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Well, I couldn’t have played it anyway, seeing as it was all in Chinese. “Incorruptible Warrior Online,” sponsored in part by the Communist Party Discipline Inspection Commission of Haishu District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, is a game set in ancient China. The idea is to combat graft by killing corrupt officials, all [...]

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It’s been nearly two years since since Sony got into the rootkit business. Not intentionally, but the DRM installed by Sony BMG CDs when you tried to play them on your PC had rootkit qualities. Not only that, but in a real-life example of the vulnerability, hackers used it to hack [...]

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Last week I had the pleasure of sitting in on a teleconference with Intel, as they announced their revamped vPro platform. For those who don’t know, vPro is much like Centrino – a platform marketing initiative. In this case, it is targeted to businesses, and centers around security and [...]

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Taiwan’s Acer has announced it will buy struggling computer vendor Gateway, in a deal worth $710 million. This will create the world’s #3 largest PC maker. At the same time, Gateway dealt a blow to Lenovo by announcing its intention to buy Packard Bell.
Lenovo’s plans were set back when [...]

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It definitely makes sense to hold these championships in Finland, since that’s where Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of cell phones, is based. Finnish domination in the contest was evident, with 3 of the 4 events being won by Finland natives.

Two Finns won their place in the history books [...]

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Yesterday I told you about the software unlocking of the iPhone performed by two different companies. One of them, Uniquephones.com, was to go live with its solution Saturday on its www.iphoneunlocking.com site. However, John McLaughlin, founder of Uniquephones, said that he received a phone call about 3 AM Saturday local time [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
And this is reason #1 that I hate any software that’s activated and that, if I can avoid it, I won’t buy it. It seems, however, I have little choice when it comes to my OS (yes, yes, I know about Linux and OS X ). Users trying [...]

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Earlier Friday mainstream media picked up on the hardware unlocking of the iPhone by an enterprising teenager. While that was big news, it pales in comparison to this. Software unlocking is the pinnacle, as there’s no fumbling with the soldering iron, and no tearing apart of your iPhone.
It’s high [...]