If you’ve got a PayPal account, you’re likely a target for phishers who’ll try to nab your login credentials by sending phony e-mails that lure victims to a bogus site so they’ll unwittingly give up the info. The solution?
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Does playing a violent video game really make players more prone to be violent in real life? That’s a question that’s been batted about (no pun intended) for decades, since the first electronic game systems hit the market. The answer?
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Tags: Craig Anderson, Iowa State University, study, Video games, violence
The whole “cell phones cause cancer” argument is beginning to feel a lot like the smoking and cancer dust up that went on decades ago.
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Tags: cancer, cellphones, links, research, smartphones
American consumers aren’t buying fewer consumer gadgets and technology items, but they are spending less on tech. That’s the word from NPD group, an organization that keeps track of such things.
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Tags: consumer, electronics, Gadgets, NPD Group, spending, technology
A few weeks back, I suggested to a colleague that Twitter wasn’t the Internet phenomenon many folks think it is. Why? Because my kids could care less about it.
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Tags: Pew Research Center, study, teenagers, Twitter, use
When a judge recently reduced the $1.92 million in damages from a jury verdict against a Minnesota woman accused of illegally sharing 24 songs, music pirates everywhere breathed a small sigh of relief.
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Tags: file-sharing, fine, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Joel Tenenbaum, jury verdict, music
How many morons drive an 18-wheeler down a busy highway and tap out a text message at the same time? The answer: enough to prompt a federal ban on the practice.
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Tags: ban, driving, Federal, Ray LaHood, texting, U.S. Transportation Secretary
So January 27 is the day that will live in, if not infamy, at least history, as the day Apple finally broke the suspense and let us all know about their upcoming product plans. Whew.
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Tags: announcement, Apple, consumers, introduction, iphone, Steve Jobs, tablet
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The latest survey of computer users found that Internet usage has nearly doubled in the decade that’s ending this week. Today’s user now spends nearly two full workdays a week on the Web. Compare that to
Tags: Harris Interactive, Internet, poll, usage
If you believe the folks at security firm Kaspersky Lab (and you probably should, since their prediction for 2009 was accurate) you’ll find next year’s big threat by following the users.
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Tags: 2010, botnets, Kaspersky Labs, malware, prediction, threats, viruses
