Yahoo Shine Site Targets Female Demographic

Yahoo Shine Site Targets Female DemographicWe’re not sure if women should be patronised or pleased, but Yahoo is launching a new site aimed at the “key demographic” of laydees aged between 25 and 54.

Called ‘Shine’ and launched this very day, the site’s main function appears to be to offer new opportunities to flog targeted advertising for consumer-packaged goods, retail and pharmaceuticals.
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Mobiles “Could Kill More People Than Smoking”: New Study

We’re beginning to lose count of the amount of contradictory stories and studies claiming that mobile phones are evil human killers/totally harmless/death with an aerial, but worrying new research claims that mobiles could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos.
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PWN To OWN: MacBook Air Hacked In 2 Minutes

PWN To OWN: MacBook Air Hacked In 2 MinutesThere was a competition at the CanSecWest security conference to see who could hack/control/Pwn any of the three laptops (VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10; Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1; MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2) available. The prize for the first successful hack was the laptop and a cash prize that reduced the more access given to the machine.

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Video ID Matches: YouTube’s Anti-Piracy Tools

Video ID Matches: YouTube's Anti-Piracy ToolsAlways keen to stay on top of how content is being used and distributed, a few of us at DL have been playing around with the playlists and ‘channel’ building abilities of YouTube of late.

While compiling and organising collections of strange video that we found, an interesting options popped out at us.

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