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What Weeks Of Real Usage Tells About New iPhone July 28, 2010 by Walter S. Mossberg When I reviewed Apple’s new iPhone 4 last month, I said that, overall, it was still the best of the super-smartphones. But I warned that, in my tests, its performance in making voice calls on AT&T’s network in the U.S. was decidedly mixed. In some cases, I found it dropped fewer calls than its predecessor, the iPhone 3GS. In others, especially in weak-coverage areas, I found that it showed fewer bars of ...

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Hackers believed to be operating out of Russia have figured out a high-tech way to carry out the decidedly low-tech crime of check fraud, a computer security company says, writing at least $9 million in fakes against more than 1,200 legitimate accounts. But these hackers got the account information in an unusual way: They broke into three websites that specialize in a little-known type of business, archiving check images online. Story here. Never heard of this type of business before. ...

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The Microsoft Solution Large and steady increases in the dividend would force the company to use shareholder capital more wisely. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. Is Steve Ballmer a failed CEO? Forget the criticism of Microsoft for not beating Google or Apple at their own game. Though these companies' rapid growth surely illustrates the potential of connected computing, no business can do everything or focus on every opportunity (an oxymoron). There's a reason new business models tend to...

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A silly study, but... iPad Owners Are ‘Selfish Elites.’ Critics Are ‘Independent Geeks.’ By Eliot Van Buskirk July 26, 2010 | 5:22 pm | Categories: Mobile Internet, People It’s not exactly official, but should also surprise no one: According to a new study the psychological profile of iPad owners can be summed up as “selfish elites” while have-not critics are “independent geeks.” Which is why we should stick to the science. C...

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Virus writers and botmasters increasingly are turning to new subscription services that test when and whether malicious links have been flagged by Web reputation programs like Google Safe Browsing and McAfee SiteAdvisor. Nothing puts a crimp in the traffic to booby-trapped Web sites like being listed on multiple Internet reputation services that collect and publish information on the location of nasty Web sites. People who maintain the bad sites can stay ahead of such services by moving thei...

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Guest editorial by Michal Zalewski at ZDNet's Zero Day Blog: When explaining why it is not possible to meet a particular vulnerability response deadline, most software vendors inevitably fall back to a very simple and compelling argument: testing takes time. For what it’s worth, I have dealt with a fair number of vulnerabilities on both sides of the fence — and I tend to be skeptical of such claims: while exceptions do happen, many of the disappointing response times appeared to stem fr...

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Internet service provider TalkTalk has been monitoring its customers' online activity, as it trials a new anti-malware system Broadband provider TalkTalk has been caught monitoring and recording its customers’ online activity without their consent. The situation first came to light when a TalkTalk customer noticed two “guest” IP addresses appearing in his web server logs, and brought the issue up on the ISPs discussion forum. Several other users discovered they were being tracked by th...

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Steve Gibson has a plan to save the media world’s financial crisis — and it’s not the iPad. Borrowing a page from patent trolls, the CEO of fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content for the sole purpose of suing blogs and websites that re-post those articles without permission. And he says he’s making money. “We believe it’s the best solution out there,” Gibson says. “Media companies’ assets are very much their copyrights. These companies ...

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WSJ: Citi Admits Security Flaws In Its US IPhone Mobile Banking App By Spencer E. Ante Of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Citigroup Inc. told its U.S. mobile banking customers they should upgrade to a new application designed for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone after the bank's original version was found to have a security flaw. In an incident that highlights the growing security challenges around wireless apps, Citi said its iPhone app accidentally saved personal account information in a hidd...

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UAE says BlackBerry is security threat United Arab Emirates declares BlackBerry smartphone a threat to national security Adam Schreck, AP Business Writer, On Monday July 26, 2010, 9:03 am EDT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The United Arab Emirates has declared BlackBerry smartphones a potential threat to national security, saying the devices operate beyond the jurisdiction of national laws and are open to misuse. The move raises concerns of another attempt by the government to control ...

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