For thousands of customers of Subway restaurants around the US over the past few years, paying for their $5 footlong sub was a ticket to having their credit card data stolen. In a scheme dating back at least to 2008, a band of Romanian hackers is alleged to have stolen payment card data from the point-of-sale (POS) systems of hundreds of small businesses, including more than 150 Subway restaurant franchises and at least 50 other small retailers. And those retailers made it possible by practically leaving their cash drawers open to the Internet, letting the hackers ring up over $3 million in fraudulent charges.

In an indictment unsealed in the US District Court of New Hampshire on December 8, the hackers are alleged to have gathered the credit and debit card data from over 80,000 victims.

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Intel is late to the smartphone game, sure, but its Medfield system-on-chip has been touted as the firm’s make-or-break venture into the market. Now the first working Intel Android phone is in the wild—and it seems mighty promising. More »

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America’s biggest television event, the Super Bowl, is going to be streamed live to computers and mobile devices for the first time ever. Football! Everywhere! Yeah! U-S-A! Along with the Super Bowl, fans will get to peep NBC’s Wild Card playoff games and the Pro Bowl (snooze) online too. More »

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mikejuk writes “MIT has announced an online learning initiative that will offer its courses through a new interactive learning platform that will enable students to participate in simulated labs, interact with professors and other students and earn certificates. Is this just a reaction to the Stanford experiment in running courses complete with exams and informal statements of accomplishment? (The first AI course has just finished and the exam results are in.) If so let’s hope it spurs other educational establishments to do the same!”

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In a deal that ends concerns that Mozilla would lose its primary source of revenue, Mozilla and Google have signed a new agreement that will lock in Google’s role as Firefox’s default search engine for at least three more years. “We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google,” Mozilla said in an announcement today. “This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.”

ZDNet’s Ed Bott noted earlier this month that the search deal was providing 84 percent of Mozilla’s revenue, but appeared to expire at the end of November with no official statement from the companies involved. This sparked some concern about Firefox’s future, given that it has already slid in market share compared to the fast-rising Google Chrome.

Mozilla put those fears to rest today, although specific financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. While Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs said Google “will continue to be the default search provider” in Firefox, Mozilla also recently unveiled a custom version featuring Microsoft’s Bing. Mozilla is in a unique position, relying on its biggest rivals for revenue, and it’s trying to maintain relevance with a more rapid release schedule, with the beta version of Firefox 9 available now.

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We know you’ve faced a plethora of docking peripherals that aim to take your iPhone into transformer status. But, if the boombox or wired-phone looks just weren’t cutting-edge enough for you, would a 23-inch display do the trick? AOC’s e2343Fi is packed up and heading to CES 2012 ready to share its Full-HD and SRS Premium Sound qualities with your Apple device. If you were pondering whether the sole purpose of the monitor was to act as a multimedia station, fret not — the screen can do what it’s accustomed to without its docked friend. There’s no word on how juicy (or dry) it is in the specs department, or how deep it’ll dig into your wallet, but you can bet we’ll be the hunt for further deets next month.

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Just two weeks after the confirmation of a planet that’s within the habitable zone of a distant star, the Kepler team is back with the discovery of two Earth-sized planets orbiting in what is now a five-planet system (three other planets orbiting the star, Kepler-20, had been spotted earlier). Although these planets are much too hot to support liquid water, one of them (Kepler-20e) is the smallest exoplanet yet detected.

Kepler-20 was already a busy star system, with three small planets orbiting close in to the star: Kepler-20b is about twice the size of Earth and orbits once every 3.7 days; Kepler-20c is three times Earth’s radius and orbits every 11 days; and Kepler-20d is 2.75 Earth radii with an orbit of 77.6 days. If that seems somewhat tightly packed, the new finds actually jam a couple more planets within the orbit of Kepler-20d. Kepler-20e has an orbit of six days, while Kepler-20f takes 19.6 days to orbit its host star.

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