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Estonian ISP cuts off control servers for Srizbi botnet
An Estonian Internet service provider that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, which is responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts. Starline Web Services, based in Estonia's ...
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Update: Google Earth used by terrorists in India attacks
The terrorists who attacked various locations in southern Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks. Investigations by the Mumbai police, including the interrogation of one captured terrorist, suggest that ...
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Fear of more terror attacks could hurt business in India
Mumbai is trying to limp back to normalcy after terrorist attacks last week left about 195 people dead and close to 300 injured. But there are questions about whether foreigners will continue to take the risk of doing business in the city and the rest of the country, which have faced repeated ...
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IE share slips under 70%; Firefox surges past 20%
Rival browsers from Mozilla Corp., Apple Inc. and Google Inc., meanwhile, cashed in on IE's slide and posted gains for the month, according to Net Applications' data, which is culled from visitors to the thousands of Web sites the company monitors for clients. Mozilla's Firefox, which briefly ...
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Windows market share dives below 90% for first time
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows OS last month took its biggest market share dive in the past two years, erasing gains made in two of the past three months and sending the operating system's share under 90% for the first time, an Internet measurement company reported today. In November, 89.6% of users ...
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U.S. agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008This is Computer World's gee-whiz summation of the report, whose primary link has already been posted by others to Twine ... for instance at http://www.twine.com/item/11ncnp5bs-p/global-trends-2025-a-transformed-world -
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Inventor Says 'Stolen' Patent Cost U.S. Jobs, Money
Comment added by JDP on 12/01/2008Possibly yet more proof that "intellectual property" isn't! On the one hand, one might argue that an idea in an of itself is insufficient (but what does that say about all those mathematical, software, and process patents!?) - only a tangible, working, and sell-able product that embodies the ... -
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Giant wind farms could steer storms - Discovery.com- msnbc.com
Comment added by Murray Peat on 11/28/2008And the downside? Clouds and storms are there for a reason. Blow them away and you end up with more problems elsewhere. Water shortages, new deserts, food shortage, economic collapse... In fact, I wonder what small local (and not so local) ecosystems are already being skewered by wind farms. -
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Robotic Technology Inspired by Service Dogs
Comment added by JDP on 11/26/2008Biomimicry scores again.
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Update: Google Earth used by terrorists in India attacks