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CanSecWest conference organised a contest - Pwn2Own, which saw many participants enrolled. Among the many, two European researchers stood out. They successfully hacked a non-jailbroken iPhone and extracted the entire SMS database - all in 20 seconds! Vincenze Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann, the men behind the extraordinary feat, created a malicious website capable of pulling [ Read More ]

Sunil Chhetri has agreed a deal in principle to sign with American Major League Soccer club Kansas City Wizards, subject to a medical and visa formalities on Wednesday, thereby  becoming only the third Indian footballer to play overseas. India coach Bob Houghton expects the ace striker to do well in his first season, and pave [ Read More ]

"By 2030, urban areas will be home to more than 60 percent of the world’s 8 billion people.  This will put tremendous pressure on a public infrastructure that is already struggling to meet the growing demand for transportation and basic services" says General Motors (GM). The Electric Networked-Vehicle, or EN-V, is a two-seat electric vehicle [ Read More ]

Chelsea moved into second place in the Premier League and to within one point of leaders Manchester United with an emphatic win at bottom club Portsmouth. After a low-key start, Didier Drogba rolled the ball into an empty net after David James kicked at thin air. Florent Malouda slammed in a second before following up Frank Lampard's [ Read More ]

Just a couple of days ago we told you about Airtel's tie up with Apple to land the iPhone 3GS in India and, less than 100 hours later, here we are with an official release date and estimated price of the Apple masterpiece. Bharti Airtel has now issued a formal press release revealing that the [ Read More ]

Since March 12, IPL has been talked about every where. Be it predictions, news of new teams joining or YouTube being the official broadcaster of the T20 extravaganza online. As IPL fever soars, we thought it would be a good idea to list the best online resources to enhance your IPL experience. Watching the Match [ Read More ]

The Hindustan Times cover this morning has a generous space dedicated to Google's exit out of China and related efforts at redirecting mainland users to its Hong Kong hub, but couched cosily inside that story is perhaps an even bigger one. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is quoted as saying that Dell is considering taking [ Read More ]

Results from all major leagues from matches played this Monday and Tuesday.

Constantly being called on to loan out iPod/iPhone cables to your friends and colleagues? Don't like carrying an extra iPod cable with you, poised and ready to bail out a friend's dying iPhone? Don't worry. We have come up with a sensational rescue for you - the $20 FlipSync cable by Scosche. They boiled Apple's cable [ Read More ]

Google left China today and will not continue its Chinese search results. While it is a monster step for the world's biggest search engine, all's not yet over for Google in China. First of all, they only really left 'mainland China'. If you go to Google.cn, you'll be redirected to the Chinese language Google Hong Kong. Google [ Read More ]

TigerText, a new application from the Apple stable, helps you clear all those surreptitious SMSes you sent, from the receiver's handset. We've all heard that famous fable - a mighty tiger left pug-marks all over the place and came out the greatest sporting scandal of the decade. If only those humiliating text messages swapped between Tiger Woods [ Read More ]

Every few months, there is an alarming study about the effect mobile phones are having on the human body. While some talk about the harmful radiation causing brain cancer, other researchers are saying it is too early to have any conclusive data yet. What is not debated, however, is that talking on the cell phone [ Read More ]