The category of cyber crime includes fraudulent online shopping activity, computer software service fraud, computer misuse crime, offences linked to computer viruses and spyware and computer hacking.

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As we work more and more hours, and as more and more of our social interactions take place online, it only makes sense that we would do the bulk of our shopping on our computer too.

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Its developers have set up lists of on-line stores in ten shopping categories, from computer supplies to wine (with more to follow), and have taught the software how to make sense of the quirks of each one.

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Television is at the heart of an intricate web of new technologies, which govern everything we do from shopping and dating, to computer games and voting.

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Shopping with a mobile device or a personal computer is now indisputably one of the primary forms of retail distribution.

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" Sold in shopping malls and discount stores and not just small computer stores -- the norm for the time -- the C64 became many people's gateway into the world of computers, said Brian Bagnall, author of "On the edge: The spectacular rise and fall of Commodore.

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For those that generally like to shun Thanksgiving shopping but might like to sneak in some time on the computer before dinner, nearly half of those 97% will offer online specials on Thanksgiving Day itself.

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Meals-on-wheels delivered his food, a friend helped him with shopping and he finished writing his first and only novel on the computer that talked to him as he wrote.

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