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Hacker makes mobile phone snooping affordable
AFP
LAS VEGAS — A hacker has brought mobile phone snooping to the modestly financed, showing how to build a call-catching system for about 1500 dollars (US). Chris Paget demonstrated his creation for more than a thousand people crammed into a grand room at ...
Hacker Snoops on GSM Cell Phones in DemoPC World
Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept CallsWired News
Hacker shows how he can intercept cell phone calls with $1500 deviceVentureBeat
Dark Reading -Katonda (blog) -The Associated Press
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Can Blackberry cut into Apple's pie?
MiamiHerald.com
When Apple launches a new iPhone, the investment world stops and awes. This week, Blackberry maker Research In Motion hopes to mimic some of Apple's own showmanship. On Tuesday, it has planned what it calls it an ``exclusive Blackberry ...
RIM answers Apple iPad with...The BlackPad*Register
RIM set to join the tablet fray this fall with "Blackpad"Ars Technica
Now, it's an iPad "fighter" from RIMChicago Tribune
Christian Science Monitor -InformationWeek -PC Magazine
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Sega's parent company brings in a proft
Game Daily
The news hasn't been good for Sega of late, at least from a financial percepective. The publisher has already admitted that sales of the long-in-development action-RPG Alpha Protocol, released about two months ago, were not good enough to justify a ...
Sega Posts $80.8 Million Quarterly Profit1UP.com
Alpha Protocol manages sell 700k in spite of itselfDestructoid
Sega Sammy brushes off slow Iron Man 2, Alpha Protocol salesGameSpot
Computerandvideogames.com -Neoseeker -RipTen
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Twitter Blows Past 20-Billionth Tweet
PC Magazine
A graphic designer in Tokyo has unlocked a fairly significant accomplishment on Twitter—posting the service's 20-billionth message since the site's inception in July of 2006. It's somewhat difficult to translate exactly what user "GGGGGGo_Lets_Go" was ...
Twitter Hits 20 BILLION TweetsI4U
Japan user marks Twitter's 20 billionth 'tweet'Computerworld
Japanese user claims Twitter's 20 billionth tweetThe Associated Press
Erictric -Voice of America -Channel 4 News
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Will Droid 2 Make Droid Obsolete?
PC World
Analysis: With Droid 2 news seeping out, is there hope for the early adopters of the first model? One of the "bad" things about the speed of progress in the Android phone market is how quickly a shiny new device starts to feel old and tarnished. ...
Verizon Makes It Official That Android 2.2 Coming To Droid Next WeekI4U
Motorola Droid X Review : Motorola's newest Android handsetThe Daily Tech News
Two smartphones could be better than oneJackson Clarion Ledger
Unwired View -Everything Android -eWeek
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Barnes & Noble Doubles Down on the Nook
PC World
The bookseller is nurturing its e-reader with designated Nook lounges with accessories and demos. Amazon.com's Kindle may have the highest profile of any e-reader, but Barnes & Noble seems to be pretty darn serious about its Nook. ...
The Price Is Right: Amazon's Kindle 3msnbc.com
Barnes & Noble Planning Big Push to Increase Nook SalesNew York Times
Kindle Third GenerationSpreadit.org
Christian Science Monitor -Economic Times -PC Magazine
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Microsoft Needs a Tablet Strategy, Not a Tablet
PC World
Ballmer promised the world that a Windows 7 tablet is coming. Maybe it is, or maybe it's just a pipedream, but Microsoft doesn't need to focus on developing a Windows 7 tablet. Microsoft does need to focus on having a strategy ...
Microsoft CEO Ballmer Digs at Google, Suggests Bing ChallengeseWeek
Analyst's View: Microsoft's Tablet is Coming! Well, Not ReallyPC Magazine
Ballmer (and Microsoft) still doesn't get the iPadArs Technica
MarketWatch -Afterdawn.com -InfoWorld
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Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
BusinessWeek
In space, everyone smokes cigars. Space cowboys sit in bars, listen to country music and drink whiskey by the gallon. The Terran space marines in StarCraft are a weathered, dirty bunch. You remove their machine guns and body armor and ...
StarCraft II: Wings of LibertyThe Guardian
StarCraft II in Review: Media Love, Player PlauditsPC World
Why lack of StarCraft 2 LAN play still mattersArs Technica
Computerandvideogames.com -Digitaltrends.com -RipTen
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Google Says Its Web Search Service In China Operating Normally
Wall Street Journal
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--Google Inc. (GOOG) said Thursday its Internet services in China are functioning properly after a minor overnight disruption. A company Web site still indicated that its search engine ...
Google says China Web search blockedReuters
Google says it may have overestimated blockage of services in ChinaSan Jose Mercury News
Google not sure if China behind service disruptionAFP
Telegraph.co.uk -Register -Wired News
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The Kindle, FlipBoard for the iPad, and the Connected Reader
PC Magazine
We all wondered when digital media would irrevocably change the act of reading. The answer is right now. When Jeff Bezos launched the latest edition of its Kindle eBook reader yesterday, he did so with a solemn commitment to maintain the device's ...
Amazon's New Kindle Reinvigorates E-Reader Price WarPC World
Kindle Losing Profit Battle Means It May Win War: Tech by Rich JaroslovskyBloomberg
Are ebook readers for book-lovers?The Guardian
ZDNet (blog) -Computerworld (blog) -Wall Street Journal
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