A reverse engineer finds Kindle's hidden features
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A little hacking reveals that Amazon's Kindle has faux-GPS abilities and related location-based services, a photo viewer, and a minesweeper game.
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A security researcher discovers that private Facebook profiles can reveal startlingly personal information.
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People have been trying to build e-books for years. But few people have decided to become e-readers. Two technologies are improving these devices.
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The search engine sometimes plays "tricks" with its secret page-ranking algorithm.
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See how smarter documents are working for others at
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Analysis of the BEA acquisition from Reg reader input â¦
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Sifting through millions of documents to locate a valuable few is tedious enough, but what happens when those files are scattered across different repositories?
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Amazon's Kindle is a precocious little device. But wait till you see what comes next.
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Users will see book excerpts alongside ordinary Google Web page search results.
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In a separate matter perhaps inspired by, but otherwise unrelated to, last December's discovery of how a software-based HD DVD player may have left title keys exposed, giving users access to one of the key components necessary for them to back up their content onto separate discs, another user has posted the source code that may enable HD DVD users to determine the title keys for themselves.
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Ingenious hacks abound for the game console's input device. Plus: The
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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An intruder could manipulate a flaw in how the browsers handle image files to see where the user has been surfing.
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Web 2.0 applications such as wikis, blogs and online document editing offer nice functionality for users, but the bad guys are paying close attention as well -- and some of their tricks may be all but undetectable.
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A directory reversal within "flat" extensions could lead to system profile attacks.
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Get up close and personal with the curiously '80s-stylings of the Fujitsu UMPC
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A new program claims to detect copy theft in any text document.