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As the Christmas shopping season shifts into high gear, take time to think carefully before making your purchases and any charitable donations.
Although scammers are always prowling for victims with the following scams, consumers are especially vulnerable during the holidays. With so much to do, many otherwise cautious people let their guards down.
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– Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it will apply to participate in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming auction of wireless spectrum in the 700 megahertz (MHz) band.
As part of the nationally mandated transition to digital television, the 700 MHz spectrum auction — which begins January 24, 2008 — will free up spectrum airwaves for […]
My friend Tracey, the Suburban Diva, shares with us her thoughts on last-minute shopping for the holidays. In addition to being one of the funniest women on the planet, she is the only homemaker I know who has entertained the Stanley Cup in her living room. Read on…
In the bizarre world of holiday shopping, there […]
November 29, 2007 (Computerworld) — Apple Inc. will release a 3G version of the iPhone sometime next year that connects to the Internet at much faster speeds than the current model, AT&T Inc.’s CEO said yesterday, according to reports by Bloomberg.com.
AT&T: Faster 3G version of iPhone due in ‘08
Clean and affordable energy is a growing need for our company, and we’re excited about the opportunity to help create competitive green alternatives. Our new initiative isn’t just about Google’s energy needs; we’re seeking to accelerate the pace at which clean energy technologies are developing, so they can rival the economics of coal quickly. We’ve […]
Every single day, women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congoare being brutally raped, beaten and killed in epidemic proportions.Congress has a chance to positively impact this catastrophic situationby passing the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA). Beforeanother day of violence goes unanswered, please sign CARE’s appeal now, telling Congress to pass this legislation […]
There’s a dynamic in most industries called the Rule of Three: Most mature markets support three big “generalists” who together control about 70% of the market and a handful of focused “specialists” who each have less than 5% of the market. The generalists survive on economies of scale (volume), and the specialists survive by controlling […]
Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives — such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images, say people familiar with the matter. The service could let users access their files via the Internet from […]
Last month, Kristin Sloan, a comely member of the New York City Ballet, began appearing in a television ad for the iPhone, one in a series of Real People telling slightly implausible stories against a black backdrop. Ms. Sloan’s tale—that she runs a dancers’ blog called The Winger, and sometimes mobile-blogs backstage on her iPhone […]
The moon will arrive at last quarter phase on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:44 a.m. EST, when its disk will be exactly 50 percent illuminated. How does it brightness compare at that moment with when it’s full?
Most would believe it’s half as bright, but in reality astronomers tell us that the last quarter moon is […]
This 359-seat Airbus 380-600, ready for delivery to Etihad, the National Airline of the United Arab Emirates, was undergoing final static tests of its four 56,000 lb. thrust engines when something went very wrong. Etihad will be waiting for the first of its six $319.2 million 380s for just a bit longer.
This is probably the […]
For all the low-energy-use virtues of compact florescent lightbulbs (CFLs), few of them match the streamlined elegance of the classic Edison lightbulb. And yes, this makes a difference — not only to getting people to make the switch (ha!) to CFLs, but because there’s just no reason they need to be ugly.
Enter design company Hulger […]
Gadgets aren’t immaculately conceived, in spite of what seems like lightning-speed development. That new gizmo you’ll love (or hate) for a few months before discarding received countless hours of attention and forethought from a sizable team of designers, engineers and researchers. Long before most products hit the retail shelf, a company’s design team or an […]
Keeping a few family photos in your wallet, of course, is a requisite of parenthood. But it’s also a duty that requires a degree of organization, as in remembering to swap out pics as the kids grow older.
To say nothing of the fact that those prints start to look fairly shabby over time. Isn’t that […]
MUMBAI: Bangalore-Based startup Instacoll, backed by Internet poster boy Sabeer Bhatia, has launched an online office productivity suite and plans to launch a desktop version within six months, hoping to take on the Web pioneer Google Documents and the dominant force in the business, Microsoft, in the global market.
Instacoll — Instant Collaboration Software Technologies […]
Release is expected after the Thanksgiving weekend.
The flaw has to do with the fact that Firefox does not properly check files that are compressed using the .jar (Java Archive) format. Attackers could sneak malicious code into the Jar-compressed documents, which would then be run by the victim.
PC World - Mozilla Readies Firefox Patch
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Expanded use of biofuels could cut global warming pollution, enhance our energy security, and strengthen local economies, but a new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that not all biofuels are created equal. Any expansion of alternative fuel production must be accompanied by standards that account for each fuel’s full global warming impact—in […]
