“The Washington Post reports that online swindling takes dedication even in the best of times but succeeding in the midst of a worldwide economic meltdown takes patience, resolve, and hard work. ‘We are working harder. The financial crisis is not making it easy for them over there,’ said Banjo, 24, speaking about Americans, whose trust [...]

sukotto writes “Ubuntu recently released an unannounced and experimental ‘multisearch’ extension to Firefox alpha 3, apparently in an effort to improve the default behavior of new tabs and of search. In a response to one of the initial bug reports the maintainers mentioned that the extension’s other purposes were ‘collecting the usage data’ and ‘generating [...]

Apple claims that hundreds of thousands of iPhones are being used by corporations and government agencies. What it won’t tell you is that the supposedly enterprise-friendly encryption included with the iPhone 3GS is so weak it can be cracked in two minutes with a few pieces of readily available freeware. via Hacker Says iPhone 3GS [...]

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Microsoft has reported disappointing results for the April to June quarter, with profits down by almost a third.Net profit for the period was $3.1bn £1.9bn, down by 29% from the same period a year earlier. Revenue came in at $13.1bn, down 17% from a year ago.The results were worse than analysts had been expecting.The world’s [...]