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Employers Use Social Nets to Weed Out Applicants Gone Wild

For those social networking phenoms posting their every thought, drunken photo, tale of debauchery, and brush with the law on your MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter pages, a word of warning: You might want to tone yourself down if you're looking for a job. There's a 20 percent chance that your next employer is reading, judging and possibly rejecting your professional persona based on the private one you tout online...

Can One-Trick Pony Peek Find Its Clique?

A small startup company, Peek, has introduced a new gadget -- or, perhaps, an antigadget -- called, not surprisingly, "Peek." It's basically a mobile handheld e-mail reader. And that's all it's for -- reading and sending e-mail. ...

Viewers Stampede to Online TV

In the last two years, American households that use the Internet have doubled their online television viewing. Now, nearly 20 percent use the Internet to watch television broadcasts online, and no, it's not all on YouTube. ...

Hard Gadgets for a Hard World: What Makes Rugged Electronics So Tough?

Portable electronics like smartphones and laptops aren't generally known for their ability to withstand drops, splashes and harsh conditions. Yet the portable nature of these devices means they're often in the line of fire -- swimming pools and toilets for cell phones, dusty places like construction sites for laptops, or even dairy farms with kicking cow hooves, milk and, well, greenish-brown pies.

AT&T Enlists Army of Home Installation Pros

AT&T has launched a 50-state in-home technology services organization designed to help everyday consumers install or troubleshoot all of their connected home technology -- HDTVs, wall-mount speaker systems, new PC installation, PC repair, and home network installation. ...

Plan B for Toshiba: The Low-Cost Road to High Definition

After losing the high-definition DVD format war to Sony's Blu-ray, Toshiba is digging in around the standard definition DVD market. The company has launched a new upscaling DVD player, the XD-E500, which promises to bring standard DVD quality closer to high-definition (HD) than ever before. The company has even launched a new Web site to help show consumers about the new player and a new upscaling technology that runs on it.

Will HTC and T-Mobile Get Android’s Gears Spinning?

T-Mobile may be partnering with cell phone handset manufacturer HTC to deliver the first smartphone running Google's Android platform, according to reports. An article in the The New York Times cited unnamed sources briefed on T-Mobile's plans who said the carrier could announce the phone as early as September -- and would almost certainly have an offering out in the wild as early as October, in time for the holiday selling season.

Journalists Hack Journalists at Black Hat

A trio of French journalists from Global Security Magazine were reportedly kicked out of the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas for targeting fellow reporters in the press room with a WiFi hack ...

Where Are All the Dangerous DNS Exploits? Nowhere and Everywhere

Dan Kaminsky, the security researcher who first sounded the alarm that the entire Internet was in grave danger due to a widespread vulnerability, has revealed in front of a packed audience at the Black Hat security conference the details behind the initial subterfuge -- and potential problems that could still pick apart the Web world as we know it.

Microsoft Feathers Apache’s Nest

In a somewhat surprising move from a company that rattled sabers with what seemed like the entire open source software (OSS) world last year, Microsoft has become a sponsor of the open source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and has opened up some of its protocols for use by OSS developers. ...

Leaked DNS Exploit Drives Admins Bonkers

A significant domain name system (DNS) flaw first spotted by Dan Kaminsky, IOActive director of penetration testing, is now out in the wild, and unfortunately for Internet users, it's the kind of danger that isn't easily seen. ...

Google’s Knol: More Rules, More Accountability, More Money

While the beta testing seems never to end at Google -- Gmail is still in beta well past age 4 -- the world's largest search engine and advertising machine has released to the public a new knowledge base called "Knol." A "knol," according to Google, is a unit of knowledge. ...

Jailed SF Sysadmin Holds Parts of City Net Hostage

Officials have arrested a city of San Francisco IT network administrator for locking up a multimillion-dollar city computer system, according to several reports stemming from a press conference with San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris. The employee, Terry Childs, 43, is accused of improperly tampering with computer systems and causing a denial of service, effectively locking out other top city administrators from the critical network.

Next-Gen Prius: What Will a Little Sunshine Get You?

Automaker Toyota will include solar panels on some of its new cars, according to reports in Japan's Nikkei newspaper. Toyota will add the energy-catching panels to the roof of its hybrid Prius as soon as Spring 2009 ...

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Taking the Server Home

In the world of information technology, businesses turn to servers to manage the storage, flow and backup of just about every bit of important data. What about the family home? Many households around the world have broadband wireless networks, multiple PCs and everything from priceless vacation photos to bank account information stored on individual PC hard drives. Their networks are already in place with PCs in multiple rooms, but where's the central home server to connect and protect them all?...

‘Family Guy’ Guy Inks Toon Deal to Hook Google Ad Viewers

What seems to have started as a simple play to create new cartoon content for the Web -- and make money from it -- may in effect usher in a new media distribution model. A Web search engine giant, a highly paid cartoon creator, and a production company are all working together to deliver 50 two-minute episodes of edgy cartoons that will launch in September, according to a New York Times report...

Microsoft’s Hyper-V Finally Shows Up to Virtualization Party

Microsoft's new hypervisor-based server virtualization software, Hyper-V, is now available for download, and it's several weeks ahead of "schedule" -- though it's also months late. Microsoft previously wanted to deliver Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008. In any event, Hyper-V is here, and it's real ...

Sweet Science: IBM Teams With Chocolatier to Grow Better Beans

Candy bar maker Mars is working with IBM and the United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) to apply their scientific experience and computing resources to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome. ...

Virgin Tailors Unlimited Plan for Big Talkers

Virgin Mobile USA will roll out a new unlimited wireless calling plan next month in a bid to undercut similar unlimited plans from the big four wireless carriers -- AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. ...

California Takes a Slide in Tech Rankings

Winning the battle for bragging rights among states -- and sometimes very real economic benefits -- Massachusetts has retained the top position in the Milken Institute's 2008 State Technology and Science Index. Maryland nabbed second, Colorado third, and California slipped to fourth, down two spots from its second place position four years ago. ...

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