Phishing Scam Uses PayPal Secure Servers

A cross-site scripting flaw in the PayPal Web site allows a new phishing attack to masquerade as a genuine PayPal log-in page with a valid security certificate, according to security researchers.

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-read full story from PCWorld.com, June 16 2006

VoIP Will Kill Off Traditional Landlines In Europe: Report

VoIP will kill off the use of traditional landlines in Europe, due to the appeal of new fixed-mobile telephone services, says two new reports by JupiterResearch.

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-read full story from Infoworld.com, June 15 2006

Skype and Vonage: Can You Hear The VoIP Bubble Bursting?

It's looking more and more as if the VoIP hype bubble is going the way of the Internet bubble. Skype, bought for up to $4.1 billion by eBay, is turning out to be a bad investment, and as for the Vonage IPO -- it's more than 40% under its IPO price of a few weeks ago, and heading south.

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-read full story from Infoworld.com, June 16 2006

This Social Networking Site Means Business

Few if any social networking Web sites, and none of the big ones, have yet claimed to make money. But one has come close.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, June 16 2006

Welsh email filterer can use 'spam' in trademark

It has settled an 18-month dispute with US foodstuffer Hormel over the right to use the popular term for unsolicited email in naming its product Botspam. Hormel lawyers discovered they were not as likely to stop NetBop registering the name as they had thought, when Patent Office officials indicated NetBop were likely to win at a preliminary hearing in February.

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-read full story from The Register, June 16 2006

Yahoo Mail Worm May Be First Of Many As Ajax Proliferates

Companies are quickly embracing Ajax and related techniques for Web applications. Expect more security problems like the Yamanner worm along the way.

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-read full story from TechWeb.com, June 19 2006

EBay links US buyers and sellers via Skype

EBay pressed its bid to bolster trading at its online auction site by announcing on Wednesday that it would enable United States-based buyers to connect with sellers using its internet telephony service Skype.

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-read full story from SCMP.com, June 19 2006

Microsoft Shift Puts Networking Front And Center

Ray Ozzie's new gig as Microsoft Chief Software Architect exemplifies the company's reset course in a Software-as-a-Service world. Ozzie takes on the title from company co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates as part of a two-year transition that will give Gates more time for philanthropic work. Craig Mundie is now chief research and strategy officer. Both Ozzie and Mundie had been chief technology officers.

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-read full story from Networkingpipeline.com, June 16 2006