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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AOL fixes major email problem

AOL fixes major e-mail problem

AOL LLC has fixed a major problem that affected its tens of millions of e-mail users worldwide for several hours on Thursday, but what caused the snarl remains a mystery to the Internet access and services provider.

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China Passes Internet Piracy Law

Officials in China say the decision aims to balance copyright owners' rights with those of Internet service providers (ISPs) and users who download content from the Web. The provisions pertain to text, video and audio. They include 27 articles that take effect on July 1, said intellectual property attorney Gang Bai on Friday.

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Study Finds Companies Snooping On Employee E-Mail

Big Brother is not only watching but he is also reading your e-mail. According to a new study, about one-third of big companies in the United States and Britain hire employees to read and analyze outbound e-mail as they seek to guard against legal, financial or regulatory risk.

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Phishing Scam Takes Aim at MySpace.com

A phishing site that harvested the login and credentials of MySpace.com users was removed as of Friday from a California server, a security vendor reported.

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Google Adds Chat To Gmail

Google on Thursday incorporated instant messaging into its Web mail, making it possible to immediately chat with an email sender.

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Review: Motorola's 'BlackBerry killer'

Motorola's latest phone, out this week, shares its name with the iconic gadget guru of the James Bond movies: Q.

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Dell hooks up with Skype

Computer giant Dell has announced that it has paired off with global internet communications company Skype in the latest tech sector marriage. News of the happy union comes hot on the heels of Dell's recent infatuation with Google, and search engine Yahoo's hook-up with Skype's parent company, eBay.

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Microsoft Drops PDF From Office

Microsoft has decided to delete from the next version of Office an option to save documents in PDF after Adobe Systems threatened to take legal action.

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