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Groups redirect health-care ads to cheer and jeer Democrats.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 10th 2009
Microsoft Yanks Support for Family Guy Special
Microsoft is withdrawing its support for a Family Guy show special that will be airing Nov 8 on the Fox network because the computer giant decided that some of the humor is offensive and edgy and does not fit with the brand image it is trying to project, according to ABC News.
The 30-minute clip, "Family Guy Presen [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 27th 2009
'New Technology' Enabled Terrorists in Mumbai Attacks
Terrorists that struck Mumbai last month demonstrated sophisticated use of modern technology to organize their attacks. The news casts a less jocular sheen on a recently-released US Army report about seemingly-idle mobile and web technologies that could be used to enable terrorism.
Before launching their att [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 9th 2008
TruMedia: Facial Recognition Boards Won't Record, Share Data
Following a New York Times article about billboards with facial-recognition-based tracking systems -- which caused a privacy stir -- TruMedia Technologies sent a letter to the paper explaining it would never record or store any video from the billboards, MediaBuyerPlanner [...]
Posted: Friday, June 13th 2008
Spammers Crack CAPTCHA; ReCAPTCHA to the Rescue?
SecurityLabs has written an analysis on how spammers increasingly evade Captcha to impersonate humans with bots.
CAPTCHA, or "the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart," is a common line of defense against comment spam and false registrations on websites.
Last year CAPTCHA re [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 22nd 2008
Microsoft Loses Cool, Gives Yahoo Three-Week Ultimatum
Microsoft has sent Yahoo a letter stating it has three weeks to move on its $44.6 billion buyout offer.
If the companies fail to form a pact by then, "we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors," wrote CEO Steve Ballmer of Microsoft.
90 percent of Yahoo's shareholders are [...]
Posted: Monday, April 7th 2008
Virgin Media Considers Three-Strikes Policy for UK Piracy
UK ISP Virgin Media and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) are discussing the possibility of a "three-strikes" copyright policy, reports Ars Technica.
The policy would boot copyright infringers offline after three infractions. BPI enforcement agents would detect IP numbers for users on illegal P2P networks, then alert Virgin, which will warn violators [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 1st 2008
Online Shoppers Expect More, Retailers Get One Chance to Impress
67 percent of consumers say their expectations about the quality of their online shopping experience increased from last year.
80 percent say they would would be less likely to return to a retailer's site after a negative online shopping experience, according to an Allurent survey, [...]
Posted: Monday, February 4th 2008
Apple Icon Bashes Android and Kindle, Lauds Macbook Air
In an interview with John Markoff of The New York Times, Steve Jobs aired his personal views on the Amazon Kindle, Google's Android and the Macbook Air, which was released yesterday.
"Having [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 17th 2008
Study: Facebook Is Slow and Unresponsive
A new study by WatchMouse finds that Facebook is slow and unresponsive compared with many other major sites.
WatchMouse monitored 104 sites and placed Facebook at the bottom of the list because of slow loading times and frequent errors.
WatchMouse measured the sites' performance using its Site Performance Index, which "quantifies the user perception of speed and availability of a site in a single number."
AÂ score of 500 signifies good performance, and 1,500 or higher bad pe [...]
Posted: Friday, January 11th 2008
'Customer Affinity' New Measure of B2B Marketing Effectiveness
Despite increased focus on customer engagement, most B2B technology companies continue to fall short of meeting customer expectations and commitments, according to the results of a new research initiative by the Chief Marketing Officers Council, MarketingCharts reports [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 18th 2007
Secret Monitoring of Stores Finds Security Sadly Lacking
About 25 percent of stores’ access points exchange data -- including credit card and social security numbers -- without encryption, writes Boston.com.
This was discovered after covert monitoring of over 3,000 retail stores by wireless security company AirDefense Inc. The company found that half of these stores use wireless data systems that are vulnerable to hacking, [...]
Posted: Tuesday, November 20th 2007
U.S. Leads 'Dirty Dozen' Spam-Relaying Countries in Q3
Over the third quarter, the US (again) relayed more spam than any other nation, accounting for a massive 28.4 percent of all the world's spam emails sent through compromised computers, according to the latest Sophos study of the top 12 spam-relaying countries, reports MarketingCharts.
Me [...]
Posted: Tuesday, October 30th 2007
Usability of 50% of UK's Top High Street Retailer Sites Worse than '06
Though online sales revenue for holiday shopping in the UK this year is predicted to top £10 billion (source: IMRG), the UK's leading names in retail risk losing substantial revenues to sliding standards of online sales channels, according to a Webcredible study, [...]
Posted: Friday, October 19th 2007
Report: ID Theft Market Thrives in US; China Home to Most Infected Computers
Hackers just keep getting more sophisticated, according to a new report from Symatec Corp. Some, dubbed "criminal middlemen," sell code for as much as US$ 1,000 per program, reports Globe and Mail.
The hackers keep middlemen aboard by enlisting them in contracts, much like legit software makers such as Microsoft and Oracle. But in doing so, they leav [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 18th 2007
Tech-Savvy UK Teens Suffering from 'Junk Sleep'
The UK's Sleep Council has announced that "junk sleep" -- where teenagers distracted by electronics get less than 8 hours of sleep -- could rival junk food as a lifestyle issue.
A poll of 1,000 teens between 12 and 16 found that 30 percent got four to seven hours of sleep at most. A quarter said they fell asleep more than once a week while engaged with electronics - with the TV, the radio or the computer on.
"What we are seeing is the emergence of junk sleep - that is, sleep t [...]
Posted: Wednesday, August 29th 2007
Most Parents Concerned Kids Could Encounter Predators Online
Eight in ten parents (77 percent) with children between the ages of 12 and 17, inclusive, are concerned that their child could encounter sexual predators online, with a majority (51 percent) saying they are "very concerned" and a quarter (26 percent) saying they are "somewhat concerned," according to an Ipsos Reid poll of Canadian parents, repo [...]
Posted: Monday, August 6th 2007
OLPC Bestows Porn onto Guileless Third World Masses
With what can perhaps only be called an unexpected outcome of the greater good, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has inadvertently brought pornography to primary schools the world over.
At least, that's what the News Agency of Nigeria says, reports TechCrunch. A report from the agency finds laptops at a primary school in Abuja "have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult site [...]
Posted: Monday, July 23rd 2007
23 More Universities Make RIAA Piracy Hit List
The RIAA has just released around 408 pre-litigation settlement letters to 23 previously-unhampered universities nationwide, in its latest iteration of the "education and deterrence campaign" against "file-traffickers" launched earlier this year against college campuses.
Students are reminded that, to avoid additional sturm and drang, they may pay a thoughtfully discounted settlement fee - all online - at P2PLawsuits.com before the RIAA files a formal lawsuit.
The following 23 s [...]
Posted: Monday, July 23rd 2007