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Pet a Chicken Across the Internet! But Wait, There’s More!

You can now pet a chicken across the Internet! Yes, that’s right – sit in your apartment in New York City, and experience the rural life by petting a chicken in Iowa. Oliver and Lisa Douglas ain’t got nothing on you! (Quick, how many of you got that reference without…

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Beware the Fake Microsoft Windows Update Patch W32.Pinfi!

Surely as night follows day, fake Microsoft updates now follow Microsoft’s genuine monthly security updates. The real Microsoft updates come out on the second Tuesday of each month. By the second Wednesday of each month, there are fake patches being spammed around, each of which is, of course, really a…

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Paris Hilton’s Sidekick’s Teenaged Hacker Talks

As many of the Internet Patrol’s regular readers know, Paris Hilton’s Sidekick was hacked, and the data was posted to the Internet, several months ago. And they also know that one Nicholas Lee Jacobsen pleaded guilty to the T-Mobile hacking which is assumed to have lead to Miss Hilton’s Sidekick account being hacked.

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Louisiana’s First Rural City-Wide Wi-Fi Network, Blankets Ruston and Grambling, Louisiana with High-Speed Wireless Internet Services

RUSTON and GRAMBLING, La., May 19 /PRNewswire/ — Heralding in a new era in multi-city Wi-Fi Internet access, Ruston and Grambling Louisiana, announced the operations of the nation’s first rural multi-city Wi-Fi broadband network. Other cities have announced intent to build similar networks or have announced partial deployments; in contrast,…

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Pulver.com Blasts FCC E911 Order (News Release)

Leading Industry Thought Leader Urges FCC to Ensure America’s Role as the World Leader in Innovation, Communications and the Internet MELVILLE, New York, May 19 /PRNewswire/ — The following quotes may be attributed to Jeff Pulver, CEO of pulver.com in response to the FCC’s adoption of an order imposing E911…

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Yahoo Using Web Beacons to Track Users Across the Web

There is a hue and cry being raised across the web about Yahoo’s use of web beacons, which some liken to “super cookies”, and which allow the tracker to track a user’s movements not only within their own website, but even when the user has moved on to other, unaffiliated…

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EarthLink Statement on FCC VoIP 911 Ruling (News Release)

ATLANTA, May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The following statement is in response to today’s vote by the Federal Communications Commission requiring Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to support E-911 services, and is attributable to Dave Baker, EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), vice president of law and public policy. “EarthLink and other VoIP…

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Many Companies Monitoring, Recording, Videotaping – and Firing – Employees (News Release)

NEW YORK, May 18, 2005 – From computer monitoring and telephone taping to video surveillance and GPS satellite tracking, employers are using policy and technology to manage productivity and protect resources. To motivate employee compliance, companies increasingly are putting teeth in technology policies. Fully 26% have fired workers for misusing…

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Microsoft Issues Windows Security “Advisory” for XP, Win2K, and Server 2003

In one of the first tests of its new security advisory system, Microsoft has announced a vulnerability in the Windows TCP/IP stack. The security advisories are a supplement to the Microsoft Windows Security Bulletins which are issued on the first Tuesday of each month. According to today’s advisory, Microsoft is…

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Males Are Twice as Likely to Download a Game Than Women (News Release)

SEATTLE, Wash May 16, 2005 On the eve of the gaming confab E3, M:Metrics, the industry authority on the measurement of subscriber consumption of mobile content and applications, reports that although there is an equal gender split in mobile game play, with 32 percent of females and 34 percent of…

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One Third of All Software in Use Still Pirated, Major Study Finds (News Release)

WASHINGTON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ — Thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated in 2004, a one percentage point decrease from 36 percent in 2003. Yet, losses due to piracy increased from $29 billion to $33 billion. These are among key findings of a global software…

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Over 100,000 Sources of Spam and Other Malware Detected in Any Given Hour – Many Zombies

Mail-Filters Tallies Hijacked and Other Computers That Are the Tip of the Iceberg in Spam and Phishing Attacks SAN MATEO, Calif., May 17 /PRNewswire/ — Mail-Filters.com, Inc. is the global leader in OEM anti-spam solutions providing technology for its OEM partners filtering billions of messages a day in more than…

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e911 – Is the FCC About to Require 911 Services for VoIP?

In the next installment of “As the VoIP Turns”, sources are saying that the FCC is about to announce a requirement that all VoIP services offer basic 911, or “e911” services out of the box by a date certain. According to LightReading.com, “Sources who met with the FCC in recent…

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Find That Remote Waterfall – With Your Cell Phone (News Release)

GPS Goes Cellular for Off-Road Adventures SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 17 /PRNewswire/ — You know about Global Positioning System (GPS) in vehicles. You have a cell phone. Now your cell phone can use GPS to guide you through the great outdoors. It’s called Trimble(R) Outdoors, the first outdoor recreation solution that…

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U.S. Wireless Online Activates Downtown Los Angeles’ First Free Public Wi-Fi System

Company Continues to Expand Municipal Broadband Solutions Business LOUISVILLE, May 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — U.S. Wireless Online, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: UWRL) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Verge Wireless Networks, Inc. have “lit up” Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles with Wi-Fi broadband coverage. Verge Wireless, which was selected by the Community…