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1. Apple plans iPhone lockdown

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... a very technical and hands-on leader, someone with a passion for understanding security exploits and coming up with innovative methods to create secure platforms," the company explained in an official ...

2. Smartphone users make lousy partners

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... we'd have thought, but Retrevo neglected to ask about that). In any case, these people are clearly pretty shallow. Apparently, 35 percent of iPhone users would find it a turn-off if a potential partner ...

3. Lee Harvey Oswald photo wasn't faked

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... as Oswald claimed, a fake. Dartmouth computer scientist Hany Farid has analyzed the photo with modern-day forensic tools, and says it is almost certainly genuine. "If we had found evidence of photo tampering, ...

4. Beatles download site told to cease and desist

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... by itself rather than the Beatles. Judge John Walter of the US District Court in Los Angeles issued a temporary restraining order yesterday telling Bluebeat to stop selling any music by EMI artists. and ...

5. Global Foundries will bash up Intel's process lead

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... a fabrication plant in Singapore. Both Chartered and Global Foundries are owned by Abu Dhabi firm, Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) When the merger happens, the entity now known as Global ...

6. Gartner beats up software company in court

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Magic Quadrant cafuffle may continueA software company that alleged market research company Gartner had libelled it had its case dismissed in America. Research magazine said that ZL had filed a case against ...

7. Tool stops search engines gathering your data

   (Software/Software Features)

   Big Brother won't be able to watch any more Just a day after Google said it was to let users see the information it gathers on them, a team of Catalan researchers has announced a new protocol to stop search ...

8. Twitter turns UI thinking on its head

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... pasting text, saving files, and so many other functions work with the same key sequence or menu choice on a given platform. Following rigorous user interface design is elemental in app/dev for everything ...

9. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... enthusiasm for our Tesla platform for parallel computing in the server and cloud-computing markets." Nvidia CFO David White explained that the company's GPU business - which includes desktop, notebook ...

10. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... company's overpriced hardware. 
 "It's the same thing with the Palm Pre. Palm got their phone to work with iTunes and Apple now blocked the Palm Pre in the latest iTunes update. They're like a bunch of ...

11. Adult Friend Finder: paedophiles are just one click away

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... think. Pornography on the Internet has many faces. We all know that it always was and always will be one of the most popular topic areas and most of us will have to admit that we at least played with the ...

12. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... shipping in many global markets. Here are IDC’s figures for the major vendors – units are in millions. Vendor Q309 ships Q309 share ...

13. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... who wanted the best out of the machines they were going to buy, those old metrics don’t mean anything to them at all. Benchmarketing David Schwarzbach and Hal Speed – great name that Hal – put some questions ...

14. Chinese foundry violated Taiwanese secrets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... with Taiwanese firm TSMC. The jury found that the $175 million settlement was breached, and that SMIC infringed many of the 65 trade secrets TSMC had accused it of filching. TSMC wants over $1 billion ...

15. DashBoard shows users what Google's got on them

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, and Latitude.  "The scale and level of detail of the Dashboard is unprecedented, and we're delighted to be the first internet company ...

16. Space elevator climbs nearly 1km high

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... a $900,000 prize. "The entire team is exceedingly satisfied that our system performed this well today," says the company, which is hoping to improve on its speed today. The LaserMotive system uses a ...

17. Prosthetic hand gives sensation of touch

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... I don't have them anymore. It's amazing." With the help of the TAU team, the SmartHand project was able to integrate recent advances in today's 'intelligent' prosthetic hands with the basic features of ...

18. Wii fails to deliver

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... move to that platform,"  company spokesman Robert Bowling told Develop. "Right now, we don't think the Wii can deliver the exact experience that we're doing. We like to be very equal across all platforms, ...

19. Hacker jailbreaks iPhone 3GS with blacksn0w crack

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... certain models) before hardware resets can be performed.  

According to TechTree,  
Blacksn0w jailbreaks iPhone devices "faster" than other cracks. Once unlocked, the iPhone can be used with any mobile ...

20. Parallels takes on VMware

    (Software/Software Features)

    Parallels has introduced its Desktop 5 virtualization platform for the Mac. Parallels has introduced its Desktop 5 virtualization platform for the Mac. According to the Renton-based company, Desktop 5 ...

21. Apple brags as apps exceed 100,000 mark

    (Software/Software Features)

    A smug Apple has announced that over 100,000 applications are now available for download from the company's App Store. A smug Apple has announced that over 100,000 rather pointless applications are now ...

22. Carly Fiorina to run for Senate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... DeVore. "For many years I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a ...

23. New York sues Intel for antitrust behavior

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The Attorney General of New York accused Intel of antitrust behavior today. The Attorney General of New York accused Intel of antitrust behavior today Andrew Cuomo alleged that the Santa Clara company ...

24. EMI sues Beatles 25 cent download site

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Record company dinosaur EMI has woken from its slumbers and set its lawyers on a US website offering 25 cent downloads of Beatles tracks. Record company dinosaur EMI has woken from its slumbers and ...

25. IBM censured after massive server screw up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... from an IBM facilities management deal following a server crash. IBM had been tipped to manage the elections system but the failure of a server revealed serious flaws in the company’s capability to recover ...

26. iPhone jailbreakers held hostage

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ...  Their phones would still be safe but for the fact that Apple used a default root password which  many forget to change after jailbreaking. The hacker relied on unchanged root passwords to hack into ...

27. Apple's small-minded strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... time Apple's iTunes upgrades have made life more difficult for Pre/iTunes users. The same will be true for Droid users once it gets sync capability for iTunes. Any device with a remote chance of competing ...

28. USB 3 turns into handbag fight between Intel and Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the chipset market and that now that it does not have any competitors, Intel is slowing down its innovation. There might be something in this. Nvidia was trying to push its own nForce chipset and found ...

29. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... The GPU gives the best performance per watt per dollar, he said. “We’re totally focused on the platform now and we have all the essentials.” Intel and Nvidia don’t give Bergman any nightmares, or if they ...

30. Feds indict alleged cable modem hacker

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... allegedly helping customers modify their cable modems to obtain "free" Internet access. 
 According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), Ryan Harris and his company TCNISO developed hardware and software ...

31. Peek ships Twitter gadget for the terminally-sad

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... Neither are we. Odds are that you will be able to pick up a shiny TwitterPeak along with an 8-track for $50 on E-Bay sometime next month. 

Any opening bids?  ...

32. AMD: The netbook category is all a bit of a blur

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to categories of PCs. AMD believes that ultra thin notebooks to some extent cover the netbook category, but perhaps only a portion of it. The company thinks that the netbook comprises a small segment ...

33. Sony Ericsson Android lumbers into view

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... between contacts, content and media. The X10 can identify up to five faces in any picture, while automatically linking the image to relevant e-mails and social feeds across the device. 
 In addition, ...

34. UK court rules that global warming is a religious belief, not science

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... a company in Oxfordshire and was made redundant in 2008. He maintained that his beliefs had contributed to his dismissal and earlier this year, a court ruled he could claim for unfair dismissal under employment ...

35. AMD calls for more realistic notebook benchmarks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... “Intel has spent lots of money with Intel Inside and making that try to make that matter above all else. It may be working for Intel but it’s not working for anyone else, including the OEMs. The OEMs have ...

36. Start-up sues over Nook

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... Barnes & Noble and had been discussing its e-reader plans with the bookseller since early this year. Spring Design had been developing an ebook reader called the Alex.  It had many meetings, emails and ...

37. Dell fined $12.8 million in New Orleans conspiracy case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... tenders and had decided that the hardware company had enough money to be worth suing. Dell hasn't yet decided whether it will appeal against the jury verdict. See Also Mayor Nagin named in Dell conspiracy ...

38. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... few problems and the same number have 'many problems they have been unable to solve' Users doing a clean install fared slightly better, with ten percent saying everything went fine, but while 13 percent ...

39. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... reality is both firms are as dramatically different as their CEOs are. Microsoft at its core is an operating system and tools company, it is at its strongest when it is selling things that others turn ...

40. Ruiz quits Globalfoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ...  Ruiz, named in the Galleon insider trading scandal, but not yet charged, will take a voluntary leave of absence effective immediately before resigning from the company in January, the company’s board ...

41. Gmail users lose service all weekend

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... service for long periods over the weekend, with no help from Google. The company's support forum is flooded with messages from frustrated users who have been receiving 502 error messages. Many complain ...

42. The NSA's Latest Listening Post

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... is any guide, it will also include messages to and from U.S. citizens inside the nation's borders, which is against the law. But no one really cares. Most people think the NSA is just snooping on terrorists ...

43. Unidentified bug causes massive CPU spike on 27-inch iMacs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... not limited to Flash-based applications. "I'm having the same slowness issues even if I don't play any Flash video," claimed GizaDog. "Firefox starts using all the CPU's power (100 percent) from one ...

44. Nvidia: Our nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Nvidia has claimed that its nForce chipsets are "better" than Intel's. A company spokesperson also criticized the chip manufacturer for allegedly postponing USB 3 introduction until 2011.Nvidia has ...

45. Apple iPhone released in China at high price tag

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    The iPhone goes on sale in China today but anyone that wants one will have to pay a hefty price.The iPhone goes on sale in China today but anyone that wants one will have to pay a hefty price. A 32GB ...

46. GM is world's least green automobile maker

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... School in Belfast. The survey looked at factors such as the volume of greenhouse gas emissions from production facilities and the number of work accidents recorded by a company between 1999 and 2007. ...

47. Mobile phone market shows signs of recovery

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... older devices at significantly lower prices. For many, this was enough to spur demand and push volumes higher." He said: "The mobile phone market is showing the first signs of improvement since the onset ...

48. TSMC yield problem to affect Nvidia, ATI

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) said it had problems with making chips using its 40 nanometer process and yields are not up to scratch.The Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing ...

49. Facebook wins $711 million against spammer

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Facebook has won $711.2 million in damages from internet marketer Sanford Wallace. Facebook has won $711.2 million in damages from internet marketer Sanford Wallace. The company filed an anti-spamming ...

50. 1010 reasons why digital is better than analog

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... shoot hundreds and hundreds of really crap pictures that you can then delete.4. Lara Croft is shapelier and far less trouble than many women.5. Chips are smaller than tubes. Small is beautiful.6. You can ...