Spammers Cost The World $20 Billion, Earn Only $200 Million In Return

Online spam is a curse which email services have to fight off on a regular basis. It’s ridiculously easy to send out spam to millions of computers. However, in a new and rather interesting paper, it has been revealed that spammers don’t really earn a whole lot of money out of their dirty business, compared to the damage they do. The total imposed cost of spam on the world is roughly $20 billion, whereas the spammers only earn nearly $200 million per year to spread them.

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Hackers Start Offering Fake Flash Player Apps For Android

Adobe has recently stopped offering Flash Player through the Google Play Store. This is being done to gradually phase out the Player, given Adobe’s perception that newer Android devices won’t find it compatible. However, hackers and other notorious quarters on the web have started offering fake player to fill in the demand.

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FCC Accepting Suggestions About Redefining Broadband And Minimum Acceptable Caps

FCC, during the course of its procedures, usually refers to broadband internet as a connection that delivers a speed of 4Mbps or more. However, many have argued that internet speeds have surpassed this threshold long before, and the regulatory body must redefine the threshold. And, the regulatory authority is now seeking user feedback to do just that.

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My Downloader Pro – Download Manager App For iOS [Price Drop]

My Downloader Pro is a download manager app for the iOS. With this app you can download, organise, view and transfer all mainstream file formats. This useful download master is developed by YUYAO Mobile Software. This premium download manager is available for free at App Store for a limited time. Grab it before it turns back to the usual $3.99.

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Ice Screen – World’s First 26-inch Portable Smart TV

Chinese electronics giant TCL and the country’s largest ISP Tencent has unveiled a 26-inch smart TV with a 1,366 x 768 display called the Ice Screen. This 26-inch smart TV is touted as “the world’s first large screen mobile entertainment smart cloud product.” That is, it packs a 26-inch portable screen, a video player, a music and photo album, and HD video communications capability.

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Jury Found Samsung ‘Guilty’ Of Copying, Awarded $1.051 Billion To Apple

The victory finally chose Apple over Samsung in the epic patent troll of the century. The U.S. jury gave a verdict that Samsung has deliberately copied critical features of iPhone and iPad, and they decided the fine for such infringement to be $1.051 billion dollars. The epic battle ‘partially’ ended on Friday, earlier than expected, in a Federal Court in California.

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US Internet Users Viewed 36.9 Billion Online Videos In July: comScore

Market research firm comScore has published a report that shows the growing appetite for online videos among the U.S. internet users. The report shows that a total of 36.9 billion videos were viewed by U.S. internet users in July 2012 alone. Among these, video ads accounted for 9.6 billion, around 20.7 percent of total videos viewed online. The total unique visitors viewing videos online were counted to be 184 million, around 85.5 percent of the total U.S. internet users.

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Android Users May Finally Be Able To Update Devices On Their Own

Android users have long complained about most Android vendors for implementing software updates from Google bit too late. The reason is because most vendors tend to use a customized version of Android and can’t update immediately, given the work they have to do to incorporate a new version of Android OS from Google. However, this may finally change now.

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