PC World – What do phishing, instant messaging malware, DDoS attacks and 419 scams have in common? According to Cisco Systems, they’re all has-been cybercrimes that were supplanted by slicker, more menacing forms of cybercrime over the past year.
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In an effort to topple Google, Microsoft are integrating the WolframAlpha knowledge engine with Bing search results. Would it convince you to switch from your favorite search engine?
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Is Dmitry Baranovskiy’s critique of Closure valid, or just nitpicking? Did you know the SitePoint podcast is one year old? What are some of the burning questions our forum members have been asking and answering? All this and more, in this look at what our community’s been doing!
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InfoWorld – Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of “database as a service” is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB. Amazon itself provides EC2 instances running MySQL, and Amazon’s SimpleDB service offers capabilities similar — but not identical — to Amazon RDS.
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Reuters – Adam Shankman has a Twitter habit, and it’s making Academy officials nervous.
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PC World – Blu-ray Discs based on a new format for 3D video will be on show at January’s Consumer Electronics Show.
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PC World – Seagate Technology. the world’s largest hard-disk drive maker, is planning to launch a new drive that’s 25 percent thinner than current models. The 7-millimeter high drive will allow laptop PC makers to further reduce the thickness of their computers and is scheduled to be launched at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, the company said in an email.
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PC World – Singaporean mobile operators MobileOne (M1) and StarHub will start selling Apple’s iPhone on Dec. 9, but users won’t see big drops in price for monthly plans.
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AFP – An annual security report being released on Tuesday by technology titan Cisco warns that banks and online social networks are prime targets for increasingly sophisticated cyber crooks.
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PC World – Research In Motion will develop a version of its BlackBerry handset that supports China’s homegrown 3G standard, TD-SCDMA, the company said Tuesday, expanding an existing partnership with operator China Mobile.
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