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In recent surveys, it was determined that some companies have begun adopting open source products and new generations of engineers and developers have been trying to change the corporate culture. However, changing decades of corporate culture is much more difficult and still has a long way to go.

An ethical hacker named Chris Paget demonstrated live interception of GSM cell phones from AT&T and T-Mobile at Defcon Hacking Conference on Saturday. Despite concerns that he could be arrested or fined for illegally intercepting cell phone calls, he went ahead with the demonstration.

Intel announced on Tuesday, that Intel's research division has developed a new microprocessor chip to showcase the technology of Photon and Laser driven chips that surpass the physical limits of electric wires. In the future, microprocessors will be developed using lasers to convert light into electrical data. The limitations of memory however, may still pose a serious problem.

There are a plethora of people who installed Windows 7 at home and are use to the awesome calculator on it, but are forced to use Windows XP or Windows Vista at work. Here's a way to get Windows 7 calculator on Windows Vista. For Windows XP you'll need a different calculator, but have no fear, we have an option for you.

If you ever wondered where all your windows error reports go after that nasty system fail. Well now you know.

However, Windows 7 doesn't crash as much as Vista and previous versions. Maybe the bug is working hard after all.

In Windows, using Firefox (for me it was 3.6.3), I use to get an error whenever I download a large file (over 200 MB), Firefox launches an warning error saying "file could not be saved, because the source file could not be read." This is quite an annoying bug for Firefox, and I've seen it on many computers. Perhaps it's not something Firefox can easily fix, because it might be specific to each user's situation (regardless, I still think Firefox should look into it).

Twitter has a ton of potential, but for some reason, its owners perhaps sick of so many people using their service are trying to avoid some significant improvements that could quickly make twitter the best social network.

Why can't twitter just create some of these essential features that would actually make twitter more relevant to avid social network users? Currently, my own use of twitter has been quite unsatisfactory, I haven't seen any benefit for spending any time on twitter.