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Credit card fraud: US indicts eight hackers, including a Moldovan

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:59:35 +0200

A grand jury from Atlanta, Georgia (the United States) has indicted eight individuals for stealing more than nine million dollars after hacking into a network used by RBS WorldPay, a credit card processing company. One of the hackers is from Moldova. His name is Oleg Covelin, also known as Oleg Kovelin, and “DoZ”, 28. [see photo and other information from the District Attorney of NY County's "wanted" poster] The U.S. Justice Department identified the other suspects as...

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Be aware: Your handset can spy on you

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:45:08 +0300

A technique called cell site analysis can be used to track someone to within 10 to 15 metres, using cellphone masts to triangulate their position. GPS can give more detailed information, such as your altitude or the speed you are traveling at. If someone can get direct access to your handset, they can install software that lets them listen to conversations and monitor text messages without your knowledge. Without direct access, they can still monitor your phone usage remotely, but not...

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NASA Crafts Smash into Moon in Search for Water

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:55:20 +0300

By Brian Wagner The U.S. space agency has smashed a pair of heavy space craft into the moon's surface in the hopes of finding evidence of frozen water or other potential resources. It may take weeks of analyzing data before NASA scientists announce their findings. Scores of telescopes and other monitoring equipment turned toward the moon early Friday to watch two NASA craft crash into the south pole of the Moon. Flight director Paul Tompkins led the mission team as the first payload hit...

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Astronauts Complete 7-Hour Spacewalk

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:20:13 +0300

The U.S. space agency NASA says two astronauts have completed a 7-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station. American Danny Olivas and Christer Fuglesang of Sweden unreeled 18 meters of cable for a new room scheduled to be installed on the station early next year. The pair did run into trouble late in the spacewalk, failing to connect one end of the cable. Ground controllers told the astronauts to wrap the cable in insulation and pack it away for a future mission. The...

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Nokia Booklet 3G first video

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:10:45 +0300

Nokia has just whipped the dust sheet off the Nokia Booklet 3G. A brand new breed of portable device for Nokia, this mini laptop PC sees the company step foot on freshly cut turf, and we’re a little dumb-struck with excitement at the prospect of the experience that this bite-size Booklet promises to deliver when it arrives. Not to mention what it means bigger picture, and how this product could affect the entire mobile landscape for the better (we’ll save that for another story),...

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Forum: Development of IT allows raising GDP, attracting investors

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:19:28 +0300

The development of information technologies will allow Moldova to augment the GDP, to improve the competitiveness of products and to attract new investors, Minister of Information Development Pavel Buceatschii said at the opening of the ITU-D Regional Development Forum for the EUR and CIS Region NGN and Broadband, Opportunities and Challenges. He said that the rise of the public informing level, which can bring big profits and will lower the expenses of the sector, is a vitally important...

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FWIW: Abbreviations increasingly used in text messaging, tweets..

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:12:50 +0300

Messengers, chats, text messages, tweets and other online social networks have led to an increase use of abbreviations. Because the use of electronic media requires users to be brief, sentences are now being transmitted with five letters or less. Users use acronyms to speed up their communication. There are more than 1,000 text messaging abbreviations (see the list here: http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/textmessageabbreviations.asp). Different chat abbreviations are used by different...

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Mars Orbiter Shows Angled View of Martian Crater

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:02:17 +0300

The high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned a dramatic oblique view of the Martian crater that a rover explored for two years. The new view of Victoria Crater shows layers on steep crater walls, difficult to see from straight overhead, plus wheel tracks left by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity between September 2006 and August 2008. The orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera shot it at an angle comparable to looking at landscape...

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NASA Can't Track Deadly Asteroids

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:56:34 +0300

A new U.S. government report says the U.S. space agency does not have enough money to find asteroids that could destroy life on Earth. The National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday that Congress has yet to give NASA the money it needs to build telescopes to track the potentially deadly space objects. Congress passed a law in 2005 ordering NASA to find 90 percent of asteroids bigger than 140 kilometers by 2020. The academy report says NASA cannot meet this goal under its existing...

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GM Launches Online Car Market at eBay (video)

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:29:35 +0300

By Mil Arcega Online auction giant eBay has teamed up with General Motors to try to help boost business and perhaps, change the way consumers shop for new cars. The majority of California's GM dealers are taking part in the trial program which kicked off Tuesday. GM officials say the experimental program is aimed at making it easier for consumers to buy a new car.

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Moldova in Top Ten Countries by Download Speed

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:40:35 +0300

By Artur Onu According to speedtest.net, a broadband speed analysis tool that tests the speed of an internet connection, Moldova ranks in the 10th place worldwide in terms of download speed with an average of 9.23Mbps and in the 12th place in terms of upload speed with an average of 3.49Mbps. Overall, Eastern European and Asian countries score the best. Moldtelecom, by far the country's largest provider of telephone and internet service with considerable service upgrades in the last few...

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Astronauts Survey Shuttle for Damage After Launch

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:48:02 +0300

Astronauts aboard Endeavour began inspecting the shuttle's heat shield for possible damage after Wednesday's launch. Officials spotted some debris falling off during liftoff. Astronauts began their first full day in space by inspecting the heat shield to ensure the shuttle is safe to return to Earth in two weeks. The seven-member crew controlled a robotic arm equipped with cameras and lasers to scan the surface of the heat shield. In Houston, NASA commentator Kylie Clem said officials in...

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Nokia Faces Wrath Of Iran's Protesters

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:23:29 +0300

By Golnaz Esfandiari Ehsan doesn't personally own a Nokia, and over the past few weeks the 26-year-old Tehran resident has actively tried to ensure that friends and family -- or anyone else who will listen -- don't buy the mobile-phone giant's products either. Ehsan says that he would be proud if his efforts have harmed Nokia, which he accuses of aiding the Iranian government in its "crackdown against freedom" following the country's controversial presidential election on June...

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Shuttle Carrying Japanese Lab to Space Station

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:19:27 +0300

By Brian Wagner Space shuttle Endeavour has launched on a mission to finish construction of a new science lab at the International Space Station. The seven astronauts aboard Endeavour began their journey Wednesday evening to deliver the third and final segment of the Japanese Kibo science laboratory. NASA commentator Mike Curie counted down to the liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "We have main engine start, and four, three, two, one. Booster ignition and liftoff of...

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Windows 95 on iPhone with help of Bochs emulator

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:47:17 +0300

Developers of iSoft team ran Windows 95 on iPhone, its done with help of Bochs emulator and original Win 95 image. See video below. Main trouble is a perfomance of the iPhone and, mainly, of emulator… only windows was booting for 5-10 minutes. And you can see performance at work. "So we wait 3GS for a new test and new amazing expirience," said developers of iSoft.

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