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A security consultant named Mike Davis , working for IOActive, got a lot of attention last year for buying a "smart" computerized electricity meter on eBay and hacking into its software.

Samsung has announced a dual-core application processor for tablets PCs, netbooks and smartphones that will be able to handle 1080p video playback



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Tony Blair last night became the most senior politician yet to be drawn into the phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed David Camerona s top spin doctor.

Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, has joined Oracle Corp. as the company's co-president, Oracle confirmed on Monday. Charles Phillips will resign.

Ousted HP CEO Mark Hurd is reportedly in talks with Oracle to assume a senior-level management position within the company. The talks are hush-hush right now, with no named sources coming forward to identify exactly what position Hurd might take up at the enterprise software company.

Google has transformed its dead and dying "Wave" collaboration service into "Wave in a box," a standalone package that server administrators can use to quickly deploy their own individual Waves where they see fit.

Launched Wednesday, Apple's new social media music service—Ping—has already pushed past one million signed-up users within its first 48 hours of existence. The number represents more than one-third of those who have downloaded iTunes 10.

The upcoming Electronic Arts title Medal of Honor—a refresh of the first-person shooter series that first launched in 2002—has been banished from 49 Gamestop locations and all Post Exchanges on U.S. military bases worldwide.

The Android mobile operating system—specifically, smartphones running it—is continuing a steady climb in mobile web market share versus Apple's iOS-based devices.

Wome thirteen years after the game's initial announcement, Take-Two Interactive—which owns publishing rights to the title—has announced that Duke Nukem Forever is finally going to be completed. And we have some hands-on gameplay footage!

Craigslist has removed its Adult Services section for U.S. visitors, which should come as a relief to the various entities that have been petitioning for Craigslist to shut down the section—including human rights groups and more than 17 attorneys general from states across the nation.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is conducting an antitrust review of Google, the search engine giant announced Friday.

Google has reached a settlement on a class-action suit regarding its Buzz social-networking feature.

Google on Friday announced that it will be streamlining its privacy policy, effective Oct. 3. The search engine giant is not making any material changes to its policy, but is removing redundant sections, and launching a new privacy tools page.

Google Chrome has turned two; to celebrate, Google released version six, which features an even more stripped-down design and blazing speed.

Canon this week hosted a New York City expo, which included a first glimpse of some prototype devices and features, and some hands-on time with already released products. We take you inside.

Days after its release, Apple's new Ping social network within iTunes is being inundated with spam comments.

Aided by a growth in mobile app usage, Twitter has topped 145 million users, an addition of 40 million users in just four months.

Blizzard crippled multiple monitor support in "Starcraft II" in the interest of fairness. Actual Tools' utility restores it.

Nvidia on Friday introduced its new GeForce 400M series of graphics processing units (GPUs), which will power the next generation of laptops from companies like Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, and Toshiba.