Live phishing shows risk of personal info

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Despite all the warnings about giving out personal information, many people still freely give away seemingly innocuous details that can be used to crack their passwords, according to the results of a "live phishing" survey.


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Boosting the capabilities of emergency relief efforts

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Humanitarian relief efforts are often hampered by the inability of the different international and local bodies involved to properly communicate and share information. European researchers have come up with a new system to ...

VeriSign sells Jamba mobile to News Corp.

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Internet infrastructure company VeriSign announced on Tuesday it had sold its minority share in a mobile entertainment joint venture to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for 200 million dollars.

Web ad sales dipped from previous quarter

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(AP) -- U.S. Internet advertising revenue dipped slightly in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, which likely is a ripple effect from the bad economy given that prior to 2008 the market had seen several ...

'Mail Goggles' might prevent e-mail regrets

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(AP) -- Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty.

Ads to the rescue as distraction from root canals

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(AP) -- Talk about your captive audience. Advertising is coming to the dentist's chair in the form of personal video goggles that patients wear while getting their cleaning or root canal.
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