

| Non-planar devices promise downloadable hardware, interactive soda cans (Engadget) Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Scientists have been up to some wacky (and amazing) stuff in the world of flexible computers and organic user interfaces. Putting our standard concept of computers aside, researches at the Human Media Laboratory at Queen's University in Canada are developing what are called "non-planar" devices: computers that can change shape while using three-dimensional ... |
| Police reports -- July 5, 2008 (Reporter-Times) Suspicious activity reported on Grand Valley Blvd. and Laveianan Court. Police assisted with problems reported at Mooresville and on North Ind. 37. Police assisted citizens on South Graham Street and Ind. 37. |
| Apple accidentally ships MobileMe to .Mac customers (Engadget) Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Apparently someone at Apple HQ got a little trigger happy on shipments of MobileMe . According to reports, the company mistakenly mailed boxes of the all-syncing, ever-loving software to at least a couple of current .Mac users ahead of schedule. When Apple was alerted to the gaffe, the user was told that a courier would be by to pick it up the next day. One ... |
| Apple iPhone Four Months Behind OS X in Patches (Washington Post) Apple's iPhone runs a miniature version of OS X, the operating system that powers Mac computers. So it's fitting that Apple designed the iPhone to check for security updates whenever users fire up iTunes with their iPhone attached. But it might surprise iPhone users to learn that the latest security update available for the iPhone dates back to February, and that a number of serious security ... |
| Lithuania Weathers Cyber Attack, Braces for Round 2 (Washington Post) Hundreds of Lithuanian government and corporate Web sites were hacked and plastered with Soviet-era symbols and other digital graffiti this week in what appears to be a coordinated cyber attack launched by Russian hacker groups. A New York Times story reports that Lithuanian officials did not directly accuse Russian hackers of initiating the attacks, but said they had come from foreign ... |
