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Apple Exec's Backyard Is Designed for Barfing

When you think of backyards, the first things you probably think: Dogs woofing, July 4th grilling, swingsets. Then again, you're not a senior Apple exec by day, and an art collector on the weekends.

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Cyberattacks on U.S. military jump sharply in 2009 - Network

The quantity of malicious computer activities against he United states increased in 2008 and is rising sharply in 2009," the report states. "Much of this activity appears to originate in China.

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Chrome OS: Internet failing at PC > PC failing at Internet

In 2009, it's better to be an Internet company that's taking slow, awkward first steps toward the PC, than a PC company that's still trying and failing to truly integrate with the Internet. Ars looks at what Chrome OS means for Google, Apple, Microsoft, the netbook, ARM, Intel, and the cloud. "Revolutionary" is a clichéd term, but Chrome OS is ...

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Steve Jobs is a man of a few words

Steve Jobs doesn't email Apple customers often, but when he does, his responses are always short and to the point

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YouTube to get Automatic Subtitles

Automatic captions for YouTube videos are to roll out across its channels, says parent company Google.

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Feds Charge 3 With Comcast.net Hijacking

Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast's homepage with a

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Microsoft denies it built 'backdoor' in Windows 7

Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced on Wednesday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system.

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New apps said to make iPod touch prominent in Apple stores

In addition to the the EasyPay iPod touch application used for checkouts, numerous Apple-created, task-specific applications are allegedly coming to Apple retail employees, AppleInsider has been told.

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Google PC will start in seven seconds or less

New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs.

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Intel: Your Brain Will Control Your Computer By 2020

Intel is developing chips that can be implanted in peoples brains to operate computers, cell phones and television sets.

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Skype bought back from Ebay!!

Read blogs about the latest Skype news with Skype blogs

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8 Things You Need to Know about Chrome OS

Google pulled the wraps off of Chrome OS today. You can expect to see Chrome ship in about a year, and showed the first glimpses of the new OS, details about the architecture, the hardware it will run on, and gave us the first hints about what the Google Cloud OS will really look like.

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Leaked UK Government Plan to Protect Copyright with Militias

A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen. An unelected official would have the power to do anything without Parliamentary oversight or debate, provided it was done in the name of protecting copyright.

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An introduction to the FBI's anti-cyber crime network

The FBI explained how its anti-cyber crime task force works at a Congressional hearing this week, and outlined the Bureau's latest accomplishments, which include catching the masterminds of a coordinated raid on over 1,000 ATM machines. But nobody thinks the United States is prepared to stop a really bad attack through cyberspace on our financial..

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Ask Amir: How do spammers send from my email address?

In a previous Security Levity post, I was asked a question that often comes up. A commenter wondered how is it that spammers can send spam from "my" email address? And is that something we should be worried about?

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Queen: We sank the Armada, we can sink some P2P pirates!

The Queen opened the UK parliamentary session yesterday and announced that an Internet disconnection bill would be coming soon. But will it actually be legal?

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Google's Chrome May Shift the OS Landscape

Google is providing a sneak peak at the Chrome OS today. Maybe the Google Midas touch can succeed where decades of Apple and Linux have failed--denting Microsoft's OS dominance.

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FTC threatens fines, jail for online check service operators

When a court orders you to stop your illegal activities and never operate a similar business again, it only makes sense to start another business that does exactly the same thing, right? Wrong. The FTC is now holding the former operators of Qchex in contempt and wants them fined or imprisoned for continuing to help scammers.

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Internet Explorer 9: what you need to know

Microsoft showed Internet Explorer 9 for the first time yesterday at its Professional Developer Conference, but a technical preview won't be available before next year (perhaps at CES 2010 in January).

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New Apple Products--as Imagined by the Elite Gadget Press

What will be Apple's next super-product--its next spectacular, game-changing "one more thing"? We asked five Apple experts to brainstorm with abandon and then brought their ideas to life.

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Google Phone? In Arrington's Dreams!

Apparently, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington can write anything he wants and get away with it.Review by PC Magazine.

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UK?s Terrifying Anti-Piracy Plans Leak

Tomorrow morning Lord Mandelson will present the Digital Economy Bill to the public, which among other things is aimed at reducing illicit file-sharing. According to parts of the bill that leaked today, the legislation could lead to jail terms for file-sharers and unprecedented power for the entertainment industries.

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Chromium OS Source released

I noticed that the source released happened during the webcast, so go get it now!Getting and building:http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os

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JavaScript, graphics performance improvements on tap for IE9

At PDC, Microsoft talked about what the next version of its browser will bring to the world. IE9 will contain a new emphasis on performance and graphics, and should make the browser far more competitive with its competitors.

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Live from Google's Chrome OS project announcement

Engadget is live at Google's Chrome OS announcement!

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Good karma: an in-depth review of Ubuntu 9.10 - Ars Technica

Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In this comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes.

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Speaking UNIX: 10 great tools for any UNIX system

The universe of UNIX® tools changes constantly. Here are 10 tools?some you may have overlooked and some new?to tinker with.

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Hands On: Office 2010 Review

Tweaks and tune-ups, bug fixes and one big new feature.

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AT&T 'hits' back at Verizon's Map for That campaign

AT&T sure isn't taking Verizon's Map for That campaign too well. After losing a request for an injunction (for now), the company seems to have decided that the only thing to do in the short term is to start advertising right back at Verizon.

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Hollywood Takes OpenBitTorrent?s ISP to Court

The Swedish hosting provider Portlane is being sued by several Hollywood movie studios for hosting the standalone BitTorrent tracker, OpenBitTorrent. The movie studios are claiming that OpenBitTorrent is a re-branded copy of The Pirate Bay tracker that shut down yesterday.

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Cellphone App to Make Maps of Noise Pollution

Maisonneuve's team has developed NoiseTube, a downloadable software app which uses people's smartphones to monitor noise pollution. "The goal was to turn the mobile phone into an environmental sensor," says Maisonneuve.

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Have you Ever Seen a Miniature Room Inside a PC? (Pics)

Featuring a sofa, armchairs, coffee table and even a working lamp, this miniature room in a computer seems created especially for the little guys in The Borrowers movie. And accessories like the gumball machine and the New York Times newspaper make it look like a real home.

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Found on eBay: Original Apple-1 with wonderful documentation

The starting bid for the Apple-1 is US$50,000. What do you get with your winning bid? A non-working Apple 1 motherboard, the original shipping box (with the return address being the home of Steve Jobs' parents), and the original manual, complete with schematics on how to take the motherboard and build a workable computer out of it.

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Engadget goes down; Displays only a cryptic message

"What's next is coming now. Stay close." Somebody post a mirror in case it changes...

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IE9 Will Close Performance Gap With Firefox, Chrome

Microsoft today claimed that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), has nearly closed the JavaScript performance gap between itself and rivals made by Mozilla and Google, even though the browser has been in development only a few weeks.

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It?s Alive! Hollywood Claims Pirate Bay Tracker Lives

Did The Pirate Bay really shutter its tracker, as claimed on Tuesday? The Motion Picture Association doesn't think so. Hollywood's overseas lobbying organization claims OpenBitTorrent, billed as an independent ?open tracker project,? was actually established by one of The Pirate Bay?s founders.

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Ethics leaks spur House bill banning P2P apps on .gov PCs

Over the past year, there have been several embarrassing incidents where private government documents have leaked because employees didn't know how to properly configure P2P client software. For the US House of Representatives, the last straw came when ethics documents were leaked. A bill has been introduced to ban the use of P2P apps by federal em

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ICANN attendees: America, surrender the root zone file!

Complaints about continuing US government control of Internet domain name issues surfaced again this week in Egypt at the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum. Should the US government step even further back from the Internet?

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FCC discusses barriers to national broadband plan

President Obama has made universal broadband access a key goal. Grants and loans for helping make universal broadband access a reality have already started being doled out as part of Congress's economic stimulus package.

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How to Build Your Own 3D Camera Rig for Under $20

The 21st century has seen a resurgence in the popularity of stereography, or 3D imagery, and thanks to the availability of inexpensive digital cameras and photo-processing software, cheap do-it-yourself 3D imagery is now possible.

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