An escaped convict who entertained so many on Facebook with his taunting of the U.K. police, has finally been friended in person by the long arm of the law, according to the Associated Press. Craig “Lazie” Lynch, who had been in jail for aggravated burglary, flew the coop on September 23 and began to create [...]

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One of the biggest disappointments of Mozilla e-mail client Thunderbird 3 was that plans to bake in the calendaring extension Lightning were abandoned. When Thunderbird 3 debuted, users got a bit of a shock: Lightning wasn’t compatible with the upgrade. Although there was a work-around through the Lightning nightly updates, the official build wasn’t going [...]

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After taking a long hiatus, trojan dialers that can rack up thousands of dollars in charges are back by popular demand. According to researchers at CA Security’s malware analysis lab, a new wave of malicious dialers is hitting users of mobile phones. The trojans are built on the Java 2 Micro Edition programming language and [...]

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To put it in plain language, your purchased copy of VirusBarrier X6 will actually stop protecting you (that is, it will not work at all) one year after purchase, unless you buy it again–which gains you a new version of the program, and another year of updates to the threat filters. At first glance, this [...]

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Throughout our lives we get to experience milestones of absurdity. In the moment, we may be rendered speechless (that time I saw a pig on a leash in Central Park, or the bike jousting that’s become so popular in my Portland, Ore., neighborhood), but upon reflection these milestones at least serve as fodder for great [...]

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Sun Microsystems may be in a PR muzzle until sugar daddy Oracle gets permission to buy it from European antitrust regulators, but the coders who maintain Sun’s myriad software products are still banging away on their keyboards in an effort to not only look useful to keep their jobs, but be useful. They just can’t [...]

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It turns out that the “dog people” — based on how people identified themselves, not on what animals they actually own — tend to be more social and outgoing, whereas “cat people” tend to be more neurotic but “open,” which means creative, philosophical, or nontraditional in this context. Dog people scored significantly higher on extraversion, [...]

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VMware has agreed to purchase Yahoo!’s Zimbra unit – an outfit that offers enterprise email, collaboration, and calendering – after earlier reports indicated a pact was on the cards. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But sources speaking with All Things Digital say the price is “well below” the $350m Yahoo! paid for Zimbra [...]

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The command-and-control servers of the Lethic botnet have been taken out following a spam-busting collaboration between security firm Neustar and ISPs. The botherders behind Lethic specialised in distributing unlicensed pharmaceutical, diploma and replica goods spam. Compromised machines in the network are reckoned to have spewed out as much as one in 10 of junk mails [...]

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Samsung today unveiled two high-density memory modules for mobile devices that double the capacity of its previous high-end micro secure digital (microSD) cards. The new storage offerings include a 64GB moviNAND embedded memory module and a 32GB removable microSD memory card. The new memory cards are based on Samsung’s 32Gbit NAND flash memory chips, which [...]

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