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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 …
From eWeek: The number of Web sites distributing malicious software has quadrupled in the last year to more than 300,000, as the spyware problem continues to fester on the Internet, according to an upcoming report from Webroot , an antispyware software company. Webroot Software Inc.’s State of Spyware Report for the second quarter of 2005, …
From MSNBC: A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line. “This is total, total chaos,” said Latoya Jones, …
From CNet News: The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a .xxx domain, saying it has concerns about a virtual red-light district reserved exclusively for Internet pornography. Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary at the Commerce Department, has asked for a hold to be placed on the contract to run the new top-level domain until …
From ComputerWorld: U.S. consumers lambasted Dell Inc. for poor customer service in a survey conducted last quarter, sending the world’s largest PC vendor into a virtual tie with the rest of the PC market behind the industry-leading efforts of Apple Computer Inc. For the second year in a row, Apple received the best rating from …
From the International Herald Tribune: How big is the World Wide Web? Many Internet engineers consider that query one of those imponderable philosophical questions, like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. But the question about the size of the Web came under intense debate last week after Yahoo announced at …
From USA Today: The concept was simple at first: Frequent fliers would clear a background check, become “trusted travelers” and be sped through less stringent airport security. But now, the government’s small, 13-month-old test program known as Registered Traveler is provoking an intense and increasingly complicated debate about privacy and the proper roles of government …