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Shopping is normally good for the economy, but not when the shoppers are net neutrality advocates looking for friendly deals on a regulatory forum. Policy makers in Michigan, their current target, should tell pro-regulatory activists to go home, with good reason. Those who support net neutrality leg...
MySpace.com on Tuesday said it would partner with an online identity and background check firm to build technology that blocks convicted sex offenders from joining its community. The leading online social networking community is working with Sentinel Tech Holding to build Sentinel Safe, technology t...
Back in July, Microsoft released a dynamite Webcam, the LifeCam 6000, for desktop users. Now it's following suit with an equally impressive version of the unit for notebook users. The laptop model of the Webcam, the LifeCam NX-6000 (US$99), is about the size of a Pez dispenser, making it eminently t...
Leading social networking site MySpace was forced to shut down hundreds of user profile pages after a combination worm and phishing attack struck the site over the weekend. The worm, discovered late last week, targeted the Javascript support code associated with Apple's QuickTime player in conjuncti...
Communications giant BT Group on Monday announced the commercial launch of BT Vision, its new IPTV service. The company is spending about US$198 million to roll out the service with high hopes to attract up to 3 million users and post a profit by the end of 2010. BT Vision combines more than 40 DTT-...
Samsung Electronics and Microsoft will be offering the Samsung Ultra Messaging i600, a full-keyboard phone from Samsung's ultra slim product line powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, in Europe and Asia early next year. The i600 is the first phone to offer High Speed Downlink Packet Access suppor...
As we roll to the end of the year, events continue to take place that are changing dramatically the technologies and environments we live in. Last week, Microsoft had a coming-out party for Vista -- but only for the business market. While most feel it can't ramp up in business until 2008, there is c...
Downloading movies from the Internet may be easier than ever to do, but it isn't necessarily advisable, according to McAfee, which sees trouble ahead with this technology and Internet security. It cites the growing number of video-sharing sites on the Web as a prime target for hackers next year. To ...
How safe is stored e-mail from the prying eyes of government authorities? Not very. It would be a whole lot safer if a decision by a federal judge in Ohio were left standing, according to a trio of civil rights groups. The decision by District Court Judge Susan J. Dlott declared unconstitutional pro...
The U.S. government on Thursday issued a warning to American private financial services of a possible cyber attack by an Islamist militant group against online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning on Friday. The group, reportedly associated with al-Qaeda, is seeking to hack and destroy the ...
File-sharing vendor BitTorrent on Wednesday announced a slew of partnerships with film and television companies, as it slowly boosts its sullied reputation as a tool for media pirates. The company has reached agreements with 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm ...
Video-sharing phenom YouTube on Tuesday announced a content distribution deal with Verizon, the second-largest wireless carrier in the U.S. The deal marks YouTube's first strategic mobile distribution agreement and could signal a new trend for the Google-owned social networking Web site. In early De...
There are lots of software programs, as well as e-mail add-ons, to fight spam, but none are as clever or will give you the visceral satisfaction of Nyms. Nyms, which is sold on an annual subscription basis of US$19.95, is the cerebral spawn of the folks at Anonymizer, an Internet privacy and securit...
Watching the reports of video game console sales early this holiday shopping season has been like watching a thoroughbred horse race. The only problem is two of the horses are already out of the race, at least temporarily. As anticipated, Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii sold out very quickly...
Spam is reaching unprecedented levels according to a survey released earlier this month by Internet security vendor Postini. The firm reported a 59 percent increase in spam from September to November, when it processed nearly 70 billion e-mail connections. Unwanted e-mail has now reached a whopping ...
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