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Article | 29/11/2006 Study: Thousands lose cell phones, gadgets in taxis

A new survey says about 12,000 electronic devices -- no doubt many of them unsecured -- were left behind in taxi cabs during a six-month period earlie...

Article | 12/10/2006 Super stealthy Internet messaging method revealed

A pair of Princeton University researchers presented a paper this week on a method for sending secret messages over existing public fiber-optic networ...

Article | 11/10/2006 Microsoft adds to web browser lead at Firefox's expense

With Internet Explorer, Microsoft has increased its share of the global web browser market to 85.85 percent, a gain that comes at the expense of Mozil...

Article | 29/09/2006 Google's Summer of Code wraps for 2006

The 2006 season of the Google's US$3 million open source student development program is drawing to a close, with some of the resulting software alread...

Article | 29/09/2006 Intel offers $1 million bounty for sexy PC design

Intel this week said it is offering as much as US$1 million in prizes to the PC designer and maker that builds the most stylish small computer optimiz...

Article | 26/09/2006 If a PC mouse sickens you, this could be gadget for you

Is your mouse making you sick? Iogear Sept. 25 unveiled a possible cure for your ills: its Germ Free Wireless Laser Mouse.

Article | 27/07/2006 Man accused of shoving phone down woman's throat

An trial began this week in America, in which prosecutors say a man forced a cell phone down a woman's throat but the defense say says the woman swall...

Article | 26/07/2006 Group to promote domain-level accreditation

In an effort to bolster e-mail user confidence and see that more legitimate business correspondence finds its way to intended recipients, a vendor gro...

Article | 21/07/2006 Man hangs dead from the ceiling, yet remains online

A play about a man who hangs dead from the ceiling of his apartment while his computer program maintains the facade that he is still alive was among t...

Article | 29/05/2006 Microsoft's Commerce Server 2007 nears completion

Microsoft has released a near-final version of its software for building e-commerce sites and renamed the product Commerce Server 2007, from Commerce ...

Article | 26/05/2006 New threat: Computer files hidden in digital images

The emergence of software that enables hiding digital code in photographic images has given criminals a new way to disguise their activities, but rese...

Article | 8/05/2006 Head-spinning chip research at UCLA

Bill O'Reilly's got the No Spin Zone. Engineers at the UCLA have a Nano Spin Zone.

Article | 19/04/2006 Phish me once, shame on me

By now, you'd think that nobody would be gullible enough to fall for a phish. But you'd be wrong.

Article | 27/03/2006 Who's connected to Internet2? Maybe your kids

Internet2 isn't just for hardcore researchers anymore. A survey by the not-for-profit consortium shows that 46,000-plus K-12 schools, libraries, museu...

Article | 16/03/2006 Researchers: Search engine censorship has impact

Indiana University researchers have created a Web site that highlights differences in query results provided by country-specific search engines, such ...