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Phishing Attacks Hit All-Time High - Elizabeth Millard, News Factor
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is saying that phishing attacks are more rampant now than ever, especially after last year, which saw steady growth of the online fraud. The number of unique fraud attacks launched over e-mail in November 2005 was n From Techno-News Blog on January 22, 2006 at 10:49 p.m..

PC market achieved double-digit growth in 2005 - Martyn Williams and Stacy Cowley, IDG News Service
Worldwide shipments of personal computers registered a double-digit percentage increase in 2005, according to figures published Wednesday by two major market analysts. Gartner estimated 218.5 million PCs were shipped in 2005 while IDC said it believes wor From Techno-News Blog on January 22, 2006 at 10:49 p.m..

Is Secure Computing Coming Soon? - David Needle, Internet News
The computer industry is saddled with old computers and outdated software among much of its user base and reactive security solutions that aren't always effective. That gloomy assessment from HP's vice president and CTO of services came toward the end of From Techno-News Blog on January 22, 2006 at 10:49 p.m..

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This feed has been discontinued and you should unsubscribe. The feed reader you are using does not support standard HTTP mechanisms for announcing that a feed has been discontinued so you will receive this message until you manually unsubscribe. Please contact the provider of your feed reader and encourage them to support the use of HTTP 410 response codes. Your feed reader identified itself as "Edu_RSS/0.2 libwww-perl/5.79" From Seb Schmoller's Fortnightly Mailing Home Page on January 22, 2006 at 8:50 p.m..

El regreso de los heartbeaters
Se han integrado al paisaje urbano y estÃ¡n por todas partes: en la calle, en los medios de transporte, en los gimnasios, en los ascensoresâ€¦, gentes que van por la vida conectados a su mÃºsica mediante auriculares (que sumados a los que viven colgados del mÃ³vil acaban conformando el retrato ... From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 22, 2006 at 3:52 p.m..

Entrevista en Radio Enciclopedia
Nora RodrÃguez me entrevista en el portal cubano Radio Enciclopedia From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 22, 2006 at 3:52 p.m..

Todo sobre Google
MonogrÃ¡fico de PC Cuadernos sobre Google: Llega al nÃºmero 1 en Google (nro. 28, enero de 2006, 80 pp., 5 euros). From eCuaderno v.2.0 on January 22, 2006 at 3:52 p.m..

Neuroesthetics
Yesterday I attended The Firth Inational Conference on Neuroesthetics. Don't go away quite yet. It's not as intimidating as you think. From the program: Flavors of Experience Billions of dollars are spent annually, by both consumers and producers, on fine food, wines, and perfumes. A good dinner is a pleasure that may be long remembered, while small [...] From Internet Time Blog on January 22, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Push and Pull
John Hagel's presentation to eLearning Forum on Friday was a catalyst to my thinking about push and pull learning. [...] From Internet Time Blog on January 22, 2006 at 3:45 p.m..

Doug Engelbart at Future Salon
Friday evening at Future Salon, we conducted an abbreviated World Cafe to surface questions followed by a lengthy presentation by Doug Engelbart. Doug is an incredibly generous guy, sharing his views far are and wide even though he celebrates his 80th birthday this month. Some people attended the session virtually in Second Life although they [...] From Internet Time Blog on January 22, 2006 at 1:45 p.m..

Google Maps with MapBuilder
Our technology/music teacher, Tony Jamesbarry, is also having them use Google Maps to create a map that will highlight the routes and voyages of their particular explorer.... Once your map is finished you have a number of options on how it can be displayed, including grabbing the HTML source and using that source code on your site. From Education/Technology - Tim Lauer on January 22, 2006 at 12:50 p.m..

Lessig: Is Google Print fair use?
Larry Lessig has posted a video of a presentation on whether Google Book Search (AKA Google Print) is protected by Fair Use. His conclusion: Yup. But how he gets there is fascinating and informative. Why wouldn't you want to hear one of the nation's top law professors clearly addressing such a fundamental issue? [Tags: lessig google googlePrint law copyright digitalRights]... From Joho the Blog on January 22, 2006 at 9:48 a.m..

Cingular to sell phone with Microsoft software - Reuters
Cingular Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. cellphone service provider, said on Wednesday it would begin selling a mobile phone running the latest Microsoft Corp. software for mobile phones. The Cingular-branded 2125 Smartphone, made by High Tech Computer Corp. wil From Techno-News Blog on January 22, 2006 at 1:50 a.m..

In China, 111 million Net users counted - Reuters
The number of Web users in China, the world's second-largest Internet market, grew by 18 percent in 2005 to 111 million, the Economic Daily reported Wednesday. Some 8.5 percent of the country's 1.3 billion people now have access to the Internet, the news From Techno-News Blog on January 22, 2006 at 1:50 a.m..

Twenty years of computer viruses - Iain Thomson, vnunet.com
It is 20 years since the release of the world's first PC virus, according to antivirus firm F-Secure. 'Brain' was a boot sector virus created by two brothers, Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, to protect a game they had written. The exact day of creation is op From Techno-News Blog on January 22, 2006 at 1:50 a.m..

Huh?
From the "What the Heck Does That Mean?" Department: This cannot be good. From weblogged News on January 21, 2006 at 11:47 p.m..