It seems Apple is getting into the social networking business, God help them. Among the other life changing products rolled out at this week’s semi-annual Apple fanboyfest was “Ping,” a service that lets you see what music the other 160 million people using iTunes like and recommend.
This is, apparently, what remains [...]

Armin Van Buuren is one of the world’s most well-known trance music DJs. He also apparently has had his credit card details stolen.
Investigators with Ultrascan, a company that investigates credit card fraud and other kinds of online crime, were doing research on forums and systems used to sell credit card numbers, said Frank Engelsman of [...]

Google on Friday said that the Texas Attorney General’s Office is conducting an antitrust review of the search giant, following a similar investigation launched in Europe earlier this year.
The attorney general’s office has asked Google for information regarding Foundem, SourceTool/TradeComet and myTriggers, each of which have complained in the past that Google pushed them down [...]

Craigslist pulled its adult services listings on Friday. Users now see a black bar with the word “censored” where the listings previously appeared.
The move comes after years of pressure to remove the ads, including an open letter from 17 state attorneys general in late August. The letter said “sharp public criticism of craigslist’s Adult Services [...]

Philips introduced the GoGear Connect, an Android-powered device that can play music and movies, take pictures and surf the web, during the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.
To view a video of the GoGear Connect, click here.
The device ships with preloaded applications including Android Market, Google Talk and Google Maps. It will run Android 2.1 [...]

The mobile operating system is now the third-most popular platform on the Internet, with a share nearly six times larger than Android’s, a Web measurement company said last week.
Collectively the devices that run iOS — the iPhone , iPod Touch and iPad — accounted for 1.1 percent of all hardware on the [...]

Aiptek has introduced the i2, a pocket-sized twin lens camcorder that can record 3D video, at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.
To see a video report of the i2, click here.
The video camera shoots 2D video in 720p and 3D video at half that resolution. It can also take 3D photographs.
There are a few [...]

Fake antivirus programs appear to be adopting some of the money-raising tactics of more threatening ransom malware, security company Fortinet’s latest threat report has found.
The most prevalent malware variant during August was TotalSecurity W32/FakeAlert.LU!tr, a malicious program that masquerades as antivirus software in order to sell worthless licenses for non-existent malware. On its own it [...]

GameStop stores on base at Army & Air Force Exchange Service installations across the world will no longer advertise and will not stock copies of the upcoming first-person shooter Medal of Honor, which includes a multiplayer mode that allows players to take on U.S. soldiers as members of the Taliban.
When asked if the U.S. military [...]

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