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It will likely come as no surprise to anyone familiar with virtual worlds and online games that they can be hacked. But what might come as a shock is the sheer breadth of types of exploits that are possible. That was the broad message of a Thursday panel called, appropriately, "Exploiting Onl
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With Monday's announcement that Oracle is acquiring Sun for $7.4 billion, however, Oracle is signaling its own "iPod moment," seeking to compete with Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and others in integrated hardware/software systems. It's a bold move, and not for the faint of heart. But then, no o
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Automakers and tech companies are adding a growing array of information and entertainment extras such as Web access in vehicles. Ford is getting its geek on. Like other automakers, the U.S. carmaker has long outfitted cars with CD players, satellite radios, and navigation systems. But now, Ford a
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In IBM's biggest foray in business consulting since it acquired PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting in 2002, the company announced on Apr. 14 that it is setting up a 4,000-person organization focused on helping corporations analyze data better and make smarter decisions. The consultants will mine IBM'
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[caption id="attachment_380" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Open X"][/caption] Online ad exchanges, which work like the Nasdaq stock exchange to match buyers and sellers of ads, are nothing new but they’re starting to heat up again. In the past few years, several of them have been snapp
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Iran plans to send a bigger satellite into space on a rocket with a range of up to 1,500 km (930 miles), President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, in comments that may spark further Western concern. Iran launched a domestically made satellite into orbit for the first time in February
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The interim chairman of General Motors Corp. acknowledged Tuesday that the auto maker is running out of time to reach a deal with stakeholders and the federal government to restructure outside of bankruptcy. Kent Kresa said the GM board remains convinced that an out-of-court restructuring is
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Officials say the nation will fire up its nuclear plant again and go back to making plutonium. The warning is in response to the U.N. rebuke of North Korea's recent missile launch. Reporting from Seoul -- North Korea today threatened to withdraw from the stalled six-party nuclear-disarmament talk
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Android 1.5 will allow new features such as soft keyboards, home screen widgets, and speech recognition. Google Subnet, NetworkWorld.com Google Android Looks like the next version of Google's Android OS will actually swallow the features from the "Cupcake" development branch whole. At least
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[caption id="attachment_357" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Twitter.com attacked by worm"][/caption] Twitter has been given the all clear after a worm infected "tens of thousands of users". But experts say the attack could have been much worse. Over the weekend, a self-replicating
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