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| Some 2.7 million AT&T customers will share $88 million in compensation for having had unauthorized third-party charges added to their mobile bills, the Federal Trade Commission announced this morning. Read More ▶ |
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| | | Video/Webcast: EMA Join Steve Brasen, research director at leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), live on January 19th @ 2PM EDT/ 11AM PDT to discover the results from primary, survey-based research on current endpoint utilization and workspace requirements, as well as get a pragmatic guide to on-boarding a digital workspace solution Read More ▶ | | A group of programmers from an ecommerce development company called Scandiweb spent two months building and testing a 412-step Rube Goldberg machine – a World Guinness Record -- that when finished with its 15 minutes of wackiness electrified the capital city of Riga’s Christmas tree. Read More ▶ |
| | Pundits who got it wrong explain why ... or deny that they did Read More ▶ |
| | | | Back in January, Scandinavian gamers hijacked a New Hampshire medical center's server to host "Call of Duty: Black Ops" sessions. When asked about that incident, Stephen Heaslip of the gamer site Blues News told Network World that hackers are not the most likely individuals to commandeer corporate servers for illicit gaming: Such appropriations are more often the work of IT administrators, he said. Read More ▶ |
| | Full moons are catnip for photographers under ordinary circumstances, but slap a name like supermoon on one, note that it’s the largest of the century, and the cameras will be out in full force. Here’s a selection of images provided by Reuters. Read More ▶ |
| | A look back at the most memorable tech-related happenings of 1991. Read More ▶ |
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