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• Daily TIPs: Chertoff Chats, Scammers Scam Scammers, Cloud Consortium, & More

  No Honor Among Internet Thieves

  Even phishers—people who fake legitimate-seeming sites to trick people out of their financial information—are subject to phishing attacks, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently more seasoned... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Noisier Hybrids, the MySpace Debates, Energy Bubble, & More

  Internet Deluge Not Likely, Study Finds

  Some Internet service providers are worried that the growing demand for large files, such as videos, is going to produce more data traffic than the Internet... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Hydrogen Sports Car, Broadband in Every Pot, Wi-Fi in Flight, & More

  Hydrogen-powered Sports Car on the Way

  The prototype of a sports car that burns a mixture of gasoline and hydrogen should be ready by November, according to Earth2Tech. Ronn Motors, of Austin, TX, plans... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Who’s Invading Your Privacy?, Bioterrorism, Building Green, & More

  How Much Does Your ISP Know About You?

  One perhaps overlooked aspect of the Federal Communications Commission’s warning to Comcast to stop slowing down file-sharing traffic is the way Comcast went about... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Texans Go Tiny, Borings Go to Court, Trolls Hit the Times, & More

  Electric Cars Making Inroads

  In a sign that the era of gas guzzlers may be ending, the Wall Street Journal observes that even in Texas, people are leaving their SUVs in the garage... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: GENI Grant, Facebook for Nerds, Hacker Trial, & More

  NSF Grant Supports Study of Next Generation Internet

  A project to re-think the Internet from the ground up has received $12 million in funding from the National Science Foundation. The Associated... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Will Wi-Fi Rule?, Blogging from the Top, Nanotech Safety, & More

  AT&T to Shut Off Wireless Peer-to-Peer Users

  While the Federal Communications Commission is deciding whether to reprimand Comcast for slowing down the broadband service of customers sharing files over peer-to-peer networks,... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Carbon Bootprints, Wireless Smut, Cheaper Batteries, & More

  Smaller Carbon Bootprint Could Save Soldiers’ Lives, Says Army

  The Army is looking for ways to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions, with a goal of reducing them by 30 percent by 2015. Reuters... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Activist Librarians, Hospitals Get Health Conscious, Frankie Valli versus McCain, & More

  No Business Too Small for Hackers, Report Warns

  Small and medium-sized businesses don’t believe they’re much of a target for cybercriminals, according to a report from security software maker McAfee. The study found that... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Heat Power, Browsing for Dollars, Wading Off Shore, & More

  New Material Could Turn Waste Heat to Power

  Researchers at Ohio State University have created a new alloy with double the ability of previous materials to turn waste heat from power plants or... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Cow Patties and Corncobs, Insecure Banking, Google Drives Green, & More

  Companies Developing Wireless HD Standard

  As wireless high-definition video emerges, various groups within the industry are competing to create a standard on which wireless HD devices will operate. Ars Technica says that Hitachi,... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Where to Stick Carbon, Bandwidth Trading, 100 Miles per Gallon, & More

  Concrete Solution Would Lock Up Carbon

  Making all the concrete that goes into buildings and sidewalks accounts for more than 5 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, because of the intense heat that... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Open Net, Mapping Soil, Socket to Me, & More

  ISPs Should Not Control Net Traffic, FCC Hears

  Internet users don’t want broadband providers to slow down peer-to-peer traffic or track what users are doing online, people speaking at a public hearing in... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Broadband Head Fake?, Hackable Passports, Windy Texas, & More

  World Needs Environmental New Deal, Group Says

  The world needs a clean energy version of Franklin Roosevelt, says “A New Green Deal,” a report issued by the New Economics Foundation. Reuters reports that the... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Hydrogen an Airy Dream, Is Al Gore Nuts?, Google Bad for Science, & More

  Study Predicts Few Hydrogen Cars Before 2023

  It will be at least 15 years until hydrogen becomes a competitive fuel, and then only with substantial government and private investment, says a study from the... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Bartering Goes High-Tech, Obama Touts Cyber Czar, Global Warming Questioned, & More

  Government Considers X Prizes for Nanotech

  Big prizes for technological innovation are becoming all the rage in Washington. Ars Technica tells us that Republican Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine and Democratic Senator Ron... Read more »

• Daily TIPs, Cyber-Sopranos, Republican Spiders, Broadband Goes Nuclear, & More

  Online Crime Gets More Organized

  Cybercrime, once the province of unaffiliated hackers, is coalescing into to a more organized structure that resembles the Mafia, according to a report from the web security company Finjan,... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Stones and Rocks and Carbon, Saltwater Farming, Cell Phone Traffic Cop, & More

  EBay Case Shows Flaws in Internet Law

  A ruling this week that eBay isn’t responsible for ensuring that goods are not counterfeit disappointed Tiffany’s, which brought the suit, but cheered the online... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Electric Sports Cars, Parking By Cell Phone, Throttling Throttlers, & More

  Should Hybrid Cars Have Solar Roofs?

  Japanese news reports last week said Toyota is designing a plug-in version of its hybrid Prius that would have solar cells mounted on the body to charge... Read more »

• Daily TIPs: Fins to Wind, Artificial Photosynthesis, Republicans on Facebook, & More

  FDA Approves Intel Health Guide

  Microprocessor-maker Intel is getting into the high-tech health business: its Health Guide has won approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The device records vital signs and... Read more »