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Hackers Use Facebook for Malware Attack
Popular social-networking Web site Facebook is fighting back against hackers. Users of the social-networking site recently bit a dangling carrot that hackers used to lure them to other Web sites, only to learn that they were victims of a malicious hacker attack. Hackers, impersonating members' friends, attacked Facebook by convincing users on Facebook's Wall to view a video link that they ...
Enterprise Security Today |
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Keokuk man jailed on sex charges
Friday, August 08, 2008 at 12:42 p.m. KEOKUK, Iowa (AP) - A Keokuk man accused of downloading child pornography and filming others in the shower is charged with sex crimes and invasion of privacy.
KTVO TV 3 Kirksville |
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Market America launches Google partnership
Market America -- the Greensboro, N.C., company that uses a network of independent distributors to sell products ranging from cosmetics to phone service -- formally launched its Google partnership Friday.
East Bay Business Times |
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Julia Plevin: Who's a Hipster?
What happens when American Apparel stores outnumber Gap stores in New York City and blogging about music, photos, or cooking becomes lucrative? Have hipsters won or merely defeated themselves?
HuffingtonPost |
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Ticket touts 'ripping off' Girls Aloud fans
Battle Abbey concert promoters are calling for ticket touting to be made illegal, saying the internet has made it easier to rip fans off. (07/08/2008 12:07:14)
Bexhill Today |
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Ubisoft Releases Recommended PC Specs for Far Cry 2
You don't need a super computer to play this gorgeous, African-set FPS.
1up.com |
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StrangeCharm - Particle Debris and Bogus Vista Sales (Week of Aug 4)
This week, I'm going to go backwards in time (without the aid of a Time Machine) to look at some of the secondary stories that caught my attention. My favorite, however, was from July 28, a story at APC about how every time Hewlet Packard sells a PC with Windows XP, Microsoft has figured out how to log it as a Vista sale
The Mac Observer |
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Cut cable leaves residents without phone, Internet, television service
Charter Communications customers in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin were without telephone, Internet and television service Thursday after a fiber optic cable was inadvertently cut.
La Crosse Tribune |
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Ticket touts 'ripping off' Girls Aloud fans
Battle Abbey concert promoters are calling for ticket touting to be made illegal, saying the internet has made it easier to rip fans off. (07/08/2008 12:07:14)
Hastings Today |
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Gines eyes GPD raid of DVD pirates
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Delta Democrat Times |
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The Home Depot and Lowe’s grow home and garden traffic, Nielsen Online says
Unique visitors to The Home Depot grew 21% to 12.3 million in June, helping it secure the No. 1 spot for traffic to Home and Garden sites in June. Traffic to Lowe’s Cos Inc., No. 2 for the category, grew at a slightly faster rate of 22%, Nielsen Online says.
InternetRetailer.com |
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Google, Verizon Weigh In On White Space Test
The on-going corporate wrangling between Google and Verizon is heating up again as the Federal Communications Commission prepares to test technology that would make it possible to offer WiFi broadband Internet over unused TV channels known as white spaces. read more
WebProNews |
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Hackers mull physical attacks on a networked world
Fri, Aug 8, 2008 (2:18 p.m.) Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Yahoo to let visitors decline more targeted ads
Fri, Aug 8, 2008 (2:18 p.m.) Yahoo Inc. will let its Web visitors decline ads targeted to their browsing habits, becoming the latest Internet company to break from a common industry practice as Congress steps up scrutiny of customized advertising and consumer privacy.
Las Vegas Sun |
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Hackers mull physical attacks on a networked world
Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections. How about stealing someone's computer passwords?...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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McCain gives punters points for plugs
WASHINGTON: Spread John McCain's message online and you could win valuable prizes. That's the essence of his campaign pitch for supporters to join an internet effort with "reward points" akin to those offered by airlines and other businesses.
Blayney Chronicle |
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News and views on Linux on the desktop ...
Microsoft pushes India toward Linux — Jun. 30, 2008 — One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there.
Desktop Linux |
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Unified communications groupware comes to Linux
A startup called Unison Technologies has released a commercial "unified communications" groupware suite based on Ubuntu Server, and announced a beta release of a Ubuntu desktop client. The Unison suite combines e-mail, instant messaging, a PBX, contacts, and calendaring, says the company.
Desktop Linux |
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Canyon County high school football games will hit the airwaves
KIOV 1450 AM, a sports news radio station in Payette, will broadcast Caldwell and Vallivue high school football games this season on radio and the Internet.
The Idaho Statesman |
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IBM pushes "Microsoft-free" desktops
IBM announced a partnership with Canonical, Novell, and Red Hat to sell "Microsoft-free desktops," says an eWeek story by Chris Preimesberger.
Desktop Linux |
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From a Pile of Components to Ubuntu Linux in 25 Minutes
"At 10:55am, he called me over to watch him playing Tetris on the machine. He wasn't running off the CD; he had blown away the Solaris installation (I told him that he could), put Linux onto the hard drive and was fully up and running. And this is a kid who's never used Linux before.
Linux Today |
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Sony KDL-46Z4100/S (silver)
Sony's well-featured, smartly styled KDL-46Z4100 performs well enough, but its picture doesn't match that of the best LCDs.
CNET |
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Google admits its AOL investment may be impaired
TG Daily |
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Hackers mull physical attacks on a networked world
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby wireless connections.
The Post-Standard |
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Thieves Get Computers, Cameras In Night Break-In At Circuit City
Thieves made off with a large number of cameras and laptop computers after breaking into the Circuit City at Hamilton Place Mall and then smashing several display cases.
The Chattanoogan |
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