Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Sprint buying Virgin Mobile USA for $483 million; Broken iPhones; Researchers clam up about Microsoft's rush patches

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Sprint buying Virgin Mobile USA for $483 million

Sprint Nextel  is buying Virgin Mobile USA, a subsidiary of the UK-based entertainment and communications giant that has over 5 million prepaid wireless subscribers in the United States. Read full story

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Sprint Nextel is buying Virgin Mobile USA, a subsidiary of the UK-based entertainment and communications giant that has more than 5 million prepaid wireless subscribers in the United States. Also, Microsoft officially opened its Windows Marketplace for Mobile application store to software developers on Monday as the software maker moves to catch up to the success of Apple's iPhone App Store. (5:57)

Broken iPhones
How much damage can an iPhone actually withstand? See for yourself, in these cringe-inducing images - ouch!

Researchers clam up about Microsoft's rush patches
Microsoft Corp. has dropped a cone of silence over several security researchers who have recently divulged details of the vulnerabilities that the company will patch later today with a pair of emergency updates.

After a month of security disasters, Microsoft offers new tool, progress report
At Black Hat today, Microsoft made several announcements intended to reassure its users that it was being as transparent as humanly possible regarding security vulnerabilities. These announcements came during a month when Microsoft was forced to defend itself and its security processes like a little leaguer in a 90 miles-per-hour batting cage.

Google defends Google Apps security
Google officials say that critics calling for Los Angeles to reconsider plans to implement Google Apps are misinformed or are looking to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.

40 Fantastic Time-Wasting Web Sites
Warning: Reading this story may be hazardous to your productivity. The Web sites within may divert you from the dull tasks in need of your attention and may cause you to goof off for hours instead.

Texting while driving increases crash risk 23-fold
Drivers of heavy trucks who were texting while driving were at a 23 times greater risk of a crash or near crash than those who were not, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute reported.

Apple Bans Google Voice iPhone App
Apple hung up on Google, rejecting its Google Voice mobile app that would have allowed iPhone users to swap text messages for free, among other things.

Tenant's tweet about mold prompts libel suit by landlord
This latest example of ordinary people courting trouble on Twitter isn't the usual cautionary tale about remembering that what's written on the Internet stays on the Internet. Nope, it's more about why people hate landlords.

Is 'LAN sprawl' in IT's future?
In last week's Webinar about "A Real World Look at the Changing IT Security Landscape" listen to the replay here), one of the panelists, Christopher Paidhrin (security compliance officer at Southwest Washington Medical Center) referred to the changing face of IT in his organization and the "network without borders" that was becoming the de facto landscape.

Microsoft adjusts "Laptop Hunter" ad after complaints from Apple Legal
About a week ago, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner gave a keynote speech at Microsoft's 2009 Worldwide Partner Conference and relayed a story about how he had recently received a call from Apple Legal asking that Microsoft stop running one of its much-publicized "Laptop Hunter" ads because it advertised prices that were higher than what Apple was actually selling.

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