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T-Mobile To Open App Store For All of Their Phones
Date : 2008 08 09
Slashdottsa brings news that T-Mobile will be developing their own application store to compete with Apple's popular distribution scheme. read more »
Origins of the Modern PC
Date : 2008 08 09 SlashdotHomncruse writes "ComputerWorld dispels myths about the history of modern day computers — or, more appropriately, the invent read more »
BIND Still Susceptible To DNS Cache Poisoning
Date : 2008 08 09 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "John Markoff of the NYTimes writes about a Russian hacker, Evgeniy Polyakov, who has successfully pois read more »
EFF Warns That Email Privacy Is In Jeopardy
Date : 2008 08 09 SlashdotMojoKid writes with this excerpt from HotHardware: "According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a dangerous legal prece read more »
Lucas Researching Concept For New Indiana Jones Film
Date : 2008 08 09 SlashdotCycon writes "According to George Lucas, 'The franchise really depends on me coming up with a good idea. And that series is very r read more »
Tracking Near-Earth Meteors With a 1.1 Petabyte Database
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotLucas123 writes "The latest and most ambitious attempt to detect 'near-Earth objects' (NEOs) is the Panoramic Survey Telescope and read more »
Last HOPE Tracking Meta-Data Released
Date : 2008 08 08 Slashdotaestetix writes "As previously mentioned on Slashdot, hackers at the last Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference deployed an RF read more »
Airline Cancels All Flights Booked Through Third Party Systems
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotTechDirt is reporting that one airline is planning on canceling all flights booked through third party systems. This isn't the fir read more »
Software To Improve AIDS Survival?
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotRoland Piquepaille writes "There are more than 33 million people living with HIV worldwide. No cure or vaccine has been unveiled t read more »
O'Reilly On How Copyright Got To Its Current State
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotSchneed Tweedly writes "William Patry is one of the leading scholars in the world on copyright law. For a long time he maintained read more »
Atom-Thick Balloon Inflated
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotAnonymous Cow writes "Researchers have inflated gas-filled balloons of graphene, the atom-thick carbon material being used to make read more »
US Warns Olympic Visitors of Chinese Cyber-Spying
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes to tell us the US Government has issued a strong warning to travelers headed to the Beijing Olympics (P read more »
The Internet Meme Timeline
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotCNet pointed out a great use of timeline creation site "Dipity" that has created a timeline of internet fads and memes. While ther read more »
USAF Enlists Shrinks To Help Drone Pilots Cope
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotAn anonymous reader writes "Flying drones from halfway-across the world used to be considered a cushy military job. But the Iraq a read more »
Net Shoppers Bullied Into "Verified By Visa" Program
Date : 2008 08 08 Slashdotbluefoxlucid writes "According to The Register, several banks are forcing users to opt-in to the Verified by Visa optional service read more »
Fingerprint Test Tells Much More Than Identity
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotMike sends in the story of a new fingerprint technology with interesting potential for both crime detection and rights violations; read more »
Non-Compete Clauses Thrown Out In California
Date : 2008 08 08 Slashdotdrfuchs writes "If you signed an employment agreement in California, any non-compete clause in it is null & (void*), says the read more »
8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotFsG writes "In the first 24 hours that it was available, eight people bought a completely useless iPhone app for $1,000 a pop. Thi read more »
Microsoft Tries a New Ad Agency
Date : 2008 08 08 SlashdotDiomidis Spinellis writes "An article in this week's Economist outlines Microsoft's marketing response to Vista's travails and App read more »
Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year
Date : 2008 08 08 Slashdotsnydeq writes "Employment statistics from the US Department of Labor show what most IT people have already realized: IT jobs are g read more »
Google Earth Used To Predict Electrical Problems
Date : 2008 08 06 Slashdotcoondoggie writes "What do you get when you combine images from Google Earth and the brainpower from researchers at Oak Ridge Nati read more »