Dec 30
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Online Holiday Spending in 2007 Nears $28 Billion

comScore, who is a leader in “measuring the digital world,” released a holiday spending update that shows nearly $28 Billion were spent during the 2007 holiday season, which includes online spending from November 1st to December 27th.
This is a 19% increase over the 2006 holiday season, which reported online spending of about$23.5 billion. comScore […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Dec 28
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FTC Releases Report on Fraudulent Phishing and Spam

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a report on their findings of “malicious spam and phishing”, called “Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions”, and has proposed actions that can be taken in order to mitigate the harmful affects that are caused by fraudulent phishing and spam. Also included in […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Dec 27
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CDT Warns of Unlicensed Music Downloads

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has put together a warning list for consumers of sites that are illegally distributing mainstream music. A lot of people received mp3 players for Christmas and are eager to download music; however, just because a site charges a fee to download music does not mean that they […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Dec 27
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Open Source Living Offers Tons of Free Software

Open Source Living is a site that offers tons of free, high quality, software to anyone on the internet.   This web site was started by a guy named Andrew, who is a post grad student from London, United Kingdom.  The site started out with just a simple list of free software, and now has […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Dec 27
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Motion Sensing Controller Plans for Microsoft’s Xbox 360

If the rumors going around are true, then it is possible that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 could be getting a motion sensing controller by the end of 2008. As of right now nothing is certain, but it seems that this new sensing technology will be an add-on to the current 360 controllers.
According to Xbox Family, […]

Author: Jonathon Walden
Dec 26
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Egypt to Copyright Pryamids and Other Ancient Monuments

According to news reports, Egypt is going to pass a copyright law that will require royalties to be paid when replicas of ancient monuments or museum pieces are made.  Zahi Hawass, who is the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said that these royalties will be needed in order to maintain the ancient monuments.
This […]

Author: Jonathon Walden