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Actress Jessica Biel is now the most hazardous celebrity on the Internet.

Fans searching online for Biel have a one-in-five chance of hitting a Web site with malware, according to McAfee’s third annual report listing Hollywood’s mostFans searching online for Biel have a one-in-five chance of hitting a Web site with malware, according to McAfee’s third annual report “dangerous” online celebrities.

In general, hunting for Hollywood’s in-crowd poses a much greater threat than searching for just about anyone else. For example, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama ranked No. 34 and No. 39, respectively.

Other unsafe celebrities near the top of the cybersecurity company’s list include singer Beyonce at No. 2, former “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston at No. 3, and football hero Tom Brady, who came in at No. 4.

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Nokia will try again to tackle Apple Inc’s iPhone in the top-end of the handset market with a bet on Linux software, several industry sources told Reuters.

Top handset maker Nokia will show its first high-end phone running on Maemo, a version of Linux, next week at the annual Nokia World event in Stuttgart, Germany, the sources said.

But analysts said it would likely not become clear before next year at the earliest whether this would help Nokia achieve its aims.

The Finnish group has dabbled with Linux since 2005, using it in “Internet tablets” - sleek phone-like devices used to access the internet that have failed to gain mass-market appeal in part due to their lack of a cellular radio.

“It looks like Maemo, or at least a Linux derivative of some description, will play a key role for Nokia in high-end (products) over the next year or two,” said Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics.

Nokia’s workhorse Symbian operating system controls half of the smartphone market volume - more than its rivals Apple, Research in Motion Ltd and Google Inc in total.
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You wouldn’t know it by looking, but every time you do a search online, there is a fierce fight going on behind the scenes.

In this fight, no one is trying to prevent you from seeing anything, per se. Instead, companies are paying money so that they’ll be the first in line - or at least at the top of the page - when you search for a product or service they can provide.

“It’s very difficult to get [clients] on the first page, and it’s very difficult to keep them there,” said Gaurav Aidasani, who is the director of Cosmos Creative Services in Dubai.
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