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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You Sci-fi tales are full of electromagnetic-pulse devices that blow out every computer from here to Kalamazoo. But US Army researchers are testing a short skinny high-powered microwave bomb that could actually be used in combat.
One of the irritating mosquito-like posters over at 4chan hacked into everyone’s favourite boob-related-adjective Salma Hayek’s MobileMe account and found it laughably easy despite MobileMe’s “security” questions.
Nothing about the upcoming launch of digital radio in Australia has really excited me beyond the ‘meh’ level so far, although Yamaha’s new iPod docks with DAB+ tuners might just do it. Maybe.
“Another day, another replaced hard drive,” Chris Cook thought at his tech support desk while unwrapping the unit, fresh from storage. Until he turned the fixed ThinkPad on and heard the weirdest rattling noise ever.
Two researchers at the Hack In The Box conference are claiming they found a way to gain access to any Windows 7 computer undetected. Their weapon of choice is a 3kb app named VBootkit 2.0.
Microsoft announced today that its quarterly revenue and earnings per share dropped in the quarter ending March 31st. It’s the first time in Microsoft’s history that they’ve failed to turn a profit.
One of the much wanted features to be made available with the iPhone 3.0 software beta – alongside MMS – is tethering via USB and Bluetooth. Reader Jennifer from Axiom software has sent us a pretty awesome guide to tethering your iPhone to your laptop via Bluetooth for Australians. While we haven’t tried it ourselves (no iPhone 3.0 beta to play with, unfortunately), she claims that it’s pretty stable and works well. Here’s how to do it:
A few details on the still unannounced 9000 Series LCDs from Samsung have leaked, and according to FlatPanelsHD, they’ll come with a wireless media port box, in addition to having LED backlighting with local dimming.
The opening question in any serious empirical research is “Will it blend?” But here’s a German artist who felt that her art should begin with a slightly different question: “How will it blend?”
Baskets like this one are scattered throughout the West Wing to collect BlackBerrys, iPhones, RAZRs or any other bleepy-bloopy things visitors to the Oval Office have in their pockets. [Callie Shell/Time]
