Study: Blacks and Women Talk And Text More
NEW YORK (AP) – Blacks talk twice as much as whites on their cell phones, and women talk and text more than men, according to an analysis of wireless bills by the Nielsen Co. The media-tracking firm went through the phone bills of 60,000 people for one year to figure out that blacks talk an … Read more
Music Royalty Talks Consider Cellphone Mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) – A long-running dispute between radio broadcasters and the recording industry over music royalties has taken an unexpected turn with a proposed settlement that threatens to drag the mobile phone industry into the ring. The compromise under discussion by radio broadcasters, recording labels and recording artists could include a federal mandate that all … Read more
What to do About WikiLeaks? Not Much Can be Done.
WASHINGTON (AP) – An online whistle-blower’s threat to release more classified Pentagon and State Department documents is raising difficult questions of what the government can or would do, legally, technically or even militarily to stop it. Constrained by the global reach of the Internet, sophisticated encryption software and the domestic legal system, the answer seems … Read more
Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age
At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site’s frequently asked questions page about homelessness — and did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page did not include author information. At DePaul University, the tip-off to one student’s copying was the purple shade of … Read more
Random House Sees E-Book Sales Jumping: CEO
VIENNA (Reuters) – Bertelsmann’s Random House, the world’s biggest book publisher, expects electronic books to contribute more than 10 percent of its U.S. revenue next year, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday. Chief Executive Markus Dohle told German magazine Der Spiegel that e-book revenue had already jumped to 8 percent in the United … Read more
Tool for Hacking Androids Released
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Two security experts said on Friday they released a tool for attacking smartphones that use Google Inc’s Android operating system to persuade manufacturers to fix a bug that lets hackers read a victim’s email and text messages. “It wasn’t difficult to build,” said Nicholas Percoco, head of Spider Labs, who along … Read more
Hacking GSM
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A computer security researcher has built a device for just $1,500 that can intercept some kinds of cell phone calls and record everything that’s said. The attack Chris Paget showed Saturday illustrates weaknesses in GSM, one of the world’s most widely used cellular communications technologies. His attack was benign; he showed … Read more
