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The Kuykendall family in Fircrest, Wash., claims that a hacker has been stalking them for four months through their camera phones, using the microphones in the phones to listen to them and the cameras to watch. They say that even when they turn off the phones, the hacker can turn them back on.
The family has […]

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The British police are hunting for the people behind failed attempts to carry out two car bombings in London’s nightclub district in what experts have called Iraq-style attacks.
The finds have raised the spectre of possible Al Qaeda-inspired attacks returning to the British capital, two days after Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister and […]

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According to anti-virus firm McAfee, 37,413 new malicious programs hit the internet last year, including exploit code and bots.
Paul Ferguson, a network architect at the security giant Trend Micro, argued the threat now requires some top-down authority to fix the problem; the current remediation model — which mostly involves running from one computer to another […]

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Lake Forest-based Western Digital Corporation said Thursday afternoon that it is in a definitive agreement to acquire Komag, Incorporated, a supplier of thin-film disks for the disk drive industry.
Western Digital said it will pay $1B in cash for the firm, worth $32.25 in cash per share of Komag’s stock.
According to Western Digital, the acquisition of […]

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Now I remember as a teenager (80’s), getting the program of DB2 when it was able to work in DOS. It was a dream come true.
I made databases, and saved them; and also made some really neat structures for games that I was creating for the bulliten board that I was running in Northwest Indiana, […]

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Yahoo has integrated Flickr images into Yahoo Image Search via the live photostream feeds that Flickr utilizes. This means that image results returned by Yahoo Image Search happen in realtime.
Rather than indexing Flickr content, Yahoo has leveraged Flickrs existing features to provide not just image results but links to Flickr users photostreams along with the […]

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Microsoft released a beta of two new online services in what the company claims will be a renewed campaign for web-based applications.
The pair of new Windows Live services consist of a web-based storage service and a photo-sharing site.
The photo service, dubbed Windows Live Photo Gallery, ties into the photo applications currently shipping with Windows Vista […]

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Virus Profile: W32/Whybo.worm
Virus Characteristics
The W32/Whybo.worm virus will infect any available network share as well as removable device with a copy of itself renamed “setup.exe” and an “Autorun.inf”.
It will also download and install on infected systems additional trojan copmponets from the web.
Upon execution it will kill any instance of the “Task Manager” as well as other […]

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A federal judge in Washington said the existing antitrust agreement between Microsoft and plaintiffs is adequate to resolve issues.U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said Tuesday she likely would defer to the 2002 consent decree reached by Microsoft Corp. and federal and state antitrust authorities from the U.S. government`s antitrust lawsuit against the software giant instead […]

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Microsoft today rejected claims of anticompetitive behaviour by internet giant Google.
Earlier this week Google filed a complaint with a US federal judge, asking for the extension of a number of restrictions imposed five years ago, and accusing the Seattle-based software giant of more anticompetitive behaviour.
The Silicon Valley company claims that parts of Microsoft’s new Windows […]

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