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• Energizer Duo battery charger hides a Trojan
  The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding a backdoor Trojan in its software that affects computers using Windows. According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there since 10th May 2007. Energizer has now taken the software for the model CHUSB charger off the market and removed the site from which it could be [...] […]
• Google Index to Go Real Time
  Google is developing a system that will enable web publishers of any size to automatically submit new content to Google for indexing within seconds of that content being published. Search industry analyst Danny Sullivan told us today that this could be “the next chapter” for Google. Last Fall we were told by Google’s Brett Slatkin, lead [...] […]
• Twitter Turns Fire Hose on Little Guys
  Google, Microsoft and Yahoo (YHOO) are no longer the only ones drinking from Twitter’s fire hose of real-time data. On Monday, the company granted seven real-time search and discovery ventures access to the data as well: Ellerdale, Collecta, Kosmix, Scoopler, twazzup, CrowdEye, and Chainn Search. Each will be able to tap into the totality of [...] […]
• Virgin Media to offer 100Mbps broadband
  Virgin Media plans to roll out a broadband service that tops out at 100 megabits per second to residential customers by the end of the year. The company said Thursday that it will use its fiber-based network to deliver the new high speeds. Virgin Media, which provides broadband, TV, phone and/or mobile phone service to roughly [...] […]
• New Windows software turns one PC into many
  Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is ready with Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, a product that lets schools run a classroom full of systems using just a single computer. Based on Windows Server 2008 R2, Multipoint allows up to 10 different set-ups, each with their own keyboard, mouse, and monitor to run from a single server. “We heard [...] […]
• Bloom box: An energy breakthrough?
  In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that’s inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public its invention: a little power-plant-in-a-box they want to put literally [...] […]
• Apple creates ‘explicit’ category for App Store software
  Though it is not yet in use, Apple has added a category for developers to label their applications as “explicit” software in the App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. A developer revealed to Cult of Mac that the new category is available for selection on the iTunesConnect Web site. However, applications [...] […]
• Toshiba Develops 1TB SSD That Fits On A Postage Stamp
  SSDs are still overpriced for most average consumers, but the companies responsible for making them are constantly searching for ways to make them larger (in terms of capacity), smaller (in terms of form factor) and cheaper (in terms of real dollars). Toshiba has their own line of solid state drives right now, but just [...] […]
• New Microsoft Phone Explained
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• Houston aims to be electric car capital
  Houston, nicknamed the Petro Metro for the profusion of oil and gas companies that dot its skyline, is an unlikely host for an electric-car revolution. But the fourth-biggest U.S. city, which claims the title of the “Energy Capital of the World,” is competing with cities like San Francisco to be the nation’s electric car capital. “We are [...] […]