6m South Koreans exposed in slam and spam scam. Identity theft on an epic scale [The Register]

 

9:16:42 AM    

 

Exabyte slashes media costs. Storage Expo Hopes to cut losses through cheaper tapes [The Register]

 

9:15:59 AM    

 

Four charged in landmark UK phishing case. Eastern Europeans in the dock [The Register]

 

9:15:20 AM    

 

MSNBC's all-new RSS support. Excellent! [Scripting News]

 

9:14:46 AM    

 

RSS Feeds Hunger for More Ads. There's no such thing as a free lunch. And soon, there may be no such thing as an ad-free RSS feed, either, as publishers add advertisements to their feeds in hopes of making money through the popular content-aggregating technology. By Cyrus Farivar. [Wired News]

 

9:14:02 AM    

 

Expo Tries to Whet Geek Appetites. New laptops, games and even Google applications share the spotlight at DigitalLife2004, a show designed to tempt consumers to pry open their wallets. Michael Myser reports from New York. [Wired News]

 

9:13:16 AM    

 

A Tribute to Spam, the Meat. A trip to Spamtown USA to check out a museum celebrating the canned pork product reminds us how Spam made an impact on world cuisine long before its name became synonymous with unwanted e-mail. Michelle Delio reports from Austin, Minnesota. [Wired News]

 

9:12:53 AM    

 

Sony Ericsson sees profits triple. Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson reports a tripling of its third-quarter profit, driven by sales of new camera phones. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

9:11:51 AM    

 

Historical directories go online. Amateur historians and academics can take advantage of a wealth of archived data on the web. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

9:11:11 AM    

 

X-Prize for world's 'Holy Grails'. X-Prizes for breakthroughs in science or technology that solve the world's greatest challenges are planned. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

9:10:27 AM    

 

EE Times: FCC adopts rules for broadband over power lines. The FCC voted Thursday to modified its rules to open the door to the widespread deployment of broadband access over power lines. The action is designed to both foster broadband penetration and increase competition while enhancing management of the national power grid. [Tomalak's Realm]

 

9:09:46 AM    

 

Google Desktop Search somehow intercepts regular Google searches so it can splice in local search results. I've heard of spyware that splices ads into result pages from major search engines; it may use the same technique. I wonder why Windows or Web browsers would allow this. I doubt that Google Desktop is spyware, but it risks guilt by association if it uses the techniques of spyware. [Hack the Planet]

 

9:08:23 AM