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Stolen Art: FBI's Most Wanted
 Charlotte Sector - ABC News
The FBI is banking on the Internet to track down its most wanted list of stolen art. The FBI's year-old Art Crime Team released its top 10 list of the worst art crime thefts to track down paintings like Edvard Munch's "The Scream," Paul Cezanne's "View of Auvers-sur-Oise" and thousands of Iraqi artifacts.more »»»
New Service Expands Google's Reach
 Matthew Fordahl
An ambitious new Google Inc. service lets anyone upload most anything to a publicly searchable database, potentially laying the groundwork for a foray by the Internet juggernaut into classified advertising. more »»»
Deal Reached on Managing the Internet
 Matt Moore
A U.N. technology summit opened Wednesday after an 11th-hour agreement that leaves the United States with ultimate oversight of the main computers that direct the Internet's flow of information, commerce and dissent.more »»»
Telmex Eyes U.S. Hispanic Market with New Service
 Cyntia Barrera Diaz
Mexican telecommunications giant Telmex, owned by billionaire Carlos Slim, will launch a videoconferencing service for residential clients that could expand to the profitable U.S. Hispanic market soon.more »»»
FBI Agents Bust 'Botmaster'
 Reuters
A 20-year-old man accused of using thousands of hijacked computers, or "bot nets," to damage systems and send massive amounts of spam across the Internet was arrested last week in what authorities called the first such prosecution of its kind.more »»»
AOL to Launch Online TV
 Kenneth Li
Time Warner's AOL said on Monday it planned to launch a free Internet television service by early 2006, in one of the technology and media industry's most ambitious designs to reach TV viewers online.more »»»
Daiquiri Dick's Unveils Puerto Vallarta's First Virtual Menu
 PVNN
Thanks to Video Diva Productions' new virtual menu, Daiquiri Dick's Restaurant owners Peter and Tari Bowman have found a unique and exciting way to promote their popular Puerto Vallarta restaurant.more »»»
Microsoft Warns of Flaw in Newer Windows Versions
 Reuters
Microsoft Corp. warned users on Tuesday of a new "critical"-rated flaw in recent versions of Windows that could allow attackers to take control of a system by embedding malicious software code into digital images.more »»»
Amazon to Let Readers Buy Just the Good Parts
 Chris Gaither & Julie Tamaki
Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday previewed a service to sell just a few pages or chapters of a book — allowing one of the world's oldest media to be chopped up and customized like an album on iTunes.more »»»
Making Phone Calls Over the Net
 BBC News
Telephone calls made over an internet connection are predicted to be the next revolution in telecommunications. Cheaper broadband costs and user friendly software is helping users to start making Voice over IP (VoIP) calls, with a number of companies offering products.more »»»
Have Hackers Recruited Your PC?
 BBC News
More than one million computers on the net have been hijacked to attack websites and pump out spam and viruses. The huge number was revealed by security researchers who have spent months tracking more than 100 networks of remotely-controlled machines.more »»»
Man Is Sentenced in Phishing Fraud
 Wire services
A British man was sentenced to four years in jail Tuesday for masterminding a "phishing" fraud that stole identities and bank details from users of the eBay auction site. Prosecutors said David Levi led a six-man gang that stole nearly $360,000 US from more than 160 people.more »»»
US Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems
 Sam Dillon & Stephen Labaton
The US federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications.more »»»
DeLay Uses Website to Attack Prosecutor
 John Solomon
Tom Delay is trying to turn his legal woes into a financial boon for his re-election. The former House majority leader is using his congressional campaign to distribute to voters derogatory information about the prosecutor who brought the charges against him and to solicit donations for his re-election.more »»»
Feds Want Banks to Strengthen Web Log-Ons
 Rian Bergstein
Federal regulators will require banks to strengthen security for Internet customers through authentication that goes beyond mere user names and passwords, which have become too easy for criminals to exploit. Bank Web sites are expected to adopt some form of "two-factor" authentication by the end of 2006.more »»»
Internet Forum Produces Extensive Rejection of Blockade on Cuba
 Prensa Latina
In a two-hour question-and-comment Internet forum Thursday, the Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry received nearly 200 unanimous rejections of the economic, commercial and financial blockade by the US government against the island of Cuba.more »»»
Text Hackers Could Jam Cellphones
 John Schwartz
Malicious hackers could take down cellular networks in large cities by inundating their popular text-messaging services with the equivalent of spam, said computer security researchers, who will announce the findings of their research today.more »»»
Researchers Snoop On Keyboard Sounds
 AP
If spyware and key-logging software weren't a big enough threat to privacy, researchers have figured out a way to eavesdrop on your computer simply by listening to the clicks and clacks of the keyboard.more »»»
Worlds Apart: Global Summits Highlight Digital Policy Divide
 Michael Geist
Over the next two weeks, the ITU and WIPO in Geneva will serve as ground zero for intense discussions on the future of policies that will greatly impact on the Internet. Negotiators at both meetings will also face a fork in the road.more »»»
Google to Put Copyright Laws to the Test
 Anick Jesdanun
With Google's book-scanning program set to resume in earnest this fall, copyright laws that long preceded the Internet look to be headed for a digital-age test. The outcome could determine how easy it will be for people with Internet access to benefit from knowledge that's now mostly locked up in books sitting on dusty library shelves, many of them out of print.more »»»
Ring Tones, Cameras, Now This: Sex Is Latest Cellphone Feature
 Matt Richtel & Michel Marriott
With the advent of advanced cellular networks that deliver full-motion video from the Internet - and the latest wave of phones featuring larger screens with bright color - the pornography industry is eyeing the cellphone as a lucrative new vehicle for distribution.more »»»
Internet Oversight Board OKs New Domains
 Anick Jesdanun
The Internet's key oversight agency approved a domain name for the Catalan language Thursday while deferring final action on creating a red-light district on the Internet through a ".xxx" suffix.more »»»
Pierre Omidyar's Perfect Store Turns 10
 Adam Cohen
Over Labor Day weekend 10 years ago, a programmer named Pierre Omidyar took a chance on an odd little Web site called AuctionWeb. He wrote the code in his spare bedroom and posted it on his personal home page, which had a whimsical domain name: www.ebay.com.more »»»
Latin Fans Ready to Dial Up Ringtones
 Antony Bruno
The next growth spurt in the ringtone market very likely will have a Latin flavor. With few exceptions, ringtones have remained largely a medium for hip-hop/R&B music, because of the genre's popularity and the wide acceptance of wireless services within hip-hop culture.more »»»
Three Charged, One Pleads Guilty in First Case on Obscene Spam
 Yahoo! News
Three people were indicted and a fourth pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the first case related to the transmission of obscene spam e-mails under a 2003 US anti-spam law, officials said. The US Justice Department is targeting an operation that sent out tens of millions of unsolicited e-mails with sexually explicit embedded images and links.more »»»
Three Singaporeans Nabbed For Illegally Distributing MP3 Music Files
 Wire services
Three Singaporeans were arrested for illegally sharing 20,000 MP3 songs over the Internet, marking the first time home computer users who do not profit from swapping digital music are targetted in the fight against piracy.more »»»
China Tries to Wipe Internet Icon from Web
 Reuters
Floozie or role model, attention monger or free spirit? For months, China has been debating what to make of its latest Internet-born star, a young woman known nationwide as Furong Jiejie, aka Sister Furong. more »»»
Google to Launch IM Service
 Yuki Noguchi
Google Inc. is set to offer on Wednesday its own instant message and Web-based phone calling system, joining a crowded field of established rivals in a nearly decade-old computer communications craze.more »»»
Project Aims to Create 3D Television by 2020
 Reuters
Imagine watching a football match on a TV that not only shows the players in three dimensions but also lets you experience the smells of the stadium and maybe even pat a goalscorer on the back. Japan plans to make this futuristic television a commercial reality by 2020.more »»»
New Internet Worm Targeting Windows
 Reuters
A new Internet virus targeting recently uncovered flaws in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system is circulating on the Internet, an anti-virus computer software maker said on Monday.more »»»
American Graffiti: Signs of the Times
 Rupert Cornwell
Feel like getting something off your chest against that iniquitous warmonger in the White House? Well, you can write a letter to your newspaper, tune in to liberal talk radio, or click to a reliably leftie website. Alternatively, you can take a drive on the highways of the US.more »»»
Spoiled for Choice: Here's How to Cut Through the Confusion of Buying a Laptop Computer
 Keith Woolhouse
Tom Camps, CEO of BOLDstreet Wireless, has been using his Acer laptop computer for five years and is more than ready to trade up to a better one. But the number of choices is phenomenal.more »»»
Vista Opens On Microsoft Windows
 BBC
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, has said the next version of its much-delayed operating system will be known as Windows Vista. The software, until now known by its code name Longhorn, is due for release towards the end of 2006.more »»»
Students Get Help With Homework From Technology
 Marc Saltzman
High school and college students have used computers for years to type and print homework assignments. They also have used electronic calculators to solve and graph complex equations. And the Internet continues to be a valuable resource for researching school reports.more »»»
How Much Does Google Know About You?
 CNN
Although many Internet users eagerly await each new technology from Google Inc., its rapid expansion is also prompting concerns that the company may know too much: what you read, where you surf and travel, whom you write.more »»»
Microsoft Names New Software 'Windows Vista'
 Reuters
Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it named the next version of its operating system "Windows Vista" as it prepares to release a trial version of the flagship software that already runs on nine out of 10 personal computers worldwide.more »»»
FBI Monitored Web Sites for 2004 Protests
 Michael Dobbs
FBI agents monitored Web sites calling for protests against the 2004 political conventions in New York and Boston on behalf of the bureau's counterterrorism unit, according to FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.more »»»
Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster
 Matt Richtel & John Markoff
On a recent Sunday morning when Lew Tucker's Dell desktop computer was overrun by spyware and adware - stealth software that delivers intrusive advertising messages and even gathers data from the user's machine - he did not simply get rid of the offending programs. He threw out the whole computer.more »»»
PluggedIn: White Lies Help Stressed Computer Users
 Eric Auchard
High-technology tricks once seen as the purview of hackers are now in the hands of ordinary people. Gadgets these days are full of surprises, and not just in the 'gee whiz' sense of unexpected possibility, but also in their growing powers to manipulate or deceive.more »»»
U.S., Mexico Boost Their Data-Sharing to Ensnare Drug Cartels
 James Pinkerton
Mexican and U.S. law enforcement agencies are sharing an "unprecedented" amount of intelligence on drug trafficking and other criminal activities that span the Texas-Mexico border, according to a veteran U.S. law enforcement agent.more »»»
For Surfers, a Roving Hot Spot That Shares
 Johanna Jainchill
When the Sunningdale Country Club in Scarsdale, N.Y., opened its gates last week to a location shoot for "The Sopranos," a new fixture was on display in the mobile dressing rooms - a roving Wi-Fi hot spot.more »»»
Sky Spy
 Michael Learmonth
The Cold War practice of satellite surveillance has moved into the private sector. Now, for a few hundred dollars, anyone may soon be able practice armchair espionage, spying on objects as small as 3 meters in diameter anywhere on the earth.more »»»
Worse Than Death
 John Tierney
Last year a German teenager named Sven Jaschan released the Sasser worm, one of the costliest acts of sabotage in the history of the Internet. It crippled computers around the world, closing businesses, halting trains and grounding airplanes. Which of these punishments does he deserve?more »»»
Don't Let Identity Thieves Ruin Your Trip
 Jennifer Mulrean
A day in paradise can turn into a financial disaster if your identity is stolen on vacation or on a business trip. Here are the top tips for reducing the chances it'll happen to you.more »»»
Out With the Old Phone, in With the Cash
 Rachel Metz
They may be in your desk drawer, your glove compartment, in pieces on your child's bedroom floor. Perhaps you donate them to charity or simply throw them in the garbage. Whatever their fate, if you do not send them to Mr. Heine's company's site, you could be missing a chance to get cash or goods for phones that are useless to you, but possibly useful to others.more »»»
Fines Up For Rogue Internet Firms
 BBC
Fines for duping consumers into using premium rate internet connections are to increase, the Department of Trade and Industry has announced. Companies who break the rules will be fined up to £250,000, up from the previous maximum of £100,000.more »»»
100 Million Go Online In China
 BBC
The number of internet users in China has risen above 100 million for the first time, according to reports in the country's state media. Only the US now has more web surfers as young and old Chinese take to the internet in record numbers.more »»»
Microsoft Unveils Cut-Price Windows
 Wire services
Beset by rampant counterfeiting across Latin America, Microsoft on Tuesday introduced a cut-rate, cut-down version of Windows XP that is aimed at first-time, low-income computer users who might otherwise run pirated software.more »»»
At PartyGaming, Everything's Wild
 Kurt Eichenwald
As a rule, companies don't often draw attention to business practices that could land their executives in jail. But for PartyGaming PLC, potential illegalities aren't just a secret hidden in its business plan - they are the centerpiece of its business plan.more »»»
Televisa Looks to Offer Internet Service Via TV
 Wire services
Grupo Televisa SA is preparing to offer Internet service here via household television sets and over various digital devices, for which it has signed an agreement with U.S. computer chip giant Intel Corporation.more »»»
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