Ubisoft videogame targets girl athletes (AFP)

July 16, 2008

An Ubisoft employee at work. Hot French videogame maker Ubisoft is launching titles geared for girl athletes in a bet that it's not just boys that love sports both real and virtual.(AFP/File/Bertrand Guay)AFP - Hot French videogame maker Ubisoft is launching titles geared for girl athletes in a bet that it's not just boys that love sports both real and virtual.


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Cyber-capos: How cybercriminals mirror the mafia and businesses (CNET)

July 16, 2008
CNET - Cybercrime, the harvesting and sale of credit card and other data for online fraud and theft, is a "shadow economy" that mimics the real business world in its practices and the mafia in its structure, according to a new report from security firm Finjan.No tag for this post.













EIC Squared: Psystar on the firing line with Apple, etc. (CNET)

July 16, 2008
CNET - I finally made it to the big time and got to fill in for the vacationing Dan Farber on the EIC Squared podcast. Check out my conversation with ZDNet Editor-in-Chief Larry Dignan as we riff on the circumstances surrounding Apple's legal tiff with Mac clone maker Psystar, as well as Intel's surprisingly strong quarterly earnings. Also, I recently got back from a visit to Israel's high-tech community. Take a listen.No tag for this post.