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Yahoo Mail isn’t the only Web-based mail service that could be duped into giving up someone else’s account password, the tactic that some have argued was used to break into Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail earlier this week.
Google Inc.’s Gmail, Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Inc.’s Mail all rely on automated password-reset mechanisms that can be abused by anyone who knows the username associated with an account and an answer to a single security question, according to quick tests run by Computerworld.
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Mobile operators reached out to application developers on Thursday at Mobilize, a conference that brought together the main parties pushing to make the mobile Internet a success.
Carriers are loosening their control over devices and applications in the hope of getting a stake in a gold mine of innovative products uncovered through high-speed mobile data networks. While the iPhone remains the standard, according to most speakers at the one-day San Francisco conference, rivals of Apple and AT&T have their own plans to pull in valued subscribers.
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Amazon.com Inc. plans to expand its roster of hosted computing services for developers with a content delivery network.
The goal of the still-unnamed service is to give application developers a vehicle for distributing public Web content with low latency and high data transfer rates, Amazon announced Thursday on its Amazon Web Services blog.
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Google Inc. continued to bolster its hold on the U.S. search market in August, when it captured 63% of 11 billion searches, according to data released yesterday.
The share of searches on Google sites increased from 61% in July, according to ComScore Inc., which measures and analyzes online activity. In August, Google was followed by Yahoo Inc. (which captured a 19% share of searches), Microsoft Corp. (8%), AOL (4.3%) and the Ask Network (4%).
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In many ways, Apple Inc. is already a giant. Its $118 billion market cap, which briefly surpassed Google Inc.’s this year, is larger than that of Hewlett-Packard Co. Its sales, which are nearly $31 billion a year, have grown almost 40% annually the past five years. And, then there’s its mindshare with the general public.
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The webmaster of a proxy service called Ctunnel.com, which may have been used by a hacker to illegally access the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is working with law enforcement authorities to track down the person behind the break-in.
Gabriel Ramuglia, the Athens, Ga.-based webmaster of Ctunnel, said today that URLs in screenshots of Palin’s e-mail — photos were posted online yesterday on 4chan.org and other sites — suggested that whoever accessed her Yahoo Mail account had used his proxy service.
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In the world of enterprise software, the product that comes closest to exhibiting the same dominance as Windows is the Oracle database.
Oracle Corp. had a 49% share of the global database market last year, with $8.3 billion in revenue, according to Gartner Inc.
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Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin Thursday became the first of the company’s top three executives to launch a blog, and he immediately used the platform to reveal that he has a genetic mutation that predisposes him to developing Parkinson’s disease.
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Apple Inc. today recalled all power adapters it packaged with iPhone 3G phones sold since mid-July in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico and several Central and South American countries.
The number of affected users will be in the millions. Recent analyst estimates have pegged iPhone 3G sales as high as 6 million since its July debut, with the U.S. market remaining Apple’s largest. Apple has not stated its quarterly iPhone 3G sales, but CEO Steve Jobs said the company had sold more than 1 million in its first weekend of availability.
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Samsung’s $5.85 billion offer for flash memory chip developer SanDisk will probably be rejected by government regulators fearful such a tie-up would harm competition, analysts said Tuesday.
With such an acquisition, Samsung would likely gain control of the majority of the global supply of NAND flash memory chips and could squelch potent rivals, said Jim Handy, memory chip analyst at researcher Objective Analysis.
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