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Archive for June, 2010

Sprint to help connect gadgets to the Net

30 Jun 2010

For many cell phone users, including myself, this is still painfully slow when trying to surf the Internet on my smartphone. Most times I’d still prefer to use a regular Internet connection instead of the one I get with my
Apple iPhone 3G. That said, the speeds and connectivity offered over the 3G network using [...]

iPhone 3G The waiting is getting old

28 Jun 2010

And, gadget freaks, if you’re just waiting there to get the iPhone and play with it for months on end, just keep in mind that the original iPhone had no shortage issues until the new version was in the works and Apple stopped making Version 1.0. Also keep in mind that you’re waiting in line [...]

Yahoo’s largest investor doubles down

23 Jun 2010

Capital World Investors increased its Yahoo stake to 10.1 percent, when it bumped up its ownership to 135,542,600 shares, as of March 31.

Yahoo’s largest institutional investor nearly doubled its stake in the Internet search pioneer, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.

That’s a 95 percent increase from its Yahoo [...]

Making the Internet safe for kids, one vid at a ti

22 Jun 2010

(Credit:
CNET Networks)

The right-side nav is taken up by the social-networking features, but again there’s little cause for concern by parents. Kids can not e-mail or instant message each other, and there is no personal information that gets revealed when your child “friends” another. They can only see each other’s avatars, known as Zuis within [...]

Pandora says Net radio vote is too close to call

18 Jun 2010

Update at 5:50 p.m. PDT: The House actually did weigh in on the bill on Saturday, passing it unanimously by a voice vote.

Proponents of Web radio stations are predicting a very close vote in Congress on a bill that they paint as life or death.

Asked which way Congress was leaning, Pandora founder Tim Westergren [...]

Little things to Buzz about Yahoo tweaks social-n

16 Jun 2010

Yahoo Buzz remains in a beta test phase, but the company says it’s growing fast despite major congestion in the social news and meme-tracking market. New publishers continue to roll into the program, and Yahoo has a perk that even Digg can’t offer: placement on the Yahoo front page for heavily “buzzed” stories. That’ll get [...]

Fake parking tickets direct to malicious Web site

04 Jun 2010

(Credit:
SANS, McAfee)
“The initial program installed itself as a browser helper object (BHO) for Internet Explorer that downloaded a component from childhe.com and attempted to trick the victim into installing a fake anti-virus scanner from bestantispyware securityscan.com and protectionsoft warecheck.com,” wrote SANS analyst Lenny Zeltser.
The Web site listed on the fake parking citations urges [...]