iPhones and iPods heating up or bursting into flames in the US and the UK.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Exploding' iPhones investigated - 0 views
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The system issue alerts for multiple products every week, sometimes leading to mass product recalls, but often with no consequence.
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"I took it out of my pocket and held it to my ear and saw the screen crack up like a car windscreen," he told AFP.
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Apple, which has sold 26 million iPhones and 200 million iPods to date, said it was aware of the reports.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Battling swine flu in cyberspace - 1 views
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"The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it,"
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The game is played online
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"Its purpose is simply to create another avenue of information."
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"The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
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"The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
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"The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
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"The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
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"The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
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"The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
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"The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
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"The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
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Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble' - 0 views
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A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble."
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In total it grabbed 2,000 messages and then put each message it grabbed into one of six categories; news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and those with pass-along value
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This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.
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Rogue pharmacies still a problem for search engines | Health Tech - CNET News - 1 views
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The study, conducted by LegitScript, an online pharmacy verification service, and KnujOn, an Internet compliance company, found that 90 percent of the reviewed Internet pharmacy advertisements were from fake or illegal Internet pharmacies.
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"We were able to purchase potentially addictive drugs without a prescription or any age verification via Bing.com ads," LegitScript President John Horton told CNET News. "We also received counterfeit medication. Microsoft profits from these illegal ads, which put Internet users at risk."
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"the Internet has become a haven for drug seekers and abusers, particularly (regarding) controlled substances. It is a much more serious and dangerous phase of the Internet."
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Microsoft disputes LegitScript's claim that 90 percent of the sponsored Internet pharmacy ads on Bing are fake or illegal, adding that it is working to weed out the rogue advertisers that do slip through. The company uses an Internet pharmacy verification service called PharmacyChecker--a competitor of LegitScript--to ensure that its sponsored prescription drug advertisements are legitimate.
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The authors took a closer look at 10 of the 69 online drugstores. None of the 10 required a valid prescription. Orders were placed with two of them. Of the two drugs received, both were tested and one was found to be counterfeit.
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YouTube Captions (BBC Technology) - 1 views
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This article discusses the new automatic subtitles that appear on You Tube videos for deaf viewers, created by a deaf technician. They are found on 13 major channels and YouTube. It involves speech recognition technology & caption systems.
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This article discusses the new automatic subtitles that appear on You Tube videos for deaf viewers, created by a deaf technician. They are found on 13 major channels and YouTube. It involves speech recognition technology & caption systems.
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Large-scale Credit Card Fraud - 0 views
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Once they find a weakness, they insert a specially designed code into the network that allows them to access card details.
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corporate victims included Heartland Payment Systems - a card payment processor - convenience store 7-Eleven and Hannaford Brothers, a supermarket chain, t
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Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com - 0 views
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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And technology that turns phones into credit cards and IDs poses several potential problems.
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, banks and cell phone makers started conducting trials with U.S. customers. Limited groups of people were given the ability to scan their phones to make payments, enter stadiums and access public transit.
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If phones replace wallets, would-be thieves will see every person walking down the street talking on his or her phone as a target for robbery, said Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
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Eye scans and fingerprints would make phone IDs and payments more secure, Brown said. The ID technology might work like a corporate security badge, which pulls up personal information when scanned.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony cuts price of PS3 consoles - 0 views
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Sony Entertainment has announced it is reducing the price of its PlayStation 3 games consoles.In Europe the price has been lowered to 299 euros, in the US to $299 and in the UK to £249.99.
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new slim-line PS3 would be available from the first week of September. "It has the same features and functionality [as the old PS3], but now it is 32% smaller, 36% lighter and consumes 34% less power," he said.
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a new digital reader for the PSP - called Digital Comics - that will allow users to read Spiderman, Fantastic 4 and other DC comics on their portable, along with a range of graphic novels.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook changes privacy policy - 0 views
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be more transparent about what data it collects and why.
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privacy settings and make it clear to users that they can delete or deactivate an account
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The country is the first to complete a full investigation of Facebook's privacy practices.
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Facebook's Michael Richter said if a user chose to deactivate their account, the site would still store their information "even if it is for 10 years".
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"Application developers have had virtually unrestricted access to Facebook users' personal information,"
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Spider-Man, X-Men comics coming to PSP - Games - msnbc.com - 0 views
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NEW YORK - Sony is adding a digital reader service that will allow owners of its handheld gaming system, the PlayStation Portable, to download comics.
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Users will be able to read classic and new comics page by page or frame by frame. Sony says PSP owners will be able to access a range of media through the digital reader service, but it gave no further details.
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New Nanolaser Key To Future Optical Computers And Technologies - 0 views
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Nanophotonics may usher in a host of radical advances, including powerful "hyperlenses" resulting in sensors and microscopes 10 times more powerful than today's and able to see objects as small as DNA; computers and consumer electronics that use light instead of electronic signals to process information; and more efficient solar collectors.
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new device, called a "spaser," is the first of its kind to emit visible light, it represents a critical component for possible future technologies based on "nanophotonic" circuitry,
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US plans for cyber attacks (News24) - 1 views
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disabled US cell phone networks, slowed internet traffic to a crawl and crippled America's power grid
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South Korea halts rocket launch - 0 views
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Officials said an automatic abort system was triggered during the countdown when weak pressure was detected in a fuel tank.
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"The automatic launch sequence automatically turned off due to a problem that was detected in the countdown," said Lee Sang-mok, the deputy minister of science and technology policy.
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The rocket, intended to place a satellite into orbit, has been developed with the help of Russia
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Easy exploitation leads to a lot of negative consequences and areas of impact include all sorts of education online, banking and financial reserves, businesses and mainstream market affairs, governmental and nongovernmental work and damage to personal information and biological/health data. This also harms intellectual property and ideas can be stolen online far easier than usual... reliability & security....
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Redirecting internet connection or regular user traffic could lead to a backlog of information on the web and a loss of personal details and this again as huge areas of impact including security, reliability and extended impact on finances and personal details & anonymity....this also affects systems in the social context with networks being hacked and codes and enscriptions being changed..
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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: How to Forecast Malicious Internet Attacks - 0 views
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Today, computer scientists outline a new way of predicting the next attack so that you can block it in advance.
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The technique, called highly predictive blacklisting, uses data from past attacks to create a network-type graph out of the pattern of links between victims . It then runs a Google PageRank type algorithm for each victim looking for the most relevant attackers.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Downloading is not enough - 2 views
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Kids, it seems, like unlicensed services because they are free. But the report also acknowledges their usefulness in finding more obscure music and letting them listen to a band before they buy
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They are willing to abandon p2p in favour of licensed services that they have to pay for, but they wouldn't pay for a streaming service like Spotify.
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It might be that young people have no faith that the streaming services are going to stay around since they operate at the discretion of the record labels, which have clamped down on many services that are popular with young music fans in the past.
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(H) Security experts say Google cyber-attack was routine (BBC) - 0 views
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Once an e-mail account is compromised, attackers can piggyback on it to get access to confidential files and systems throughout an organisation.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Google books deal battle heats up - 0 views
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The date for comments to the New York court overseeing the class action suit was extended from Friday to Tuesday, after the filing system went down. As time ticks away, supporters and critics have been manning both sides of the debate to win the public case.
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digitise the world's books and create a vast online library