 Obama has huge lead over McCain -- in cyberspace October 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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If the US presidential election was being held in cyberspace, Barack Obama would win in a landslide. The Democratic candidate has raised tens of millions of dollars more than Republican John McCain online ... | |
 Internet pop-up "scareware purveyors" sued September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Microsoft and Washington state's top prosecutor have filed a lawsuit to stop "scareware purveyors" that trick people with pop-up messages claiming computers need critical repairs. | |
China spying on Skype users: Canadian researchers October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
China is monitoring the chat messages of Skype users and censoring them if they contain sensitive keywords such as "Tibet" or "Communist Party," according to a group of Canadian researchers. | |
E-mail accounts easy to break into October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The hacker who infiltrated Sarah Palin's e-mail account last month may have intended to embarrass the Republican vice presidential candidate, but the prank also exposed one of the Internet industry's most uncomfortable secrets: ... | |
 Skype admits privacy breach by Chinese partner (Update) October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Skype on Thursday became the latest US firm embroiled in controversy over its operations in China, acknowledging that its Chinese partner had been archiving politically sensitive text messages. | |
Peer-to-peer networking takes internet out of the equation October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers allows independent, ... | |
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