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Ziff Davis
If you get an e-mail that appears to be from Facebook saying the company reset your password and urging you to open an attachment, it is a scam. Repeat, it is a scam. by Elinor Mills CNET News...
It's not surprising that so many people rely on social media, for both work and play, every day - a statistic highlighted in the latest Retrevo Gadgetology Report on social-media usage. by Elizabeth A...
With the coming of 3D television comes the invasion of 3D glasses. The problem is that there are no standards so they will work only with the brand of TV with which they're shipped. by Erica Ogg CNET ...
A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corpo...
A joint operation by researchers from Canadian security firm Defense Intelligence and Spain's PandaLabs led to the arrest of three men in Spain earlier this month in connection with the Mariposa botne...
Wired
The jinxed sex.com domain name is set to be auctioned off for more than a million bucks Thursday -- until creditors of the current, failed owner stop the sale with an odd emergency, forced-bankruptcy ...
Classmates.com is offering to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of falsely leading people to believe their old schoolmates wanted to contact them. A proposed settlement would give $3 each to more...
To settle a privacy lawsuit, Netflix is canceling a second round of its innovative contest to improve its movie recommendations. The lawsuit claims the anonymized user data given to outside researcher...
Angry users sue Classmates.com after it decides to make previously private data public, just as Facebook did in December. Will its defense be, "I learned it from watching you, Zuck?" ...
App stores aren't just for mobile phones anymore. Google has launched a store that lets Google Apps customers add third-party browser-based apps to their existing stack of Google's productivity tools....
IT Pro
NY Times Technology
The charge was one of many made by Viacom in newly released filings in its $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube and Google. ...
American companies with factories in China are now building high-tech research labs there as well. ...
As Apple builds its electronic bookstore, Amazon is trying to use its clout to hold on to its early lead in the market. ...
Ashley Andrews and James Gower use Facebook as a court of public opinion for many of their grievances.At 400 million members, Facebook might just replace restaurants as the go-to place for couples to ...
A patent application suggests Apple is preparing a new location-based social networking application. ...
O'Reilly
Are you a creative type that would like to get started with designing and prototyping with Processing? In this excerpt from Visualizing Data Ben Fry introduces the Processing Environment and quickl...
Join Joe Albahari (C# 4.0 in a Nutshell and LINQ Pocket Reference) in an interactive session on the new and upcoming features of LINQPad. We'll demonstrate support for C# 4.0, the new extensibility ...
Chickenfoot -- Firefox plugin to let you script and manipulate web pages. Useful for automation, like Greasemonkey, but acts on the rendered page and not the HTML source. This and more in today's Fo...
QuickBooks 2010: The Missing Manual for only $9.99. Use discount code DDQB2 to get your savings!... ...
Since our limerick contest was such a hit last year, we decided to host it again! Today, we're encouraging you to write a limerick that is either tech-themed or that references O'Reilly Media or one...
Apple Hot News
Starting today, you can pre-order your iPad from the Apple Online Store and have it delivered free to your door. Or buy it at your favorite Apple Retail Store starting April 3....
FileMaker, Inc. announced this week the immediate availability of FileMaker Pro 11. Packed with new and innovative features led by charting, ?on the fly? reporting, a new Quick Find capability, and a ...
CNET News reports that 9 out of 10 of this year?s nominees in the Documentary Feature and Documentary Short categories used Final Cut Studio to make their films, including category winners ?The Cove? ...
Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPa...
For the third year in a row Apple has been named the World?s Most Admired Company by Fortune Magazine ? this year by the widest margin ever. What makes Apple so admired? Fortune explains: ?Product, pr...
