Detecting phone scammers automatically through keyword and voice tone analysis
Fujitsu says it has created a system that can recognize when somebody is being victimized by a phone scammer, by combining voice intonation analysis with keyword recognition. Mobile phone scams are a plague on…
Twitter celebrates six years with 340 million tweets a day
It's hard to imagine a world without Twitter. However, six years ago today the social networking service had just launched. On the occasion of the company's sixth anniversary, the company updated its blog with some…
Bangladesh blocks Facebook pages on religious grounds
Bangladesh is blocking access to five Facebook pages and an unidentified Web site for posting blasphemous remarks and cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed, the Koran and other religious subjects. According to an AFP report…
Malware spammed out as fake DHL tracking notifications
Disguising email as notifications of package deliveries is not a new trick, but cybercriminals keep using it. And the reason they keep using this social engineering trick to infect users' computers? Well, the answer…
Windows 8 Launch to Include Very Few ARM-Based Tablets, Report Says
Microsoft reportedly has a plan to avoid consumer confusion about the differences between Windows 8 tablets based on ARM and x86/x64 chips: Allow very few ARM-based tablets onto store shelves. When Windows 8 launches,…
First Windows 8 tablets coming in October, to be fewer than five
We are about six months away from seeing the first Windows 8 tablets and personal computers hit the shelves now. Sources close to the matter were quoted by Bloomberg as saying that the next edition…
FS Icon Theme for Ubuntu Get Expanded, Updated
FS Icons – a glossy icon set inspired by an unused peice of Ubuntu branding – has been updated with a wider selection of icons and refreshed folders. Thus far the icon set is incomplete…
Report: 51% of web site traffic is ‘non-human’ and mostly malicious
Summary: Web site analytics packages record what real people do on a site but most web site traffic comes from other computers often with nefarious intent. Incapsula, a provider of cloud-based security for web sites,…
Windows 8’s pitch to the enterprise.
Microsoft's Windows chief Steven Sinofsky opened up his pitch at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona today by noting that "the last time we made a generational change was Windows 95". While the spotlight focused…