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Adobe Admits It Is Saying Buh-Bye to Flash for Mobile Devices

Kara Swisher in Mobile on November 9, 2011 at 10:15 am PT

Looks like Apple’s Steve Jobs was right (as usual).

Exclusive: AOL Fires Moviefone Editor Who Offered Fired Freelancers the Chance to Work for, Um, Free

Kara Swisher in News on April 6, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT

Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to “contribute as part of our non-paid blogger system.” Today, sources said that exec–Moviefone Editor-in-Chief Patricia Chui–was fired by the company, which is in the midst of drastically rejiggering its stable of writers.

Viral Video: Entering the "Source Code"

Kara Swisher in News on March 18, 2011 at 12:15 am PT

One of the movies that showed at South by Southwest was “Source Code,” an action thriller in which a solider is on a mission to find a train bomber by occupying his body. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, it actually looks terrific.

Well, at Least Google Didn’t, Ahem, Lose Its Single Sign-On Source Code in a Redwood City Bar

John Paczkowski in News on April 20, 2010 at 7:15 am PT

So that “intellectual property” that was stolen in the “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” against Google late last year? Turns out it was some pretty serious stuff–the source code to Single Sign-On, the password system that controls access to most of Google’s services.

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Other Companies Than Google Faced Big Risks in Attack, McAfee Says

Ben Worthen, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 4, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

It’s not news that Google lost some intellectual property in the highly publicized cyber attack that targeted the Internet giant and many other companies. What is more surprising, the security firm McAfee says, is how the others could have also been victimized.

A Boy Named Sue-Happy

John Paczkowski in News on October 19, 2009 at 9:13 am PT

Looks like Darl McBride, SCO’s “sue-happy cowboy” CEO, has seen his last roundup. In a new 8-K filing with the Security and Exchange Commission, the company reveals that, under the order of a bankruptcy court, it has eliminated the chief executive officer and president positions and consequently sacked McBride.

Die, SCO, Die!

John Paczkowski in News on August 25, 2009 at 9:19 am PT

“There’s No Free Lunch–or Free Linux.” That was the title of SCO CEO Darl McBride’s keynote address at the Computer Digital Expo in Las Vegas back in 2003, and it signaled the start of a long legal siege. Earlier that day, SCO announced plans to file suit against a large-scale user of Linux as part of its campaign against the open-source operating system.