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Wound up by online retailers' fake transaction clock countdowns

OPINION: The clock is ticking. You can watch the seconds tick down before the transaction is cancelled. You have to make a decision. Oh, no! 205 people are currently looking at this item, and there's ... read more

More than massages: A hidden sex industry in Hampton Roads

The Tidewater thread of an online forum called USAsexguide.info indicates at least 40 Asian massage parlors have set up shop on ... often go by fake names, like Nancy, Amy or CiCi. Lisa said the parlo... read more

CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS

Clayton Lee Waagner allegedly sent fake anthrax letters to abortion clinics ... They will relieve the crew that have been up there for about three months time. So far, this launch countdown has gone o... read more

Adopted then Discarded

Within hours or days of meeting online, trade-offs occur in hotel and MacDonald’s ... born in [Mexico,] Russia and Ethiopia by Americans desperate for children, wound up in her custody without any gov... read more

The Alibaba Warehouse Where Fake Goods Go to Die

The event also included a tour of Alibaba’s so-called counterfeit evidence warehouse located in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, where fake goods seized from raids on unscrupulous online sellers ... read more

Acquisition of DynamicMail Gives Optimove Clients More Marketing Muscle

In a move aimed at accelerating a retailer’s or brand’s ability to forge an emotional ... s e-mail capabilities also enable “highly engaging content, such as video, countdown timers, store locators an... read more

Ahmed Muhamed's Arrest: Clock Kid Truthers Miss the Point

Whether Ahmed “invented” a clock or merely reassembled the various components of ... was trying to avoid a water balloon fight in 2013 when he was swept up by police at his Wake County, N.C., high sch... read more

Charged With a Crime? Better Check Your Facebook Pictures

Earlier this year, the realms of law and new media collided when Lori Drew was hit with federal charges for creating a fake MySpace page and harassing a neighboring teenager, who then committed suicid... read more

Sweet budget, but not a sugar rush

Free GP visits and prescriptions are extended to children under 13, up from age six, a measure that is guaranteed to be popular. But the elephant in the room is migration figures showing that pressure ... read more

Krebs on Security

One of the most common is known as “frequency jamming,” which uses electronic signals to scramble both the clock (timing) and the card data ... the seller enthuses in an online ad for the product, a s... read more

Ratings way down for NFL opener

The NFL’s opening Thursday night game got disappointing TV ratings for a league that is battling perceptions of rapidly declining popularity. NBC announced a 13.4 overnight rating for the Super Bowl c... read more

Nintendo Acknowledges Network Issues and Suggests Patience

As if it wasn't enough for the eShop to have the worst layout out of all online stores, now we get ... and get a working service set up, sure the other gaming services took a hammering the past few da... read more