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Monday Morning News

  • FAQ: 21st-century guide to indoor lighting
  • Microsoft Passes One Million Mark With Zune
  • NEC staff caught faking orders, taking kickbacks - to the tune of $18 billion
  • T-Mobile parent invests in upstart Jajah
  • Nissan Warns Drivers: Don’t Put Mobile Phones Near Our Keys
  • Sony to Ship HD Radios in July
  • FTC probing proposed $3.1B Google deal
  • Security

  • Security Bites Podcast: Skype worm jumps apps
  • Germany adopts “anti-hacker” law; critics say it breeds insecurity
  • Best Buy Or Bait And Switch?
  • Freeware of the Week

  • Remove It Permanently - Get rid of those stupid floating ads
  • News of the Weird

  • Gay pub wins right to ban straights
  • Woman gives birth in a car — twice
  • Nigerian Internet scams were thought for years to be so transparently fraudulent that they would work only on the very gullible, who would send thousands of dollars overseas in the naive expectation of receiving millions in return. However, it was also too good to pass up for a professional money manager, the longtime treasurer of Alcona County, Mich., Thomas Katona, who admitted in court in January 2007 that he had lost $1.25 million of taxpayer money, plus his own life’s savings, in a Nigerian scam. [Detroit Free Press, 1-18-07]
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