• Panda analysed malicious URLs positioned on the Internet over the last three months
• 65% of fake websites imitate bank pages, followed by online stores and auction pages at 27%

Global IT vendor Panda Security reports that hackers are creating 57 000 new Web addresses every week. They position and index these fake pages on leading search engines in the hope that unwary users will click them by mistake. [Read more →]

Cost and market scope advantages come into play as Web commerce takes off

By Wesley Lynch, CEO, Realmdigital

As the after-effects of the global recession continue to suppress demand, many businesses are discovering the benefits of an online strategy.

A great example is British retailer Marks & Spencer. Hard hit throughout the recession, M&S reported mildly resurgent figures for the first quarter of 2011 in July 2010, mainly on the back of a great performance by its online division. Overall, the group reported a very small rise in quarterly sales (3.6%), compared to a 49% surge in online sales.

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Gartner has published its hype cycle for the high-performance workplace (HPW) for 2010. The hype cycle outlines 48 HPW technologies at different stages.

It identifies four technologies that will have a transformational business impact in less than two years, and within the next two to five years. They are enterprise portals, cloud-based grid computing, hyperconnectedness and media tablets. [Read more →]

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) admitted the sale of 3D high-definition TVs has been sluggish so far. [Read more →]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is offering free shipping and other perks on baby items such as diapers to attract new consumers to its growing subscription service in a burgeoning market.

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(Reuters) – Sony Pictures Entertainment, a division of Sony Corp, will partner with Marvel Entertainment to animate characters such as Iron Man, X-Men and Blade in Japan and broadcast them worldwide, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Apparently 2010’s the year they finally ran out of fine wines, busty women, and 12 foot-tall chocolate fountains over in Vaporware Land. [Read more →]

After Apple’s investigation of complaints related to slowness and poor battery life when iPhone 3G users updated to iOS 4, early reports make it clear that iOS 4.1 has turned the tides for most.

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DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co has begun testing applications that allow subscribers to its OnStar vehicle communication system to update their Facebook status verbally and to receive text messages audibly.

Using the same technology that allowed them to accurately detect the brain signals controlling arm movements that we looked at last year, researchers at the University of Utah have gone one step further, translating brain signals into words. [Read more →]

At the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, Bill Gates said that people with higher IQs need to think about how to innovate the modern toilet. [Read more →]

If you are a Twitter user you know only too well how difficult it is to stay up to date with all the twitters which are released every minute. [Read more →]

Google Instant promises to change the way people search. [Read more →]

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oracle Corp has offered its new co-president, former Hewlett-Packard chief Mark Hurd, a hiring package with a bonus of up to $10 million and options potentially worth tens of millions more.