Bluetooth at heart of gas station credit-card scam in Southeast

Network World - Thieves are stealing credit-card numbers through skimmers they secretly installed inside pumps at gas stations throughout the Southeast, using Bluetooth wireless to transmit stolen card numbers, according to law enforcement officials.
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India's palm, soybean oil imports to rise

India, the world's second-biggest vegetable oil consumer after China, may boost imports of palm and soybean oils to meet rising demand during festivals amid a drop in domestic inventories. Purchases in the three months ending Oct. 31 may jump as much as 24 percent to 2.6 million metric tons from a year ago, Govindlal G. Patel, director of Dipak Enterprise, said in a phone interview today ...
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BlackBerry tablet to arrive in a Flash

Unlike Apple's iPad, BlackBerry's new tablet will reportedly support Flash.
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Cooker makes bread out of rice

Backed by the recent revival of rice consumption, Sanyo Electric Co. debuted a machine Tuesday that can bake bread out of rice. The Gopan looks similar to a rice cooker. Just add 220 grams of rice, 210 grams of water, sugar, salt and shortening in the bread pan, and gluten and dry yeast in the unit's automatic dispenser, and the machine grinds the grain, and kneads and bakes the dough in about ...
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