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Bowing to pressure from European privacy regulators, Google will soon allow owners of Wi-Fi access points to opt out of a Google service that allows smartphone owners to identify their location without using GPS (Global Positioning System), it said Tuesday. More...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Hackers are following prey onto smartphones and social networking hotspots, according to reports released Tuesday by a pair of computer security firms. Cyber criminals are also ramping up the sophistication and frequency of attacks on business and government networks, one...

TRIPOLI, Libya – The embattled regime of Moammar Gadhafi is arming civilian supporters to set up checkpoints and roving patrols around the Libyan capital to control movement and quash dissent, residents said Saturday. The reports came a day after protesters demanding Gadhafi's ouster came under...

People all along New Brunswick's east coast are now cleaning up the damage inflicted on homes and roads after two days of high winds, heavy rain and storm surges. Environment Canada ended all of its severe weather warnings for New Brunswick on Thursday. The province may be spared another...

Cairo, Egypt – Young, old, foreign, Egyptian, poor, middleclass, or wealthy, it doesn't matter. Dressed in hijab, niqab, or western wear, it doesn't matter. If you are a woman living in Cairo, chances are you have been sexually harassed. It happens on the streets, on crowded buses, in the...

Web site: Seattle top trick-or-treat city SEATTLE, -- A Washington state real estate Web site named Seattle the top U.S. city for trick-or-treating, with San Francisco close behind. Zillow.com said its second annual Zillow Trick-or-Treat Housing Index, which estimates the amount of candy...

i have a wireless router through the phone company. it doesnt work b/c we get internet through the cable company but never got rid of the router. i want wifi but i dont wanna buy a new router is their anyway to plug the wireless router into my laptop that is wired and make the wireless router...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motorola apparently plans a "Droid 2 Global" to appeal to jet-setting smartphone users. Having already improved the keyboard on the original Droid to create the Droid 2, Motorola will now apparently boost the...

TV networks dish out justice to pirates Pay-TV piracy may be an underground economy but its evidence is plain for all to see on the rooftops of the UAE. Steve Bjuvgard, the head of anti-piracy at Arab Radio and Television (ART), says even a layman can spot it. If a satellite dish is pointing...

A volcano erupted in the south of Iceland overnight, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate the area and diverting flights after authorities declared a state of emergency, officials said on Sunday. Shortly before midnight, the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, the island's fifth largest, started to spew...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – The killing of three people linked to the U.S. consulate in Mexico's bloodiest drug war hotspot has thrown President Felipe Calderon a major test as he heads to this border city on Tuesday to try to contain spiraling violence. Suspected drug hitmen killed an American...

Newly released images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft last November's swoop over Saturn's icy moon Enceladus reveal a forest of new jets spraying from prominent fractures crossing the south polar region and yield the most detailed temperature map to date of one fracture. The new images from the...

Philippine officials say Saudi man married local woman to sidestep law, buy her kidney By Teresa Cerojano, The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines - A Saudi Arabian man married a Filipino woman as a cover for buying her kidney, trying to circumvent the Philippines' strict new rules to fight...

In France a new bill was passed against people who download free movies and music illegally fist time you get a warning second time your kicked off the internet..... French lower house lawmakers adopt bill cutting Internet connections for film, music piracy EMMANUEL GEORGES-PICOT | Associated...

NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Homeowners picked through the rubble of destroyed houses Saturday as officials warned stiffening afternoon winds could push a four-day South Carolina wildfire toward other inland homes. Still, authorities said a massive firefighting effort just miles from the state's...

MEXICO CITY – A bill that would let Mexico declare temporary states of emergency and expand the army's power in a bloody fight against powerful drug gangs drew immediate fire Thursday from human rights activists who say soldiers should not be doing the job of police. President Felipe Calderon's...

Japan destroyers set sail on anti-piracy mission ...... TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Two Japanese destroyers set sail Saturday on an anti-piracy mission off Somalia, the Japanese defense ministry said, marking the first policing action for the country's Maritime Self-Defense Force. Pirates are caught...

I have a PC and a wireless router, I do not have a wifi card on my PC.Can I connect to a wifi hotspot using my wireless router. In other words can I configure my wireless router to work a wireless access point.