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when our computer ditched us in the midst of an important presentation, we decided to take remote computer technical support. Believe me, it was the wisest and the most intelligent decision I ever made! Very different from the onsite PC technical support, the remote tech support proved to be beneficial ...

Google Dec. 1 is letting publishers limit the number of articles readers can view for free on its search and Google News site to five per day. The move came the same day News Corp. founder and publishing mogul Rupert Murdoch lashed out at online aggregators for raking in ad ...

A report by Click Forensics links a growing amount of click fraud to botnets. The increase in botnet-related activity follows an overall upsurge in click fraud in the third quarter of 2009. - New research from Click Forensics shows botnets are playing a growing role ...

Microsoft Bing posted quarter-over-quarter gains in paid clicks and spend share, according to Efficient Frontier. Those gains appear to be coming at the expense of Google, whose share of search spending fell to 73.7 percent, from 75.5 percent in the second quarter. Bing's paid search momentum is muted by a ...

Click Forensics discovers a botnet behind a significant spike of click fraud traffic. As in the recent scam making use of NYTimes.com, attackers are using fake antivirus software to infect PCs. - Click Forensics has found an unusually large spike in click fraud traffic coming from a new ...

If you have installed multiple email client program, then you must select default email program. This helps in accessing emails in specific email client, that is favorite of the computer user. You can easily set default email client on Windows XP computer. 1. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel 2. In Control ...

A new way to deliver information to mobile phones is spreading around the worldNEGOTIATING his way across a crowded concourse at a busy railway station, a traveller removes his phone from his pocket and, using its camera, photographs a bar code printed on a poster. He then looks at the ...

By David ReidBBC ClickItalian bloggers went on strike in July to protest against government measures that they claim could kill the internet. They say the Alfano decree restricts the rights of bloggers to express their opinions without fear of comeback....

By LJ RichBBC ClickWhile football has been taking a summer break, teams of programmers have been taking part in a league of their own, the 13th annual Robocup."The ultimate goal... is to pit human players against a dream team of robot counterparts"...

By Kate RussellClick Webscape-rKate Russell gives us her latest selection of the best sites on the World Wide Web.HUNKIN'S EXPERIMENTS (www.hunkinsexperiments.com) Hunkin's experimentsTim Hunkin is a cartoonist whose work appeared in the Observer for 14 ...

Automatic Windows updates is a handy feature that updates Windows operating system in background. However, some users may not like due to constant drain of precious bandwidth as a result of background downloads. Although not recommended, you can still disable and turn off automatic Window updates. Disable automatic updates in Windows 1. ...

By Mark Cieslak BBC ClickThe risk to government networks and major financial institutions from cyber warfare is increasing every day but what is being done to defend national bordersEstonia is an online savvy state and champion of so called 'e-government,' ...

Twitter is a popular way to socialize and micro blog online. On Twitter you can build huge community around your Twitter profile by following and getting followed by lot of other Twitter users. Incase you have decided to quit Twitter due to certain reason like: Twitter overload, allow someone else ...

By Richard TaylorEditor, BBC ClickThe duties of Hollywood stars these days extend well beyond simply acting and publicising their latest blockbuster movie.Actors are now taking a more active role in bringing to life their characters in video ...

Pearl Jam Launches Album Art Scavenger Hunt Pearl Jam recently announced the September 20 release of their anticipated new album, Backspacer (produced by Brendan O'Brien), plus a handful of U.S. tour dates in support of the record. For Backspacer's imagery, the band enlisted the creative genius of their friend ...

By Spencer KellyPresenter, BBC ClickThis year is seeing a comeback for 3D cinema, with every major film studio releasing a title in the format.Even the Cannes Film Festival showed its support to the industry by allowing a 3D feature to open the event for the first time. The ...

It is important to inform online friends and contacts about your offline vacation status, as they attempt to contact you by sending emails on your Gmail account. Just like Vacation Reply feature on Live Hotmail, we have similar feature on Gmail using “Vacation Time” labs option. Setup automatic vacation email reply 1. ...

Ideally to shutdown, logoff or restart the computer – we goto start, select the option and then click on shutdown, restart or logoff button. Are you tired of too many clicks to perform a simple task? You can create a shortcut icon to shutdown, logoff and restart computer and perform ...

By default Orkut profile is indexed by Google Search. Hence your profile information and associated photos are searchable through Google Search. However, few users would like to keep their Orkut profile private and not make it publicably searchable through Google Search. There is option to prevent Orkut profile to appear ...

A University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) expert has warned that fake Internet postcards circulating through e-mail inboxes across the world are carrying links to the virus called Zeus Bot Gary Warner, director of computer forensics at the UAB, says that Zeus Bot has been named America’’s most pervasive computer Botnet ...