Unlocked iPhones coming in one week or less, hacker says

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News: Unlocked iPhones coming in one week or less, hacker says
News: Google argues for right to comment on Microsoft case
News: After attacks, US government sending team to Estonia
News: T-Mobile to sell iPhone in Germany on Nov. 1, report says
News: LG sues world's largest laptop PC maker over DVD patents
News: Autonomy buys e-discovery firm Zantaz for $375 million
News: Developer annoys open-source faithful over code release
News: Networking execs sentenced for accounting fraud
News: Dell delays filing 401(k) statement as audit drags on
Go Figure: Beijing scores number one spot for malware
ITWhirled: Everybody hates cookies, blogs


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Unlocked iPhones coming in one week or less, hacker says
Hackers may successfully unlock an iPhone in as soon as three to seven days, according to a representative of one effort that aims to unlock Apple Inc.'s new handset.


Google argues for right to comment on Microsoft case
Google Inc. still hopes to influence changes that Microsoft Corp. plans to make in Vista's desktop search function, even after the parties involved in Microsoft's 2002 antitrust settlement agreed to alterations to the search system.


After attacks, US government sending team to Estonia
Two months after much of Estonia's online infrastructure was targeted by an online attack, the U.S government is sending cyberinvestigators to help the Baltic state better understand what happened.


T-Mobile to sell iPhone in Germany on Nov. 1, report says
Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile division has won a deal to sell Apple Inc.'s iPhone in Germany starting Nov. 1, according to a report in a German regional newspaper.

LG sues world's largest laptop PC maker over DVD patents
LG Electronics Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the world's largest contract manufacturer of laptop PCs over the infringement of four patents related to DVD (digital video disc) technology, the company said Wednesday.


Autonomy buys e-discovery firm Zantaz for $375 million
Autonomy Corp. PLC is acquiring Zantaz Inc., a provider of e-discovery and content archiving software, for US$375 million in cash, the companies announced Tuesday.


Developer annoys open-source faithful over code release
Open-source developer Parallels finally released the source code for the Wine software used by Parallels Desktop 3.0 on Monday -- but only after weeks of prodding by Wine developers and negative publicity on the IT forum Slashdot.


Networking execs sentenced for accounting fraud
Four former executives with computer networking and security vendor Enterasys Networks Inc. have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in accounting fraud at the company that cost investors millions of dollars, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.


Dell delays filing 401(k) statement as audit drags on
Dell Inc. told government regulators on Monday that it cannot file a financial statement for its 401(k) plan, as the company continues to struggle with investigations of its accounting practices.


GO FIGURE

40%
The share of malware distributed worldwide in June that originated from Beijing, according to research from security vendor Network Box Corp. That's nearly double Beijing's stats in May, when 21 percent of malicious software originated in the Chinese capital.
SOURCE: IDG News Service


ITWHIRLED

Everybody hates cookies, blogs
A group of British pollsters tried to discover what bits of tech jargon made Internet users want to "wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard." Many were the sort of overused buzzwords you might expect -- "wiki," "cookies," and both "blog" and "blogosphere" -- but there were also some dark horses, like "me-media" and "godcast."