A Nigerian man was sentenced to 151 months in prison for a 419 scam that stole $1.3 million for victims. – Nigerian man was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for masterminding an “advanced fee” scam that cost his victims $1.3 million.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Okpako Diamreyan, 31, was also ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution to reimburse his victims an…
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IrfanView is a compact, fast and friendly viewer with support for a large number of media formats. Among its features are support for batch processing, creation of panorama images, editing of multi-page TIFF files, lossless JPEG rotation, obtaining icons from EXE or DLL files, screen captures, format conversion, and a laundry list of other options. What’s more, the program’s functionality can be further extended via plug-ins that available from the developer itself.
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The use of Google Android devices to access the web continues to rise in the U.S., at the expense of Apple’s iOS, BlackBerry and other handset platforms. Quantcast, a San-Francisco-based web measurement company, today offered this data, indicating that Android has a 25 percent share of mobile usage, up from around 10 percent last November. Apple’s iOS platform, which powers the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, currently stands at 56 percent, down from a peak of nearly 70 percent at the end of 2009.
Normally with this type of data, I’d look into further comparison between Apple, Google and everyone else in the mobile space. But something else stood out when viewing the Quantcast data — Google comes out a winner both today and in the foreseeable future due to mobile search. The main source of Google revenue is indeed search, but the real growth is in searching for data away from the desktop. Google knows this, so it continues to invest heavily in its Android platform. This is also a main reason why it makes the platform attractive to handset makers by giving it away. As Android device sales continue to grow on a faster pace than competing products, more mobile devices that primarily use Google services are in the wild — each one of them a potential money maker for Google through search and ad revenue.
Here’s the funny thing though — Google has been winning such revenues in the mobile space even before Android. All of those iOS devices that Apple has sold, more than 120 million Steve Jobs said this week, come with Google as the default search engine. Might some consumers change their default search? Of course, but I doubt a statistically significant number actually do. It’s only when a carrier or competing search brand enters the picture, just as Verizon did last year when it changed over to Bing on BlackBerry devices.
Essentially, Google has benefitted from mobile search since the iPhone launched in 2007 with Google as the default search engine. But now the search giant is outselling other mobile platforms, and even if Apple removed Google as an available search partner at this point, it would be a temporary setback for Google’s mobile search revenues. Google has had the mobile search market cornered from the beginning, and with Android’s usage growth, it stands to keep that market for some time to come. Well, at least until we see how Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform does — surely it will use Bing as the default, no?
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The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 is out with a host of new features in tow, including binary replication. – The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 has hit the street with built-in binary replication technology.
Expected to be ready for final release sometime this month, the release candidate represents a significant overhaul for the database, said Josh Berkus, PostgreSQL core team member. New fe…
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A first look at iOS 4.1 Gold Master, the latest release of Apple’s mobile operating system due out next week. A developer sent me a copy and I have it installed on my iPhone 4. Major new features are the HDR photo mode and Game Center.
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The stars have aligned and the gods have spoken: Let there be discounts! Stardock is running an awesome charity special through September 10 that will see a portion of sales donated to Child’s Play. That’s a tough act to follow, but Direct2Drive and EA try pretty hard. The former is celebrating its six birthday by selling a number of games for $6, and the latter is just in a good mood we suppose.
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Skype has announced the release of a new beta that updates its group video calling feature with support for up to ten simultaneous users — up from five on the previous beta. The feature is being offered as a “free trial,” but users will eventually have to pay for the service, which will likely be aimed at companies looking to increase productivity while reducing expenses by enabling face-to-face communication with employees, customers and partners remotely.
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Nvidia has unveiled seven new mobile GPU parts today to complement the company’s existing, GF100-based GeForce GTX 480M. The release includes two enthusiast products, the GTX 470M and GTX 460M, and five performance grade parts — the GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M. The company claims these are up to 40% faster than the 300M-series GPUs they will replace, and include support for DirectX 11 and Optimus switchable graphics, as well as GeForce 3D Vision (from the GT425M and up), PhysX, CUDA, Verde drivers, and 3DTV Play software.
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Hate it when companies crazy glue half a dozen stickers to your brand new $1,200 laptop? AMD understands. According to a NY Times report, the chipmaker likens it to buying a new luxury car that’s plastered with permanent bumper stickers promoting the motor oil, floor mat, and air freshener companies. If you peel them off, the adhesive often leaves behind a residue that can be annoying because it’s on the palm rest, meaning your hands touch whatever grime remains.
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Toshiba’s brought all sorts of goodies to IFA this year. We covered the company’s Folio 100 Android tablet earlier, but the company has announced a ton of other products. The manufacturer has introduced its new StorE TV+ set-top box with a 2TB HDD and HD media streaming, as well as a new 3D-ready Blu-ray player, the BDX3100KB (PDF). Toshiba is preparing to ship the StorE TV+ to UK customers this month for POUND 200 (roughly $307), while its 3D Blu-ray player will arrive in October for an unknown price.
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