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How a student fooled the world's media

On the 28th March, Shane Fitzgerald who studies at the University of Dublin, began an experiment which could put journalism into disrepute, by faking a quote on Wikipedia and measuring the spread across the world's media outlets. Maurice Jarre, a famous French composer, died in late March...

Tags: Journalist, Media, Fake, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-13

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Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, burger, PCB, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Escape Call Free for iPhone 2.0 (Mobile)

With Escape Call Free for iPhone you can have excuse ready every time, and no one will even know about it. Just set it to anyone in your contacts list, select a delay time up to two hours away and press the sleep button on the top of your phone....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Geoffrey Rainville, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans

the windoze killer has arrivedChrome OS will put the final nail in M$ coffin!You really can't be seriousyou have to be a fake or something.Your posts are allways way off the mark.By like a continent or two.Windoze? Grow up, manI hope Chrome is good - because it will make...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Thousands of web sites compromised, redirect to scareware

Security researchers have detected a massive blackhat SEO search engine optimization campaign consisting of over 200,000 compromised web sites, all redirecting to fake security software, commonly referred to as scareware. by Dancho Danchev

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Security, Web, Web Site, Search, Web Site Development, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-11-17

Beware: Spam on Facebook and Twitter has reached epidemic

They say you're really made it in the web industry once you are a target for spam, but it's gone too far on Facebook and Twitter. Besides nasty wall and mini-feed spam, Facebook's group application has been the easiest place to phish users....

Tags: Facebook, Twitter Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Channel Management, Construction, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-11-17

Auto Hide IP 4.6.2.2 (Windows)

Auto Hide IP is privacy-protection software which enables you to conceal your real IP address, surf anonymously, and automatically change your IP address every few minutes. With it, you are able to conceal your identity online by showing them a fake IP, blocking hackers and identity theft from knowing your...

Tags: IP, Microsoft Windows, Super MP3 Download, Auto Hide IP, Network Technology, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-17

News to Know: AMD benchmarks, Fake Steve Jobs; iPhone

rwerThe " The Best iphone ringtone maker, a smart iPhone ringtone creator and uploader, provides an all-in-one iPhone Ringtone custom solution.iPhone RingTone Maker for Mac

Tags: Smart phones, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., iPhone Ringtone, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-14

Online Armor 4.0.0.10 (Windows)

Online Armor Premium Firewall safeguards your funds, identity and data on your PC weather you're browsing, transacting or receiving email. Online Armor Premium comes with "Banking Mode" that secures your internet banking session therefore protecting you from keyloggers and Phishing techniques that might want to either record your login details...

Tags: Internet Banking, Microsoft Windows, Tall Emu, Banking, Internet, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Finance, Security, Spam And Phishing

Software downloads 2009-11-14

Apple's big box store debuts in NYC

Not like Best BuyBest Buy does not do panoramic walls of glass.Apple Stores do not a jerk at the exit door asking to see your receipt.That looks really uglyUgh, the designer needs to be fired, quick.RE: Apple's big box store debuts in NYCHow does that in any way look like...

Tags: Construction, iStore, Apple Inc., big-box-store, NYC

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Real Hide IP 3.5.4.2 (Windows)

Real Hide IP is easy-to-use privacy software which allows you to conceal your IP address, choose IP country and surf anonymously. It can clear cookies, protect your privacy, prevent identity theft, and guard against hacker intrusions, all with the click of a button. Using it, you can conceal your identity...

Tags: IP, Microsoft Windows, EasyMP3Downloader, Network Technology, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-11

60 Minutes: We're not ready for a cyber war

Just like 9/11 thousands will have to die Before we give a damn. It's really a shame.and everything workshow's that possible?Unfortuantely, it will take a disasterIn the US, until disater strikes no one will do anything. Once it does happen then there will be screaming for heads to role....

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Regulations, FERC, Obama, hacker, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%

Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...

Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

WebcamMax 5.5.0.6 (Windows)

With WebcamMax, you can add videos, pictures and effects to virtual & real web cam and show them to others on messengers. It works on all Web cam programs (MSN, Yahoo, Camfrog, YouTube, ICQ, AIM, Skype, Paltalk, ANYwebcam, Stickam). You can add a variety of effects over webcam and change...

Tags: Webcam, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Windows, Video, CoolwareMax, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-06

House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites

Good grief!Now the BIG LETHARGIC Gov is going to tell people what sites they can go to and tell ISP's to block them???GOOD GRIEF! It is out of control, 2010 is coming and these socialist will be sent back home... AHHHH the sound of 1984 is very much alive..and well...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet Service Provider, fake financial site, financial

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites

Internet Service Providers cry foul when they discover language in a bill moving through the House of Representatives that forces them to identify and block specific fraudulent financial sites. by Sam Diaz

Tags: Financial, Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Sextant for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

With Sextant for iPhone navigate with your GPS while you fake out the crew with this old style technology. Sight the horizon viewing along the top edge and tap horizon. Sight a star viewing along the top edge and tap celestial, it displays the angle. You can sight along the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Star, Horizon, Tech Center Labs, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Google Maps and the mystery of the non-existent town

anagram softwareDid you get the words "not real" out of it? With an extra "G" left over?Brilliant!Good find! If that isn't the solution, then it sure is one heck of a coincidence.It wouldn't surprise me at all if that is it. Similar things -- adding a fictional item...

Tags: Microsoft Windows NT, Network technology, Zack, Yahoo Maps, Google Inc., Google Maps, Argleton

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices

RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, Mac proponent, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Audi AG, Mac Share

Discussion threads 2009-11-04