Porn spam - legal minefield for employers: Lewd e-mail promoting pornography may soon pose more than just a technical challenge in the ongoing fight against spam - experts say it's set to become an acute legal problem, too. Graphic images appearing unbidden on PCs by way of e-mail in-boxes could qualify as evidence of a "hostile work environment," something that's prohibited by federal employment law. As a result, porn spam could begin to crop up in sexual harassment complaints from employees offended by the material. Even if companies aren't the source of such messages, they could be liable for hefty civil fines if managers know that porn spam is a problem and don't move to address it.

Mona Lisa Lips-Synch

Court Hears Fight Over Numbers Used for Cellphones: The wireless telephone industry appealed to a federal court in Washington yesterday to block a government effort to allow consumers to keep their cellphone numbers when they switch mobile phone carriers.

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Cyberattacks with offline damage: What's virtual is virtual, and what's real is real. Right? Maybe not.

Google's Brave New World: David Brandt, president of Public Information Research, which publishes the Google-watch.org Web site, said there are privacy concerns surrounding the cookies Google loads onto users' computers. ‘Google’ for Cops: Software Helps Police Search for Cyber Clues to Bust Criminals In Searching the Web, Google Finds Riches: In the last few years, Google has risen as a force on the Internet by offering its smarter, faster searches as a free public service. Now the band of technoinsurgents who run the company are striking a blow against the business strategies of giant Web portals like America Online, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN by rewriting the rules of Internet advertising.

Testing Microsoft and the DMCA: Taking a break from working on his doctoral thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate student Andrew "Bunnie" Huang decided that it might be fun to poke around the security systems protecting Microsoft's Xbox game console. With a little creative tinkering and a measure of precision soldering, Huang quickly isolated the main public security keys. Although legally prevented from sharing the keys with the world, he described his methods in detail in a widely distributed research paper, helping spur a wave of Xbox-hacking that has led to the development of Xbox versions of Linux and other homemade software.

Spyware - It's lurking on your machine

Stolen mobile rings in 'body cavity': Pandemonium broke out at a shopping mall in Negril on Monday, when a cellular phone which was stolen from a female shopper was found after it rang from within another shopper's vagina. Some bystanders were amused over the happenings, but some chided the young woman for sinking so low that she even embarrassed other women.

The Wi-Fi Revolution: The wireless Internet has arrived - and now the sky's the limit.

Viruses with a Cause: The viruses may be digital but their messages are political and try to make their mark upon the world

Mother of invention: How the Mosaic browser triggered a digital revolution The Killer Browser: It’s been only a decade since the release of Mosaic, the Web application that changed finance, commerce, culture - and the world ‘Out of Left Field’: Andreessen did Mosaic, then Netscape. He was at the center of the browser wars and dot-com mania. What’s he learned?

Steal this barcode: The Web site Re-Code.com parodies the design and chipper lingo of Priceline.com's "name your own price" shopping site. It invites shoppers to "recode your own price," by making their own barcodes using the site's barcode generator. The theory: There's just a 10-digit number standing between you and a better deal on anything that you want in a store, and this site will help you crack the code. The site's creators call it satire. Wal-Mart's legal counsel calls it an incitement to theft and fraud. [act.:] 'Bar Code' Web Site Closes Under Pressure

'Wayback Machine' Stars at Sex Court Trial: The mother of all Web sites dominated the "Sex Court" trademark trial Wednesday in Brooklyn. [...] The existence of the monster "Wayback Machine" - a service with a massive computer capacity of over 100 terabtyes - was disclosed to jurors in federal court in the suit brought by Playboy Enterprises against a Web enterpreneur Mario Cavalluzzo over use of the name "Sex Court."

Google washes whiter: Google has made its own statement on the 'Googlewash': by making The Register story that coined the phrase disappear from its search results. Report criticizes Google's porn filters: Children using Google's SafeSearch feature, designed to filter out links to Web sites with adult content, may be shielded from far more than their parents ever intended.

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Robodex 2003 (videos)

Internet ad revenue down 17% in 2002 In the Hands of Geeks, Web Advertising Actually Works: Useful ads that consumers like and are easy for businesses to manage.

Acrophobia is back! [aviso: jogo de acrónimos muito viciante :-)]

"Stupid Security" winners revealed (ver Stupid Security Competition)