Unlucky Thief Steals iPhone With Live GPS-Tracking App Running

Jordan Sturm was probably stunned when her iPhone was suddenly snatched away by a bike-riding thief. I know I was when the exact same thing happened to me—except unlike Jordan, I wasn’t testing a live GPS-tracking app.

Apparently Jordan was in the middle of testing out a product called Alert & Respond—which is explained as being an app that allows for live GPS-tracking of an iPhone—when an unlucky thief decided to make her his victim. It didn’t take the woman long to recover and call her company who proceeded to guide police officers to the thief’s exact location. The f

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ASRock revives old AMD 480X board with UCC to support 6 core processors on ASRock M3A UCC

ASRock always surprises us. I am not sure if it is because they are just demonstrating their technology capability or do they have large volumes to clear.

Anyway, remember the old AMD 480X chipset, the discrete chipset supporting the AM2 processors.

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Oops! Dell Says Some Servers Contain a Virus

Dell said Wednesday that the motherboards for some of its servers were infected with malicious software that could give a cyber criminal access to information stored on the systems.

The company said in a statement that the issue only affected customers who have received replacement motherboards for four types of servers – the PowerEdge R310, R410, R510 and T410 – which is less than 1% of these models. The statement added that the virus only causes damage “when a customer has a specific configuration and is not running current anti-virus software.”

Dell says that it has removed all the infected motherboards from its supply chain and that its current stock is virus-free.

The computer maker has been contacting infected customers in order to schedule changes.

A Dell spokeswoman says the company discovered the problem during a routine audit, and that it appeared to be the result of human error. When as

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AOL launches new mobile portal and Android apps

AOL has struggled to reinvent itself in the image of Google, but the company’s latest announcement about its new mobile portal and Android applications shows that the company is at least heading in the right direction.

A new smartphone portal, located at http://m.aol.com, has been designed to work on any mobile browser. The portal will even provide a touch-driven interface for smartphones which support HTML5, which includes iPhone and Android devices. Contents on the portal include location-based services for local weather, movie and traffic. S

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Tweaker ports Samsung’s TouchWIz UI onto non-rooted Nexus One for reasons unknown

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