Monster.com took 5 days to disclose data theft

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 stolen […]

Intel rolls out new chips for business market

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 a […]

Yahoo Mail lets e-mailers text-message to phones

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 more […]

Sprint, Samsung bet on WiMax high-speed technology

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, Philadelphia, […]

NASA orders fix on Discovery’s external tank brackets

(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 — should […]

Teen untethers iPhone from AT&T

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 […]