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Electronic Arts shares dive on weak outlook (AP)

Wii and PlayStation 3 versions of Madden NFL 10, an Electronic Arts game, are shown at Best Buy in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Electronic Arts Inc. is showing a smaller net loss in its last quarter even though its video game sales declined. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company's slump.




Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked (AP)

In this Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010 photo, Chris Tarnovsky poses for photos after speaking at the Black Hat Briefings in Arlington, Va. Tarnovsky figured out a way to break chips that carry a 'Trusted Platform Module,' or TPM, designation. Such chips are billed as the industry's most secure and are estimated to be in as many as 100 million personal computers and servers, according to market research firm IDC. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.




MySpace Music experiments with audio ads (AP)
AP - Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.

Chinese police shut down hacker training business (AP)
AP - Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday.

PayPal halts certain payment transactions in India (AP)
AP - The online payments service PayPal has taken the unusual step of suspending many transactions in India for more than a week.

SAP CEO resigns, replaced by 2 co-chief executives (AP)
AP - The chief executive of German software company SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, has resigned after his contract was not renewed and will be succeeded by two co-CEOs, the company said Sunday.

Iran's resistance keeps up cat-and-mouse web game (Reuters)
Reuters - With their paths through the Internet increasingly blocked by government filters, Nooshin and her fellow Iranian opposition-supporters say their information on planned protests now comes in emails.

Control Your Nokia N900 With Sony's Sixaxis Controller (PC World)
PC World - We recently stumbled across a hack that allowed the Nokia N900 to run Mac OS X. Now another mod has surfaced, but this time it's all about gaming.

ComScore: Apple gains US smart phone share (AP)
AP - Apple Inc.'s iPhone gained a percentage point of U.S. smart phone market share while BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Inc. lost a point in the last three months of 2009, according to research group comScore Inc.

TiVo: Doritos' 'House Rules' Ad Wins Super Bowl (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Doritos' ad featuring a tough-as-nails kid slapping some sense into his mother's date stole the show as the most-watched Super Bowl ad, according to data collected by the TiVo "Stop Watch" service.

Electronic Arts outlook disappoints, shares decline (Reuters)
Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc warned that fiscal 2011 earnings would miss Wall Street expectations as it grapples with a lack of blockbuster new games after a succession of missed targets and restructurings.

iPad's Best Innovation? No-Contract Wireless (PC World)
PC World - Apple's iPad, while getting slammed for lack of innovation in some areas, does something no other device seems to have done before: Offer customers 3G service on a month-to-month, no-contract basis. It's about time.

Nuance Communications narrows 1Q loss (AP)
AP - Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. said Monday it narrowed its loss in the fiscal first quarter as revenue in the company's two largest divisions, health care and dictation, and mobile and enterprise, increased.

Google May Add Facebook, Twitter Links to Gmail (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - E-mail is about communicating with friends, coworkers and the world at large. So why should users have to switch over to Facebook or Twitter to post a status update? That seems to be the thinking behind the news that Google will roll more social-networking features into Gmail, the fastest-growing e-mail service.

Summary Box: New attack shows security chip hole (AP)
AP - CRACKING THE UNCRACKABLE: A former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has found a way to break into a type of chip that protects the most important secrets inside many personal computers.

InfoWorld review: Windows on the Mac (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Why choose between Windows 7 and Snow Leopard when you can have both? A Mac with virtualization software is a great platform for running Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, or other Intel-based operating systems, all at the same time. There's also Mac OS X's native Boot Camp, but it only supports Windows and doesn't give you access to Mac OS X without rebooting.

Apple to Remain 'Nimble' on iPad Pricing (PC World)
PC World - Apple could cut iPad prices if the device isn't selling well, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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