Technology

VMware has added another cloud service to its lineup, hiring Mozy’s workers and acquiring its assets.

Mozy is an online data backup service that serves businesses and consumers. Since EMC owns Mozy and is majority owner of VMware, the deal involves related organizations. But the companies say the change will help VMware boost its cloud offerings — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Aside from wondering who will pay more than the cost of a Wall Street Journal subscription in order to subscribe to the New York Times, my biggest question right now is how the NY Times spent a reported $40-50 million writing the code. Google was financed with $25 million — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Incapacitating light beam: The suspect is going for his gun, and the police officer doesn’t want to shoot. The founders of a company called Genesis Illumination hope police officers will soon be reaching for a StunRay instead of a gun or Taser. They claim their newly patented device can render an assailant helpless with a brief flash of high-intensity light. It works by overloading the neural networks connected to the retina, saturating the target’s world in a blinding pool of white light. It’s the inverse of blindness—the technical term is a loss of contrast sensitivity, says Todd Eisenberg, the engineer who invented the device. The typical response is for the person to freeze. Law enforcement can easily walk up and apprehend [the suspect] — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The Lizamoon website attack seems to have ensnared relatively few victims.

The massive attack managed to inject the name of several rogue domains into hundreds of thousands of websites — via redwolf.newsvine.com

The bookmarks bar is a useful way to quickly access your favorite sites, but it takes up a lot of vertical space. Here's how to make Firefox hide it when you aren’t moused over it — via lifehacker

You may notice that when you mouse over a link in Firefox, the URL preview in the status bar is trimmed down to save space. If you’d rather see the whole URL, you can do so with a simple CSS tweak — via lifehacker

The latest statistics suggests that MySpace is on its way out, as one of the longest serving social networks on the web.

comScore figures show that MySpace losts 10 million users last month. As the cornerstone to the younger days of the Generation Y, the site is facing dark days after it had lost nearly 50 million users from over the course of last year — via redwolf.newsvine.com

An official Twitter account recently sent out spam tweets offering links to a sexy dating service and a more explicit version of chat roulette, according to security researchers — via redwolf.newsvine.com