How much money can criminals make scaring naïve computer users? Try $5 million a year.
That is how much a marketing associate of one Russian operation appears to be earning from its sales of fake antivirus software through an elaborate scheme that relies on e-mail spam and indirectly controlling thousands of unprotected PCs, according to [...]

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Apple Inc.’s Mac OS X market share has passed the 8% mark for the first time, a research company reported today.
In September, Apple’s operating system ran on 8.2% of the computers that accessed the 40,000 sites monitored by Net Applications for clients, the company’s data showed. The Mac’s share of the operating [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google and T-Mobile unveiled their answer to the iPhone on Tuesday, pulling the wraps off a slick mobile device that combines a touch screen and a keyboard and is aimed at putting the Internet in the pockets of millions of cellphone users.

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Whither Skype, indeed. Almost a year ago, eBay, which bought Skype for more than $2.5 billion in 2005, was forced to concede that it overpaid for the Web telephony company by as much as $900 million. In an interview with BusinessWeek, defensive-sounding CEO Jonathan Silverman claims, “There is this perception gap related [...]

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Does Steve Jobs have a surprise in store for the analysts and reporters gathering in San Francisco for Let’s Rock — the dog-and-pony show Tuesday at which Apple (AAPL) is widely expected to unveil the next generation of iPods?
Peter S. Magnusson hopes he does — and what he’s wishing for is a [...]

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What started out in 2003 as simple community-based Web sites and tools for sharing information with friends, social media has grown into a phenomenon of epic proportions with the monumental success of sites such as YouTube, Bebo, Flickr, Digg and a myriad [...]

Dispatch From CES 2008
» Video, Rich & Streaming MediaBy Ian Schafer, The ClickZ Network, Jan 11, 2008
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I spent this week at CES 2008, where innovation was everywhere. I’m the CEO of an agency for which innovation is everything, so this was a can’t-miss for me. The event got me [...]

While a class action lawsuit is definitely one way to get Comcast to behave, another perhaps more productive way to do so is to have politicians step in and regulate.
On Tuesday,  a reporter discussed the issue of Comcast’s anti-BitTorrent “network management” with Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., who is a strong supporter of consumer rights and [...]

iPhone ‘Surfing’ On AT&T Network Isn’t Fast, Jobs Concedes
Apple and AT&T CEOs Say Wi-Fi Gives Boost; Seeing Parallels to Mac
I love Apple products as much as much as the next guy. But, if you are considering an iPhone now, consider this. AT&T’s “Edge” data network is slow. And the iPhone uses this data network at [...]

Tens of thousands of people are expected to line up this Friday for the most hyped gadget of the decade - the iPhone.
Don’t be one of them.
Oh, it’s a technological marvel. But Apple’s all-in-one handheld isn’t the best cellphone - or even the best iPhone - that will be sold in the next year.
The iPhone [...]