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George ‘GeoHot’ Hotz, known for hacking the iPhone and PlayStation 3, is started at the social networking site Facebook. That has the youthful hacker recently announced on his personal Facebook page. The website Electronista was curious about the activities of GeoHot. On his personal page would be to read that George Hotz is now in…

The annual Defcon-hackersbijeenkomst will receive this year a special program for children. Talented young people between eight and sixteen years old should be taught to their arts not to abuse such as ‘black hat’hackers do. The Defcon Kids program, that on 6 and 7 August in Las Vegas, nevada, is part of the Defcon 19…

Google could have plans to a gamedivisie. This new department would games need to deliver for a refreshed Google TV platform. Reason for the rumors is a job at Google for a product manager. The product manager will work with the Games at Google division in Googles headquarters in Mountain View, as is apparent from…

The problems with the ICT Department of the municipality of Amsterdam appear to be much larger than previously thought. B&W is afraid of setbacks of more than 40 million euros, partly due to incompetent staff and poor supervision on the service. Writes that alderman Eric Wiebes of the Amsterdam municipal council about the current situation…

Google has announced that Google Health and Google Powermeter services are going to close. According to the search giant would be both the patient record, if the service that provides information about energy consumption, not enough to grow. The service, Google Health in may 2008 opened. Through the site can Americans medical information in individual…

The hackersgroepering LulzSec has in a statement announced that the themselves will lift. A precise reason, calls the group not. In a recent “dump” of the group are documents of, among others, AOL, and AT&T published. LulzSec is a small two months have been active with the cracking of websites and perform ddos attacks. In…

Facebook would be around this time its 750 millionth member welcome. That reports TechCrunch on the basis of a source in the company. The social network is by far the largest network in the world. The growth seems not to stop. The three quarters of a billion members, not by Facebook confirmed, but according to…

Sony has employees who are responsible for security of the network is fired just before the PlayStation Network was hacked. At the hack in april have made the crackers data of a total of 77 million users of loot. The security on PSN was not done according to standards, but went on an ad-hoc basis…

Problems with Android phones appear to be most often related to the hardware. This is evident from an analysis of repair company WDS. At BlackBerry’s have the problems reported least often to do with the hardware of the device. In 14 percent of the cases where a problem with an Android phone it was reported…

Minister Verhagen of Economic Affairs is investigating whether the break-up of the cable connections is legally tenable. The Second Room took a change in the law that the monopoly of UPC and Ziggo breaks, but Verhagen don’t know if that is allowed. The decision to have the monopoly of UPC and Ziggo on the cable…

Android and iOS seem to be heading in a duopoly on mobile browsing traffic”. This is evident from measurements of Tweakers.net and Mobile Metrics, which measure at 20 Dutch sites. The joint share is more than 90 percent and still growing. The visit from mobile devices has doubled since a half year, concludes Mobile Metrics.…