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Credit card fraud: US indicts eight hackers, including a Moldovan
November 11, 2009A grand jury from Atlanta, Georgia (the United States) has indicted eight individuals for stealing more than nine million dollars after hacking into a network used by RBS WorldPay, a credit card processing company. One of the hackers is from Moldova...
Be aware: Your handset can spy on you
October 20, 2009A technique called cell site analysis can be used to track someone to within 10 to 15 metres, using cellphone masts to triangulate their position. GPS can give more detailed information, such as your altitude or the speed you are traveling at. If someone...
NASA Crafts Smash into Moon in Search for Water
October 09, 2009By Brian Wagner The U.S. space agency has smashed a pair of heavy space craft into the moon's surface in the hopes of finding evidence of frozen water or other potential resources. It may take weeks of analyzing data before NASA scientists announce...
Astronauts Complete 7-Hour Spacewalk
September 06, 2009The U.S. space agency NASA says two astronauts have completed a 7-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station. American Danny Olivas and Christer Fuglesang of Sweden unreeled 18 meters of cable for a new room scheduled to be installed on...
- August 25, 2009
Nokia has just whipped the dust sheet off the Nokia Booklet 3G. A brand new breed of portable device for Nokia, this mini laptop PC sees the company step foot on freshly cut turf, and we’re a little dumb-struck with excitement at the prospect of...
Forum: Development of IT allows raising GDP, attracting investors
August 25, 2009The development of information technologies will allow Moldova to augment the GDP, to improve the competitiveness of products and to attract new investors, Minister of Information Development Pavel Buceatschii said at the opening of the ITU-D Regional...
FWIW: Abbreviations increasingly used in text messaging, tweets..
August 18, 2009Messengers, chats, text messages, tweets and other online social networks have led to an increase use of abbreviations. Because the use of electronic media requires users to be brief, sentences are now being transmitted with five letters or less. Users...
Mars Orbiter Shows Angled View of Martian Crater
August 12, 2009The high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned a dramatic oblique view of the Martian crater that a rover explored for two years. The new view of Victoria Crater shows layers on steep crater walls, difficult to see from...
NASA Can't Track Deadly Asteroids
August 12, 2009A new U.S. government report says the U.S. space agency does not have enough money to find asteroids that could destroy life on Earth. The National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday that Congress has yet to give NASA the money it needs to build telescopes...
GM Launches Online Car Market at eBay (video)
August 12, 2009By Mil Arcega Online auction giant eBay has teamed up with General Motors to try to help boost business and perhaps, change the way consumers shop for new cars. The majority of California's GM dealers are taking part in the trial program which kicked...