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Linksys Launches Wi-Fi VoIP Phones

May 17, 2006

from techweb Wireless networking equipment vendor Linksys Wednesday started shipping two voice-over-IP (VoIP) phones designed to work over Wi-Fi netwo...

General, mnrx

Online Gamers Victims of Computer Viruses

May 17, 2006

from techweb Online criminals are targeting gamers with viruses written to steal virtual assets that can be sold to other players, a security firm sai...

Gaming, General

Sony Blu-Ray Delayed?

May 17, 2006

Sony says they don’t think they will be able to meed the demand for the Blu-ray players in the US. They say this is because cell-phones are gobb...

General, mnrx

Is Your Wireless Network Secure?

May 15, 2006

excerpts from thewirelessreport Here is a brief note on the very basic steps to take to make your Wireless network secure: Disable SSID broadcast and ...

General, mnrx, Web

Call Any US or Canadian Phone for Free w/Skype

May 15, 2006

From now until the end of the year, call any US or Canadian phone (cell phone, land line, whatever) for free. This offer is good until the end of the ...

General, mnrx

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...

General, mnrx

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...

General

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...

General, mnrx, Security

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 ...

General, mnrx

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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