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Apple iTV detailed: It’s like a 42-inch iPad
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:34pm CET by Digg
In a rather unexpected twist, Canada's largest newspaper and newspaper of record has published details of Apple's upcoming iTV. -
Russia’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Under Huge DDoS Attack
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 2:20pm CET by Digg
RUTracker, Russia’s largest BitTorrent tracker, has been dealing with the effects of a DDoS attack over the past 48 hours. -
The Most Prolific Hacker on the Internet: A One-Handed Shadow
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 6:22am CET by Digg
Stories about hackers are notoriously difficult to illustrate. In fact, there is one hacker so elusive that only two images of him exist in all the internet, despite the fact that he is the most prolific internet hacker of all time. Now introducing: The Shadowy, One-Handed Hacker of Death. -
Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:41am CET by Digg
Adobe has confirmed that Google's new Chrome for Android browser does not, and will not, support Flash content. And Adobe is done taking the Flash browser plugin to new environments. -
QuickSilverScreen Streaming Links Site Calls It Quits
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 5:31am CET by Digg
In the wake of the Megaupload raids and attacks on domains in the US and elsewhere, the administrator of yet another site has decided to call it quits. QuickSilverScreen (QSS) first appeared in 2004 but faced its first legal action 2 years later in 2006. Twentieth Century Fox asked the site to take immediate action [...] -
Anonymous Hacks Syrian President’s Email. The Password: 12345
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 10:11pm CET by Digg
Anonymous leaked emails from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's office -- using the embarrassingly insecure password '12345.' -
Groups: Congress Should Scrap SOPA, PIPA and Start Over
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:38pm CET by Digg
With Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), Congress needs to take a breath, step back, and approach the issues from a fresh perspective - About 14 million people participated in Jan. 18 online protests against the two bills... The bills would have harmed free speech, innovation, cybersecurity and job creation ... Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and lead sponsor of PIPA, has indicated he wants to push forward with legislation -
Smartphones on pace to near 1 billion by 2015
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 7:10pm CET by Digg
The mobile-device explosion may be getting fueled in recent months by Kindle Fires and iPads, but smartphones continue to be the foundation of the incredible growth the mobile industry is experiencing. -
Dwolla's payment ambitions grow with $5M round
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:33pm CET by Digg
Dwolla has been grabbing attention for its next-generation payment system that bypasses credit card networks and connects directly into bank accounts. It's been on a roll and now investors have lined up behind the start-up, to the tune of $5 million in a Series B round. -
Toyota Predicts Plug-in Prius Will Get 95 MPGe
Posted: February 7th, 2012, 6:33pm CET by Digg
The plug-in hybrid (PHEV) version of Toyota's best-selling Prius hybrid, which is debuting in the U.S. next month and will be commercially available in 14 states this Spring (national rollout in 2013), was first supposed to be rated at around 87 MPG-equivalent. This alone would have been enough to put the plug-in Prius pretty high on the fuel-efficiency list, but after more testing, Toyota has revised its estimate and now says it is confident that the Prius PHEV will get 95 MPGe, which is 2 MPGe more than the Chevrolet Volt, which is rated at 93 MPGe. Be careful, though, as fuel-efficiency num