Intel eggheads push network envelope

Intel eggheads push network envelope

A high-performance wireless LAN chip, a multifunction personal sensor device and a new method of securing VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) were all on display Wednesday at Intel Corp. as researchers from around the company played show-and-tell with media and analysts.

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Microsoft: Windows antipiracy tool not spyware

Microsoft defended its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool this week against charges that it acts like spyware because it constantly checks in with Microsoft when a user boots a PC with the tool installed.

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Public Internet Channel project launched

A nonprofit organization focused on connecting poor people to the Internet launched on Thursday a campaign to create a wide-reaching central Web site designed to provide health, education and safety information.

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Google develops browser sync tool for Firefox

In another boost to Mozilla, Google has created a tool that lets users synchronize the settings of their Firefox browsers across multiple computers.

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Google Crushes Competitors

Google held on to its commanding lead as the preferred search engine in the U.S. in May, processing almost 60 percent of all queries filed, way ahead of its two closest competitors Yahoo and Microsoft.

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Weird "Ghost Spam" Testing Addresses

A wave of strange e-mails with strings of numbers as their only message are most likely a spammer's or hacker's test of his mailing list, several security companies concluded Thursday, and may presage a junk mail campaign or a malware attack.

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Spam Zombies Jump

The volume of spam surged in May by 20 percent, a security company said Thursday, as the number of new zombies -- compromised computers spewing junk mail without their users' knowledge -- increased by about the same amount.

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India has more than 100 million mobile phone users

The mobile subscriber base in India crossed the 100-million mark in May, making it one of the fastest-growing markets in the world, although it still lagged far behind China.

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