In 2006, a U.K. investigation revealed that employees at Rupert Murdoch’s ‘News of the World’ tabloid had successfully hacked into the cell phones of three aides to the royal family. A few months later, Scotland Yard discovered that reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had also gained access to the cell phones and voicemails of several celebrities, government officials and professional athletes — all in the hopes of snagging a juicy headline for their gossip section. Only now, however, are all the gory details of the operation finally coming to the surface
Filed under: Windows Mobile , Microsoft It was pretty clear from the get-go that Windows Phone 7 would integrate tightly with Microsoft’s Live services, and today we’ve got another glimpse at one way that integration will work. WMPoweruser has shared an image captured from what appears to be a Samsung employee’s Windows Live account.
Microsoft unveils shape-shifting Arc Touch Mouse : Microsoft has officially announced the $70 the Arc Touch Mouse. The device is available for presale now, starts shipping in December, and officially goes on sale in January. New malware detects browser, shows fake malware warning page : There’s a clever new piece of malware that goes to extreme lengths to pass itself off as genuine software
For the second week in a row, Digg topped our most-read-stories list. Also this week we launched a brand new channel – ReadWriteHack – and continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: We learned how to use the Internet of Things to hack Nike+ to do automatic Foursquare check-ins; augmented reality helped tennis fans “see through walls”; and Google Docs got real-time collaborative highlighting.
If you’re scratching your head over the new vertical orientation of iTunes 10’s close/minimize/maximize ‘traffic light’ buttons — which diverts from years of Apple design history — there’s a quick fix on the Mac (sorry, Windows users). Boot up the Terminal app (in your Applications folder), and paste in the following single line: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1 and press Return. Restart iTunes and you’ll see glorious horizontal buttons again.
LG’s 31-inch 3D OLED TV might help establishing the OLED TVs in the mainstream. It’s for the first time that an OLED has gotten so much slim that now it could strongly contend against the already ultra-slim LCD TVs. The 2.9 cm thick TV with 31-inch 3D OLED display has been billed as the world’s slimmest OLED TV yet. Featuring 3D viewing glasses, full HD resolution (1920 x 1080) and “infinite contrast ratio” it’s all set to give you the ultimate, never-seen-before viewing experience
Baidu is the most-visited website in China and has captured 70% of search revenue in that country. Alexa’s Top 500 Global Sites list puts it at number 6. But with virtually no penetration outside Asia, can it really be considered a global company at all, or just an awfully big one? Until it reaches beyond its shores in an appreciable and sustained fashion, it probably won’t be considered a global player of consequence
Filed under: Blogging , Web services If you’ve been using the Vox blogging service, you’ve got until September 30 to figure out what to do with your blog. Vox is closing its doors so that Six Apart can focus on its other blogging platforms, Moveable Type and TypePad. They’re at least trying to soften the landing for Vox users, though: you can easily move your Vox blog to TypePad, and export your Vox photos to Flickr
The Associated Press didn’t need any help from a bunch of unshowered bloggers pecking away at their keyboards from the basement offices in which they play “reporter,” thank you very much. Now it knows better. At the AP’s 2009 annual meeting, Chairman Dean Singleton reminded his audience ( read the speech ) that the AP and its members “are the source of most of the news content being created in the world today.” The collective remains “the gold standard of newsgathering and reporting throughout the world.” And with 62 journalists killed, beaten, or detained in 2008, journalism “is not a profession for the fainthearted, or those who work in their pajamas.” Read the comments on this post
![From the Tips Box: Smartphone Signal, iTunes Mini-Player, and Gaming Mousepads [From The Tips Box]](http://techbump.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/d968eab7399e4f43.jpg-150x112.jpg)
Readers offer their best tips for phones that keep searching for signal, a new iTunes mini-player, and cheap gaming mousepad solutions. More??
Even as the IEEE P1901 working group was set to meet this week to recommend its draft standard for broadband over powerline networks for official status, Netgear announced its line of Powerline AV 500 adapters that incorporate the HomePlug-compatible flavor of the standard. The new devices theoretically promise up to gigabit Ethernet speeds over home electrical wiring, and are the first to incorporate the newest standard. The Powerline AV 500 comes in either standard or power pass-through versions, and are available in two-adapter “kits” to set up a source and destination point for your network. While hardcore geeks won’t settle for anything less than running Cat 6 cable all throughout the house, powerline adapters have the benefit of being able to utilize existing electrical wiring to move data from point to point, and could be convenient for homes or apartments where running new cable would be impractical, prohibitively expensive, or just not allowed by your landlord
Filed under: Features , Mozilla , Browsers Hi there, Firefox fans. The esteemed Mr. Anthony is out this weekend, so I’m your host for today’s Firefox Friday.
![How Many Vacation Days Do You Get Every Year? [Reader Poll]](http://techbump.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/1cd610b083n-days.jpg-150x112.jpg)
Netflix lets its staff take as many vacation days as they want, and they can take them whenever they want, and according to news site The Telegraph, it works . Now we’re wondering: How much vacation time do you get every year? More??
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