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On-line fraud is 50% of all U.S. fraud complaints

The Register reports that, for the first time, on-line fraud is up to 55% of the $437 million complained of in the U.S.A. "The most popular Internet scams reported were online auction rip-offs -- 15 percent of the cases -- and spammy quit-your-job-and-work-at-home-for-big-bucks swindles, which made up nine percent of the complaints."
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90% of top UK company sites Inaccessible

Nine in ten of the UK's top companies are failing to make their Web sites accessible to people with disabilities, reports The Register.

The report can be obtained from Nomensa.

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New Virus alert

Warnings are being issued about the rapidly spreading Bagle Windows worm, reports the BBC. The Bagle worm can be spotted in e-mail inboxes as it always has a subject line that reads simply: "Hi". Running the attachment causes it to mail itself to all email addresses it finds on your machine.

Bruce

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Free ASP.NET extensions

DMXzone's ASP.NET premium author, Kevin Marshall, announces free ASP.NET property inspector extensions to work with MX 2004 and MX. The default inspectors have been enhanced to allow easy insertion of validators and event procedures directly from the property inspectors. New inspectors have been added to support .NET controls that don't have property inspectors by default.

They're available for download from his company website, WebXel.

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Microsoft needs your help!

Rob Scoble and the leader of the Internet Explorer team are asking for input into what changes Microsoft should make to Internet Explorer. Last year, they said they wouldn't develop it anymore, but with the as-yet-unpatched Phishing bug and potential changes due to the Eolas patent, I guess they've decided to tart it up after two and half years; after all, it's 3 or 4 years until Longhorn. Read More
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No more Kodak film cameras in the U.S.

 Eastman Kodak Co. on Tuesday said it will stop selling traditional film cameras in the United States, Canada and Western Europe, another move by the photography company to cut lines with declining appeal in favor of fast-growing digital products, reports Reuters. Read More
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Lasermonks for cheap laser printer cartridges

A DMXzone member spotted this: a report about a group of monks who are supporting their abbey - Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank - by selling cheap, high quality, laser printer cartridges with the kind of customer care that you'd hope for from a group of monks.  

Their byline: "Support prayer for the world.  Support charitable service to others. And be treated with genuine care."

 

Bruce

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MS Blaster clean-up tool

Microsoft have released a new tool to mop-up any residue of the Blaster virus from XP/ Win2K systems that may have been infected before they were patched are clean.

Bruce

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Announcing the DMXzone RSS feed

At DMXzone, we've launched our RSS feed. RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, and is a way of putting out content in a pre-defined way so that anyone else who wants to can take the text file and automatically import it into their own site. If you want lots of detail, here's the full specification, but in order to use someone else’s RSS feed in your own web site, all you really need to know is that an RSS feed is text, but the data in it is a small subset of XML. DON'T PANIC! (I always say that when someone sees the 'X' word). RSS isn't nicknamed Really Simple Syndication for nothing).

Most web developers write a script in their preferred scripting language that grabs the feed at a pre-defined interval (depending on how frequently it’s updated by its author) and then put it in their website using ASP/ PHP (or whatever). Because it’s just text, the typeface, colours etc are determined by the HTML or CSS of the site that is consuming the feed. (If you are running a PHP-driven site, Matt Machell has a very simple  tutorial with all the code needed use someone’s RSS feed in your site.)

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2003 best year for on-line shopping

Reuters reports that on-line sales in 2003 amounted to $18.5 billion, excluding travel, compared with $13.7 billion in 2002, a rise of 35 percent. We hope that DMXzone members' sites saw the lion's share of that $18.5 billion!

 

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