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Modder Overclocks Galaxy S II’s CPU to 1.5GHz
Samsung’s Galaxy S II is one of the fastest mobile devices in the market but one curious modder has managed to push this boundary further by overclocking its Exynos processor to 1.5ghz. The modder also managed to benchmark the phone, which expectedly fared well over 4000 points in the quadrants test and almost 60MFLOPS [...]
Sony Online Entertainment suffers security breach
Hacking woes at Sony are far from over. Sony today announced that their engineers have detected an illegal intrusion in Sony Online Investigation systems. The intrusion also resulted in a massive data theft, which according to Sony and security consultants’ estimate, 24.6 million accounts including an outdated data database from 2007 have been stolen. [...]
Nokia N900 CPU gets overclocked to 1GHz
If you ever felt N900’s Cortex A8 600MHz clock speed a bit underpowered, Maemo forum users have found a way to speed things up. By installing a modded kernel, a user can overclock the N900’s processor to a speedy 1GHz. This, as confirmed by modders makes the N900 fast but does with a few [...]
Geohot will release PS3 Custom Firmware to enable Other OS support
PlayStation 3’s upcoming firmware update on April 1 will take away the Linux OS support from original PS3 owners. This obviously, doesn’t bode well with the owners and especially like Geohot who had found some success in hacking PS3. Since Sony will disable the Other OS support with a software update, Geohot reckons it [...]
Nokia 1100 flawed software allows hacking?
You would’nt expect such high demand for an outdated entry level phone but Nokia’s 1100 phone is enjoying all the attention albeit in the wrong circles. Apparently, hackers in Germany are offering around 25,000 Euros for a second hand 1100 manufactured in Bochum factory in Germany. So why is the resale price so high [...]