 Obama bored with his BlackBerry
Barack Obama fought hard to keep his BlackBerry when he became president, but with only 10 people authorized to email the super-encrypted device, he admitted Thursday that it is “no fun.” The president said that only 10 people have the address of the BlackBerry he was issued. 7/29/2010 1:22:25 PM
 'Suckers!' 100 million Facebook users' details published on 'Net
The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will now be unable to make their publicly available information private. However, Facebook downplayed the issue, saying that no private data had been compromised. 7/29/2010 6:17:20 AM
 Argos' Murphy fined for tawdry tweets
The Canadian Football League fined Toronto Argonauts offensive lineman Rob Murphy an undisclosed sum for a series of tawdry Twitter posts made during the team's train ride to Montreal on Wednesday. Using the handle BIGMURPH56, Murphy commented about "smelling foreigners this early in the A.M." 7/29/2010 5:14:26 AM
 People sue Apple over 'overheating' iPads
Three iPad users claim that because the iPad will shut itself off after remaining in direct sunlight for long enough, it fails to meet the promises Apple made about using the device as an e-book reader. The group has filed a federal class-action lawsuit to "redress and end this pattern of unlawful conduct." 7/28/2010 5:58:44 PM
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Details of 100 Million Facebook users collected and published Personal details of 100 Million Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant. Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings. The file has spread rapidly across the net. 7/28/2010 5:28:10 PM
Canadian researchers hope to green the web and make Canada the world's web server Canadian researchers hope to stem the global IT industry's rampant output of greenhouse gas emissions by perfecting a way to host the Internet's content purely on green power. And if their experiment succeeds, Canada could essentially become the world's largest Internet server — powered with almost no carbon footprint. 7/28/2010 4:18:35 PM
FBI says mastermind of botnet nabbed International authorities have arrested a computer hacker believed responsible for creating the malicious computer code that infected as many as 12 million computers, invading major banks and corporations around the world, FBI officials told The Associated Press. 7/28/2010 6:33:25 AM
Why people 'jailbreak' their iPhones (Video) Despite how shady and against the rules it sounds, "jailbreaking" mobile phones is now legal in the United States, according to a new government ruling. But what does that mean? And why do people jailbreak phones? The simple answer is this: To gain more control. 7/27/2010 4:12:35 PM
Bright objects float away from space station (Video) The spacewalk Tuesday was meant to replace a video camera and update cable connections to a module of the International Space Station. However, the question every space buff wanted an answer to is: "What was that I just saw floating away?" 7/27/2010 4:08:41 PM
Vengeful online sex ads take growing toll "Looking to please and to be pleased," said the ad, posted on Craigslist's Oklahoma area website in the “casual encounters” category on June 25. It detailed various sex acts the poster would voluntarily engage in, much of the explicit language unpublishable here. 7/27/2010 6:01:42 AM
The Net can be good for your Health I can download a new episode of my favourite TV show on the night it shows in the US. I can email a movie of my son to his grandparent overseas. I can find a long-lost friend on Facebook in less time than it takes to make a cup of coffee. 7/26/2010 7:52:09 PM
Apple to sell iPhone 4 unlocked in Canada When the iPhone 4 goes on sale in Canada on Friday, it will bring the ability to pit the big three service providers against each other. Apple will sell its wildly popular device online and through its own retail stores, as well as through Bell, Rogers and Telus. 7/26/2010 3:52:36 PM
UAE says BlackBerry is security threat The United Arab Emirates has declared BlackBerry smartphones a potential threat to national security, saying the devices operate beyond the jurisdiction of national laws and are open to misuse. The move raises concerns of another attempt by the government to control the flow of information in the Arab Gulf nation. 7/26/2010 9:38:35 AM
Is it time for Microsoft's Steve Ballmer to go? He's been called a genius, he's been called Monkey Boy. Many love him, many hate him. Steve Ballmer has been Microsoft's chief executive for 10 years; now he's under mounting pressure to keep Microsoft relevant in the age of iPhones, iPads and Web services. 7/26/2010 9:23:36 AM
Disabled Accessibility: iPhone, iPad and VoiceOver Several years ago, I looked at the Apple VoiceOver screen reader and found it wanting. Last week, I returned to VoiceOver and, at the risk of further inflaming the hyperbolic passion of the Apple Fan boys/girls, I must say it is amazing how much difference a few years can make. 7/26/2010 8:52:28 AM
Vaseline skin-lightening app called racist If it's the fair, de-ethnicized look you're after, there appears to be a Facebook app for that. A Facebook application aimed at users in India promises to lighten the skin tone of faces in profile pictures. It's sparking cries of racism, and about why fair skin is equated with beauty. 7/25/2010 6:09:44 AM
Google Translate tangles with computer learning Google Translate is a free Google service that translates between scores of languages almost as quickly as Google returns search results. Give it a Web page from a Spanish newspaper and in about a second the text is converted to English. 7/25/2010 6:04:29 AM
Rogers shrinks consumers’ download limits Just days after popular online movie service Netflix announced its migration to Canada, Rogers Communications has sharply cut the usage limits on some of its Internet packages. But some suggest the move is designed to squeeze more money from its Internet users who will be downloading more and more data. 7/24/2010 8:39:57 PM
Canada's ascent in video games industry fuels uproar in U.K. Provocative comments by Canada's top games industry lobbyist about luring away British talent and investment has ignited an uproar in the U.K., where opposition MPs and video software firms are demanding new tax breaks and other incentives. 7/24/2010 7:59:32 PM
New supersonic passenger jet set for takeoff Supersonic passenger travel was grounded in 2003 when British Airways and Air France cancelled their transatlantic Concorde service. The Aerion Supersonic Business Jet will be able to carry a dozen passengers at speeds of up to Mach 1.5. 7/24/2010 6:14:56 PM
Dell and Intel: Big Tech behaving badly Thursday's $100 million settlement between Dell and the Securities and Exchange Commission was a reminder that the government is going after tech's bad boys -- and Intel is likely next. Intel paid them rebates as part of a deal in which Dell agreed not use microchips manufactured by Intel's rival AMD. 7/24/2010 1:09:36 PM
GPS system being tested on iPhone leads police to stolen device in nine minutes A man accused of swiping an Apple iPhone out of a woman's hand in San Francisco may have been shocked when police found him only nine minutes later. It turns out the phone had been tracking his every move. The iPhone was being used to test a new, real-time GPS tracking application. 7/24/2010 12:35:21 PM
Microsoft profit jumps 48 per cent Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that its net income surged 48 per cent in the most recent quarter, the latest sign that businesses are again spending money on technology. Microsoft said it has sold more than 175 million licenses of the newest version, Windows 7, since it went on sale last year. 7/24/2010 12:30:46 PM
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