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separate them from their money and personal information. At least half
of BBB Online's list of the Top 10 scams of 2010 occur in whole or in part over the Internet.
TORONTO: Research In Motion RIM) founder Mike Lazaridis ordered a BBC reporter to stop the interview after he was asked questions about his problems with India and Middle East countries which are seeking accessing to BlackBerry enterprise emails in view of national security issues.
Radiation from cell phones could possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization.
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Google today said that it's "detected and disrupted" a plan to gain access to hundreds of Gmail accounts through phishing attacks.
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It looks like Twitter's recent app expansion effort might just be getting started.
Intel will try to mainstream thin laptops that take design cues from tablets, company executives said, as the chipmaker launches the new blueprint at the Computex trade show on Tuesday.
By using online databases of malware signatures and performing scans remotely, Trend Micro and Panda antivirus packages attempt to eliminate annoying updates and reduce the impact on PC performance.
A PBS NewsHour blog late Sunday proclaimed that murdered rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were still alive and living in New Zealand. No, NewsHour did not have an exclusive, but were the targets of malicious hackers who broke into the PBS servers and defaced the site. The group responsible, called Lulz Sec, also posted online what appeared to be more than two thousand PBS passwords and login IDs.
It's been a long time since CNET's first collection of Google Chrome tips, so we've got a new batch of tricks to help you get the most out of Google's browser. We've split our advice this time around into three categories: using Incognito, powering up with the "about:" commands, and keeping your hands on the keyboard with a list of 30 hot keys.
You can watch 3D videos via HTML5 on YouTube, starting today. The catch? This new feature is limited to Firefox 4, and to people who have a specific kind of Nvidia graphics card.
Who says you can't make money online? Prison guards at a Chinese prison camp are reportedly forcing inmates to smash rocks by day and play World of Warcraft at night. The purpose of the all-night WoW sessions is to obtain virtual gold by completing in-game tasks. The prison bosses then turn around and sell the virtual gold in the real world making as much as $930 a day, according to the Guardian. Called "gold farming," the practice is not uncommon and it's believed as many as 100,000 full-time virtual gold farmers operate in China alone.
The technology press has lumped Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 into a growing category of Macbook Air competitors, but now that I've used one for awhile, I can tell you it doesn't really belong there. Though the X1 is the thinnest ThinkPad ever, it is still considerably thicker and heavier than Apple's razor-thin laptop. This isn't to say that it's thick or heavy (it isn't) or that it is inferior to the Air or other superslim laptops like the Samsung Series 9. It's just a different product for a different market: business travelers who like to travel light.
Asus has posted teaser pics on Facebook for three new devices it will introduce at Computex the week of May 30: a smartphone-tablet mystery device, a revamped Eee PC netbook, and "a tablet that jumps out at you."
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Microsoft plan to unveil a new operating system designed for tablets within days, according to Bloomberg.
Multi-core processors promise a big performance boost for servers, PCs and even smartphones, but much work remains to get the most out of these new chips. North Carolina State University researchers are among those seeking to maximize what multi-core processors have to offer.
PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their trade secrets in the area of mobile payments and point-of-sale strategies.
The criminal art of spear phishing, email spoofing that aims to get the recipient to click on a bad link or attachment, has been around for years. But that doesn't mean it's become any less effective. According to figures from the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), which compiles information from federal, state and local governments, commercial enterprises, U.S. citizens and foreign CERT teams, phishing attacks accounted for 53 percent of all security incidents in 2010.
Stopping spam is an almost futile effort if the focus continues to be on spam filtering and botnet takedown, according to a research team from the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, Berkeley, The International Computer Science Institute and Budapest University. These measures are simply like cutting the head off of a hydra monster, because spammers quickly find ways to replace lost resources.
PayPal buyer protection policy announced new and improved for consumers throughout the Asia Pacific region who wish to shop online.
PayPal is increasingly expanding its services to reach out to remittance to the mobile (phone). Globe GCash, mobile wallet services are growing rapidly in Asia, announced that the U.S. PayPal users can now transfer funds to the Philippine mobile phone users.
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Microsoft Corp. is getting closer to a deal to buy internet telephone company Skype Technologies for U.S. $ 8.5 billion, including debt.
