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 Computer Virus Targets 
 Gullible Lovebirds 

Clicking on heart images in email could turn your machine into spambot

Jan 30, 09 4:55 PM CST
(Newser) - A Valentine-themed spam campaign is underway, with a side dish of coercion and extortion, Computer Weekly reports. Users receive an email, ostensibly from a secret admirer, with a link to a website that downloads a bot called Waledec. Not only does Waledec co-opt the user’s address list and start... More »

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Internet • email • spam • computer virus • coercion • Valentine's Day • Internet crime • Waledec

 Google Brings Gmail Offline 

Offline and 'flaky' modes rolled out to win over business users

Jan 28, 09 5:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Google has rolled out an offline service for Gmail in a bid to woo business users, CNET reports. The system lets users read, write, and search emails in their browsers even when they’re not connected to the Internet. Messages are sent and retrieved again once network access is restored.... More »

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Google • email • Google Gears • Gmail • offline • offline web applications

The Ignominy! No Facebook, No IM, and the Email's Down

White House tech years out of date; regulations are obsolete

Jan 27, 09 11:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s White House staff has stepped into a time warp. The tech-savviest campaigners in history, who deployed email, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, et al, brilliantly to get their guy elected, now have to settle for an email system that goes down for long periods of time—as it was... More »

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email • White House • Facebook • blog • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs

 Prez Will Keep His BlackBerry 

Spy-proof smartphone tech means Obama won't have to give up beloved 'BarackBerry'

Jan 22, 09 4:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Security agents aren't going to have to pry the BlackBerry out of Barack Obama's hands after all, Marc Ambinder reports in the Atlantic. A government agency has added super-encryption technology to a standard BlackBerry, which the president will be allowed to use for routine and personal messages. It's not known... More »

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Barack Obama • email • BlackBerry • smartphones • encryption • Obama administration • President Obama

Clinton Rents Campaign Mail List to Pay Debt

Renter in chief? Bill, as Hillary races to raise cash before State gig

Dec 25, 08 7:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton's campaign has hit on a novel way of repaying its debt, ABC News reports.  The campaign is renting out the vast list of email addresses compiled during the course of Clinton's failed presidential bid. Among the customers for the list, believed to be 5 million names strong,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • email • Bill Clinton • Clinton 2008 • Hillary Clinton supporters • Election 2008 • Clinton Foundation • campaign debt

Want Ashley's Email? Ask Marie Claire

Mag forgets to Bcc in holiday blast, exposes celeb addresses

Dec 24, 08 8:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Whoops! Marie Claire accidentally gave an early Christmas gift to 582 people: the email addresses of celebrities including Ashley Olsen, Tina Fey, and Lindsay Lohan, Gawker reports. The blunder occurred when the mag forgot to use the good old Bcc line on its holiday email blast. It’s the third... More »

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email • Lindsay Lohan • magazine • Tina Fey • celebrity • holiday card • Ashley Olsen

Lawsuits, Tech Glitches Keep Bush Emails Under Wraps

Millions still due to be released in a month

Dec 21, 08 9:56 AM CST
(Newser) - Technical snags and lawsuits are holding up the release of hundreds of millions of Bush White House emails to the National Archives, the Washington Post reports. Historians and nonprofits are in a legal battle with the White House, as administration officials sift through backup tapes to recover lost documents. "... More »

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Dick Cheney • email • White House • records • National Archives • George W. Bush • missing White House emails

Congratulations, You've Been SuperServed!

Legal notifications on Facebook OK with Aussie supreme court

Dec 12, 08 3:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Australians can add legal judgments to the list of goodies their Facebook “friends” can send them. In what appears to be a global first, a Supreme Court judge today ruled that notices of default judgments—cases that don’t require defendants to appear—may be served on Facebook, the... More »

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Australia • email • Facebook • court • court cases • defendants

 Oops, 
 McCain Camp 
 Sells Phone 
 With Info 

Fox reporter gets campaign digits at GOP garage sale

Dec 12, 08 12:43 PM CST
(Newser) - At a McCain campaign garage sale to recoup money spent on the trail, some investigative reporters picked up BlackBerrys—and got a journalistic treat, MyFox Washington reports. One device was full of campaign phone numbers and emails. The Smartphone had belonged to a Democratic organizer for McCain and offered a... More »

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John McCain • email • BlackBerry • campaign funds • reporter • campaign trail

OPINION

Spam Filters Silently Censoring Your Email

Internet blacklists invisible but powerful

Nov 29, 08 10:54 AM CST
(Newser) - With spam running rampant across the net, in-boxes have become heavily armed fortresses against the unsolicited hordes. Unfortunately, we’ve overdone it, writes James McGrath Morris in the Washington Post. Morris recently discovered that spam filters would gobble up the latest issue of his newsletter, the Biographer’s Craft,... More »

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email • spam • censorship • Internet censorship

 Tech Predictions—From 1968 

Seeing a future full of computers and four hour work days

Nov 20, 08 7:31 AM CST
(Newser) - In 1968 a science fiction writer made some predictions about what 2008 might look like on Nov. 18, 2008. Take a step back into the future with this list from Sci Fi:
  1. Online shopping: Long before Al Gore invented the Internet, he predicted shoppers would pay their bills
... More »

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health • global warming • email • space travel • predictions • cars • computers • Advanced Cell Technology Inc.

 Change He Can Believe: 
 No More BlackBerry 

High sensitivity makes presidential e-mailing unlikely

Nov 16, 08 9:25 AM CST
(Newser) - As president, Barack Obama will likely have to make the ultimate sacrifice: giving up his beloved BlackBerry. Obama and the device were literally attached at the hip during the campaign, and email was his main link to everything from political memos to White Sox updates, the New York Times reports.... More »

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email • BlackBerry • communication • President Obama

 Gmail Adds Voice, Video Chat 

Google becomes first of email's big 3 to integrate audio, video

Nov 12, 08 5:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Users of Google's Gmail service can now see and hear each other, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The company rolled out video and voice additions to the chat function in its Gmail interface yesterday, putting the world's third-biggest free email provider a step ahead of rivals Microsoft and Yahoo... More »

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Google • Internet • email • voice service • webmail • web video

 Malware Hijacks Obama Emails 

Spammers launch massive 'Obama Trojan' malware campaign to capitalize on victory

Nov 6, 08 7:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Malicious hijackers have hitched a ride on the Barack Obama bandwagon, ChannelWeb reports. "Obama Trojan" emails offer a link to an amazing Obama speech or election results, but when the link is opened, it infects computers with malware that sends the user's personal data to a command center and... More »

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Barack Obama • email • spam • hackers • Trojan viruses • cybercrime • malware • Election 2008


 Lower-Income 
 Buyers Snatch 
 Up iPhones 

Increasingly, consumers are turning to
the iPhone for music, Web browsing and calls

Oct 30, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lower-income households are snatching up iPhones at a faster rate than their more financially flush counterparts, reports the Wall Street Journal, potentially attracted by its multiple uses—and single fee. By relying on the “Swiss-Army knife kind of device” to make phone calls, listen to music, and access the... More »

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email • mobile Internet • AT&T • mobile devices • iPhone 3G

 Papa Lohan Sorry for Sam Slam 

'Family matters should be kept private,' Michael Lohan says

Oct 27, 08 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Lohan is, er, publicly really sorry for publicly slamming La Lohan's girlfriend on a gossip website, New York magazine reports. Lohan calls himself "a Christian" and says he regrets everything he said about Samantha Ronson (especially that bit about calling her "dark, hideous, and a disgusting representation... More »

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email • Lindsay Lohan • gossip • Samantha Ronson • Michael Lohan

 Google Goggles: Necessary 

Mail Goggles meant to help prevent you writing missives you'll regret

Oct 19, 08 2:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - With drunk-dialing evolving at the speed of technology, people need an updated version of that friend who grabs your phone and says, "Dude, don't call her." But, asks Alex Williams in a look at Google's Mail Goggles in the New York Times, "Are we becoming so tethered... More »

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Google • email • Gmail • drinking • drunk • Google Mail Goggles

ANALYSIS

Sure, You Can See Palin Email ... for $15M

And after Alaska fees for search, they won't be ready until mid-Nov.

Oct 17, 08 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin ran on a platform of transparent government, but it seems that Alaskan transparency has a price: $15 million. That’s how much the governor’s office wants from news organizations for copies of official email, MSNBC reports. Even if organizations are willing to pay up, the email will... More »

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email • Redacted • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • transparency

 Accused 
 Palin Hacker 
 Pleads Not Guilty 

David Kernell free for now but faces up to
5 years in prison

Oct 8, 08 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Tennessee college student has been indicted on charges of hacking into Sarah Palin's email account and posting private info online, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of state Democratic Rep. Michael Kernell, pleaded not guilty. His trial is set for Dec. 16; he's free until... More »

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John McCain • University of Tennessee • email • computer security • hacking • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • David C. Kernell

 Google Helps Curb 
 Boozy Screeds 

Mail Goggles works late on the weekend to make drunken email tougher to get to

Oct 7, 08 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you've ever, after a few drinks, sent an email you later regretted, Google's got a gadget for you, InformationWeek reports. Mail Goggles, a play on those beer goggles that make you see (and think) fuzzy, activates late night on weekends “to verify you're in the right state of... More »

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Google • email • beer • Gmail • drinking • Google Mail Goggles

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