Computer attacks typically don’t inflict physical pain on their victims. But hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation’s Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images.

“I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline ' they don't realize how cruel it is,” said Paul Ferguson, a security researcher at antivirus…

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Schmidt: But we have–we have multiple ways in which we grow. Ofcourse, more people use the Internet, more people are using electroniccommerce on the Internet, more people are clicking on the ads, and also our adtechnology is getting much,…

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The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there’s one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace. Registrations of ‘.su’ domain name have jumped 45 percent this year alone.

Country-code domains, derived from a list kept by the International Organization for Standardization, typically disappear when a country ceases to exist or changes its name. Both Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia lost their domain names after they…

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Petition drive aims to keep XP as option on new PCs past June 30

Deep anxiety about VistaIn a recent article about the Save XP? drive, Gruman wrote that in Vistas first year, InfoWorld detected a deep anxiety over Vista among technologists and consumers alike. ? We have not criticized…

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What will the next version of the iPhone have that the current one doesnt? With a recent shortage of the phones in U.S. stores, and indications that a new model may be released within the next few months, its natural to pose the questions.

Walt Mossberg, technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, said 3G, a faster broadband connection, is coming to the new iPhone “in 60 days.” He made the remark last week while speaking at a Beet.TV executive summit in Washington,…

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The Apple brand has the biggest impact on the world’s consumers, while Microsoft and the image of the United States (as a brand) are those considered most in need of a remake, a survey showed on Monday.

“Apple has clearly captured the hearts and minds by leading across most categories. Others, such as the USA nation brand, which ranks highly as most in need of a rebrand, requires help according to our readers,” said brandchannel editor…

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Google has made an announcement that could help hundreds of homeless people in San Francisco get back on their feet. Every single homeless person in the city will be given a life-long phone number and voicemail.

?We're firm believers in the power of technology to improve the daily lives of individuals and communities as a whole, and we recognize that access to phone and voicemail services is one way that Google can help San Francisco's…

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