Prototype of a system for preventing ATM theft. Reuters A criminal serving a five-year sentence "for supplying gadgets to an organized crime gang used to conceal ATM skimmers" has invented a device that prevents ATMs from being susceptible to such thefts, Reuters reported today. Valentin Boanta, who is six months into his sentence in a Romanian prison, developed what he calls the SRS (Secure Revolving System) which … [Read more...]
Cinnamon desktop on Linux Mint 15. Linux Mint The Linux Mint project yesterday unveiled version 15 of the increasingly popular desktop operating system, with upgrades to the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments as well as new applications for managing software and drivers. Code-named "Olivia," Linux Mint 15 is based on the most recent version of Ubuntu and will be supported until January 2014. Linux Mint 15 is in the … [Read more...]
Victor Perez The same judge who handed Viacom another defeat in its copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube last month has denied class-action status to a huge population of video copyright owners whose works were posted on YouTube without their permission. In a case running parallel to the infamous Viacom v. YouTube suit the English Premier League, French Tennis Federation, and various music publishers sued the Google-owned … [Read more...]
Apple's iBooks app. Apple Apple was the "ringmaster" in a conspiracy to fix the prices of e-books at rates higher than those charged by Amazon, US officials said yesterday in court documents. The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit last year against Apple and six e-book publishers: Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, Pearson, and Simon & Schuster. The trial is scheduled to begin June 3 in the US District … [Read more...]
The first two phones to run VMware's dual-persona software. VMware At long last, VMware's dual-persona software for smartphones is available on actual devices. Today, VMware and Verizon Wireless announced that the Android-based LG Intuition and Motorola Razr M can now be purchased with VMware's Horizon Mobile software, which separates the device into isolated partitions that keep a user's work applications and data … [Read more...]
CERN data center equipment in Geneva. CERN When you're running the world's largest particle accelerator, smashing particles at nearly the speed of light to understand the Universe at its most basic levels, you'd better have a great IT strategy. That's why CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, opened a new data center and is building a cloud network for scientists conducting experiments using data from the … [Read more...]
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The Guardian (blog)20 best iPhone and iPad apps this weekThe Guardian (blog)This excellent classical music app is a partnership between Touch Press and Deutsche Grammophon, building on the former's The Orchestra app from a few months back. The app …
Four Location-Enabled Apps to Try This SummerTIMELet's face it: location-enabled apps are not going anywhere. With more than 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones worldwide, a new crop of geo-location apps are announced every month. Regardless of use…
Digital TrendsBest apps of the week: Moldiv, Lime Light, Frozen Synapse, and moreDigital TrendsGoogle has a plethora of changes coming to its mobile app lineup this week and beyond, but what fun would it be for us to just reiterate all that here? You&#…
