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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[After Sega gets hacked, LulzSec offers to seek revenge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The hacking free-for-all continued this week as Sega apparently became the latest victim of a network breach and none other than hacking group LulzSec offered to help the game company by taking down the responsible parties. The blogPlayStation LifeStyle posted yesterday what it said was a letter sent by Sega to users of its Sega Pass service, informing them that &quot;unauthorized entry was gained&quot; to the Sega Pass database and that the company is investigating.&quot;We have identified that a subset of Sega Pass members' e-mails addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords were obtained,&quot; the letter reads. &quot;To stress, none of the passwords obtained were stored in plain text. Please note that no personal payment information was stored by Sega, as we use external payment providers, meaning your payment details were not at risk from this intrusion.&quot;The hack would be the latest in a recent explosion of such activity, which has skewered the likes of entertainment giant Sony, defense contractor Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Senate, and the FBI, among others.The letter doesn't say who might be behind the intrusion' it simply continues with news on how Sega is responding to the hack, along with a couple of cautions:If you use the same login information for other websites and/or services as you do for SEGA Pass, you should change that information immediately.We have also reset your password and all access to SEGA Pass has been temporarily suspended.Additionally we recommend you please take extra caution if you should receive suspicious e-mails that ask for personal or sensitive information.As of this writing the Sega Pass service is in fact offline, but a notice says only that the service &quot;is going through some improvements so is currently unavailable for new members to join or existing members to modify their details including resetting passwords.&quot; It also says Sega hopes to have Sega Pass &quot;back up and running very soon.&quot;Also yesterday, LulzSec, which has hacked Sony, Nintendo, and FBI affiliate Infragard Atlanta, among others, sent out a public tweet addressed to Sega: &quot;@Sega - contact us,&quot; the tweet reads. &quot;We want to help you destroy the hackers that attacked you. We love the Dreamcast, these people are going down.&quot;Underscoring the current out-of-control atmosphere surrounding cybersecurity, LulzSec followed that tweet not long after with a note updating the phone numbers of the request-a-hack hotlines the group had set up earlier in the week.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Steve Jobs authorized biography due next year]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sallyst</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=steve-jobs-authorized-biography-due-next-year</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at the iPad 2 unveiling last month in San Francisco.(Credit:James Martin)Steve Jobs has reportedly been participating on a biography about his life to be published next year.Apple's chief executive has been working with Simon &amp; Schuster biographer Walter Isaacson on &quot;iSteve: The Book of Jobs,&quot; which is expected to be published in early 2012, according to an Associated Press report. Isaacson has been working on the book since 2009 and has interviewed Jobs, family members, and colleagues for the book, according to the report.A Simon &amp; Schuster spokesperson said no further details were available, and Apple representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (Simon &amp; Schuster is a unit of CBS Corp., whose CBS Interactive unit is the publisher of CNET.)Although there have been other biographies printed about Apple's iconic co-founder, this is being billed as the first published with his participation. An unauthorized biography titled &quot;iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business&quot; by Jeffrey Young was published in 2005 by John Wiley &amp; Sons. The publisher promised &quot;insider scoops and no-holds-barred style&quot; but was criticized by Jobs and led to the removal of all Wiley books from Apple stores.Perhaps fueling interest is a string of health problems that have dogged Jobs in recent years and forced him to take periodic leaves of absence from the company. Jobs announced in January that he was taking an indefinite medical leave from Apple--his third in recent years--and handing over day-to-day responsibility to Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook.In January 2009, Jobs said that he was suffering from a hormone imbalance that was impeding his body's ability to absorb certain proteins. In April of that year, Jobs underwent liver transplant surgery and returned to work by early July. In August 2004, Jobs underwent successful surgery to treat a rare form of pancreatic cancer, which sidelined him until September of that year. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Moveable feast: iPad 2 or MacBook Air]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=moveable-feast-ipad-2-or-macbook-air</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 07:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sallyst</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Here's a dilemma whose answer is potentially rife with geeky politics. Should I buy a 2010 MacBook Air or aniPad 2 Both offer a veritable mobile feast of form and function. To set the stage, you want to make the move to the 11.6-inch, 2.3-pound MacBook Air (MBA), but you have a hankering for the spanking-new 1.3-pound iPad 2, as well. Because money doesn't grow on trees, you have to make a choice. Which ultraportable device will it be I would submit that it's not an easy choice. Of course, the iPad 2 is cheaper, but it's hamstrung by its very essence: a glorified smartphone. On the other hand, its finely tuned multitouch interface makes it great for media consumption, and it's instantly usable anywhere because of the built-in 3G and feathery weight. Here are a few big-picture items to consider. For the record, I have both a MacBook Air and iPad and use both every day. 3G: In this respect, the MBA is not the iPad's equal. The iPad 2 is offered with both Verizon and AT&amp;T 3G. But wait. Apple may be addressing this. A recent patent filing by Apple shows a MacBook with an interesting 3G antenna, akin to the MagSafe connection on MacBooks (see graphic below). MacBook Air(Credit:Apple)iPad 2(Credit:Apple)Media consumption: The iPad 2 is, in many user scenarios, superior to the MBA for browsing and media consumption because of the multitouch interface. Moreover, all of that has gotten even better with the iPad 2 owing to, among other things, the dual-core processor and improved graphics silicon. Productivity: The iPad is not designed to be a productivity tool and does not come with a full-blownMac OS X or full-blown OS X applications. I'll offer a few of salient examples. On the 11.6-inch MacBook Air with the full-blown OS X you can run handy little programs like Parallels, which lets you run Microsoft Windows. And, of course, you have the ability to run programs likeMicrosoft Office and Adobe Photoshop. (Yes, the larger MacBook Pros are more suitable for Photoshop). On the iPad, you have to settle for less-than-satisfying app store productivity substitutes.  A 3G/4G MacBook may be in the works. A patent granted to Apple appears to be a MagSafe-like antenna. (Credit:Patently Apple) Price: The final arbiter is often price (mixed with the allure the iPad 2 now has: it seems to be sold out everywhere and everyone seems to want one).  The least expensive MBA is $999, while the most expensive iPad 2 is only $829. And most consumers, of course, opt for the even cheaper 16GB iPad 3G for $629 or the Wi-Fi only version for $499.  On price alone, it's no contest for many people.  Verdict: The quick-and-dirty verdict... on my bang-for-the-buck index the MacBook Air wins. In short, it's the best of both worlds--about as close as a featherweight clamshell laptop can get to an iPad.  You get both productivity software and great browsing and media consumption all in one device. And, lest we forget, it's a lot faster than the iPad. Intel processors crush the iPad's silicon in any performance benchmark. And this will be even more compelling when Intel's newest Sandy Bridge processors are added to the Air.  Both are great devices, but it comes down to one being more versatile than the other without being a lot more expensive.  (Note: I may be irking some readers by limiting the selection to two Apple products, but that's the scope of this post.)  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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