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Coordinated teams of hacktivists will wage war on Sony on Monday to punish the company for supporting the controversial US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The Anonymous collective plans to hack Sony.com and load the homepage with BitTorrent files that allow users to download copyright-protected music and movies -- the very action SOPA is designed to prevent. Hackers also plan to strike Sony Music's online store, reducing the cost of songs to zero. http://www.freeturbine.com/index.php/news/concerts-news/item/anonymous-to-hack-sony-on-mondayCoordinated teams of hacktivists will wage war on Sony on Monday to punish the company... more
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Be aware of new online tracking system! It will allow websites to locate the user within a few hundred metres without permission. However, a new technique will reduce its radius.The Internet sites can get data about the user's internet connection and track the locations within 200 km. Leading website Daily Mail reports that a new technology however can minimise it to little as 100 metres.
LINK : http://www.breakingnewsonline.net/technology/8231-websites-tracking-users-without-permission.htmlBe aware of new online tracking system! It will allow websites to locate the user... more
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Millions of mobile phone users are paying almost £200 a year too much for ‘locked in’ packages of calls, texts and downloads, a study shows.
They are being fooled into forking out extra because they cannot find the best option among a bewildering array of about 10million handset and service combinations.
Industry estimates suggest 18million people have never changed their mobile tariff or handset and are wasting almost £5billion a year as a result.
Some 76 per cent of Britons on monthly deals are paying over the odds, signing up to tariffs after wrongly estimating how many minutes and text messages they use.
In total, subscribers are wasting money by being on the wrong contract, a study by Billmonitor, an Ofcom approved bill-analysis service, discovered.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1375699/Brits-waste-195-annual-mobile-phone-bills.html#ixzz1JImviSiZMillions of mobile phone users are paying almost £200 a year too much for... more
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Again? What is up with Facebook anyhow? Okay, once you post it online, it stays forever that much is true but I am sure there is a privacy issue here and they are breaching it.Again? What is up with Facebook anyhow? Okay, once you post it online, it stays... more
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As we all know that Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. It is the world's largest social network, with over 500 million users.As we all know that Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life.... more
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IT veteran Jeff Dray takes a lighthearted look at the types of people who call the help desk. We originally published Jeff's list back in 2001, but we've updated it a few times since then. And, I decided to pick a few photos the illustrate Jeff's great descriptions. Enjoy!
-- Bill Detwiler, Head Technology Editor
(click on the link)IT veteran Jeff Dray takes a lighthearted look at the types of people who call the... more
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Twitter's number of monthly unique visitors finally surpassed that of MySpace in August. Though it ranked third among social networking sites, Twitter ranked #50 in the list of top 50 properties overall. The numbers were crunched by the marketing research firm comScore.
Twitter's lead over MySpace was marginal -- 96 million versus 95 million -- but the trend over time paints a prettier picture of the microblogging service. Between August 2009 and August 2010, Twitter grew 76 percent while MySpace dropped 17 percent.
It's apples and oranges, though. Twitter is now a social publishing and news discussion platform more than anything, and MySpace is attempting to position itself as a destination for young people to discover new music, movies and games. Both appeal to brands that want to reach new people, but they're very different tools for very different kinds of brands.
Both sites look quite small next to Facebook, which reached 598 million monthly uniques in the same month. It grew 54% over the past year. The second most popular social network, Windows Live, managed 140 million uniques, putting it closer to Twitter than to Facebook.
LINK : http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/28/twitter.myspace/index.htmlTwitter's number of monthly unique visitors finally surpassed that of MySpace in... more
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Twitter Virus has spread havoc among the users of this largest social media blogging site of the world. Twitter is presently experiencing a fast spreading virus. The software security firm, Sophos has confirmed the Twitter virus news.
http://www.buzztab.com/latest-news/twitter-virus-creating-problems-users/Twitter Virus has spread havoc among the users of this largest social media blogging... more
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Gmail users who feel swamped by a virtual flood of messages will get some help sorting them out.Priority Inbox, a feature designed to push a user's most important e-mails to the top of the inbox and leave them there, was scheduled to be rolled out at midnight ET Monday.
LINK : http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/08/31/gmail.priority/index.html?hpt=Sbin#fbid=bOt3fX2Yirw&wom=falseGmail users who feel swamped by a virtual flood of messages will get some help sorting... more
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Study after study has shown that users are the weak link when it comes to security. Some of it, however, is not their fault: best security practices often go against everything we know about human behavior or mental capacity. A study that will be published in the Journal of Consumer Research adds another one to this list. It turns out that the warning signs that might tip users off to a web site that's more likely to compromise their personal information actually causes many users to treat said information casually.
To delve into these issues, the researchers first had to demonstrate that they could get random individuals to cough up personal information. To get there, they collaborated with The New York Times to create a web survey entitled "Test your ethics," which asked participants to rate the ethicality of a set of actions. But, in the process, users were asked to indicate whether they had ever engaged in those activities, under the pretense that it might color their ratings.
Answers varied a great deal based on the perceived intrusiveness of the question, but one pattern became clear: it was possible to get more people to answer that they had engaged in a given behavior if their own behavior was approached indirectly. If participants were asked about their participation as part of the rating process, they were about 1.5 times more likely to admit an ethical misstep than if they were simply asked point blank as a separate question. This suggested that a casual approach, which puts a participant at ease, is more likely to get them to cough up personal details.
The next few experiments took full advantage of this finding.
The researchers set up two survey web pages, one of which looked very official: it had the Carnegie Mellon University seal, and referred to a "Carnegie Mellon University Executive Council Survey on Ethical Behaviors." The other, well... Comic Sans featured heavily in the site design, and the survey page was entitled "How BAD Are U???" In a pre-test, far more people rated the official-looking page as a safer option for transmitting personal information.Study after study has shown that users are the weak link when it comes to security.... more
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In some ways, it might seem absurd to call Facebook a state and Mr Zuckerberg its governor. It has no land to defend; no police to enforce law and order; it does not have subjects, bound by a clear cluster of rights, obligations and cultural signals. Compared with citizenship of a country, membership is easy to acquire and renounce http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/425-facebook-stateIn some ways, it might seem absurd to call Facebook a state and Mr Zuckerberg its... more
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Traditionally, people assume they can prevent a website from identifying them by disabling cookies on their web browser. Unfortunately, this is not the whole story. When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer's configuration. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. But how effective would this kind of online tracking be? http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/342-find-out-what-fingerprintsTraditionally, people assume they can prevent a website from identifying them by... more
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