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Facebook spammers know that sex sells

Last weekend many Facebook users supposedly sent their friends a video of ‘distracting beach babes’, the still showing a young woman’s derriere along with the message “this is hilarious! lol :P Distracting Beach Babes.” It’s not the first time spammers have targeted unsuspecting Facebook users with engaging videos. Just last weekend a similar message was rife on Facebook, this time with the message “sexiest video ever”, and a still of a woman in a very tight miniskirt to accompany it. While many people wouldn’t click on such a link if it arrived in an e-mail, the fact that it was supposedly sent by a friend - a Facebook friend at least - meant many people ended up clicking the link. For those that did, users were sent to a fake Facebook application. They were then asked to update their Flash video player and in doing so, downloading adware onto their computer. And, to keep the ball rolling, the video was then posted to all of the friends of the unsuspecting user. So what should Facebook users do now

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Yahoo! and Nokia strike mobile web deal

Yahoo! and Nokia have announced a mobile web deal that will see the internet giant powering Nokia’s mail and chat services, while Nokia in turn provides Yahoo!’s maps and navigation services. By combining their respective strengths, the companies may be hoping to take on Google’s Android mobile operating system. The Register reports that the partnership will see Ovi by Nokia being ‘powered by Yahoo!’, due to the latter’s experience at operating email and messenger services that Nokia is still new to. Similarly, Nokia’s acquisition of the world’s largest mapping data provider Navteq in 2007 will provide a boost to an area in which Yahoo! was previously lacking, compared to competitors such as Google . Speaking at a press conference to announce the partnership, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz revealed: “Many of you know we haven’t been focused a lot on our maps platform. This changes that.

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Google Books deal enters new chapter

As the deadline for authors to opt out of the $125 million settlement between Google and the Association of American Publishers passed on Friday, the war over the proposed plans to create a vast online library of digitised continued to grow. The settlement would see the author and publisher receive 70 per cent of any sale with Google receiving the remaining 30 per cent.

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