirky capitalization and all that. How short is too short?
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Fast food connoisseurs should pay special attention here — according to a recent paper by the University of Pennsylvania, Android users are inadvertently leaving their nine-dot lock patterns in the open, courtesy of their fingers’ oily smear on the screen. Specifically, the study on potential “smudge attacks” found that partial or complete patterns could be easily retrieved — even with added noise on the display or after incidental clothing contact — by using various lighting and camera orientation settings for the smear analysis
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angry tapir writes with this excerpt from an IDG report: “Facebook is scrambling to fix a bug in its website that could be misused by spammers to harvest user names and photographs. It turns out that if someone enters the e-mail address of a Facebook user along with the wrong password, Facebook returns a special ‘Please re-enter your password’ page, which includes the Facebook photo and full name of the person associated with the address. A spammer with an e-mail list could write a script that enters the e-mail addresses into Facebook and then logs the real names
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Cellphone carriers are very much like OEMs – there’s so much pressure to cut costs that they both go to great lengths to squeeze every penny possible out of customers. That means bundling crapware…
