eBay, which runs portals in Australia and New Zealand, plans to block members from being able to look up each other's email addresses on the site, making it harder to spam members also harder for people to cut the online auction house out of a deal.
Online auction site eBay has made public the details of a three-year long campaign to curb online fraud being perpetrated from criminals in Romania -- an effort that has resulted in several hundred arrests.
Click on an eBay auction listing, and you could get an unwanted result: a fake eBay login page, created by scammers looking to pilfer your username and password.
Another e-mail scam is targeting the users of eBay, claiming their use of the auction site has been restricted until they update their account information.
PayPal subscribers are being targeted by a fraudulent e-mail scheme designed to con them into handing over their personal information.
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Skype sees the mobile market as the next frontier for its service, but economic realities in the voice market -- coupled with mobile operators who feel threatened by Skype -- could put the kibosh on large-scale adoption for some time to come.
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Phishing scams work on an embarrasingly low percentage of users -- but apparently that's enough to keep them profitable.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 isn't perfect, but it's the best dictation software available. We don't find this upgrade necessary for the most basic dictation, although new features may benefit heavily-accented English speakers and those who rely heavily on voice commands.
A few months later than originally planned, Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 3, the widely used open-source Web browser. Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of features that Mozilla says should improve security, ease of use, rendering of Web pages and location of previously visited Web pages.
Office Live is still not an online version of Office, but the set of small business tools has a few new tricks and is heading out of beta.
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