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Holiday ‘pop-up’ stores are going upscale

For two months this holiday season, an empty jewelry store in midtown Manhattan has been magically transformed into a toy train shop, complete with a Christmas tree and electric engines chugging along miniature tracks.

A growing TV cover-up: Obnoxious pop-up promos

Somewhere in the universe of TV viewers, there's got to be a person who actually likes those pop-up, on-screen promotions.

The Vine
Why your pop-up blocker doesn't work as well as it used to
Source: Den of Geek

You may have noticed that a lot of sites are managing to launch pop-up windows that can penetrate any standard blocker built into a web-browser these days, and pretty much all proprietary blockers too.

Google loses right to Gmail name in Germany
Source: thelocal.de

Gmail users in Germany were likely surprised late last week when instead of gaining access to their email, they were greeted with a mysterious message from the folks at Google.

Firefox Add-on. 1-Click

I've been using 1-click for some time now and I have to say, it's become indispensable for web browsing.

Thousands snared by malware warning from big-name websites
Source: channelregister.co.uk

Thousands of PC users have been duped into surrendering sensitive information and installing malicious software after falling victim to a complex scam that continues to plague well-known websites, a researcher warns.

The Javascript Popup Virus
Source: Self

A while back I had a strange dream about javascript being used to infect people. This story is based off of that dream.

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