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Watch out for these top ten Internet scams reported after a year-long study conducted in nine countries by law enforcement officials. The top ten scams were culled from Consumer Sentinel, a database of more than 285,000 consumer complaints establishe...

This is the prime time of the year for forecasters and computer system security -- and after a year of hacks, Trojan horses, love bugs, denial of service attacks and other types of nefarious break-ins, the experts are predicting a progression to a mo...

IDC researcher Mark Levitt likens e-mail to "A heavy rain'' where "escalating e-mail usage can be a blessing or a curse depending on how prepared we and our environments are for them.'' For all those who dread to log on in the morning to collect the...

As I live in a small village in France with very few chances to watch movies in English I'm anxiously awaiting the time when I'll be able to download videos whenever I want across the Internet. For a glimpse of how far along the technology is for mos...

From my experience, customer service is a game of potluck on the Internet. Some companies are great at it, others are so-so while the rest are simply terrible. In the fantastic group is Master Lock Co. I brought over a combination lock to France that...

The news earlier this month that two major Windows security flaws were found should send warning signals to computer users that they must be constantly on the lookout for updates and patches to the software on their machines. While your tech guy at t...

DotComGuy is now into the second half of his year locked away in a Dallas town house with nothing but a laptop and an Internet connection. This is a great piece of yellow-journalism -- a word which refers to the sort of self-created promotional event...

According to various reports all domain names in the dictionary are taken up so you'll now have to improvise or buy one. Try plugging names into the form at www.register.com and you'll see what I mean. Another form of useless fun is to think of words...

through the data stored on their computer by mimicking a three dimensional office. Software developers, including those at Microsoft, have been working, so far unsuccessfully, to come up with a better system of navigation through computer data by usi...

Remember the saying that you should never go back into the kitchen of your favourite restaurant? Well the same description probably applies to the computer rooms housing the hardware and software systems of many organisations. They're usually a mess ...