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Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks.

What’s a parent to do when their child is being bullied relentlessly by peers on Facebook? School administrators say they have no control over what happens outside of school.

The digital world’s top thinkers share their visions of the future. Ge Wang, co-founder of Smule and assistant professor at Stanford University speaks about the power of mobile apps - and how they can enable meaningful human relationships.

By now, you’ve probably seen many of the homemade videos from people who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. We have one in the office.

Chuck Thacker, a technical fellow at Microsoft Research, has won the prestigious A.M. Turing Award — sometimes called the Nobel of computing — for a lifetime of contributions to computing. The Association for Computing Machinery recognized Thacker for his work on building Alto, the first modern personal computer, while working for Xerox PARC.

In the first few months following the adoption of the three-strikes anti-piracy legislation in France, online piracy has increased significantly. Instead of stopping, file-sharers are seeking alternatives to bypass the new law.

Shake the phone and the girl loses another item of clothing. Apple wants a German girlie publication to modify its striptease iPhone app so that the girl stays covered by a bikini. Publishers are angry. “Today they censor nipples, tomorrow editorial content,” one said.

Found under: BlackBerry, Chat, Nimbuzz, Updates,

Nimbuzz has updated its client BlackBerry phones and now it supports BlackBerry OS 5.0. Along with this now it can run in background brings home screen notification has auto reconnect function and Clickable URLs. To download the latest version of Nimbuzz head on to BlackBerry download site.

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Found under: Android, Transport, Freeware, Bus, Train, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,

Here is one very good application for you who travel or those who are residents in Germany Austria and Switzerland. It is called Timetable DE and its purpose is to deliver the desired train and bus schedule directly to your Android phone.Schedule data optimized for Germany.Optimized schedule data for Switzerland is available through Timetable CH.Optimized schedule data for Austria is available through Timetable AT. Download Timetable DE

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There are multiple iconic weapons in science fiction history, but few are as cool as the Terminator’s side arm: the .45 Long Slide with a laser sighting. Ars tracked down the man who created the legendary prop, and we talked about the early days of lasers on weapons.