BOSTON (Reuters) – Monster.com waited five days to tell its users about a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information from some 1.3 million job seekers, a company executive told Reuters on Thursday. Hackers broke into the U.S. online recruitment site’s password-protected resume library using credentials that Monster Worldwide Inc said were [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel Corp (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Sunday unveiled its new vPro chip technology aimed at making business personal computers more secure, as the world’s largest chipmaker seeks to solidify its brand. vPro is a collection of a Core 2 Duo processor, chipset and other elements that together the company calls [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Sunday it was giving its e-mail users more ways to reach friends and online contacts by allowing them to trade messages with mobile phone users. The new e-mail-to-phone connection is one of the features the Internet media giant plans to add as it makes available to the [...]
SEOUL (Reuters) – Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N: Quote, Profile, Research), which recently said it would spend up to $5 billion on a mobile high-speed wireless standard by 2010, said it had awarded the New York WiMax market to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research). Samsung had previously been awarded the Washington, DC, Baltimore, [...]
(CNN) — Insulating foam that covers brackets of Discovery’s external fuel tank needs to be removed before the shuttle can fly again, NASA said Friday. A new X-ray analysis shows small cracks that probably make the material prone to shedding, officials said. NASA engineers said the foam — called Super Light-weight Ablative, or SLA — [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple’s iPhone to AT&T’s wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones. eorge Hotz, 17, confirmed Friday that he had unlocked an iPhone and was using it on [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A group representing thousands of taxi drivers said last week it will idle cabs in September if the city goes ahead with a plan to require installation of GPS tracking systems. Starting October 1, as the city’s 13,000 taxis come up for inspections they must have the GPS equipment along with [...]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) — Hurricane Katrina victims whose homes and businesses were destroyed when floodwaters breached levees in the 2005 storm cannot recover money from their insurance companies for the damages, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The case could affect thousands of rebuilding residents and business owners in Louisiana. Robert Hartwig, chief economist [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — Seven years ago, police in North Carolina covered shooting victim Marcelo Cruz with a tarp, believing he was dead. He wasn’t. Cruz survived the street fight shooting, but was left paralyzed from the waist down. The Mexican native rebuilt his life, and at 26, was living in Minneapolis, driving a specially [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — The search for bodies in the Mississippi River was painstakingly slow as divers navigated debris and coped with low visibility after Wednesday’s deadly bridge collapse, officials said. About 15 divers from local counties did a bank-to-bank search Thursday afternoon and found 11 vehicles, including an 18-wheeler, said Lynn Schwartz, Communication Specialist [...]
