Mobile users can also be duped through so-called "smishing" -- a combination of the words SMS and phishing -- where a user receives a text message asking for personal information like a credit card number, e-mail address or social security number.

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Vimeo also says the novel feature will be able to make recommendations based on "technical analysis of the user's video and social data, " -- in other words, the more you use it, the more likely it is to learn your very own visual preferences.

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The newest version of the keyboard, released last night for 99 cents, also predicts words by learning what a user types over time.

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The difference is that existing programs require the user to correct each word individually from a drop-down list of alternatives, or else to retype or reutter the words.

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More subtly, if none of the predicted sentences is entirely correct, yet collectively they contain the words that were spoken, the user can simply slide his finger across the appropriate words to link them up.

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