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Twitterers should watch out for a security flaw on Twitter that can automatically redirect users to third-party sites and launch pop-ups--even without users clicking on the spurious links.Initially dubbed the Twitter "mouseover bug"--just hovering your mouse over an infected link can launch pop-ups and...
ONLINE scams targeting young people are proliferating faster than you can say, 'free trial offer, send money today'. As a result, billions are lost as online criminals target the young.About 10 per cent of all internet users lost a combined $1.2 billion in Australia to various scams last year, according to...
Google is making it tougher for computer hackers and other imposters to break into e-mail accounts and other password-protected services.An additional security measure introduced Monday will require typing a six-digit code after an accountholder's Google password is entered. The codes will be sent to...
Seek adult contents and ye shall not find. A number of new internet search engines created by Christian, Jewish or Muslim entities aim to filter out queries from web users in a way that is more relevant to those users and keeps them from temptation, alcohol and pornography. Meaning, censored results."We...
Social networking website Facebook said on Sunday it is pushing deeper into the mobile phones sector, but denied an Internet report that it will build its own phone.Privately held Facebook has more than 500 million users worldwide and the company already has applications on a number of mobile phones that...
Choices have consequences. That's what Nadya "Octomom" Suleman is finding out -- the hard way.After gaining notoriety for going full-term with eight children, to add to the six children she already had, the unmarried Suleman is now almost completely broke, and ready to go on welfare, RadarOnline.com...
Another unintentional spam mail received from a new acquaintance. As usual, the spam mail originated from a Yahoo Mail account, without a subject and a link as shown as .wordpres.me .... See the sample link below:http://myer630.wordpres.me/2009/03/are-overweight-or-obese.htmlOnce you click on that harmless...
It's more powerful than your current home network -- able to leap through tall buildings from a single port.Look, up in the sky.It's "SUPER Wi-Fi!"At least that's what U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is calling a new class of bigger-faster-better internet connections,...
The untapped potential of local online advertising just got tapped. Onlinead network Chitika today revealed their newest property, LAX Local Advertising Exchange, which takes the fast-growing power of local advertising and applies it to the proven power of the ad exchange. One of Chitika’s cornerstone...
Finding a job in a recession is difficult, but the jobs are out there. You just have to know where to look, and for some jobs, be willing to think outside the cube -- imagine selling tequila shots to drunken men for up to $600 a night, diving for pearls for $1,200 a day or diving below an oil rig for...
Spending a lot of time monitoring your blog traffic for clues and trends? Using Google Analytics probably can make your traffic monitoring more productive if you know how.Most common users of Google Analytics (GA) just use or analyse whatever GA presented on their individual dashboard. Some of the...
Tearful, angry victims of a $77 million Ponzi scheme that targeted hundreds of often working-class Italian-Americans crowded into a Chicago courtroom Thursday to tell their stories before a judge handed the convicted swindler a maximum 23-year prison term.The federal judge rejected prosecutors'...
Britain's advertising watchdog has banned an Italian ice cream ad featuring a pregnant nun, saying it causes offense to Catholics.The magazine ad for ice cream maker Antonio Federici showed the nun eating a tub of ice cream, with text that read: "Immaculately conceived ... Ice cream is our religion."The...
This is the second site that I encountered within the last 24 hours that is marked as being infected by Malware. Google Chrome will show the usual big no-entry sign when you visited www.dailychilli.com, a sex microsite for TheStar.com.myUsing Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page, the Malware could be...
An Arab goes to a Jew to buy black bras size 38.The Jew, known for his skills as businessman, says that black bras are rare and that he is finding it very difficult to buy them from his suppliers. Therefore he has to charge $50.00 for them.The Arab buys 25 pairs.He returns a few days later and this time...
Google Chrome flashed a big warning sign when I visited wn.com (World News). Apparently Chrome detected Malware in wn.com that originated from superstoreviagra.comSites peddling Viagra pills are notorious for harboring malware programs. How to be aware of Malware infected sites?First thing is to switch your...
Two men earned 250,000 pounds online through an unlicensed fertility company matching sperm donors with women trying to conceive, a court heard on Monday. I can't believed it that some women are willing to buy sperm online without going to a physical and authorized sperm banks.Under the Human Fertilization...
LG Electronic Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, aims to sell 10 million of its first smartphone, Optimus One, which will be distributed globally through some 120 carriers, as it seeks to turn around the loss-making mobile unit.The South Korean firm, which has no smartphones to yet reach the 1...
By - KHUSHWANT SINGHHaving lived a reasonably contented life, I was musing over what a person should strive for to achieve happiness. I drew up a list of a few essentials which I put forward for the readers' appraisal.1. First and foremost is GOOD HEALTH. If you do not enjoy good health you can never be...
When 19-year-old Stanford University student Feross Aboukhadijeh heard about Google Instant last week, he decided to build a video version of it - YouTube Instant. The result? Unexpectedly VIRAL.Technology giant Google spent years building its new search Google Instant - which predicts what users are...
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