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Amazon’s “cataloging error” results in deletion of over 57,000 titles

Amazon’s “cataloging errorAn awkward and blundering "cataloging error" by Amazon. com Inc resulted in the deletion of over 57,000 titles from online retailer's main search function on Sunday. Initially terming it as a 'glitch,' Amazon said that the affected titles will soon be restored; but that did not happen even till Monday afternoon.

Middle age chatters driving Twitter's trend

TwitterLondon, Apr 13: Twitter is not longer the domain of younger generation, for a majority of people who use the chatting site are over
35, according to a new survey.

The research conducted by web monitoring company comScore showed that those aged 45 to 54 are 36 per cent more likely than average to visit the site.

And only 10.6 per cent of American Twitter users were aged 18 to 24.

The study also found that middle aged ''Tweeters'' spend much longer on the site than their offspring.

Teens prefer free news and aggregation websites

Teens prefer free news and aggregation websitesWashington, Apr 12 : A newspaper study has revealed that teenagers think that news is a free commodity and they love aggregation sites.

The findings may acts as a bad news for online newspapers as two of the big industry ideas right now are-charge for content, and put the aggregators out of business.

"Not only are teens not rushing to pay for content, but they also struggle to envision in what realm they would need to pay for content," Wired News quoted the study as stating.

Microsoft fixes “temporary outage” of its MSN, Windows Live and Hotmail services

MicrosoftMicrosoft on Friday morning fixed its previous day glitch affecting its MSN, Windows Live and Hotmail services. The “temporary outage” caused widespread panic among users when their sign up was invalidated with their inboxes disappearing, and instructions for signing up a new e-mail account!  

Late Thursday night, Microsoft assured the users that their inboxes as well as e-mails were “safe,” and that the quandary resulted from an “incorrect message,” which apparently had been sent out during the company’s “routine maintenance” procedure.

Now, Taliban, other extremist web sites cropping up in the US

Now, Taliban, other extremist web sites cropping up in the USWashington, Apr. 9: Of late it has emerged that American-owned firms are playing host to extemist web sites.

The latest case involves a Taliban Web site claiming to be the voice of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan". It has boasted of a deadly new attack on coalition forces in that country.

The most remarkable about the message is the way it has been delivered.

97pc of emails are spam: Report

97pc of emails are spam: ReportLondon, Apr 9 : More than 97 percent of all emails sent in the world are unwanted spam, says a Microsoft security report.

According to the report, e-mails are dominated by spam adverts for drugs, and general product pitches.

The global ratio of infected machines was 8.6 for every 1,000 uninfected machines, the study found.

It also found that Office document attachments and PDF files were increasingly being targeted by hackers.

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