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From California Computer News: Last year, someone took a bulky old-style phone and made a cell-phone headset out of it. It was at once the dorkiest and coolest headset around and understandably a big hit online. This is not an isolated case. At Radio Shack, you can now buy modern phones that look so old-fashioned …
From MSNBC: Web retailer Amazon.com Monday said it would offer online photo developing services through a partnership with leading Internet photo service Shutterfly as it targets a fast-growing market. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Amazon said the service would allow customers to design photo cards, calendars, photo books and gifts such as …
From BBC: Nearly half of the UK’s net users go to eBay monthly, and most of them are older surfers, according to net monitoring firm Nielsen/Netratings. About a fifth are considered heavy users, browsing on the online auction site for two hours or more per month. The site seems to appeal most of all to …
From VNUnet: Phishers are rapidly becoming more sophisticated with the development of malicious crimeware software that can bypass conventional IT security systems and steal identity information for financial crime, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) warned today. In July 2005, APWG researchers found that phishers are designing systems specifically to neutralise the counter-phishing technologies being deployed …
From CNet News: Standing in front of a refrigerated case at the 7-Eleven store in Rockwall, Texas, on a Friday morning, store manager Sherry Neal considered a seemingly mundane, but in fact important, decision: how many chicken salad sandwiches to order for the next day. To aid her decision, Neal held a new lightweight wireless …
The latest issue of Windows IT Pro magazine has an informative article about Windows Error Reporting. Have you ever noticed that when a program crashes on a recent Microsoft operating system, that a little window pops up asking if you want to send an error report? Well, that is the Windows Error Reporting. If you …
The Centre for Bug Smart Living™ is a helpful family resource for information on bugs, insect control products, bug sprays and repellents, health and safety, legislation and common bug problems. This is a web site by SC Johnson, so any products that are mentioned are theirs, but it still contains a lot of useful information. …