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RIM, India Trade Texts, Still Not BFFs

in Mobile on December 3, 2010 at 3:40 pm PT

India and Research in Motion are still struggling to find common ground in a dispute over how much access the government is given to corporate emails and instant messages. According to AFP, an Indian government minister told Parliament on Friday that no solution has been reached in the standoff. RIM faces a January 31 deadline to meet the country’s demand for a way to monitor communications.

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Australian Teenager Unwittingly Unleashed Twitter Chaos

in News on September 22, 2010 at 10:05 am PT

Pearce Delphin, a 17-year-old high-school senior who lives with his parents in Melbourne, admitted Wednesday morning to tweeting the piece of “mouseover” code that wreaked havoc on Twitter’s system on Tuesday. He told AFP via email that he did it “merely to see if it could be done…that Javascript really could be executed within a tweet,” but it was soon seized upon by hackers with mischief in mind. “Hopefully I won’t get in trouble!” he added.

OS X 10.5.8 Kills Bugs Dead

in News on August 5, 2009 at 4:17 pm PT

Apple on Wednesday released OS X 10.5.8, the latest point release to Mac OS X Leopard, even as Amazon takes pre-orders for its next iteration–Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). 10.5.8 is largely a maintenance update, though it does patch a number of security vulnerabilities (18 to be exact), some of them fairly old.
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