Monster shuts down rogue server after breach ... Sony demos sugar-based bio battery ... Seagate to offer solid-state drives

HIGHLIGHTS
News: Monster shuts down rogue server after breach
News: Sony runs Walkman off sugar-based bio battery
News: Seagate to offer solid-state drives
News: Paying Skype users get a week's free service
News: YouTube fans rant, threaten to leave over new ads
Opinion: The annotation age
Podcast: Today's IT news audio update
ITwhirled: Chinese couple tries to name baby "@"


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Monster shuts down rogue server after breach
Monster Worldwide Inc., whose job-hunting sites suffered a massive data breach caused by hackers, has shut down a rogue server that had been used to gather personal details of job seekers.

Sony runs Walkman off sugar-based bio battery
A year ago it seemed Sony Corp. couldn't even get a laptop battery right. A massive recall of lithium-ion cells tainted its image and had the company scrambling, but on Thursday it reported a sweet breakthrough in bio battery technology.

Report: Seagate to offer solid-state drives
Seagate Technology LLC reportedly plans to add solid-state drives based on flash memory chips to its lineup of storage products.

Paying Skype users get a week's free service
Skype Ltd. is offering a week of free service to paying customers who may have been affected by the two-day outage of its Internet telephony service last week.

YouTube fans rant, threaten to leave over new ads
Most users responding to a YouTube blog post asking for feedback gave the idea a resounding thumbs down, and one even made a video to share his displeasure

Nokia offers Windows Live services on handsets
Microsoft Corp. has partnered with handset manufacturer Nokia Corp. to deliver some of its Windows Live services on wireless handsets in Europe and the Middle East.

AMD sales chief steps down
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. sales chief Henri Richard will leave the company in September, AMD said Wednesday. The announcement came shortly after AMD reported its third straight quarterly loss. But the company said that Richard left of his own accord and on amicable terms.


OPINION

The annotation age
By Shane Schick, ITBusiness.ca

A new feature on Google's news aggregator will allow those who are involved in a story to add their own comments to the articles. So, if you were quoted in a story and felt the media got it wrong (as we often do), you'd have a chance to set the record straight. But this is not a media story. It's an IT story, because it is a sign of what will soon become the preoccupation of technology professionals everywhere.

Read the full article here.


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Chinese couple tries to name baby "@"
Most residents of China share a relatively small pool of about 130 surnames, but pushes for individuality are underway. One couple even tried to name their child "@", evoking the new Internet age. It doesn't hurt that the pronunciation sounds like "love him" in Chinese.

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