Apples For The Army  —  Given Apple’s marketing toward the young and the trendy, you wouldn’t expect the U.S. Army to be much of a customer.  Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington is hoping hackers won’t expect it either.  —  Wallington, a division chief in the Army’s office of enterprise information systems …

Source:   Forbes
Author:   Andy […]

Apple expected to announce sales of 5 million iPhones at Macworld  —  Insiders tell us that Apple expects to announce sales of roughly five million iPhones at Macworld 2008 in January.  Of these, around one million are expected to come from Europe.  Apple is seeing very strong Christmas sales despite …

Source:   9 to 5 […]

Perez Hilton Pulls Videos From YouTube  —  Celebrity gossip queen Perez Hilton said he’s unlikely to post videos on YouTube any longer and instead will probably host them on his own site, Perezhilton.com.  —  The blogger and the biggest video-sharing service are feuding after YouTube pulled …

Source:   TVWeek.com
Author:   Daisy Whitney
Link:   http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/12…

Tesla’s Chairman and New CEO Talk Transmission Snags and Raising Another $40M  —  The two people most responsible for helping Tesla get its first car to its customers look and sound a bit overwhelmed.  Chairman Elon Musk calls into an interview with Earth2Tech from his home …

Source:   Earth2Tech
Author:   Katie Fehrenbacher
Link:   http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/21/tesla-chairman-and…

Antivirus protection worse than a year ago  —  The effectiveness of antivirus software has fallen off, and more and more pests can now slip past these barriers.  This is the sobering conclusion the german computer magazine c’t comes to in issue 1/08 with a test on 17 antivirus solutions.

Source:   heise Security
Link:   http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/100900

Exclusive: Apple to adopt Intel’s ultra-mobile PC platform  —  Apple Inc. will form a closer bond with once-rival Intel Corp. early next year when it begins building a new breed of ultra-mobile processors from the chipmaker into a fresh generation of handheld devices, AppleInsider has learned.

Source:   AppleInsider
Author:   Kasper Jade
Link:   http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/12/21…

Amazon Patents Blurbs; Google Patents Snippets  —  from the patents-patents-all-the-time dept  —  theodp writes “On Tuesday, Amazon.com was granted a patent for Personalized Selection and Display of User-Supplied Content to Enhance Browsing of Electronic Catalogs, which the three inventors …

Source:   Techdirt
Author:   Mike Masnick
Link:   http://techdirt.com/articles/20071218/171711.shtml

Can an airline exec run Red Hat?  You’d be surprised  —  When former Delta Airlines chief operating officer James Whitehurst takes over as CEO of Red Hat on New Year’s Day he’ll face the worst kind of doubters-the quiet ones.  But Whitehurst could very well take Red Hat to the next level.

Source:   Between the […]

Does Japan Need the iPhone?  —  The world’s most sophisticated users of wireless technology may be unimpressed by Apple’s high-tech gadget  —  The Japanese fell for the iPod.  So why should they not embrace the iPhone, too?  It’s tempting to think that Japan’s love affair with Apple’s …

Source:   Business Week
Author:   Kenji Hall
Link:   […]

Pinch authors pinched  —  Today Nikolay Patrushev, head of the Federal Security Services, announced the results of the measures taken to combat cyber crime in 2007.  —  Among other information, it was announced that it had been established who was the author of the notorious Pinch Trojan …

Source:   Kaspersky Lab Weblog
Link:   http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=208187472