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Windows people just refuse to believe this but here’s still another story. Apple’s Mac OSX is virus-free

Have you noticed the growing trend by newspapers to force registration on Web users to access their content? What seems to be the pattern these days is that after collecting all sorts of personal info, they then sign you up for dozens of ad offers and junk newsletters, unless you take the time to […]

Sony sure hopes so. And even though I don’t play games, I have to say that the PlayStation Portable is one very cool gizmo. I think having movies to watch on a portable device is going to be much hotter than a lot of people think. We already know how popular gaming is. This unit […]

Here’s an industry I didn’t even know existed: Mobile phone pornography. According to a Boston-based research firm, cell phone users spent $400 million last year downloading dirty pictures and movies to their cell phones. By 2010, it’s supposed to be a $5 billion industry. “Hold on… let me take this dirty picture on my […]

The Pew Internet & American Life Project people are reporting today a steady increase over the past year in the percentage of older Americans who go online.
In its January 2005 phone survey, 26% of Americans age 65+ report internet access, compared to the 22% of older Americans described in a March 2004 report.
Lee Rainie, the […]

Looks like that hot new PSP is going to have some movies to watch on it after all.
Disney to Release Films for Sony PSP Game Device

So says a new survey from Microsoft. Workers who responded to an online Office survey reported two days out of the workweek were a waste of time, with U.S. workers blaming procrastination as the top cause.Time wasters blow off two days a week.
Hmmm. Could another reason be that they have so many viruses and spyware […]

Have you seen Google X? It’s an experimental new interface for the familiar search agent that mimmicks the icon magnification feature in Apple’s OS X operating system.

Or is it vice versa? Anyway, from the if-you-can’t-beat-’em, join-’em department.
TiVo to Make Customized Version for Comcast

This using “Ph” instead of “F” is getting wearysome. Now there’s Pharming to worry about, something that involves tricking us to visit a Web site where you get Phished. Think industrial strength phishing.
Sound silly? It is, especially with stories like this one from Wired that keep shouting that the cyberspace sky is falling.

There’s a whole bunch of interesting tech stories today on the use of mobile phone messaging. First, this Reuters piece looks at the difference between European and U.S. mobile phone users, noting how much more popular mobile messaging is in Europe.
But messaging is growing fast here, too.
America Online is expanding its mobile services to work […]

I wonder how many of us grasp the huge change that Voice over Internet Protocol technology is bringing to the way the world communicates. Businesses and consumers alike are flocking to the always cheaper and now almost as reliable as landline quality of VoIP. What intriguies me in the story of AOL’s new move into […]