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Hackers are in the early stages of targeting voice-over IP telephony accounts according to one VoIP equipment maker.
Private information, including usernames and passwords from VoIP phone accounts are being sold online for more than stolen credit cards Newport Networks says. The information lets hackers use the telephone service for free.
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This article was going to be a quick roundup of Google's response to the earthquake in China - mention a donations page here, a map there, done. As it turns out, though, the company didn't provide much material.
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This year brings bad news for .org domain owners. Public Internet Registry (PIR), the company that operates the .org domains, is raising its rates by 10% or $.60.
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Last month, Google had incorporated a new feature in Google Maps, called 'Street View'. Besides fetching directions for a destination, this feature enabled users to view images of their destination and its routes as well.
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I am just on the way out the door but I caught this (opens in PDF) excellent news release by Nielsen/NetRatings stating that "one in four members of UK social networks use their phones to network." Now considering that Europeans tend to be dramatically ahead of North Americans in cellular adoption this statistics release seemed worth of attention.
Here is a chart that really drove home the popularity of social networking via mobiles (click the image for a larger version):
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I’m getting snowed under, even with following 92 twitterers, possibly because I live 12 hours in the future (GMT+8 vs GMT-5 for most Americans), and there’re pages of back tweets when I wake up every morning and check out my twitter account.
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If you aren’t a blogger you probably haven’t noticed this company named Disqus unless you really are paying attention when you leave a comment. But head over to Dave Winer’s blog, click on the comments, and if you leave a comment there, like I just did, you aren’t actually leaving it on Dave Winer’s blog. You’re using Disqus’s commenting service.
“So what?” you’re probably asking.
Well, there’s a few things that Disqus does.
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Microsoft offered a sneak peak back in February, and as of Tuesday the public beta of WorldWide Telescope has been made available, according to a Press Release issued by Microsoft.
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New stats show that Wikipedia isn't growing nearly as fast as it used to. The number of unique U.S. visitors to the site increased by an amazing 7,900 (or so) percent over the last five years, however, and Wikipedia seems to owe search engines for its continuing popularity.
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Human nature being what it is, people often find a way to complain about excellent free products. Yet following an admission that Google Analytics experienced errors for most of a week and permanently lost some data, users are taking the news rather well.
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