Mysterious ‘Cyber ShockWave’ event Former top US intelligence officials will become cyberwarriors on Tuesday in a simulation of how the US government would respond to a massive cyberattack on the United States. "The scenario itself is secret," said Eileen McMenamin, vice president of communications for the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), which is .................. More @ 2 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Feb 14, 2010 - 11:37 AM

Attack code used to hack Google now public  IDG News Service - The dangerous Internet Explorer attack code used in last month's attack on Google's corporate networks is now public. The code was submitted for analysis Thursday on the Wepawet malware analysis Web site, making it publicly available. By Friday, it had been included in at least one publicly available… 1 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jan 16, 2010 - 09:13 AM

Cisco powers through recession, bets big on video  Flanked by a coterie of gadgets in a private suite at the USA's biggest consumer electronics show, Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers might seem like the proverbial fish out of water. Yet the leader of the computer-networking giant had delivered a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show last week and was outlining its consumer plans.… 0 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jan 16, 2010 - 08:31 AM

Nexus One vs. iPhone The Decision To switch or not to switch, that is the question. Google’s announcement of its Nexus One smartphone happened over a week ago and I’m still receiving lots of tweets and e-mail… 0 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jan 16, 2010 - 08:19 AM

Oasis of Gaming on the Seas  With the largest cruise ship in the world on its maiden voyage - Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas - a lot has been written about its sheer size (five times the tonnage of the Titanic and larger than any aircraft carrier) and its amenities (four swimming pools, two surfing simulators, two rock climbing walls, a basketball… 0 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jan 16, 2010 - 08:11 AM

Nintendo joins the movie-streaming party The Nintendo Wii becomes the latest gaming console to begin streaming films from Netflix. Nintendo announced Wednesday that starting this spring, users will be able to stream movies from Netflix and watch them on… 2 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jan 16, 2010 - 07:57 AM

Intel see’s PC industry recovery Intel's fourth-quarter earnings breezed past Wall Street's expectations, and its rosy profit outlook for 2010 was another sign that a lasting recovery for the recession-battered personal computer market is under way. As the first major technology company to report its results for the last quarter, Intel is seen as a barometer… 2 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jan 16, 2010 - 07:37 AM

One More Reason to Protect Your Privacy

  A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family's wireless carrier, AT&T — revealed a little known security… 0 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jan 16, 2010 - 07:26 AM

Shuttle Featured on ABC News as “Reinventing the Laptop”

ABC News 10 reviews Shuttle’s new standardized form factor for laptops, noting that it will “allow for close-to-universal part interchangeability” and redefine the way laptops are built Shuttle, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance small form factor (SFF)

PC solutions and creator… 2 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jan 15, 2010 - 07:16 PM

Video game sales up 4 percent in December in US

According to a news story posted on the Yahoo News site the sale of Video games in the US jusp 4% in the month of December.

Sales of video game equipment and software in the United States rose 4 percent in December to a record $5.5 billion, research group NPD said on Thursday, as the industry closed out a difficult… 0 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jan 14, 2010 - 04:56 PM

Shuttle Awarded “Best of CES 2010” for Best New Industry Initiative at CES 2010

Shuttle’s “SPA” notebook ecosystem strategy highlighted by Computer Shopper  Shuttle, an industry leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance small form factor (SFF) PC solutions and creator of the XPC, received a “Best of CES 2010” award and was named by Computer Shopper as one of the… 0 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jan 14, 2010 - 04:08 PM

Video Game Stocks: Ready to Score  Investors once thought that the video game industry would be recession-proof, as pinched consumers cut back on expensive entertainment and honed their couch potato skills in front of the TV. It hasn't worked out that way, at least so far in 2009, with sales of game consoles and software titles suffering year-over-year declines for the past… 0 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jul 23, 2009 - 03:47 PM

A Future Shock for Electric Cars?  This summer marks a milestone in green motoring. Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Motor will soon start selling its $48,000 electric minicar, the i-MiEV, beating out Subaru (FUJHY), Nissan Motor (NSANY), and China's BYD Auto, all of which have designs on the electric-car market. Yet even as carmakers race to showcase these green vehicles, some experts… 0 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jul 23, 2009 - 03:45 PM

Worker commits suicide over lost iPhone prototype  An employee at a factory that makes iPhones in China killed himself after a prototype went missing, and Apple Inc. responded Wednesday by saying its suppliers are required to treat workers with dignity and respect. The dead worker, Sun Danyong, 25, worked in product communications at Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiwanese firm that makes many Apple… 0 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jul 23, 2009 - 03:38 PM

Scientists develop designer, glow-in-the-dark rats   Researchers report Thursday the first genetically-engineered lab rats. In the journal Science, a team led by Aron Geurts of the Medical College of Wisconsin reports how they used "zinc-finger nucleases"… 0 Comments. Posted by daboggeyman on Jul 23, 2009 - 03:13 PM