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Saw the post on TechCrunch about Google adding another company to its list of applications. The company acquired Marratech AB, a Swedish startup (refer to Wikipedia page) with a video conferencing applications, including an interactive whiteboard and application sharing.

It now competes with established players including Microsoft, Raindance, Adobe and WebEx, which was just acquired by Cisco for over $3 billion.

Visit [ Marratech AB ]

A hacker managed to break into a Mac and win a US$10,000 prize as part of a contest started at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.

The conference organizer decided to offer the contest in part to draw attention to possible security shortcomings in Macs. "You see a lot of people running OS X saying it's so secure and frankly Microsoft is putting more work into security than Apple has," said Dragos Ruiu, the organizer of security conferences including CanSecWest

The contest originally was open just to conference attendees, who were invited to try to break into the machines through a wireless access point. But on Thursday evening, 3Com Corp.'s TippingPoint division put up the cash prize and put the machines online so that anyone could participate.

The winner has not yet been named but is not someone attending the conference in Vancouver.

via [ pcworld ]