The Wall Street Journal ’s review of the new Google (GOOG) Android-powered T-Mobile myTouch is out , but you won’t find the paper’s gadget god Walt Mossberg’s byline on it. Walt edits the column , called “The Mossberg Solution,” but it’s WSJ writer Katherine Boehret that reviewed the phone and wrote the column. Read the rest of this story »
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Mossberg’s Gentle GPhone Diss: Passes On New Android Review
Readers were in the mood for maps this week because they pushed this story about a must-see video of Microsoft’s Street Slide into the most-viewed category.
Finally there’s a tool box for people who just want their tools to look pretty. This concept by Tim Oelker incorporates your hammer into its design and gives the rest of your tools form-fitting homes
Social engineering is the (morally vague) art of tricking someone out of their company’s technical secrets just by talking to them. It often involves deceit and relies on the fact that the weakest link in any computer security system is a human. At Defcon , one of the Capture the Flag contests performed by the attendees involved launching social engineering “attacks,” where contestants were asked to obtain the answers to a bunch of questions that probed into a company’s security defenses
Have the copyright enforcers been caught with their hands in the cookie jar? The blog TorrentFreak today published its claim that the US Copyright Group, which has filed more than 14,000 lawsuits against anonymous P2P movie sharers, ripped off another copyright settlement group in crafting its own settlement website
Corroborating a rumor from The Wall Street Journal earlier this summer, a new Bloomberg report cited “two people familiar with the company’s plans” to build an iPad-like touchscreen device and release it this fall. Dubbed the “Blackpad,” the device will ostensibly run the as-yet-unreleased BlackBerry OS 6 , and help RIM deflect further encroachment from Apple into its declining mobile market share. Bloomberg’s sources note that the device will rely on BlackBerry’s usual enterprise e-mail advantage, but it will also include features that Apple’s iPad lacks
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