A new Web Safety Technical Task Force will be led by the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for World Wide Web & Society. The task force includes Web businesses, identity-authentication experts, nonprofit organizations, academics and technology companies. Among the members are AOL, AT&T, Co…

As whether Microsoft’s takeover bid wasn’t sufficient, Yahoo now faces two more lawsuits from Chinese dissidents. In November Yahoo settled with the families of journalists Wang Xiaoning and Shi Tao, who were jailed on data provided by Yahoo China.

Zheng Cunzhu and Guo Quan filed the suits in feder…

When you sign up for an e-mail detail at Google’s Gmail, you have to navigate past a CAPTCHA — squiggly words and letters that need to be typed into a box to prove you’re human and not an automated system looking to send spam. But in the war against spammers, CAPTCHAs are not holding up well and th…

Worldwide sales of mobile phones skyrocketed to 1.5 billion in 2007, according to research firm Gartner, a 16 percent increase from 2006 sales of 990.9 million. Sales at the end of the year matched a trend that has demand spiking in the fourth quarter. Fourth-quarter sales reached 330 million.

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Clarion’s NAX973HD is one satellite navigation system that you can consider should you want to upgrade your car to cater for drivers who can’t seem to find their way around without help from an electronic apparatus of some sort. Features include the following :p

30GB hard drive
400MHz processor
R…

No, Inkel is no typo as it is a Korean-based company that rolls out a wide range of consumer electronic goods such as TVs and audio systems. What they have on offer today is the MU-D Multimedia Dictionary that merges both a portable media player and DMB TV tuner functionalities together, throwing i…

Say you’ve always wanted a parrot but could not be bothered to take proper care of it - here’s a solution staring right at you in the face. Thanks to the wonders of a USB port, that USB Parrot is capable of speaking up a bunch of random phrases which are picked up in passing whenever a assured phra…