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DeviceGuru writes with this excerpt: "Barnes & Noble is expected to announce a 7-inch color tablet on November 7th, positioning it head-to-head with Amazon's recently announced Kindle Fire. B&N's Nook Tablet is rumored to have a slightly faster processor, twice the RAM and flash, and a price premium relative to Amazon's tablet, among other [...]

Mobile Security and Lack thereof

Mobile Security and Lack thereof
Nidhi Rastogi ,A Security Consultant with Logic Technology Inc, New York share her Views about the Mobile Security and Lack thereof . The Article is taken from our September Month Magazine Edition .Here we go..
Mobile technology, particularly smartphones, has come of age and is increasingly replacing PCs for internet surfing, emails, gaming and [...]

We had an Interesting Article by “Paul F Renda” in our The Hacker News Magazine’s November Edition. We would Like to share this article with our website readers also. You can Download November Issue Here.
This is a theoretical prima to bring out a discussion about whether an Internet doomsday worm can be created that is so intractable [...]

MojoKid writes “AMD’s initial layoff announcement yesterday implied that the dismissals would occur across the company’s global sales force. While that may still be true, it has become clear that AMD has slashed its PR and Marketing departments in particular. The New Product Review Program* (NPRP) has lost most of its staff and a Graphics [...]

Barrett Brown, the “Face” of Anonymous, has had a busy week, promoting the hacktivist collective’s extremely-confusing war against the notorious Zetas drug cartel in every outlet from CNN to Gawker. But a six-figure book deal probably helps with the fatigue. More »

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Intel hasn’t been able to make much of a dent in the smartphone or tablet markets, but they’re not about to give up just yet. ComputerWorld reports that Intel is working to make Ice Cream Sandwich-powered devices a part of their future.
The mobile space represents a huge opportunity for Intel, which is made all the [...]

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from the HST site:
"A team of scientists has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe a quasar accretion disc — a brightly glowing disc of matter that is slowly being sucked into its galaxy's central black hole. Their study makes use of a novel technique that uses gravitational [...]

nixkuroi writes “Redbox, apparently not having noticed the backlash against Netflix, has decided to charge its customers 20% more per day. Though there will be a discounted grace period for the first day of rental until Nov. 30 2011, the full pricing increase will kick into effect on December 1.”

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coondoggie writes “The Federal Aviation Administration wants you to go online to help it battle the growing safety problem of people pointing lasers at flying aircraft. The FAA today said it created a new website to make it easier for pilots and the public to report laser incidents and obtain information on the problem which [...]

Samsung’s 2012 lineup of gadgets will include ones with flexible screens, the company announced during an investor call today. The company’s smartphones will likely get them first, possibly in the first half of the year.
Samsung isn’t the first company to pursue flexible gadget parts, as Sony showed [...]