Stories by: Megan Burger

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Kaspersky false positive tags Google Adsense as Trojan 27/01/2010 03:29:00

Following an update, Kaspersky Antivirus today falsely identified Google Adsense as a malicious script.
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Ikee iPhone worm hacker lands lucrative job 30/11/2009 06:06:00

The hacker who created the Ikee iPhone worm because 'he was bored', may be smarter than he first appeared. Ashley Towns may have expressed no regrets over writing the bug, but he has subsequently landed a job with an Australian company that develops legitimate iPhone apps: mogeneration.
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Is Wikipedia dying? 27/11/2009 01:15:00

Research has shown that almost 50,000 editors left online encyclopedia Wikipedia in the first quarter of this year: 10 times the number who deserted the site in the same period of 2008.
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Twitter: Wednesday is our most miserable day 26/08/2009 00:15:00

Vermont University professors Christopher Danforth and Peter Dodds have published Twitter and blogs based research that suggests that Wednesday is the most miserable day of the week.
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British defence ministry instructs troops to use Twitter, Facebook 11/08/2009 14:12:00

A PDF document from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) tells British troops how to use social networking websites such as Twitter or Facebook to keep the world informed of what they're up to.
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Kingston launches 256GB USB flash drive 22/07/2009 00:04:00

Kingston today released the world's largest capacity USB memory stick: a flash drive with 256GB worth of storage.
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Report: Nokia to unveil Google Android phone 06/07/2009 23:36:00

In an attempt to arrest its declining market share, Nokia will use September's Nokia World conference to unveil its first touchscreen Google Android mobile phone.
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O2 grabs Palm Pre as UK exclusive 04/07/2009 00:48:00

According to a report in the Guardian newspaper UK mobile operator O2 will next week announce a deal with Palm to be the exclusive UK partner for the Palm Pre mobile phone handset. O2 has so far refrained from commenting on the report.
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MSI to launch new MacBook Air killers 16/05/2009 00:38:00

MSI Thursday introduced two new slim, light laptops designed to take on Apple's MacBook Air. The 14in X-Slim X400 and the 15in X-Slim X600 are set to launch later this year.
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O2 users cut back on calls, new phones 15/05/2009 06:03:00

O2 on Thursday announced that the amount of money it made from each UK customer in the past quarter has dipped by 3.6 percent. The company said this represented better value for its customers, as O2 has carried just under 12.8 billion minutes of calls in the period - a 17.5 percent increase.
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Poll: Two thirds of users never change passwords 15/10/2008 08:36:00

A staggering 90 percent of respondents to a PC Advisor poll admit that they don't regularly change their online password.