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PCWorld: A self-described 21-year-old Iranian student who uses the handle “Comodohacker” has claimed responsibility for hacking Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar in order to obtain fraudulent SSL certificates for Google websites. He said that he intended the hack to publish the Dutch for killing Muslims in Srebrenica in the Bosnian War. He also claims to have […]

DigiTimes: Chip maker Intel has been promoting “ultrabooks” as an alternative to tablet PCs, but laptop makers are taking a cautious approach to the new form factor. According to sources, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba and Asustek Computer together will likely produce fewer than 50,000 units to test the market’s response. They will start shipping ultrabooks later […]

CFO World: Analysts had expected enterprise IT spending to fall 3 percent in the second quarter, but a new report from Maven Wave Partners says that it actually grew by 6 percent during the period. In addition, companies boosted their IT payrolls by 9.1 percent. The firm said that the boost in IT spending was […]

Bloomberg: Last year, Oracle won a copyright infringement lawsuit again SAP and was awarded $1.3 million in damages. Now, a judge in the case has overturned that ruling for being “grossly excessive.” U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton says that the maximum SAP should have to pay is $272 million. Oracle has until the end of […]

PCMagazine: WikiLeaks has released all 251,000 of the U.S. diplomatic cables in its possession, without editing out the names of sources in the documents. The move could place the individuals named in the cables in danger. Previously, several newspapers had been working with WikiLeaks to publish the cables a few at a time after names […]

eWeek: Google is celebrating two milestones related to its Chrome browser this week: Chrome turned three years old on September first, and it passed 15 percent market share for the first time ever in August. In fact, Net Applications reports that Chrome grew to a 15.5 percent share for the month, up significantly from 14.3 […]

BBC News: UK police have arrested four men who are believed to be part of the LulzSec and Anonymous hacktivist groups. The four include 20-year-old Christopher Weatherhead and 26-year-old Ashley Rhodes, as well as two other suspected hackers also both in their twenties. At the same time, 14 alleged members of Anonymous appeared in a […]

GigaOm: The latest report from Nielsen finds that 40 percent of all mobile phones in the U.S. are smartphones, up from 38 percent for the quarter ending in May. At this rate, the majority of mobile phones will be smartphones by sometime in 2012. The company also reports that Android continues to be the most […]

Cnet: In a stunning example of history repeating itself, an Apple employee reportedly lost an iPhone 5 prototype after leaving it in a San Francisco bar in July. Police used the “Find my iPhone” feature to trace it to a residence, but the phone was not discovered there. Reports say the phone may have already […]

NY Times: The Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, a Beijing environmental group, has published a 46-page report accusing Apple’s Chinese suppliers of polluting the environment. After visits to various factories, the group determined that 27 of the companies were causing environmental damage, including failing “to properly dispose of hazardous waste.” “Apple is committed to […]

Ars Technica: Kernel.org, which hosts the archives for the kernel of the open source Linux operating system, has confirmed that its site was hacked in early August. Those involved believe that a hacker obtained a legitimate user’s login credentials and uploaded a trojan into the code repository. The site administrators are wiping their servers and […]

Cnet: The latest mobile operating system report from comScore shows that Android captured 41.8 percent of the U.S. smartphone market for the three months ending in July, gaining 5.4 percentage points over its April market share. Apple’s iOS increased its market share only slightly during the period, climbing from 26 percent in April to 27 […]