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VoIP Call Quality Poor? Hang up and Call Again.

May 11, 2006

If you have ever made a VoIP call with Skype, you know that sometimes the transmission quality can be poor (Skype IS free, you know). However, you don...

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Female User Names Attract 25 Times More Malicious Chat Messages

May 11, 2006

from Techweb Internet chat room users with female names are 25 times more likely to receive threatening and sexually-explicit private messages than th...

Are You Kiddin' Me?, General

Wal-Mart Seeks to Trademark the Smiley Face

May 10, 2006

from BBC Wal-Mart is embroiled in a legal dispute over the smiley face image which it wants to trademark in the US. A Frenchman who claims to have inv...

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CCTs New Poll Feature

May 10, 2006

New addition to our blog: we have added a Poll section (note the upper right-hand of the page).  Take a minute and give us a vote, will ya?  We will...

Gaming, General, mnrx, Technology

Sony Playstation 3 to Have Two Price Levels

May 9, 2006

By MATT SLAGLE, AP Technology Sony Corp sing concerns about the cost of the new PlayStation 3, the video game machine the company is counting on to wi...

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Security Threats Rising For Apple Macs

May 5, 2006

by Antone Gonsalves, techWeb The number of security flaws reported on the Mac OS has risen three times as fast as on Windows, a clear indication that ...

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Microsoft To Offer Free Replacements For Counterfeit Office Software

May 4, 2006

from Greg Keizer Techweb Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it will offer free replacement copies of its Office application suite for people whose ver...

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Businesses Urged to Prepare for Bird Flu

May 4, 2006

from Angus Loten inc.com  Businesses must prepare for a severe shortage of employees and other disruptions associated with a potential bird-flu pande...

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New 802.11n WiFi standard hits a glitch

May 4, 2006

from Brian White thewirelessreport Well, if you’re ready to get your game on with the new 802.11n WiFi standard, hold those horses. The new wire...

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‘Skypecasts’ VoIP Allow 100-Person Conferencing

May 3, 2006

By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer Skype, eBay Inc.’s Internet telephone VoIP subsidiary, is extending its reach with “SkypecastsR...

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Mozilla patches Firefox security bug

May 3, 2006

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service Mozilla has released an update to its Firefox browser, fixing a known security flaw in the open-source software. ...

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Blue Security Spams the Spammers

May 3, 2006

from Techweb A company that’s promoted an anti-spam “Do Not Intrude Registry” and essentially spammed spammers said Monday that many...