[H]ardOCP: Barack Obama may be even more hesitant to give up his BlackBerry after this. CNN reports that Obama’s cell phone records were breached by Verizon employees. The insiders allegedly went through the billing records of the phone, which is reportedly no longer in use. The phone was a simple voice ...

[H]ardOCP: Two Chinese engineers were sentenced on Friday for a corporate espionage case from 2006. The perps were busted for stealing computer chip designs from their employers and trying to smuggle them into China to launch a government-backed startup there. Boy, that’s a really long time to wait for ...

[H]ardOCP: The demand for RIM’s new BlackBerry Storm is so great that the volume of traffic hitting the online ordering portal caused the site to crash. I’m sure Verizon doesn’t mind. So is this finally the ‘iPhone-killer’ that corporate consumers are looking for? Comment and let us ...

[H]ardOCP: Slurpee… check. Hot dog… check. Fallout 3… check. Gamespot is reporting that 7-Eleven is adding video games to their shelves of snacks and Slurpee cups. I can personally confirm this as I was in a 7-Eleven a couple nights ago and was surprised to see cards with game art and the actual ...

[H]ardOCP: A security researcher told eWeek about a new Web attack vector that could evade current anti-virus detection technology, rendering them obsolete. Dubbed ‘Script Fragmentation,’ it basically breaks down current exploits into smaller pieces and delivers them synchronously to the victim’s ...

[H]ardOCP: PCGH has the scoop on the inclusion of DirectX 11 with Windows 7. They also report that DX 11 will be made available for Vista, according to their source Ben Basaric, who also happens to be the Windows Product Marketing Manager. Microsoft’s Ben Basaric just told us that Windows 7 will, contrary to ...

DailyTech: Things look better for Dell in Q3...

[H]ardOCP: A new report found that IBM supercomputers already deemed the most powerful in the world are also the most energy efficient according to the findings of the latest Supercomputing ’Green 500 List’ announced by The Green500.org. The report found that the top 20 most energy efficient supercomputers in ...

[H]ardOCP: ASUS saw its sustainable computing efforts rewarded with the conferring of the world’s first EU Flower Eco Award for computers on its N50, N80, N20, and N10 notebooks. This achievement validates the eco-friendliness of ASUS’ N Series notebooks, which had already been honored with prestigious ...

[H]ardOCP: OCZ Technology Group announced the first of its Intel® Extreme triple channel memory series, qualified specifically for the Intel® Core™ i7 processor / Intel® X58 Express Chipset. Optimized for the Core i7’s triple channel mode and featuring Intel XMP profiles designed specifically to enhance ...