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Sex offenders must turn over Internet passwords

Brad Sams — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:03:42 +0000

Sex offenders who live in the state of Georgia have lost a lot more privacy. A new law that went into effect today requires all offenders not only give authorities their Internet email address... Read more...

Google Labs: Turn your email into a Google Doc

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:20:12 +0000

Google has released another experimental feature from their Google Labs offerings, that allows you to turn an email into a Google Doc. Quite often we might have lengthy email conversations that become tougher... Read more...

Net blamed as 10,000 kids turn to crime

James Hall — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:24:58 +0100

ABOUT 10,000 Victorian children aged 10 to 14 have been cautioned by police, arrested or ordered to appear in court in the past year, as a surge in youth crime continues. Victoria Police say the... Read more...

Windows users: Patch now or turn off Bluetooth

Steven Parker — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:54:20 +0100

Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday release included a critical fix affecting all Windows Vista and XP systems, which could allow attackers to wirelessly steal confidential information from laptops by exploiting a flaw in the Bluetooth stack.... Read more...

As WinXP Deadline Looms, OEMs Turn To Vista Downgrade Rights

Steven Parker — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:53:17 +0100

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Microsoft may be preparing to discontinue sales of Windows XP, but some OEMs have found a way to circumvent the software giant's June 30 deadline. In yet another sign of the market's resistance to Windows... Read more...

Hackers Turn Off Lights, Demand Cash

Sagittarius — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:01:30 +0000

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Hackers literally turned out the lights in "several regions outside the United States" after breaking into electrical utilities and demanding extortion payments before disrupting the power, senior CIA analyst Tom Donahue told utility engineers at... Read more...

Electronic Billboards Turn into Digital Wanted Posters

Sagittarius — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:31:16 +0000

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Orwell, eat your heart out: between ads for hamburgers and liposuction, several giant digital billboards on the street flashed an image of Oscar Finch's face taken by a surveillance camera. However, the young man wasn't... Read more...

Printer Manufacturers Turn to Cryptography

Christopher Vendemio — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:36:49 +0100

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It's no secret that printer manufacturers such as HP, Canon, Lexmark, and the rest of the crowd sell their printers for little to no profit in order to attract initial buyers. The real profit comes... Read more...

Malware doubles as hackers turn to web: report

Slimy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:08:04 +0100

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In the first quarter of 2007, security firm Sophos PLC identified 23,864 new malware threats, more than double the 9,450 the company found in the same period last year. The company's report said this growth... Read more...

Turn any web widget into a Vista Gadget

Slimy — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:59:45 +0000

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The Amnesty Generator for Windows is designed to easily convert any embeddable web site widget (including Google Gadgets) into a Vista Sidebar Gadget. Compared to Vista's Gadget library's relatively meager 275 gadgets, Google Gadgets for... Read more...

Dolby to Turn Volume Down on Loud Commercials

Slimy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:00:01 +0000

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Dolby. That's all I have to say and you think of "audio" and "surround sound". What's that company up to recently? Dolby Volume: a technology that equalizes the volume across all audio coming out of... Read more...

European rivals turn wary eye on Microsoft

Steven Parker — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:15:34 +0100

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European security software makers are closely, but quietly, watching as Microsoft enters their turf. Companies such as F-Secure, Panda Software and Sophos are taking a low-key approach, unlike their U.S. counterparts. Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec, in... Read more...

New Cordless Phones Let Skype Users Turn Off PC

Daylene — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:59:01 +0100

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Skype on Thursday announced cordless phones that do not require a running computer to use its Voice over Internet Protocol services. The new class of phones lets users make and receive Skype calls over... Read more...

Guide: How to turn a paper clip into a house

Timmah — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:39:01 +0100

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It sounds crazy, but one Canadian net-junky has managed to swap his way to owning his own house, starting out with a simple red paper clip. Kyle MacDonald, 26, took a year to swap 16... Read more...

Move Over Hyperthreading, it's Anti-Hyperthreadings Turn

Joe Cashman — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:25:36 +0100

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AMD are reportedly working on a sort of 'Anti-Hyperthreading', which could allow multiple physical CPU cores to emulate one physical core. The problem with dual (and soon quad) core processors like the AMD X2 range... Read more...

Intel to turn tables on AMD on desktop front

Steven Parker — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:16:04 +0000

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2006 WILL BE quite the interesting year on the desktop CPU front, with the year starting out firmly in AMD's grasp, and ending in Intel's. If both sides execute on their CPU roadmaps, and that... Read more...

Microsoft Developers Turn to Linux

malebolgia — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:47:25 +0100

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Developers using Microsoft's Latest News about Microsoft popular Visual Studio .Net software engineering suite were today offered a plug-in that allows them to code Web applications forLinux Latest News about Linux. Referred to as... Read more...

Microsoft VP: Smaller Xbox 2 will turn on Japanese consumers

malebolgia — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 02:57:23 +0100

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Microsoft's Peter Moore says his company's slimmed-down next-gen console will feature a software lineup more in line with the country's tastes. In an interview with Nikkei Business Express, Peter Moore, Microsoft's corporate... Read more...

Turn your GBA into a TV

malebolgia — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:23:26 +0100

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Wouldn't it be nice if you could watch TV on your GBA? Now you can at a pretty low price of Â£10.99. For this price you also get an AV in/out so you... Read more...

Lasers turn beam on TV recycling

malebolgia — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:32:25 +0100

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Recycling a TV or PC monitor has always been somewhat expensive. Mainly due to the long and tedious process involved (separation of recyclable goods). Now a laser technique that can separate materials in... Read more...