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...make matters worse, there are plenty of other weapons in the cybercriminal's arsenal. It's also possible, for example, to pilfer confidential data from secure networks by mounting Trojan e-mail attacks. These infect a PC by e-mail, using a program that runs undetected in the background. Free to perform tasks usually reserved for the system's owner, the invader can remotely swipe passwords, upload documents and transmit new attacks. In a report published in 2005, Britain's government-backed National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre released details of a series of Trojan e-mail attacks...
Making personalized radio portable could be the key to its long-term success. "The biggest problem with Internet radio is that it's stuck on the PC," says Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd. "What you really want is this device you can play in your living room, in your car or in the desert walking around." In addition to Sprint's move to put Pandora on phones, SanDisk recently demonstrated a prototype portable player that could run Pandora, and Slacker plans to sell a $150 iPod-like player this summer that can get wireless music downloads from its website...
...users are quicker to drop the pants, with an average user willing to bunker down after 2.9 dates (versus 3.1 for PC users...
...earn a spot on one of the country's 12 professional gaming teams, players must spend years honing their skills, usually by putting in the hours in the country's Internet cafés, locally known as "PC bangs...
...while U.S. authorities have thwarted Gates' subjugation of the PC software business in recent years, Mexico has done precious little to rein in ubiquitous business empires like Slim's - which today accounts for almost half the Mexican stock exchange's $370 billion value and controls a horde of industries ranging from telecom to tobacco. Forbes magazine, in fact, noted that Slim's holdings alone represent about 7% of Mexico's GDP - and that if Gates held a similar share of the U.S. economy, he would be worth $874 billion...