Mark Raby

Vancouver (WA) - The man who hacked a notebook computer during the ConSecWest conference in Washington listed the item for sale on Ebay, saying the exploit of the operating system "is most likely still present.

Manila (Philippines) - Filipino manufacturer Neo has partnered up with Intel to create the "Neo Explore," a laptop designed as an educational tool with a target audience of local schoolchildren.

Vancouver (WA) - Over the weekend, a hacker managed to exploit a vulnerability in the Windows Vista Flash player, as part of the CanSecWest's "Pwn2Own" contest.

Mountain View (CA) - Although Firefox 3 is still in research and development, Mozilla is already working on new features for the fourth version of its increasingly popular Web browser.

Cambridge (MA) - A new solar energy start-up called 1366 Technologies has just received $12.

Philadelphia (PA) - Telecommunications company Comcast announced today that it will no longer restrict Internet subscribers from accessing file-sharing programs and websites.

The Opera Internet browser this week became the first to achieve a perfect 100/100 score for the series of tests for Web standards, and was quickly followed by Apple's Safari browser.

According to data we compiled from product histories on Pricegrabber.

San Francisco (CA) - Three online giants are now working together on Open Social, an open online platform for social networking.

Los Gatos (CA) - Netflix and its users are continuing to reel from an all-encompassing service outage that affected its servers as well as distribution centers.

Washington (DC) - Google this week began a new push in Washington, lobbying for more airwaves and bandwidth access for wireless Internet.

Redmond (WA) - Microsoft has issued an advisory for a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Word that, while "very limited" in scope, could lead to damaging attacks without an official fix yet.

New York (NY) - AOL has announced that it will acquire the social networking site Bebo for $850 million, more than $200 million over what News Corp paid for Myspace last year.

Taipei (Taiwan) - Asus today launched the MK241H, a new PC monitor with a built-in webcam and video conferencing functionality, along with an HDMI input and full 1080p high definition resolution.

San Francisco (CA) - Web developers have some new tools to play with, as Google has opened up its entire collection of Youtube videos to allow other websites the opportunity to create customized video playback.

Pricewatch - Blu-ray Disc players from Samsung, Sony and Sharp are now the most expensive they have been all year, presumably because HD DVD's exit from the high-def disc arena has removed some of Blu-ray's pricing pressure.

Research Triangle Park (NC) - Lenovo announced today that eight of its Thinkvision monitors have been awarded the "gold" level of "green technology" by the Green Electronics Council.

Hulu, the online video joint venture of News Corp and General Electric's NBC Universal, will make its public debut on Wednesday with programming from Time Warner Inc's Warner Bros Television Group, Lionsgate and from sports leagues.

London (England) - The most notable band absent from Apple's digital music store may finally be making its way to iTunes, as long-time skeptic Paul McCartney has reportedly signed a $600 million deal with Apple.

In a nearly identical move to Apple's partnership with Nike, Samsung has joined forces with athletic apparel specilaist Adidas to create a music-centric phone with special functionality to keep track of workout data.

Despite mass hysteria in the movie industry of piracy and declining movie sales, box office ticket sales reached nearly $10 billion last year, a new record.

Bill Gates ran for 13 years as the richest man in the world, but now he has slunk back to the third spot.

Nicholas Negroponte, the man who has always been in charge of the ambitious "one laptop per child" program, is now looking for a new person to take control as CEO of the initiative.

If you bought an HD DVD player at Circuit City and now want to switch over to Blu-ray, you're in luck.

Ask.com, after facing a long struggle with other search engines, this week announced it will stop trying to directly compete in that market and instead create a niche search portal for married women.