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Trove of 68,000 Stolen Logons in Hands of 'Amateur' Hackers

Source: All About Jazz
February 21, 2010

A band of hackers who were recently discovered hoarding a trove of account logons pilfered from thousands of companies worldwide are garden-variety cyberthieves, security experts say.

The gang most likely began by hiring spam specialists to send out e- mail and social- networking posts to lure recipients into clicking on a tainted Web link, says Don Jackson, senior researcher at SecureWorks.

Why becoming a data thief is all too easy They then used a dated free version of ...

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Glimpse the Wireless Future of Transportation

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2010

The coming convergence of how we communicate and how we travel is spawning technologies that will change how we get around and make transportation safer and more efficient, at the same time.

The promise of vehicles communicating with each other and with the road, coupled with advancements in transportation infrastructure, has planners, technocrats and futurists creating an Intelligent Transportation System. Unlike the future once envisioned in Disneys Magic Highway, which predicted a world of fog-eliminating machines and nuclear robots building ...

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It's Official: Google Can Sell Power Like a Utility

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2010

The Federal Regulatory Energy Commission has granted Google Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the search giant, the right to behave like a utility.

The order grants Google Energy the power to sell energy, capacity and services at market rates.

Why does Google want to do this? Right now, the company rakes in billions of dollars from ads and it doesnt have to have extensive support desks and remote repair teams the kind of people-power providers must have on staff ...

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Please Rob Me: The Dangers of Online Oversharing

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2010

The Dangers of Online Oversharing. Think before you tweet. You might not be aware of how much information you're revealing.

That's the message from the founders of Please Rob Me, a website launched on Tuesday that illustrates just how easy it is to rob people blind on the basis of the information they're posting on the Web. The site uses streams of data from Foursquare, an increasingly popular location-based social network that is based on a game-like premise. Players use ...

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Survey: 30% of U.S. Never Use the Net

Source: HypeBot
February 19, 2010

Can the music industry afford to ignore 30% of its potential customer base?

A new survey by The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration shows that 30% of U.S. consumers do not access the internet, but for most it's not because they don't want to.

When asked why they have no Internet connection at home, “don't need/not interested" represented 16.7% of those surveyed, “too expensive" was the answer for 38.9%. And when dial-up net users were asked why ...

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Adobe Photoshop Celebrates 20 Years

Source: PC Magazine
February 19, 2010

Hard as it may be to believe today, once upon a time you had to take your pictures carefully and develop them with even greater care; a lost memory then was truly lost. But all that started to change 20 years ago on Friday, when the first version of Photoshop was released, and began to usher in the age of digital photograph editing that we depend on more than ever today. Now we can't just imagine a world without Photoshop, ...

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Feds Can Search, Seize P2P Files Without Warrant

Source: All About Jazz
February 19, 2010

The authorities do not need court warrants to view and download files traded on peer-to-peer networks, a federal appeals court says. Wednesdays 3-0 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerned a Nevada man convicted of possessing child pornography as part of an FBI investigation. Defendant Charles Borowy claimed the Fourth Amendment required court authorization to search and seize his LimeWire files in 2007. The San Francisco-based appeals court, however, cited the nations legal standard, reiterating that warrants ...

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Musicians Slowly Migrate to Mobile

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2010

In an effort not to get left behind in the next digital shift from desktop to mobile (like they almost were in the shift from CD to MP3), musicians are starting to proactively look at ways to get onto cell phones.

MySpaces iLike built tools for artists to easily design their own iPhone apps. The concept didnt really take off, but some notable acts were on board initially. A development team called When Im Mobile is also working with bands ...

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