26.05.2009
Consumers Increasingly Concerned About Online Transactions
Do you worry about sending sensitive financial data over the Internet? If so, you`re hardly alone, but a new study by the Identity Theft Resource Center says your concern might be misplaced.The study of on-line safety awareness found that an overwhelming 85 percent of the respondents expressed significant concern about the safety of sending information over the... |
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22.05.2009
California Petitions Supreme Court To Enforce Video Game Law
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. has petitioned theU.S. Supreme Court to uphold a 2005 state law prohibiting the sale orrental of such brutally violent games to children, saying they shouldbe shielded from games featuring "killing sprees, torture and sexualassault.""California`s children are exposed every day to video games thatglamorize killing... |
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21.05.2009
Craigslist CEO Sues South Carolina Attorney General
Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster has fired back at South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, who has been threatening to prosecute Buckmaster on criminal charges of soliticting prostitution. In an unusual turnabout, Buckmaster has filed suit against McMaster, seeking an injunction that would bar him from filing charges.McMaster and other state Attorneys... |
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21.05.2009
"Soft Tests" Conducted for DTV Transition Readiness
With only three weeks left until the nationwide digital television(DTV) transition on June 12, many local broadcasters will beparticipating in coordinated DTV "soft tests" today, May 21, 2009.These tests are designed to alert analog viewers who are unpreparedfor the impending transition that they will lose service once thetransition occurs unless they act promptly to... |
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13.05.2009
Craigslist Shuts Down "Erotic Services" Ads
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark announced today that the popular classified-ad site would shut down its "erotic services" section, and relaunch it as an "adult services" category, with much stricter enforcement of rules and higher fees for posting ads.The decision came in response to mounting criticism from Attorneys General of a number of states, who claimed... |
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13.05.2009
Digital TV Switch Less Than One Month Away
After once being postponed, switch by TV broadcasters to digitalchannels will take place June 12 — less than a month away — and theCommerce Department is warning consumers they`d better be ready thistime.The switch was originally scheduled for February 17, but Congressvoted to delay it after it appeared millions of consumers wereunprepared."With just 30... |
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06.05.2009
States Turn Up Heat on Craigslist Sex Postings
Two unlikely allies — Connecticut and South Carolina — are turning up the heat on Craigslist, demanding the popular classified-ad site remove listings the states` attorneys general say are enabling "prostitution, human trafficking, child exploitation and other crimes."Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal met with Craigslist executives... |
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05.05.2009
Congress To Consider Legalizing Online Gambling
If Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) has his way, Congress will vote tooverturn the long-standing ban on Internet gambling. Frank saidTuesday he will introduce a bill to allow licensed gambling operatorsto accept bets from U.S. gamblers.The measure has the backing of the Safe and Secure Internet GamblingInitiative, a group that supports legal online betting. The... |
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05.05.2009
Consumer Reports: 20 Percent of Online Shoppers Are Cybercrime Victims
The latest Consumer Reports National Research Center "State of theNet" survey found that one in five online consumers have been victimsof cybercrime in the last two years — to the tune of an estimated $8billion. And the overall rate of the crime has remained consistentover the five years that CR has been tracking.But the magazine notes that the problem... |
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27.04.2009
Apple Said to Be in Talks with Verizon over iPhone
Apple`s popular iPhone may be available to mobile phone users on theVerizon network as early as next year, according to a publishedreport. The phone is currently only available on the AT&T network, butthat exclusivity is set to expire in 2010.After weeks of persistent rumors, Verizon and Apple are reportedly intalks about development of an iPhone that would... |
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