Fake Barcodes On Gift Cards Prompt Scam Warning

Source: WBNS-10 TV

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned consumers on Friday about a scam involving gift cards. Officials said that the scammers printed barcodes from gift cards they had purchased for Amazon.com or iTunes.com and attached them to the back o ...
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Making bogus bar codes: Just how hard is it?

Source: CNET

First it was shoplifting, then it was ticket-switching, and now it's bar code fraud. Just how easy is it to make a fraudulent UPC? Easier than you think. But getting away with the crime is a different story. by Mousumi Das May 25, 2012 2:08 PM ...
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LEGO Stealing Nerd Assembled Mini Legoland Inside His Mansion

Source: Betabeat

Remember Thomas Langenbach, the SAP executive who used his tech chops to steal and resell thousands of dollars worth of LEGOs? Turns out he was–unsurprisingly–a bit of a LEGO hoarder, even going so far as to build what “looked like a mini Legola ...
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Steve Rosenbaum: 'Independent Booksellers Have Never Faced Anything Like Amazon'

Source: The Huffington Post

For all the talk about 'monetization' -- the actual business of media often gets shorted on the industry conference circuit. So when the organizers at PaidContent decided to put an actual living, breathing content maker on the sta ...
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Automatisierte Paketerfassung bei UPS

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Rising on a third-wave retail revolution

Source: Business Spectator

You’ve probably heard from the naysayers that online shopping is killing the retail industry. I believe that the opposite is true. Online shopping has not only saved the industry and encouraged spending, it has completely revitalised the retail marke ...
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Card Scanning Solutions Offers Simultaneous Use Of Multiple SnapShell® OCR ID Readers, Enhancing Information Extraction And Processing

Source: PRWeb

Card Scanning Solutions (CSSN Inc.) has been a leading software company specializing in image processing and OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Their state-of-the-art solutions offer time- and cost effective me ...
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FDA bill: changes to FDA drug and device oversight

Source: Washington Examiner

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a mammoth bill Thursday that would reshape how the Food and Drug Administration assures the safety of the drug supply, particularly medicines imported from overseas. The underlying bill is a must-pass piece ...
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This Week In Music Apps: Soundboards, Beethoven, Seaquence, and More

Source: evolver.fm

Between Google’s Moog-inspired playable doodle (Moogle?) and our editor’s nomination for MTV’s NILF award, it’s safe to say it’s been an exciting week for the music nerds at Evolver.fm. In other, less-nerdy music news, American Ido ...
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