Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue
Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held...
AT&T Finally Announces Free Wi-Fi For iPhone Users
in - news - AT&T - free stuff - Wi-Fi — Fantastic news from a friend with sharp eyes. AT&T has finally done something great for iPhone owners. No, they're not unlocking the iPhone. They're not gi...
Motorola Claims Executive Now With Apple Took Secrets
Motorola Inc., the largest U.S. mobile-phone maker, sued a former executive now working for Apple Inc., accusing him of disclosing its trade secrets to aid in the marketing of Apple's iPhone. — Mich...
Fighting For Its Life, Yahoo Uses Its Homepage To Battle Carl Icahn
Yahoo is pulling out its biggest gun in the showdown with Carl Icahn: the Yahoo homepage itself. Right now on Yahoo.com, the single most-visited page on the Web (with 304 million unique visitors worl...
Users reporting failed Windows and Office validations (Updated)
According to Microsoft, the issue is not related to OGA or WGA, but strictly to offline activation, which is now available again. Microsoft sent Ars the following statement in an e-mail:
On-Demand Computing: A Brutal Slog
The tough reality of the on-demand game is taking its toll on software companies hoping to make a mint distributing their wares via the Web — The Internet revolutionized the distribution of software...
The Long Tail and the Dip
When you launch a new product or service, you have a choice. — It's tempting to go for the bestseller list, to create a mass market hit. This is the box labeled 1 on the tail above. Everyone wants...
Google Buys Russian Contextual Ad Firm From Rambler For $140 Million
We have recently written about a flurry of Russian online deals, and this is among the bigger ones that have happened in the last year or so: Google has bought contextual advertising company ZAO Begun...
Fiji beta over, Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008 hits RTM
Fiji, also known as “Media Center Edition +1,” is the next version of Windows Media Center. The private beta program for Fiji began in early May and has just wrapped up; Fiji has now hit the RTM mile...
Nintendo Wii Surpasses Microsoft's Xbox 360 in Sales
Nintendo Co. said U.S. retailers sold more than 666,000 of its Wii consoles last month, making the machine the overall leader among the new generation of video-game machines. — Consumers have purcha...
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iPhone 3G shortage to last two to four weeks, analyst says
Editor's Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld's Macintosh Knowledge Center. — Customers looking for an iPhone 3G may have to wait up to a mon...
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages
Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some o...
New worm transcodes MP3s to try to infect PCs
A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks. — The new malware inserts links to dangerous Web pages within ASF (Advanced S...
Sony Ericsson sees profits tumble, turns on workers
There'll be long faces at Sony Ericsson this evening, with the gloomy news that the mobemeisters is cutting 2,000 jobs after pulling in just €6m in profits in the last three months. — This is a mass...
iPhone 3G GPS - Is it too small in the antenna department to be any good?
Ever since reading David Pogue's review of iPhone 3G I've been puzzling over something he said in relation to the GPS receiver. Specifically, is it too small in the antenna department to be any good?
Forget about hacking - your servers might get stolen
When it comes to security, there is often a focus on the software side, thwarting hackers and other virtual threats such as viruses and worms. When it comes to uptime and availability, focus often re...