Day: August 9, 2006

FCC pushes for broadband over power lines | CNET News.com

FCC pushes for broadband over power lines | CNET News.com For more info click on above link WASHINGTON–Federal regulators renewed on Thursday their push for a wider rollout of what has been hailed as a viable “third pipe” for the many areas where broadband choices have been limited to DSL or cable modems. If broadband over power lines, or BPL, takes off, then more Americans, particularly in rural and underserved areas, will be able to plug into high-speed Internet access, and markets dominated by cable and DSL (digital subscriber line) should be forced to lower consumers’ bills,

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Senate ratifies controversial cybercrime treaty | CNET News.com

Senate ratifies controversial cybercrime treaty | CNET News.com For more info clcik on above link The first and only international treaty designed exclusively to combat computer crime won approval late Thursday from the U.S. Senate. The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime “will enhance our ability to cooperate with foreign governments in fighting terrorism, computer hacking, money laundering and child pornography, among other crimes,” Sen. Richard Lugar, the Indiana Republican who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement.

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Teens arrested in VA laptop theft | CNET News.com

Teens arrested in VA laptop theft | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Maryland police arrested two teens on Saturday in connection with the theft of a laptop and external hard drive with information from the Department of Veteran Affairs. The laptop and external drive, which were both taken in a May 3 burglary, contained personal and financial information on more than 25 million veterans, active-duty military personnel and their spouses. According to a police statement, the accused said they were unaware that the laptop and hard drive contained sensitive data until the theft

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AOL offers free antivirus software | CNET News.com

AOL offers free antivirus software | CNET News.com For more info click on above link AOL has introduced free antivirus software that is likely to become the highest-profile alternative to security software you pay for. Active Virus Shield offers basic protection against viruses, spyware and other malicious software, AOL said in a statement Monday. The product is available to all Internet users, not just to subscribers to AOL’s Internet access service. “Antivirus protection is too important to make people have to pay for it,” an AOL representative told CNET News.com in an e-mail interview. “We want to

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AOL’s disturbing glimpse into users’ lives | CNET News.com

AOL’s disturbing glimpse into users’ lives | CNET News.com For more info click on above link AOL’s publication of the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users has yielded more than just one of the year’s bigger privacy scandals. The 21 million search queries also have exposed an innumerable number of life stories ranging from the mundane to the illicit and bizarre. For its part, AOL has apologized for a researcher’s disclosure of the massive database and has yanked the file from its Web site. It was too late: The database already had been mirrored.

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