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BBC News
Call to check on mobile security
Owners of mobile phones are being asked to test the security of their network to see if enough is being done to stop eavesdropping.

UK troops use iPad app for fire mission training
Newsbeat's had an exclusive look at new training being given to UK soldiers at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire.

Facebook data hoarder speaks out
Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users.

Chip sales boost Samsung profits
Samsung Electronics reports record quarterly profits thanks to higher sales of smartphones and components such as memory chips.

Google cleared of wi-fi snooping
No "significant" personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection office.

Amazon offers new look UK Kindle
Online retailer Amazon launches its popular Kindle e-reader into the UK market for the first time, with a new look and more books.

CNET News
Detergent uses GPS to stalk customers
A Brazilian promotion for Omo detergent involves 50 boxes that have GPS inside. Customers lucky enough to buy one of these boxes will be followed home in order to be given a very technological prize.

Hedge your bets in cloud computing
The future role of cloud computing is in many ways unpredictable and ever changing. What balance of traditional infrastructure, private clouds, and public cloud services will your IT department consume in the next three years? Five years? The trick is to hedge your bets wherever you can.

In IPO-signaling move, Zynga adds fancy CFO
The fast-growing social-gaming site says it has hired Allen & Co. investment banker David Wehner as its new chief financial officer.

Will Apple's 'Spinning Wheel of Doom' become chic?
An enterprising marketer is attempting to persuade geeks that the new geek chic consists of wearing Apple's Spinning Wheel of Doom on their chests. Will it work?

Intel may be destined for iPhone, iPad
Multiple reports indicate that an Intel buyout of chipmaker Infineon's wireless unit may be imminent.

Contest finds workers at big firms handing data to hackers
Organizers of contest at hacking confab hope showing how easy it is to get data from cold calls to companies will help alert firms to the threat of social engineering.

ComputerWorld News
Hacker snoops on GSM cell phones in demo
Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead with a live demonstration of mobile phone interception at the Defcon hacking conference Saturday.

Japan user marks Twitter's 20 billionth 'tweet'
Twitter, the social networking site that allows users to say something in 140 characters or less, passed another milestone on Saturday with the sending of tweet number 20 billion.

VA set to spend billions on IT
The U.S. Veterans Administration is making upward of $12 billion in IT contracts available to businesses over the next five years, as part of an effort to modernize its operations.

They're (almost) here: Android tablets to rock the market
Android isn't just for smartphones anymore. Google's mobile operating system is coming to tablets that could rival the iPad in portability and usefulness for business.

PCs can kill. Here's how to survive
Working as a computer columnist is dangerous work. Living on the cutting edge of technology is fun, but it's an edge that cuts both ways -- it's a life-threatening lifestyle, according to new research.

How to steal corporate secrets in 20 minutes: Ask
A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they're at it, a little in-house training on social engineering wouldn't be a bad idea, either.

Internet News
  • Google, CIA Invest in Recorded Future

  • New Public Cloud Storage Services Target IT

  • Beta Version of RIM's App World 2 Opens

  • Research Highlights iPhone 4 Antenna Woes

  • Taking the Measure of the Twitter 'Crime Rate'

  • Researcher Warns of IE Auto-Complete Flaw

  • Slashdot News
  • Microsoft Tech Can Deblur Images Automatically

  • Antarctic Experiment Finds Puzzling Distribution of Cosmic Rays

  • Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers

  • Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo

  • Mars Rover Spirit May Never Wake From Deep Sleep

  • Silent, Easily Made Android Rootkit Released At DefCon

  • Scientific American News
    BP to try well kill Tuesday

    By Leigh Coleman

    [More]

    A solar detective story: Explaining how power output varies hour by hour

    Editor's Note: Scientific American's George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar). Read his introduction here and see all posts here .

    Solar homeowners' favorite topic of conversation is the performance of their arrays. As part of the sales pitch, the installer estimates how much power you'll generate, and most systems come with a meter (separate from the utility meter) to monitor the power output continuously. But how can you tell whether your array is really living up to expectations? That simple question set me off onto a mathematical hunt that other solar homeowners might enjoy -- and which would make a good term-paper project for a high-school science class.

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    A Solar Salamander

    By Anna Petherick

    Occasionally, researchers stumble across something extraordinary in a system that has been studied for decades.

    Ryan Kerney of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, did just that while looking closely at a clutch of emerald-green balls -- embryos of the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum). [More]

    Weather or Not?: Last Winter's Record Snow Driven by Short-Term Meteorologic Patterns, Not Long-Term Climate Change

    Just six months ago residents of the eastern U.S. were shoveling themselves out of the snowiest winter ever--weather that prompted mockery of global warming among some people . Now, scientists have a new explanation for why such anomalous snowstorms can coexist with global warming: The storms were kicked up by the convergence of two natural, large-scale weather patterns.

    In order to better understand possible triggers of last year's media-dubbed " snowmaggedon ," a team of scientists from Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory analyzed more than 50 years of snow data as well as measurements of atmospheric pressure and sea-surface temperatures. They found that a combination of El Niño (periodic sea-surface warming in the tropical Pacific Ocean) with an unusual period of decreased variability in atmospheric pressure across the North Atlantic (known as the North Atlantic oscillation , or NAO) frequently results in a pile-up of snow in the mid-Atlantic region.

    [More]

    Chile's quake was fifth largest on modern record

    When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile on February 27, residents and seismologists knew it was a big one. But a new analysis reaffirms just how massive it was. [More]

    EPA Rejects Challenges on Greenhouse Gas Threat

    U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson rebuffed recent efforts to prevent her agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions yesterday, stating that the evidence proving climate change is a problem remains "robust, voluminous and compelling."

    Jackson rejected 10 petitions filed by the attorneys general of Texas and Virginia, the Ohio Coal Association and other groups that urged her to nullify the "endangerment" finding -- the EPA ruling that stated greenhouse gases pose a direct threat to human health and welfare . That ruling triggered the legal requirement for their regulation.

    [More]

    The Register News
    Aussie broadband is slower than a slow thing in a slow town

    Slower than New Zealand

    So Australia is building a superfast fibre to the home (FTTH) national broadband network and not a minute too soon.…



    Reg Hardware Reviews Digest

    Another chance to see our reviews from the last week

    In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics, photography, gaming, mobile communications and information technology.…

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    iPhone 4: And now we are 3 (Mobile)

    Cheap deals for all

    3 Mobile is shipping iPhone 4 today - along with T-Mobile UK, it was the last UK network to announce availability.…



    Sony Bravia KDL-32NX503 32in LCD TV

    Smaller sized set with big screen extras

    Review Monolithic is a desirable word, unless it’s applied to small things like a mobile phone, a peanut, a shrew. So does it fit a flatscreen TV, especially one at the lower end of screen sizes deemed suitable for a living room?…



    Disney throws $763m at social gaming

    Getting animated about Facebook

    Disney has thrown over three quarters of a billion dollars to bring it up to Goliath status in the online gaming world, acquiring two and a half year old Playdom, which offers games for social networks – the new buzzword in gaming that has all the VCs on the planet hopping onto investments.…



    Social-engineering contest reveals secret BP info

    Hacking human gullibility at Defcon

    Defcon A hacker competition that challenges contestants to trick employees of large companies into divulging potentially sensitive information aims to show how human gullibility is the biggest security vulnerability of all. During its first day at the Defcon hacker contest in Las Vegas, it had clearly achieved its goal.…



    Reuters Science
  • BP to try well kill Tuesday

  • House approves oil spill reform bill

  • U.S. worried more secret documents may be released

  • Obama hopes Rep. Rangel can leave "with dignity"

  • Grand jury eyes monitor shutdown at Massey mine: report

  • Congress to probe Michigan oil spill

  • Pakistan spy chief scraps UK trip on "terror" remarks

  • Nebraska's Nelson first Democratic senator to oppose Kagan

  • Israeli air strike kills Hamas commander in Gaza

  • Wildfires spread in western Russia, kill 28

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    Obama Test Drives Volt; Resoundingly Reaffirms Commitment to U.S. Auto Manufacturers
    "I will bet on the American worker every day of the week." -- President Barack Obama

    Taliban Thankful That Wikileaks Exposed U.S. Allies, Vows to "Punish" Them
    Turns out the Joint Chiefs of Staff's assessment that Wikileaks would have "blood" on its hands may be right

    "The Eyes Have It": Fly Corneas Used in Solar Cell Research
    Their ideal shape can be used as a mold for viable biometric surfaces.

    7/30/2010 Daily Hardware Reviews
    DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday

    Pokemon Black/White Looks to Addict Children
    New trailer reveals series will finally be making the leap to 3D -- partially

    Soot Ranks Second After CO2 in Arctic Ice Melt Warming Contribution
    But reducing soot will lower the Arctic climate more quickly than CO2

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