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Blackberry PlayBook hits UK today

Blackberry maker RIM’s first tablet PC, the PlayBook is officially launched on Thursday in UK, which may give a tough competition to Apple’s iPad 2, especially over the starting price tag.

Will Intel Gain Success from Atom?

Intel is aggressively ramping its Atom chips offering to target handhelds, tablets, connected TVs, automobiles, industrial applications, and other applications.
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LulzSec releases Sony Pictures user data; Alleges Sony didn't encrypt it

LulzSec, the hacker group responsible for security breach of several high profile targets including CIA, FBI affiliate, Sony, Nintendo, Fox and PBS has released the stolen data from the SonyPictures.com which includes personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts. LulzSec tweeted moments ago providing the link to download the stolen data torrent through BitTorrent site 'The Pirate Bay'.

Cold war between hackers?

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) public website went offline on Wednesday during the early evening hours of ET with tweets between hackers, moments later, indicating cold war.
Lunar Eclipse Long Exposure

Unique Photo: Lunar Eclipse on Long Exposure, Earth’s shadow moves!

A lunar eclipse occurred on June 15, 2011 visible throughout the world and one of the longest viewable in over a decade. A unique photo was taken in Malaga, Spain, one of the southern most cities in the country. The photo was taken using long exposure to trace the movement of the lunar eclipse over time.
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Sony’s playstation network was a victim of Lulzsec vs. 4chan hacker civil war

With the E3 gaming conference in Los Angeles having just passed last week, the gaming community is still in an uproar but not over new games or consoles. It's currently caught in the crossfire of a hacker civil war between two prominent hacker groups, Lulzsec and Anonymous. A conflict that is almost beginning to look like a story straight out of a Scorsese film.
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Hackers disrupt 41 Malaysian government websites

At least 41 Malaysian government websites were hacked into overnight but no personal or financial data were compromised, government officials said on Thursday, as the Southeast Asian nation becomes the latest target of a cyber-war waged by the activists.
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Toshiba, HP to tie up on cloud services

Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Thursday that it and Hewlett Packard Co will tie up on cloud computing services to support public networks ranging from power, water and gas services to information technology systems.
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LightSquared gets more time to file GPS test results

U.S. regulators have granted Harbinger Capital-backed LightSquared another two weeks to explain GPS interference issues related to a high-speed wireless network it wants to build, according to the FCC's website.
The moon is seen during a total lunar eclipse from Cairo June 15, 2011.

June 15 lunar eclipse longest in a decade

The first total lunar eclipse in 2011 will take place on Wednesday, June 15, and was the longest eclipses of the moon in the past 11 years, lasting just over 100 minutes.
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House data breach bill may be tightened

A congresswoman may strengthen a data breach bill to quell concerns it would do too little to force companies to alert customers of data breaches promptly.
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LulzSec continues global hack attack: CIA down, Senate attacked again!

Hacker group LulzSec is relentlessly continuing its attack: the public website of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) i.e. www.cia.gov was hacked by the group and taken down temporarily on Wednesday even as the U.S. Senate said it had foiled a renewed hacking bid by the same group.
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LightSquared requests FCC to extend deadline

Harbinger Capital-backed LightSquared asked U.S. regulators for another two weeks to explain GPS interference issues related to a high-speed wireless network it wants to build, the company said on Wednesday.
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Apple to dare Nintendo, Sony by giving Phone 5 the latest mobile graphics architecture

There is apparently more evidence that Apple is prepared to dare the likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo and vie for the gaming pie. The warrior is iPhone 5 and the arsenal include the A5 processor with a dual-core graphics core and the most powerful mobile graphics processing architecture built to date. New rumors that float around suggest the iPhone will have strong gaming capabilities supported by multi-core A5 processor and Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR Series6 mobile graphics process...
CIA website is unresponsive and unavailable after reports that the website had been attacked by hackers in Washington

LulzSec takes down CIA website but classified data safe

Lulz Security or LulzSec, the hackers collective, claimed responsibility for disabling the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) public website on Wednesday, two days after hacking the U.S. Senate's computer system.

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