Teen accused of hacking emergency 911 system

Bogus call sends SWAT team to home of unsuspecting family A 19-year-old Washington state man is due in court on Monday to face accusations he hacked into emergency 911 systems and faked a call that a sent SWAT team to the home of a sleeping family 750 miles away. Continued

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ALK Technologies will finally launch the latest release of its CoPilot Live satellite navigation software across Europe this month. Version 7.0 will arrive - coincidentally - seven months after it was originally promised. Continued

French law bites Mac maker, again Orange will indeed offer Apple’s iPhone on France, but the most interesting aspect of the two firms’ partnership will be the availability, for the first time, of officially unlocked handsets. Continued

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