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A concise history of silly Internet traditions

When Apple shipped Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" in October, Macintosh users were divided about some of the interface changes Apple had made from prior Mac OS X releases. Chief among these love 'em or hate 'em changes were the newly translucent menu bar and the 3-D, shelf-like Dock, as well as the new Stacks feature, which, when you mouse over a folder in the Dock, displays the folder's contents as a column of icons or a rectangular grid.

Storm, the botnet-building Trojan horse, has come up with another twist to dupe users into infecting their PCs with malware, a security researcher said last week.

Online auction house eBay has added new social networking communities to its site in an effort to provide new ways to connect buyers and sellers.

The industry is learning more and more about tricks used by spammers to get their unwanted messages across, as evidenced by a handful of research studies made public this month from university and vendor labs. But even as their tricks are revealed, spammers continue to stay a step ahead of the filters, techniques and services designed to catch them.

Spammers have found a way to mine free Web-hosting services for cash.

A new phishing method is targeting users of Yahoo by recording their user name and password while logging them into a legitimate area of the portal, according to Websense, a Web security software firm.

Australian internet search engine company Ansearch is going head-to-head with internet search "goliath" Google, by launching its own branded search engine for Australian users.

There are very few of us in high tech who will miss 2002. The economic slowdown meant that it was often a year of disappointment and one when we all relearned what it means to do more with less. Things were at least as challenging for vendors.

Internet titan Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday that it has become the most trafficked Internet brand in the U.S., holding significant weight in the categories of search, finance, music and personalized information, according to a study by researcher Nielsen//NetRatings Inc.

Yahoo went one step further in weaning users off its free services Thursday, informing users who access their Yahoo Mail accounts using POP3 programs or automatically forward e-mail to other accounts that they will now have to pay US$29.99 a year for these services or they will be shut out effective April 24.