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Indian Banker Charged With Online Funds Fraud
Indian banker held for hacking into a bank account to siphon out funds



Samsung?s 3D TVs: Bold and Bright
Samsung?s 3D TV technology arrives in new LED, LCD, and plasma TVs; new content arrives from DreamWorks and Samsung?s new HDTV apps store.



Smartphones: Competing via Lawsuits, Not Features?
Your guide to all those assorted smartphone lawsuits, from Apple to . . . well, everybody.



Gala Launches Final Fantasy XIII
The game's official introduction was a party befitting the epic scope of the series.



Twitter to Begin Screening Some Links for Phishing
Twitter launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks on users of the popular microblogging service.



Microsoft Patches Excel Flaws
Two bulletins fix security vulnerabilities for "slow" Patch Tuesday.



New Guitar Game Features Real Guitar
Power Gig: Rise of the Sixstring is one-upping Guitar Hero and Rock Band with its six-string guitar controller.



Your Next E-Book Reader: Color and Video--and Nearly Unbreakable
Next-generation e-book readers will be able to handle types of content that today?s models just can?t. Look for the first ones later this year.



3G Buildouts Push up Mobile Network Investment
Analysts expect mobile infrastructure investment to rebound slightly this year, led by 3G buildouts and upgrades.



Ex-Sun Chief Dishes Dirt on Gates, Jobs
Jonathan Schwartz has started dishing dirt from his days at Sun in a blog called "What I couldn't say..."



Sony, Samsung, Panasonic 3D TVs: So What's On?
Wondering what 3D content there is to watch? Here's your 3D programming guide for 2010.



Data Issue Hits BlackBerry Devices for Second Day
Some BlackBerry uses are complaining that their data services have been down over the past two days.



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Samsung?s 3D Glasses: Fast, Fitted, but only for Samsung TVs
Samsung?s 3D glasses will come in three flavors at prices from $150 to $200, but don?t try to use them on other brands of TVs.



New Cisco Router Supports 322Tbps, Designed for Internet Video
Cisco's new router for the IP video age could allow every person in China to make an Internet video call--at once.




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Suburban woman accused of using net to recruit terrorists
Feds cuff JihadJane

A suburban Pennsylvania woman who went by the online alias JihadJane used the internet to recruit Islamic terrorists and to plot the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Criticising the pain of single silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.?

What is your recession sales strategy?

Even if your beloved Westie is spending her declining years curled up by the hearth, Home Secretary Alan Johnson suggests she should be microchipped for the protection of her potential victims, and you should pony up for dog-attack insurance.?

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

The Mountain View Chocolate Factory has unveiled an online marketplace for third-party applications that hook into its Google Apps suite of web-based businessware.?

The power of collaboration within unified communications

Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network toplogies on its floating interwebs service.?

The power of collaboration within unified communications

An Arizona company that sells services designed to prevent identity theft has agreed to pay $12m to settle charges it oversold their effectiveness and didn't adequately protect sensitive customer data.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy, and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.?

The power of collaboration within unified communications

In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: "The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Adobe's ubiquitous Reader application has replaced Microsoft Word as the program that's most often targeted in malware campaigns, according to figures compiled by F-Secure.?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own YouTube, according to a new report.?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Online thugs are exploiting a security bug in earlier versions of Internet Explorer that allows them to remotely execute malicious code, Microsoft warned on Tuesday.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".?

Reported attempts to sell recordings of conversations between England squad players and coaches have sparked a security breach investigation at the FA.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud