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A Trusteer report released today concluded that each year 4,700 out of one million bank customers - less than half of one percentage point of all of a bank's clients - fall for phishing schemes and...
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Social gaming took a hit a little while back with accusations that some lead generation marketing offers in popular games on Facebook and MySpace were scams.
One of the companies highlighted was...
Online
MySpace
Square, which is moving into the San Francisco Chronicle's headquarters, unveiled its service to the world on Tuesday.
And it grabbed a lot of headlines based mainly on the man at the helm: Jack...
Other
Consumer Reports is out with its latest annual report on cell phones and cell phone service. Surprise: you love your cell phone but your cell phone service? Not so much.
According to the survey of...
iPhone
iPhone
Verizon
Mac clone maker Psystar said in a court filing that it has struck a deal with Apple to end a 17-month legal dispute, according to Computer World.
In essence, it appears that Psystar recognizes...
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Apple
Well, if Nintendo is running out of steam, you wouldn't know it. Last week, the company sold more than 500,000 Wii consoles and more than 1 million DS handhelds from Sunday, Nov. 22, through...
Gaming
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Wii
DS
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's tablet dream is apparently dead.
Arrington had hopes of building a 12-inch Internet touch-screen tablet device that was dead simple and easy to use. The...
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The word "Twitter" stood out over every other word in the English language in 2009, at least according to an Austin, Texas, company that monitors word usage.
The Global Language Monitor said the...
Online
Despite Apple's small computer market share in the U.S., (9.4 percent) its share of retail revenue was nearly 50 percent for desktop PCs and 33 percent for notebooks, according to Joe Wilcox of...
Hardware
Apple
PC
Mac
With people across the United States gathering to celebrate Thanksgiving, there's a topical game-style application making the rounds on Facebook that let you host a virtual holiday dinner to raise...
Online
After a couple years with the iPhone, we're almost attuned to its interface language, which has set the bar for modern touch screen smart phones.
But a new offering from Else, (formerly...
Other
TiVo, which became the go-to name for digital video recorders, posted another loss in subscribers Tuesday, marking an almost two year slide from its peak in January of 2007.
TiVo reported total...
Home Theater
TiVo
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Confronted with the return of an offensive image
of First Lady Michelle Obama to the top of...
its image search engine, Google is now using some of its own ad space to offer an explanation on how its...
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I got an e-mail from respected iPhone developer Sean Heber who sent along his idea for an improvement to the App Store approval process. He blogged about his idea here .
Basically, it boils down...
iPhone
App Store
Apple's senior vice-president for worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller defended Apple's app store approval process, which has gotten dinged by developers who find it too opaque, occasionally...
iPhone
Apple
App Store
Roku's been a nice local success story about a set-top box maker that made it easy to bring streaming Internet video to the TV.
But Roku's ambitions are getting a lot bigger with the new Roku...
Other
Viewers of the movie "Planet 51" opening in theaters this weekend will first see "Live Music," a computer-generated short that is a collaboration of 51 animators from 17 countries who were brought...
Online
You would think that Android's growing success would inspire an iPhone like gold rush for developers.
But Gameloft, one of the biggest game developers on the iPhone, is actually scaling back its...
Mobile
Android
Gameloft
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Future generations will ask: Were you watching "Dancing
with the Stars?" During the Tech Awards in San...
Jose on Thursday night, Former Vice President and Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore was given...
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Gore to techies: Shake off the lethargy
