There seems to be an epidemic of hacking iTunes accounts, especially for the site’s customers who pay for their purchases using PayPal.
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Tags: banking, credit cards, cybercrime, hacked, iTunes, linked, PayPal, scam
Fans of Cameron Diaz may want to rethink any plans they have for online banking or investment activity. That’s because a web search for the popular movie star is very likely to infect a PC with nasty malware and viruses that can be used to steal passwords and access IDs for sites where money is exchanged.
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Tags: Cameron Diaz, downloads, Jessica Biel, Julia Roberts, malware, McAfee, theft, Trojan, virus
Like Delaware, the Internet could post a sign at all entrances boasting “Home of Tax-Free Shopping.” But not for long, if a Massachusetts congressman has his way.
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Tags: Amazon, Bill Delahunt, business, congress, Internet, Mainstreet Fairness Act, tax, Walmart
There could be a serious threat to mobile phone service if new software from Pinger catches on. The application lets users make phone calls and send texts on a smartphone without mobile service — or without a mobile phone at all.
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Tags: application, calls, iPad, ipod, mobile phone, Pinter, Software, Textfree, texting
The economy may be limping along, but one sector of the tech industry is booming despite the sluggish markets and stagnating growth: wireless. A new report demonstrates just how much.
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Looks like Netflix has struck a pretty sweet deal with Hollywood studios — no small trick in this day and age of hand-to-hand combat over entertainment revenues.
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Tags: Hollywood, movies, Netflix, rentals, sales, streaming video
Any business that’s not using social networking to target customers is way behind the curve, say the tech analysts at Gartner, Inc. These days, most consumers rely to some extent on these networks to direct their spending.
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Tags: Gartner, marketing, social networks
The titanic shift in publishing that’s pushed traditional books, magazines and newspapers off their pedestal in favor of electronic copy hit a crescendo this week when Amazon announced that, for the first time, e-books outsold their hardcover competition.
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Got an opinion? Want to broadcast it on the Attleboro (Massachusetts) Sun Chronicle website? Be prepared to pay for the privilege and sign your name to your ideas.
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Tags: Attleboro, comments, Massachusetts, Oreste P. D'Arconte, posting, Sun Chronicle, website
The gaming wizards at Blizzard learned some valuable lessons recently: Their customers like being nasty to each other online and they’re timid about anybody knowing. Interfere with either of these things at your business peril.
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Tags: anonymously, blizzard, Cataclysm, forum, Mike Morhaime, StarCraftII, World of Warcraft
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