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China Attack on Web Obscenity Hits Google, Baidu
China has launched a nationwide crackdown against websites that officials accused of spreading pornography and threatening youth morals, including the big search engines Google and Baidu. China's Ministry of Public Security and six other government agencies announced the campaign at a meeting on Monday, state television news reported. Officials were shown taking away digital equipment from ...
Phishing Scam Targets Twitter
Micro-blogging site Twitter was the victim of a phishing scam over the weekend that took control of users' direct messaging capabilities. Scammers have been taking control of users' accounts and sending direct messages to their followers. These messages include links to what looks like the Twitter sign-in page, but is actually a phishing site that will ...
Site News: Land O' Linkin' 2009
The start of a new year is always a good time to spruce things up a bit, and so there's been some routine maintenance to the list of links on the St. Louis Jazz Notes sidebar, over on the right-hand side of the page.A few dead links have been deleted, and I've added new ...
Refurbished Cell Phones Get a Little Smarter
AT&T's sale of used iPhones may be start of used smartphone trend ? AT&T recently offered refurbished iPhones for $99 (8-gigabyte model) as a promotion. With the slowing economy, other similar promotions may be in the offing. When AT&T recently offered refurbished 8-gigabyte iPhone 3Gs for $99, news of the deal eclipsed another major ...
Apple's Jobs Discusses Health Problem
Reluctantly trying to put to rest persistent speculation about his health, the chief executive of Apple, Steven P. Jobs, disclosed in a public letter on Monday that he was recovering from a hormone imbalance that has contributed to his continuing weight loss. Mr. Jobs lamented that his decision not to give his annual Macworld keynote set ...
Apple's Condition Linked to Jobs' Health
The CEO won't deliver the keynote at Macworld this week, renewing worry about a succession plan. Some important questions can't be asked without sounding crass and insensitive. But there's no way around asking this one that's on everybody's mind, so here goes: What is Apple Inc.'s plan if CEO Steve Jobs dies? The question of Jobs' ...
One Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Black Market in Stolen Credit Cards
Settling into his chair and resting his fingers on his keyboard like a concert pianist, Butler began his attack. Max Butler had an audacious plan to rule the black market in stolen credit cards. But angry hackers and pesky Feds had other ideas. The heat in Max Butler's safe house was nearly unbearable. It was the ...
An End and Beginning for the Media
When the economy sneezes, the media business catches pneumonia. The problem for the media business in 2008 was that the economy caught pneumonia. When the economy gets pneumonia, the media business gets it too--then someone knocks it across the back of the head with a shovel. Or several shovels. Advertising is cratering. (GM is essentially a ...
The Apocalypse is Coming: Musicians Guide What You Need to Pack
Saxaphone, check. Extra reeds, check. Crisis schmisis. Its nothing more than a crisis of consumer confidence, and Wired.com Editor Dylan Tweneys list of 12 Good Gadgets for Hard Times is a great way to spend some money to survive it. But what happens in a real crisis, the kind where the world stops working, ...
Google Tries Converting Every Book Ever Written to Digital
CONTROVERSY: GOOGLE tries converting every book ever written to digital... Developing... Project Gutenberg offers thousands of titles (mostly fiction) in txt format, while manybooks.net provides an impressive array of books in Sony format (as well as several other formats). The motherload of free ebooks, however, is books.google.com. The Google folks are busy digitizing every ...
