Open Systems Journal

AMD shared some more details with us about Llano. The 32nm processor will feature power gating and a host of other power optimizations that lead us to believe we’ll see CPU & graphics turbo in AMD’s first APU….
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AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company’s slump.

,Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook
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Electronic health records, streamlined processes should result.

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Electronic health records, streamlined processes should result.

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Shai Agassi brokers a deal to electrify one-third of the country’s fleet within 5 years.

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The latest research from Websense Security Labs paints a dreary but familiar picture of the state of online security threats. Echoing the bad news of other such recent reports, it seems the vast majority of the Web consists of malware and spam. Worse yet, even legitimate, well-known sites are being used to pump malware, SEO poisoning, or phishing attacks.

Websense uses a global network of systems to scan and analyze over 40 billion websites every hour, tracking malware and other unwanted content. The results for the latter half of 2009 show a 225 percent increase in malicious websites. Worse, 71 percent of websites found to contain some malicious code were in fact legitimate websites that had been compromised in some way.

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Verizon spokesman says carrier blocked sites associated with online forum to thwart network attacks. It’s not clear which sites were affected and exactly what the trouble was.

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AP - Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.

,Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked
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February 8 marks the centennial of Boy Scouts in America. At a time when shows like ‘Man Vs Wild’ and ‘Survivorman’ are experiencing immense popularity, wouldn’t it make sense that they’d see a surge in enrollment? But Boy Scouts, in many ways, are a struggling organization with membership plummeting annually.

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Siri

Last year, we selected the “intelligent software assistant” Siri as one of our top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2009.

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