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Is your ISP using Phorm on you? Get AntiPhorm!
via Download Squad by Jay Hathaway on May 16, 2008
Filed under: Security, WindowsThis is primarily for our readers in the UK, but it's part of a growing trend that should concern Internet users everywhere. Phorm is a notorious advertising system that tracks the browsing activities of customers of huge companies like BT (a major British ISP) and Virgin Media. The data is collected and used to sell targeted advertising, which has a lot of...
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Google Deals A Blow To Anti-Scientology: Anonymous’ AdSense Acc Canceled
via Mashable! by Stan Schroeder on May 15, 2008
... context wrong, serving a bunch of pro-Scientology ads there (which are, most probably, the only Scientology-related ads there are). Google’s explanation for the cancellation, from their letter to Enturbulation, is this: “While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our p...
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YouTube Insights: Now With Demographic Stats
via Mashable! by Adam Ostrow on May 15, 2008
There is a reason why web sites ask you for your age, gender, and zip code – the ability to target advertising based on demographic data. Now, YouTube is putting that data in the hands of video producers, allowing you to see on a video-by-video basis the demographic breakdown of your viewers.For now, you get a bar chart representing the percentage of your audience in different age groups, and...
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Researchers: written English language will weather LOL storm
via Ars Technica by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) on May 15, 2008
Teenagers may be widely characterized as the most prominent abusers of "IM speak," but it turns out that they don't use it as much as we think—and it's not hurting their language skills either. Read More...
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Mormons, Scientologists face uphill battle against Wikileaks
via Ars Technica by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson) on May 14, 2008
Both the Mormons and the Scientologists are upset about confidential church documents posted on Wikileaks. Can religion succeed where Swiss bankers have failed?Read More...
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No off switch: "Hyperconnectivity" on the rise
via Ars Technica by dchartier@arstechnica.com (David Chartier) on May 14, 2008
According to a new study, "hyperconnected" employees who increasingly juggle devices, applications, and communications are on the rise in a big way. The possibility for "information overload" looms larger than ever.Read More...
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Blip is like Twitter for music, or rather Twitter plus music
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on May 14, 2008
Filed under: Audio, Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0If your Twitter home page is filled with messages from friends linking out to other web sites where you can watch a video, read and article, or listen to a song, Blip might be for you. While Twitter is 100% text based, people tend to use the micro-blogging service to share links to multimedia files. Blip, on the other hand, is a...
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CyberNotes: Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Impress Your Friends
via CyberNet by Ryan on May 14, 2008
Web Browser WednesdayFirefox extensions are often lauded for the additional features and functionality that they bring to the browser. Some of them can save you crazy amounts of time, while others are more about beautifying Firefox. Here at CyberNet we typically try to focus on those extensions that can make you more productive, but today we’re going to flaunt what the developers have given us....
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Security flaw turns Gmail into open-relay server
via Ars Technica by jhruska@arstechnica.com (Joel Hruska) on May 10, 2008
A newfound flaw in Google's Gmail allows would-be spammers to treat the service as an open-relay server. Compounding the issue is the fact that services such as Hotmail and Yahoo "trust" Gmail. This may facilitate e-mail delivery, but it also makes it easier for spammers to reach their intended targets.Read More...
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Throttle 5 million P2P users with $800K DPI monster
via Ars Technica by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson) on May 12, 2008
Deep packet inspection gets a major speed bump to 80Gbps of real-time traffic analysis with 96 percent accuracy. Even the largest networks can now throttle P2P with ease... even when it's encrypted.Read More...
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