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Play-Nice Ballmer Calls Apple’s Gains ‘a Rounding Error’

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and other company executives said Thursday they are excited about Windows 7, cloud computing, and other directions — even as they tried to address the revenue loss reported for the company’s fiscal year that ended June 30. Ballmer acknowledged that the company, long the dominant force in consumer and business software, is getting “competition from a lot of different places.” Among operating systems, he mentioned Linux, Apple, Android and Google’s Chrome OS, although he noted that ...

Clampi Worm Puts Online Financial Transactions at Risk

With security researchers focused on the Black Hat security conference, a Trojan called Clampi is still making its way across the Web looking for victims. Also known as Ligats, Ilomo or Rscan, Clampi is a Trojan that aims to steal credentials from infected systems. According to SecureWorks, hundreds of thousands of Windows computers may already be infected and many more are at risk. In one recent example, an auto-parts store lost about $75,000 to a group of attackers leveraging the ...

Experts find iPhone text-message security flaw

A pair of security experts have found a vulnerability in the iPhone that allows a hacker to take control of an iPhone through a text-message attack. ImagesView Larger Image Get Quote // Symbol Lookup More TechnologyMinimal damages sought in Mass.

Twitter post leads to lawsuit

Between innocuous updates about a wardrobe malfunction and a Cubs game, Twitter user Amanda Bonnen posted this tweet in May: ImagesView Larger Images Get Quote // Symbol Lookup More BusinessSaudi rebuffs US on improving ties with Israel 07.31.09Ex-airline worker sentenced in JFK drug smuggling 07.31.09Profit reports push Dow to best July in 20 years 07.31.09Anti-Wal-Mart groups merge 07.31.09// “@JessB123 You should just come anyway.

Minimal damages sought in Mass. song-download case

A lawyer for a Boston University student who admitted illegally downloading and sharing music urged a federal jury Friday to “send a message” to the music industry by awarding only minimal damages. ImagesView Larger Image The jury began deliberating the case Friday afternoon.

Cashion Marine killed in Afghanistan

CASHION — Students fill teacher’s classes every year, but there are some that instructors will never forget. Jonathan Stroud, 20, a Marine killed in Afghanistan Thursday, was such a student, said his former teacher Scott Anderson. Stroud, a 2007 graduate of Cashion High School, had Anderson as an instructor for three different classes. “Jonathan had way above average intelligence, in fact school kind of moved too slow for him,” said Anderson, who now teaches at Washington High School. “He was ...

U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd diagnosed with prostate cancer

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd says he has been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer and will have surgery early in August. Dodd says he feels fine and is “confident we’re going to come out of this well.” He says he was diagnosed about six weeks ago, but the diagnosis will not affect his plans to seek a sixth term next year. The 65-year-old Dodd is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and is playing a ...

Spurs probe Twitter rant on striker Bent’s page

LONDON – Tottenham Hotspur are investigating whether criticism of the Premier League club's chairman on Darren Bent's Twitter page were posted by the England forward, a spokesman for the club said Friday. The comments on the social networking website included an expletive aimed at chairman Daniel Levy amid a rant about Bent's frustrations over the drawn-out negotiations surrounding his possible transfer to fellow Premier League side Sunderland. "Do I wanna go Hull City NO.

Those cadavers are mine, lawsuit alleges

NEW YORK – The owner of a popular collection of "high quality" cadavers has sued the manager of an exhibition at New York's South Street Seaport, seeking to prevent it from taking control of the bodies. The lawsuit by Premier Exhibitions, which stages human anatomy displays in U.S. and Canadian cities under the banner "Bodies … The Exhibition," stems from more than $1 million (598,000 pounds) of profits and licensing fees it says it is owed by Jam Exhibitions LLC, ...

Russia’s Putin dons wet suit, tags Beluga whale

KHABAROVSK, Russia – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a judo black belt who last year shot a tiger, Friday demonstrated his softer side by donning a wet suit and tagging a whale. During a trip to Russia's Far East, Putin waded into the Pacific Ocean and attached a satellite tracking tag to a Beluga whale named Dasha as scientists looked on, the government said in a statement. "She won't eat us will she" Putin asked. He then attached the device ...