No mic for Jesus Three months after they were said to be on the horizon, Apple today announced availability of the dual-driver in-ear headphones with remote and mic ($79) and single-driver earphones with remote and mic ($29).… Full published article at: Read More »

800,000 virtual wallets A former IT executive for a Canadian marketing firm has been accused of taking a computer backup tape containing personal information of 3.2 million customers that could net as much as $10m on the black market, according to court records.… Full published article at: Read More »

Bug rumors greatly exaggerated Intel was tilting at the internet rumor mill this morning as word circulated that its newly-launched Core i7 chips suffer from a technical glitch similar to the one that previously dogged AMD's Phenom and Opteron cores.… Full published article at: Read More »

Empire State fab a go As state and local governments across the U.S. starve for revenue during the ongoing financial meltdown, AMD and its Abu Dhabi-based partner, Advanced Technology Investment Co., were yesterday unanimously voted $1.2bn in tax and cash incentives from New York's Empire State Development Corp., according to a report published in Albany's The Business Review.… Full published article at: Read More »

A cure for silent corruption Database maker Oracle and host bus adapter maker Emulex today announced that they have contributed code to eliminate silent data corruption to the open source Linux operating system. The two also said this code has been accepted in the 2.6.27 kernel, which is the latest stable release.… Full published article at: Read More »

Pownce no more Blogging software maven Six Apart has acquired and killed a minor outbreak of Web 2.0rhea.… Full published article at: Read More »

Angelica Mari, Computing, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 17:19:00 Credit Suisse and HSBC lay off hundreds Banking giants Credit Suisse and HSBC have announced job cuts affecting IT staff in the UK in the latest round of restructuring across the sector. Credit Suisse is to axe around 10 per cent of its UK-based staff in areas such as investment banking and shared services, which includes operations, legal services and technology. The Swiss bank said that the move reflected "market conditions and projected staffing levels required to meet client needs". Meanwhile, job cuts at HSBC are underway...Read More »

Plastic power A new hi-tech credit card from CryptoCard bundles two-factor authentication onto the plastic in a bid to clamp down on phishing and other forms of banking fraud.… Full published article at: Read More »

Feel the burn Adobe MAX Europe Adobe Systems has provided more details on a research project that converts and compiles C and C++ to ActionScript and brings raw speed to the Flash virtual machine.… Full published article at: Read More »

Cue the outrage An advertising network used by the Daily Mail website is being used to serve up malware.… Full published article at: Read More »