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Researchers enhance spam call filtering

Researchers in Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT are developing a new system for filtering spam calls in a flexible way. Spam calls (junk calls or Spam for Internet Telephony, SPIT) are unwanted calls often ...

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created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US senators seek to squash spam

Two US senators declared war on spam on Thursday. Senator Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, and Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat from Florida, introduced legislation aimed at curbing unsolicited text ...

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created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3




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Microsoft slams Google user data policy in new ads

Microsoft Corp. took out full-age ads in major newspapers Wednesday, slamming privacy policy changes at search rival Google Inc. that allow it to merge user data across its services.

Technology / Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Big tech companies team up to combat email scams

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing.

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created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6

Facebook, Washington state target online spam

Facebook is partnering with Washington state to combat a type of spam called "clickjacking" that is plaguing the social networking site, company and state officials announced Thursday.

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created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

O2 accidentally exposes customers' phone numbers

An untold number of U.K. residents may have unwittingly broadcast their numbers to sites across the Web while browsing the Internet with their cellphones during the past two weeks.

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Improving web search

Research from Victoria University could help search engines understand people’s queries much better.

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created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Review: Google Docs, the perfect bridesmaid

(AP) -- For do-most-of-it-yourself brides, wedding planning means lists, lists and more lists, with some spreadsheets thrown in for good measure. There are also the long, endlessly pored-over documents of ...

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Probing Question: How are museums keeping up with the changing times?

From America’s oldest collection, Charleston Museum, circa 1773, to its tiniest—the 134-square-foot World’s Smallest Museum; from the majestic American Museum of Natural History to the head-scratching ...

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created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spammers propel India to junk-mail top spot

India has emerged as the world's top source of junk mail as spammers make use of lax laws and absent enforcement to turn the country into a centre of unsolicited email.

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created Jan 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBM reveals five innovations that will change our lives in the next five years (Update)

Today IBM formally unveiled the sixth annual “IBM 5 in 5" (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.

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created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (25) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Swiss exhibition works to help information junkies

The Libyan war, the Greek debt crisis and the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal have all been rich fodder this year for news junkies -- but is today's information overload healthy?

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created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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