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Spam levels could take an upwards spike after researchers detected a malicious network of computers designed to push out junk mail and malware was brought back to life Tuesday. The Srizbi botnet, comprising more than half a million PCs, was deemed responsible for approximately 40 to 50 percent of the world’s spam. Up until recently, [...]

Apple, Inc.’s popular iPhone 3G has become “the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the U.S.,” according to the NPD Group. The Apple iPhone 3G dethroned Motorola’s RAZR, long the market leader, in the third quarter. NPD said the “watershed shift” to Apple’s iPhone 3G represents a move toward “fashionable functionality”. Apple’s iPhone 3G [...]

Security researchers at Microsoft Corp. late yesterday warned of a significant increase in exploits of a Windows bug that the software vendor patched with an emergency fix last month, confirming earlier reports by Symantec Corp. Microsoft again urged users to apply the MS08-067 patch if they have not already done so. The new attacks, which [...]

Today, the Gmail team at Google has expanded GMail capabilities by including video and voice chat. On the Gmail blog Justin Uberti, software engineer for Google, writes, “[T]oday we’re launching voice and video chat – right inside Gmail. We’ve tried to make this an easy-to-use, seamless experience, with high-quality audio and video – all for [...]

Apple launched a preemptive strike of sorts in the battle of the smart phones releasing the iPhone 2.2 softwaree-mail from POP and Exchange accounts; faster installation of third party applications; and a fix for bugs that caused hangs and crashes with a number of third party applications. upgrade at midnight, just hours ahead of the [...]

Flash is around the corner for Google’s G1 and Nokia’s Symbian smart phones; Flash on Blackberries likely coming as well; Apple continues its apathy towards Adobe. The best selling phone in America, Apple’s iPhone, could be the last of the smartphones to get Flash. At a slew of press events over the last few days, [...]

Microsoft Corp. said it will offer free software to protect PCs from viruses, in a move that could pose new challenges for independent makers of security software. The Redmond, Wash., company said it plans to introduce its security software, code-named Morro, during the second half of next year in an effort to persuade more users [...]

Yesterday Hewlett-Packard introduced its first consumer-oriented multi-touch tablet PC. The TouchSmart tx2 tightly integrates hardware and software to offer an interface that lets people use their fingers or a stylus for on-screen manipulation of digital entertainment. The software foundation of the tx2′s multi-touch capabilities is HP’s MediaSmart 2.0, which makes it possible to use a [...]

Taken from the brand new show with the magnificent Jeff Dunham and his hilarious puppets. Here is the clips from the show with Achmed The Dead Terrorist. Fans have already made Dunham’s “A Very Special Christmas Special” a best seller through online pre-orders, according to a news release. “A Very Special Christmas Special” will premiere [...]

It’s now November and the winter is slow and surely creeping up on me here in southern Norway. Just the last week, the temperature has constantly been below -5 Celsius. There has been a couple of snowflakes falling down here and there, but nothing worth speaking about yet. Some of you out there know that [...]