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Great in-store customer service is important, but excellent customer service after you leave, well that stands apart from the crowd. Best Buy has differentiated itself with...
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How to Avoid Getting Sued by a Former Employer
When the economy goes south, companies get desperate for business. Many resort to layoffs to boost their bottom lines. Some companies, like Fannie Mae, go so far as to cook...
Obama won the Web uptime race, too
Barack Obama had a slight advantage over rival John McCain during the U.S. presidential campaign: His Web site was online more often.
Open source management vendor takes on the cloud
Open source management software provider Hyperic this week introduced an upgrade to its platforms that lets IT managers monitor virtual environments, better plan for capacity...
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London hospitals almost back online after worm infection
Three London hospitals whose computer systems were infected with a relatively old worm are now almost back online.
Mumbai terrorism, worm warning, holiday woe
A wave of coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai late Wednesday dominated the news this week, with bloggers and people using Twitter helping to get information to...
How spyware nearly sent a teacher to prison
If there's a poster child for the dangers of spyware, it's Julie Amero.
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Estonian ISP cuts off control servers for Srizbi botnet
An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers,...
Feuding India, Pakistani hackers deface web sites
Indian and Pakistani hackers have once again taken politics to the web, hacking and defacing web sites in the two countries.
Spammers regaining control over Srizbi botnet
The zombie computers used to send spam are coming back to life.
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Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spamming
A big spam-spewing botnet shut down two weeks ago has been resurrected, security researchers said Wednesday, and is again under the control of criminals.
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Microsoft warns of malware exploiting known vulnerability
Microsoft is warning users of a rise in attacks on a vulnerability in Windows that could trigger a worm infestation on networks, and the company is encouraging companies to...
Lenovo service disables laptops with text message
If a laptop is lost, now there is a new way to remotely shut it down -- just text it.
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Experts to Feds: Sign the DNS root ASAP
Internet security gurus and leading vendors are urging the U.S. federal government to rapidly deploy security and authentication mechanisms at the top level of the DNS...
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Seven classic PC symptoms
As a small-business person, you might bemoan the fact you don't have 24/7 IT support like your larger-scale competitors. Don't panic. You can solve many of the most common...
Spam levels fluctuate as crooks try to revive botnets
Two weeks after a hosting firm's shutdown sent global spam volumes plummeting, some researchers continue to claim that junk mail rates remain dramatically down, while others...
Spam is silenced, but where are the feds?
On Oct. 14, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, with help from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and New Zealand police, announced that it had shut down a vast...
Symantec takes cybercrime snapshot with 'Underground Economy' report
The criminal market online for buying and selling stolen credit cards, pirated software and information about financial accounts is thriving, according to a Symantec report...
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Surveillance system helps police snare shooters
A network of electronic ears is quietly monitoring more than six square miles of high-crime Boston neighborhoods, listening for the telltale sounds of gunfire ripping,...
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World Wiki Plus for iPhone
Apple's App Store lately bears a curious resemblance to the American book trade of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At the time, Congress hadn't gotten around yet to...
Singapore's StarHub offers femtocell service
Singaporean operator StarHub is rolling out a femtocell service that allows mobile subscribers to make calls at home using their broadband Internet connections instead of the...
Analyst: Mobile data will continue boom in '09
There will be more than 36 million laptops connected to mobile data networks in Western Europe in 2009, compared to the 26 million estimated for the end of this year,...
WriteRoom for iPhone
I’m sure you’ve been in a store and had the idea of a lifetime. You frantically search around you for a slip of paper to jot it down, but you can’t find anything. You turn to...
Nokia to pull out of Japanese handset market
The world's largest cell phone maker is pulling out of one of the world's biggest cellular markets. Nokia said on Thursday that it will stop developing handsets for NTT...
In Mumbai, bloggers and Twitter offer help to relatives
Bloggers pitched in offering information and other help to people worldwide as Indian police and commandos battled it out Thursday with armed terrorists in two top hotels and...
Nokia wants to automate your home
Nokia is developing a device to link mobile phones to home automation systems. Using a mobile phone consumers will be able monitor and control security, heating, and...
Europe to cap prices for roaming text messages and data
European telecommunications ministers gave their backing on Thursday to a plan to cap retail prices for sending SMS (Short Message Service) text messages and browsing the...
Who's been reading my cell-phone records?
If Verizon Wireless employees could snoop into then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama's cell-phone records, as the carrier acknowledged last week, then mobile subscribers may worry...
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Indians see mobile phones as a necessity in economic crisis
India's mobile services market continues to be buoyant, despite the global economic slowdown that has hit the Indian economy.
HTC's real iPhone rival stands up: the Touch HD
High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest maker of smartphones that use Microsoft's Windows Mobile software, launched the Touch HD handset in Taipei on Wednesday, a...
UK bans Apple 3G iPhone advertisement
The U.K.'s advertising regulator banned a video advertisement for Apple's 3G iPhone, saying Wednesday that the ad exaggerates the phone's speed and is misleading.
Talking Web, memory assistants and solar-powered cell phones headed mainstream, IBM says
A talking Web, solar technology embedded in windows and cell phones, and the end of forgetting will all come in the next five years, IBM predicts in its third annual Next...
U.K. advertising watchdog bans 'misleading' iPhone ad
How fast is "really fast"? Well, according the United Kingdom's Advertising Standards Agency, it's not nearly fast enough. At question is a commercial for the iPhone 3G that...
rRootage for iPhone
Japanese developer Kenta Cho has developed a reputation for distillation. Not of the alcohol kind, but rather, for taking the essence of the shmup--the shoot 'em up--and...
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Hands on with the HTC Touch HD
Taiwanese smartphone developer High Tech Computer (HTC) debuted its biggest threat to the iPhone 3G yet earlier this week, the HTC Touch HD, and I had a chance to use one for...
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Panasonic forecasts 90 percent drop in profits this year
Citing a "sharp deteriation" in business conditions, Panasonic has slashed its full-year sales and profits forecasts.
Japan consumer electronics shipments turn negative
Consumer electronics shipments in Japan registered their first year-on-year fall in 17 months in October as consumers cut-back on gadget spending and stores ordered less...
Canon PowerShot SD880 IS
Canon's PowerShot SD880 IS is a compact point and shoot digital camera. Part of Canon's Digital Elph family, the camera shoots 10-megapixel photos, has 4x optical zoom, and...
Greenpeace: Companies not serious about climate change
Consumer electronics giants Apple, Dell, Motorola, Microsoft, Nintendo and Samsung have been slow to get serious about climate change, and are notably lagging behind,...
Digital Gear: iPhone clone tries to whip up a storm
The iPhone has stolen the hearts of millions, but nowadays it's far from the only slick-looking touch-screen phone in town. Two recent additions to the pack are T-Mobile's...
Nokia opens new research center in Hollywood
Nokia has opened a new research facility in Hollywood, where it plans to develop a range of entertainment-related applications and technologies.
Palm lays off workers
Struggling smartphone maker Palm has laid off employees worldwide, but the company declined to say how many workers are affected.
BlackBerry Storm: not just an iPhone wannabe
Is Research In Motion Ltd.'s new BlackBerry Storm just an Apple iPhone wannabe or is it an innovative, highly usable smart phone in its own right? The answer: Yes, on both...
Hands on with Optoma's pocket Pico projector
This year's International Consumer Electronics Show saw the debut of some of the first prototype video projectors that are as small as cell phones. Now, just 10 months later,...
Hands on with Optoma's pocket Pico projector
This year's International Consumer Electronics Show saw the debut of some of the first prototype video projectors that are as small as cell phones. Now, just 10 months later,...
Japan's music downloads rise 30 percent in Q3
Japan's Internet music market saw healthy growth in the third quarter of this year but a collapse in the once-mighty ringtone market led to mixed results for the cell phone...
Sonos Multi-Room Music System 2.7
Read enough reviews and you understand that part of a reviewer's job is to present an unemotional -- even detached -- evaluation of Product X, Y, or Z. For this reason, you...
Microsoft Zune users now get to keep some tracks
Microsoft announced Thursday changes to the terms of its Zune Pass subscription service, allowing subscribers to keep some tracks each month as part of their permanent...
New handsets needed for Microsoft's mobile IE6
Microsoft faces a tough sell with its latest mobile browser, Internet Explorer 6, since consumers will need to buy more powerful handsets to run it.
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Doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison for child porn
A Florida family practice doctor has been sentenced to 33 years and nine months in prison for receipt and possession of child pornography, the latest in a long line of child...
Cisco shutting down between holidays
For the first time in its history, Cisco will be shutting down during the year-end holiday season to save money.
Georgia outsources management of its network to AT&T
Georgia has signed a $346 million contract to become the first state to outsource the entire management of its IP and voice network to AT&T.
Obvious mistakes caused Europeana site failure
"Brussels, we have a problem." That was the message to the paymasters behind Europeana, an Internet portal designed to pool all of Europe's most treasured cultural icons, as...
Alcatel-Lucent unleashes on large enterprises
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