Published: March 2, 2010
4 charged with hacking into concert ticket sites
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NEWARK, N.J. – Four California men were charged on Monday with using sophisticated computer programs to fraudulently obtain more than a million tickets to concerts and sporting events and reselling them for a profit estimated at $29 million.
Although the tickets they bought and resold were authentic, prosecutors say the group used the programs to bypass [...]
Published: March 2, 2010
Bug plagues PlayStation 3, Sony warns of data loss
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NEW YORK – Sony Corp. said a glitch has knocked PlayStation 3 users off the game console’s online network, and the company warned that data loss could occur if gamers continued using the machines.
Sony said in a blog post Monday that the problem was likely caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in [...]
Published: February 27, 2010
Iris scans may prevent mistaken release of inmates
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DES MOINES, Iowa – A Baltimore inmate who bluffed his way out of prison probably wouldn’t have tricked guards if they had eye-scanners such as those being installed at dozens of jails nationwide.
The federal government is paying for the scanners as part of an effort to build a nearly foolproof identification system to put a [...]
Published: February 26, 2010
Pioneer of online job search starts over again
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WASHINGTON – Bill Warren founded an early online job board in the 1990s, helped kick-start an industry and was president of Monster.com, one of the leading Internet career sites. But these days he’s not very happy with the results.
So he’s taking another crack at it, going after Monster, Career Builder and similar commercial job sites. [...]
Published: February 26, 2010
Google warned by EU over Street View map photos
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BRUSSELS – European Union data privacy regulators are telling Google Inc. to warn people before it sends cameras out into cities to take pictures for its Street View maps, adding to the company’s legal worries in Europe.
Google should shorten the time it keeps the original photos from one year to six months, regulators also said [...]
Published: February 25, 2010
Cablevision service lets customers see PCs on TV
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NEW YORK – Watching online video and other content on a television screen typically means buying a special device such as an Apple TV, or plugging lots of wires into the right holes on the PCs and TVs. Cable TV provider Cablevision Systems Corp. is testing a service that promises to eliminate that hassle.
It would [...]
Published: February 25, 2010
Italy convicts 3 Google execs in abuse video case
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MILAN – It seems that when it comes to letting the Web be the Web, it could be the United States against the world.
An Italian judge on Wednesday held three Google executives criminally responsible for an online video of an autistic teenager being bullied — a verdict that raises concerns that the Internet giant, and [...]
Published: February 25, 2010
FCC seeking more spectrum for wireless broadband
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WASHINGTON – Federal regulators are hoping to find more wireless spectrum for mobile broadband services by reallocating some airwaves now assigned to television broadcasters and others.
Under a long-awaited proposal outlined by the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday, broadcasters and other existing spectrum holders would voluntarily give back some spectrum and share in proceeds raised by [...]
Published: February 23, 2010
FCC survey shows need to teach broadband basics
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WASHINGTON – The government’s plan to provide fast Internet connections to all Americans will have to include some basic instruction in Web 101, according to a new survey of Internet users and non-users.
The Federal Communications Commission’s first-ever survey on Internet usage and attitudes concludes that those who aren’t connected today need to be taught how [...]
Published: February 22, 2010
`Clash' of 3-D movies to hit underprepared cinemas
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LOS ANGELES – Movies in 3-D are becoming such big moneymakers that Hollywood studios are cramming them into the nation’s theaters, even though there aren’t enough screens available to give each film its fullest possible run.
That will mean an unprecedented number of 3-D movies for film fans to choose from this spring, and smaller profits [...]
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