
Updated : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:53:49 GMT
PC World - Conficker may not dominate the headlines any longer, but it's still going strong, according to Trend Micro's Malware Blog and stats from the Conficker Working Group. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:56:00 GMT
PC World - Less than a week after the iPhone app developer behind Hottest Girls was busted for distributing pornographic material on the iPhone, another perpetrator sneaked in and posted what is purported to be a photo of a nude 15-year-old girl to its iPhone app. The app, named BeautyMeter, has been removed in line with Apple's policy against pornographic material. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:22:00 GMT
PC World - In the past eight months, Ask.com has unfurled a set of changes to its search engine that the IAC unit calls a success, although its share of U.S. search queries has actually shrunk during that time period. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:40:14 GMT
Reuters - Oracle Corp plans to lay off up to 1,000 workers in Europe, or about 1 percent of its global staff, as the recession erodes the giant software company's earnings, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:28:20 GMT
NewsFactor - Mozilla is scrambling to fix bugs in its just-released Firefox 3.5 browser. Users are posting complaints about problems across the Web. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:40:00 GMT
AP - As much as he enjoys singing about the double lives of computer geeks ("Online") and amorous country boys ("Ticks"), Brad Paisley says there's too much going on in the world to be too lighthearted on his new album, "American Saturday Night."
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:01:31 GMT
PC World - Some AT&T and iPhone customers are angry over delayed delivery of voicemail messages. Sometimes, they say, a voicemail message may not appear in their inbox for several days after it was recorded. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:18:00 GMT
AP - Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site. Publ.Date : Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:14:15 GMT
AP - Sometimes Twitter can make newcomers feel like twits because the online messaging service isn't as simple as it sounds.
Publ.Date : Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:24:06 GMT
Reuters - Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other smartphones but victims now can fight back with technology. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:53:49 GMT
PC World - What's worse than paying $50 a year more than Games For Windows Live gamers, just to play Xbox 360 games online? Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:36:00 GMT
Macworld.com - They say the iPhone 3GS is hot. Hot as in sexy. Hot as in selling like cakes that are hot. Hot as in “scorch the skin off your face Raiders of the Ark-style.†Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:00:00 GMT
AP - Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:08:24 GMT
Reuters - Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion filed late on Tuesday.
Publ.Date : Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:51:28 GMT
AP - When the Sony Walkman went on sale 30 years ago, it was shown off by a skateboarder to illustrate how the portable cassette-tape player delivered music on-the-go — a totally innovative idea back in 1979.
Publ.Date : Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:27:20 GMT
AP - Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:43:36 GMT
AP - In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence. Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:34:20 GMT
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