By Greg Mills
I no longer get much Nigerian Bank fraud email, since I developed a policy to deal with that. When you get an email, “You have won $50,000,000” or your unknown distant, long lost uncle died in South Africa and left you a million dollars, that is called Nigerian 419 spam and the email is really from a crook who wants to steal you blind.
Read MoreOn this week’s “Tech Night Owl,” Gene Steinberg, the Owl himself, and guests look at Mac OS X 10.6.5, 3D TV, Windows 7 Phone and more.
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Amazon has quietly updated its best selling electronics list to include several gadgets that were not showing up before, including the Apple TV and the Boxee Box, reports “Silicon Alley Insider” (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Mystery-Over-Apple-TV-Is-siliconalley-2000574993.html?x=0&.v=2).
Apple TV is currently the no. 12 best-selling gadget on Amazon. The Boxee Box is no. 15.
Read MoreSooner or later, Macs will probably go 3D. A new International 3D Society (http://www.international3dsociety.com) survey says though virtually 6 of 10 adults (59%) have yet to see a contemporary 3D movie, those who have seen a 3D movie, three-fourths (74%) feel that today’s 3D movies are better than 2D movies, among whom 30% say 3D movies are “incredible.”
Read MoreCisco has hired Mark Papermaster, who oversaw Apple Inc.’s mobile-device engineering until he left in August after criticism of the iPhone’s antenna design, reports “Bloomberg Businessweek” (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-12/former-apple-ibm-executive-papermaster-joins-cisco.html). He’ll be serving as a vice president working on chips at Cisco.
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