Details of Dell?s surreptitious collusion with RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) have emerged. Apparently, the computer manufacturer disabled the Stereo Mix/Mono Mix/Wave Out sound recording function on certain notebooks to assuage RIAA. The hardware functionality is being disabled without any prior notice and one blogger has even alleged that he was asked by Dell?s [...]

Nate.com, a leading Korean portal run by SK Communications, is dismayed by a message left on a Chinese website. Claiming to be a hacker, the writer offered to sell the personal information of 12 million Nate.com members for one million yuan (W100 million, US$1=W1,006). As if to prove the claims, the writer revealed the information [...]

Samsung on Wednesday said it has started mass production of a 128-gigabyte solid-state drive, which is offered as an alternative to more power-hungry hard disk drives.The SSD is being produced in two sizes, 1.8 inches and 2.5 inches. In addition, Samsung started producing this month a 64GB model of the new SSD. High-capacity SSDs are [...]

Microsoft released an IDC study claiming that partners stand to earn an additional $5.50 for every $1 Microsoft gains from eliminating pirated software.
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STORAGE GIANT EMC surprised the market on Tuesday by firing Diane Greene, co-founder and chief executive of Vmware, in which the company holds an 85 per cent stake.The move came at a time when there was much analyst whispering and rumour-mongering about EMC wanting to sell its shares in the market-leading virtualisation software company, something [...]

If it is upheld, a French court ruling that fined eBay $61 million for allowing the sale of counterfeit goods could have a significant effect on how the company runs its business in the future, legal analysts said.
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Ah, summer. It’s a time of long days, relaxing evenings, and Country Time Lemonade. For these few, halycon moments, it’s possible to rely on the 15,000 cicadas parked just outside the window to drown out the sounds of your drunken neighbors punching each other in the head over the last Pabst Blue Ribbon, instead of [...]

AT&T has revealed the new pricing structure for the iPhone 3G in the US.The company is making a few changes to the monthly plan, boosting rates and adding a new separate charge for SMS messages.Users will pay an extra $10 for the new iPhone’s upgrade from a slower Edge connection to the 3G network. Prices [...]

Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders argued that they needed [...]

Cyber-Ark, the digital data security specialist, says that a 63-month prison sentence handed down to a former network engineer for hacking a Californian health clinic’s computer system is fair.”The sentence is one of the longest given for hacking in the United States, but since Jon Paul Oson, an IT professional, had deliberately deleted patient and [...]

Apple has quietly dropped the price of its fastest MacBook Air, the company’s thinnest and lightest notebook, by $500.The price reduction appears to be the result of a $100 drop in the price of the 1.8-GHz Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Core 2 Duo processor and a $400 reduction in the price of the 64-GB solid-state drive. [...]

Spam has never been cheaper. online-marketing firms are falling over themselves to offer spam campaigns of millions of addresses. These e-mail blasts are disturbingly inexpensive. Pro Software Pack, for example, charges just $125 to send 1 million mes sages. Despite spending billions of dollars fighting spam over the past decade, the security industry is in [...]