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	Friday, June 17, 2005

Top 10 Celebrity Email Viruses  (techdrivenlife) According to this report by Panda Software, Britney Spears edged out Bill Gates as the top celebrity asscoiated with malicious software distributed via email.   This is a study as to which celebrities most often had their names involuntarily used in association with malicious spam.  Rounding out the third to 10th places were 3.) Jennifer Lopez ,  4.) Shakira , 5.) Osama BinLaden  , 6.) Michael Jackson , 7.) Bill Clinton ,  8.) Anna Kournikova,  9.) Paris Hilton  and 10.) Pamela Anderson. Next time you received an email from any of them, unless you know them personally, just put it in the recycle bin...     11:02:11 PM     comment []   trackback []

Preferences on reading news  (techdrivenlife) Reuters reported that over 20 percent of the web users now prefer to read news online and have forgone reading papernews.  A significant 72 percent though still read print editions, and 7 percent read both.  Of the online news only, the number one choice is New York Times, with over 11.3 million audience in May.  Second was USA Today  with 9.2 million while the third was the Washington Post who posted a significant 10 percent year on year to garner 7.4 million visits.  For internet only companies who gather news from various sources, Yahoo got an online audience of 23.8 million, while Google News garnered 7.1 million. We have slowly change our habits, and this report further reflects the traction that internet is gaining on our lives.   10:41:05 PM     comment []   trackback []