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Businesses Waste Big Bucks Fighting Phantom Cyberattacks

2015-01-21 16:45:29| TechNewsWorld

Businesses spend an average of $1.27 million a year chasing cyberthreats that turn out to be dead ends. That is one of the findings in a report released last week on the cost of containing malware. In a typical week, an organization can receive nearly 17,000 malware alerts, although only 19 percent of them are considered reliable, the researchers found.

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FCC fighting Internet shakedowns

2015-01-20 08:27:10| Telecom - Topix.net

Every once in awhile, something happens in Washington that proves cynics wrong. That looks like it's going to happen next month.

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US Farmers Fighting Drought May Have Hope Yet

2015-01-17 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: US Farmers that are currently fighting ongoing drought, particularly in California, may have hope yet thanks to one man's ingenious invention. Jon Dewey has developed several water devices for growing and gardening, including his Patented WaterStick that allows farmers to grow more food using 75 percent less water. For example, this method allowed him to successfully grow, on average, 150-200 pounds of tomatoes per plant using a mere half gallon of water, whereas normal growing methods would require...

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Annoyed by hotels blocking Wi-Fi? Google, Microsoft are fighting it

2014-12-26 13:00:26| Wireless - Topix.net

Google and Microsoft want to help you avoid those outrageous hotel Internet fees. The tech giants joined the wireless lobbying group to fight the hotel industry's push to block guests' personal Wi-Fi networks, according to Re/code .

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