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Virgin Mobile adds Samsung Montage, Entro to PayLo lineup

Virgin Mobile and Samsung unveiled today two new wallet-friendly handsets for its PayLo portfolio. The Samsung Montage, the more advanced of the two, is a feature phone with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera, e-mail and Web access, and threaded text messaging. It also supports Bluetooth and up to 32GB of external storage.

The aptly named Entro is a simple flip phone with texting capabilities, speakerphone, and Internet access.

Samsung's Entro goes on sale starting today for $14.99, and the Montage becomes available in stores on August 20 for $49.99.

Microsoft turns searches into Web albums

A new Web app from Microsoft can bring life to your Web searches by using them to build customizable news-oriented Web albums.

Demoed at Le Web conference last week, Microsoft's Montage can take virtually any topic or keyword that you enter and create a Web page filled with articles and photographs grabbed from news sites, Twitter, YouTube, and a variety of other sources. You can customize your page with different layouts and change each section of the page to point to specific sources of information. When you're done, you can save your page and publish it or share … Read more

Fuse Labs' Montage blends search with blogging

Is there a happy medium between a Tweet and something like a full-blown blog post? Microsoft seems to think so and is working on a new experimental publishing system called Montage that lets you throw together a page of content--be it yours, or collected from the Web in just a few minutes.

Actually, less than a few minutes is the aim of the game for Montage, which pulls together news headlines, photos, and Tweets based on Bing searches. These items can then be placed on a page that stays static or changes based on the searches and feeds it's … Read more

McAfee: Brad Pitt fan sites may be bad for your computer

Want to download a Brad Pitt screen saver? What about images of Beyonce? If you're using a site you're not familiar with, you may want to reconsider.

According to McAfee's new "riskiest celebrities in cyberspace" list, when searching for "Brad Pitt," "Brad Pitt downloads," or Brad Pitt wallpaper, screen savers, and pictures, Internet users experience an 18 percent chance of stumbling upon sites containing malicious code. This includes drive-by malware that can infect your PC without asking you to download anything. Such social engineering, once reserved for e-mail, is now being … Read more