Network World Canada Staff

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Lost Packets – Tool will let Second Life residents rate one another

RatePoint Inc. plans to introduce a service that will allow residents of the Second Life online society to rate one another.

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New Zealand organizations will find their online defenses tested for the first time in a huge international cyber-security exercise being coordinated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security next year.

Flu pandemic could choke

Many companies and government agencies are counting on legions of teleworkers to keep their operations running in the event of an influenza pandemic.

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Pope Benedict XVI has added his voice to the discussion in

LinkedIn previews Q&A feature

LinkedIn Corp. has added a question-and-answer service to its business-oriented networking site, the latest Internet company to unveil this type of increasingly popular feature.

Lost packets: Buckets more phish bait out there

Cyber criminals created a record number of phishing Web sites in July and also hijacked a record number of brands to help them do their work, a consortium that monitors online fraud said this month. The number of phishing sites

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The bikini turned 60 this year and, to celebrate, a new model of the swimsuit will have a built-in alarm inserted that warns its wearers to get out of the sun. A Canadian company, Solestrom, is the brains behind this piece of technology.

Lost Packets: Networking news and trivia

How much would you pay to cheat on a test? For 20 students in Vietnam, apparently the price was right at US$3,125. That is how much these students paid to don elaborately wired wigs and shirts to cheat on their college entrance exams.

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