Three people are accused of stealing PINs from the Citibank ATM network in 7-Eleven stores.

R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management for Consumer Search Properties, shares some details of future versions of image search with Beet.tv.

Technology from National Semiconductor is meant to make solar panels work more efficiently despite shade and other blockages.

CNET News.com's Dan Farber and Elinor Mills discuss Adobe's collaboration with Google and Yahoo to make Flash content more discoverable by search engines.

New report suggests that company has developed prototypes of an iPhone with a hardware keyboard that slides under the display, but it won't be out until next year.

Text message prices have risen as quickly as gas prices at the pump over the past two years. What gives?

The latest version of Adobe's free PDF-reading software, which plays movies and animation for the first time, is available.

Facebook, Gmail Notifier, and Orkut are some of the add-ons developers have made for Fring's mobile communicator using the company's API.

What Yahoo has, Microsoft wanted. But talks broke down, and the software giant says a proxy battle isn't worth it. Tune in here for the latest.

Adobe is providing technology to Google and Yahoo to help them better index dynamic content and rich Internet applications. Here's the lowdown on what it means.

AOL raises its subscription fees; more details on the upcoming iPhone 2; and look out, Californians. The CHP is on the lookout for people breaking the new hands-free cell phone law.

All stressed out? Get a personal assistant online to schedule appointments, send birthday cards, and pay the bills.

The humorists at alternative news site The Onion report that the country is burning through the precious resource of Miley Cyrus and we're headed for doom.

The Internet company's stock falls below $20 a share, coming within a breath away of where it traded prior to Redmond's failed buyout attempt.

Facebook founder's legal dispute with former college buddies may be winding down, but CNET still wants to see some of the sealed documents in the case.

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The search engines of Google and Yahoo are adding an optimized Adobe Flash Player to better index dynamic content.

A survey of IT managers by Ponemon Institute found that companies are having increasing difficulty maintaining control of rapidly growing unstructured data files.

(Source: Core Security Technologies) In a newly-published case study, Gartner's John Pescatore, one of the most experienced and respected analysts covering the IT security market today, highlights the use of automated penetration testing at a massive energy and logistics company. His conclusion; this technology provides an unparalleled level of risk assessment that goes above and beyond traditional vulnerability scanning to help companies validate and prioritize their most significant security strengths and weaknesses

Microsoft and Powerset confirmed that Microsoft will purchase the search-engine start-up.

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The change, which Orbitz said could bring about 3.5 million visitors per month to Orbitz via MSN Travel, represents a blow to Expedia, which began life in 1995.

The two companies have had a joint marketing agreement since July 2003 to sell the "triple-play" package in AT&T's markets.

The famed astronaut says that if the next president does not make space exploration a priority, the United States will lag behind other countries in the space race for the next century.

Known as BONDI, the initiative is backed by members of the Open Mobile Terminal Platform, which includes AT&T, T-Mobile, and Vodafone.

The 105-page complaint seeks to recoup billions in lost share value after Apple's admission of executive compensation though the backdating of stock option grants.

The question is whether Ballmer, as a solo act, is up to leading Microsoft through its next set of hurdles.

While the industry gets high marks for courteousness, that positive is undermined by low effectiveness in handling customer issues and poor communication, a report says.

Under Powerset's hood is decades-in-the-making natural-language processing technology the company licensed from the Palo Alto Research Center, formerly of Xerox.

The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are fighting over new media residuals and other contract terms.

The Axiom 600 and 600MC are optimized for VMware, Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, SQL database, and other applications often used with the technology.

Citi spin-off MMV offers mobile financial services solutions that are compatible with Google's Android.

Subscribers who are willing to give up phone support can keep the lower rate, but they must notify the company to opt out of a $2 monthly increase.

Midrange phones will be overtaken by smartphones and entry-level phones by 2013, ABI Research said.

SIFMA show poll found 79% of financial professionals have market data quality issues.

The FlexAddress tool from Dell eliminates the need to reconfigure individual servers when swapping out an old or failing blade with a new one.

AP - Hackers broke into Citibank's network of ATMs inside 7-Eleven stores and stole customers' PIN codes, according to recent court filings that revealed a disturbing security hole in the most sensitive part of a banking record.

AP - Germany's annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" live via the Internet. The catch is the price — $77.

AP - Fourteen years ago, Jeff Taylor helped set off a tectonic shift in recruitment advertising by founding Monster.com, one of the first online companies to challenge a big profit source of newspapers.

AP - Q: I want to get rid of my landline phone service and go all wireless, but I don't want to lose my home phone number. Can I transfer it to my cell phone?

CNET - We all worry about keeping our online passwords safe from prying eyes. But now our faith in ATM PIN codes is being shaken.

CNET - R.J. Pittman, Google's director of product management for Consumer Search Properties, shared some details of future versions of image search. In the interview with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser, Pittman said that Google is developing visual crawling software that can be used for facial recognition and scene analysis. In addition images can be matched with display ads and utilize geotagging information for various applications.

PC World - Here's what you get with the locked-in cell phone market: SMS data transfer rates of $1,310 per megabyte.

NewsFactor - AT&T on Tuesday announced iPhone 3G pricing for new and existing AT&T customers, several voice and data plans, and tips on how to be "iReady" when Apple's iPhone 3G goes on sale. AT&T retail stores will begin offering the new iPhone at 8 a.m. on Friday, July 11.

InfoWorld - Today's IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows XP. Upgrade costs associated with Vista, coupled with the ever-escalating cost of application licenses, make switching to desktop Linux an increasingly attractive option.

NewsFactor - Five software companies announced Monday that they have created the Enterprise Desktop Alliance to help welcome Macs into Windows-based enterprises.

InfoWorld - Oracle presented on Tuesday a comprehensive roadmap for its recently acquired BEA Systems middleware technologies, making BEA's application server Oracle's strategic Java container and pledging continued support for BEA customers.

Reuters - The makers of video game "Rock Band 2" said on Monday the sequel to last year's best-selling predecessor "Rock Band" will be released for the Xbox in September, months ahead of key rival "Guitar Hero."