Facebook scam preys on 'Share' button
Facebook has taken down multiple fake pages following the discovery of a massive survey scam.
Security firm Sophos said that the scam spread through the social networking site's 'Share' function, which allows users to display web pages with contacts on Facebook.
The scam began by offering users a page called "Top 10 funny t-shirt fails." Upon clicking the page, the user is asked to fill out a short "verification" process which concludes with sending the user to a number of third party survey sites.
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Polaroid launches new 'premium' 3D glasses
One problem many people have with 3D movies is the fact that they don't like wearing the cheap 3D specs currently dished out at the cinema.
Polaroid Eyewear hopes to be the first to provide an answer to this conundrum, launching a new range of 'premium' 3D specs this month, in partnership with RealD.
Tech Radar

55 million smartphones to ship with Android 'this year'
Google's Android operating system continues its ear-popping rise to superstardom with news that 55 million handsets will ship with the OS in 2010 – up 561 per cent from just a year ago.
This startling statistic comes from a Digitimes report, which noted that Android now holds 13.8 per cent of the phone market – a figure that will rise to 24.5 per cent by the end of the year.
Tech Radar

Google spanked for bidding on its own ad auctions
Google likes to argue that its search advertising empire is immune to anti-trust claims because it doesn't set ad prices. AdWords, the company says, is an auction where advertisers bid for the placement of paid links. But the reality is far more complicated. One issue is that in some cases, Google is bidding in its own auctions. As you may have noticed when, say, Google unveiled its Nexus One phone or told the world it might leave China, Mountain View uses AdWords to run its own house ads
The Regitser

Gartner predicts cloud services a decade away from maturity
A new report from Gartner suggests that cloud services have another decade to go before they mature to their potential, and warns companies against rushing into the market.
The analyst house estimates that around 75 per cent of companies will eventually use the cloud as their primary supplier of email and collaboration tools, but said that this would take at least until 2020. While there are early adopters moving into the market, cloud email will not be attracting large-scale support until as late as 2014 the report found.
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Police smash mobile fraud ring
City of London Police made nine arrests across the UK on August 18 after breaking a multi million pound international premium rate phone line fraud.
Eight men and one woman were arrested in London, Essex, the West Midlands and Middlesbrough on conspiracy to defraud O2, whose contract SIM cards had been used to dial premium rate international phone lines to generate millions for the gang.
Mobile News

Vodafone Mobile Wi-Fi
Vodafone has launched an own-branded mobile Wi-Fi solution. It has taken Vodafone around a year to follow 3’s lead, and in doing so it becomes the second UK network operator to offer mobile broadband with Wi-Fi in a dongle. In the intervening time 3 has relaunched its so-called MiFi device as a sleeker, slimmer device than it was at the outset.
ZDnet

ITV Player for PS3
Viewers will soon be able to access the ITV Player catch-up TV service on demand via internet-connected Sony PlayStation 3 consoles.
ITV Player, which launched in July 2007, will be the first commercial catch-up TV service to go on the games console when it launches later this year.
Web User