Phishers Snare Victims With VoIP

Phishers Snare Victims With VoIP

Phishers Snare Victims With VoIPA security firm on Tuesday reported discovering a phishing scheme in which the scammers used Internet telephony to copy a bank's automated voice system in order to steal customers' passwords, account numbers and other personal information.

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-read full story from messagingpipeline.com, April 25 2006


Internet2 Network Aims to Boost Capacity

By sending data using different colors of light, operators of the ultrahigh-speed Internet2 network are hoping to boost capacity by as much as 80-fold to enable researchers to connect telescopes around the world and perform other bandwidth-intensive tasks.

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-read full story from Yahoo! News, April 27 2006


Review: Webaroo Service Too Good to Be True

It sounds too good to be true: the highlights of the Web squeezed into a data file small enough to fit on your laptop or mobile phone, letting you browse even when you don't have a live Internet connection. After giving Webaroo a whirl, I found that it is, indeed, too good to be true.

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-read full review from Yahoo! News, April 26 2006


Hotmail's new address

After months of reworking the venerable Web mail program, Microsoft's team had made all the easy fixes: They'd added more colors and even offered a way to make the new Windows Live Mail look just like the old Hotmail.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, April 26 2006


AT&T boosts DSL speeds, adds new services

AT&T has increased the speed of its broadband service and has struck deals with Starz Entertainment to offer a new video download service and with Yahoo to offer Internet telephony.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, April 26 2006


New Nokia Phones Make The Internet Connection

Nokia Corp. on Tuesday said it has sold 5 million Nseries multimedia phones since launching the product line last year, and plans to expand its offerings with three new devices.

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-read full story from InternetNews.com, April 25 2006


Google.com pushes Firefox browser

Mozilla's Firefox is getting promoted on one of the world's most popular Web pages, Google.com, as the open-source browser continues its David-vs.-Goliath battle against Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 26 2006


Sphere prepping to sort out the blogosphere

With more than 35 million blogs and over 50,000 posts per hour, the need for really good blogosphere search tools is even more critical. Technorati, IceRocket, Google and Yahoo, among others, are plowing the blog search ground. They are now trying to bring more intelligent filtering to the blogosphere, allowing the “cream” to rise to the top.

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-read full story from ZDNet.com, April 25 2006