• Nook Color gets over clocked

    1st  Ubuntu was ported to the Nook Color and now hackers at the XDA Developers have overclocked  it to run at speeds up to 1GHz. The custom kernel ups the speed of the CPU while running it at a lower voltage, which means longer battery life. The system became unstable at the 1GHz level, but there…

  • Geohot Sued by Sony

    After last last night’s temporary restraining order against Geohot and fail0verflow for distribution of the PS3 jailbreak, Sony follows up with a copyright infringement lawsuit, and well, here it is. It’s actually pretty straightforward, as far as these things go — Sony alleges that George Hotz, Hector Martin Cantero, Sven Peter, and the rest of fail0verflow are: Violating…

  • Google Hacked: What If It Were Gmail?

    Google Hacked: What If It Were Gmail?

    Visitors of the Google’s Bangladesh search site (Google.com.bd) see a defaced landing page rather than the usual search site. If you go there now ,www.google.com.bd functions properly. So I guess it was a short lived hack. Local Bangladesh media, including online newspaper bdnews24.com, reported on the news as well, quoting a CTO of a local ISP, who…