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NY Times, USA Today multiple online EPpy winners

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(AP) -- The New York Times won three accolades for its Web sites and USA Today won two as the "EPpy Awards" were announced Thursday.


EU warns Google over photos on Street View

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(AP) -- The EU's top data protection supervisor said Thursday that Google Inc.'s "Street View" map and imaging feature could pose privacy problems if it launches in Europe.


Icahn to Yahoo board: Sell to Microsoft or leave (Update)

May 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | User comments: 3

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer ...


Colonel suggests using hackers' tool against them

May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(AP) -- Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.


VeriSign wins patent for Internet typo redirection

May 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- The company that runs many of the Internet's core directory systems has won a patent for its controversial service that helps Internet users find sites even when they mistype addresses.


Ask.com acquires Dictionary.com, other references

May 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google Inc. and other much larger rivals.


Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case

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(AP) -- A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor girl who then committed suicide.


Google starts to blur faces in Street View photos

May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | No comments yet

(AP) -- After privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however.


ComScore puts Google sites at No. 1 for first time

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(AP) -- Google has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular Web site in the United States, according to comScore Inc.'s rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors.


MySpace wins $230 million anti-spam judgment

May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

(AP) -- A notorious "Spam King" and his partner now owe MySpace about $230 million in damages after a federal judge awarded the popular online hangout what is believed to be the largest anti-spam judgment ...


Craigslist countersues eBay, saying it broke antitrust laws

May 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- Online classifieds giant Craigslist countersued its minority owner, eBay Inc., on Tuesday, alleging the online auctioneer is violating federal and state antitrust laws.


Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool

May 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 39 vote(s) | User comments: 8

Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors.


France's Larousse sets up Wikipedia rival

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France's Larousse publishing house on Tuesday launched an online French-language encyclopedia offering free access to its dictionary and inviting users to contribute content, aiming to rival Wikipedia.


Apple now sells HBO shows on iTunes store

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(AP) -- Apple Inc. has scooped up Time Warner Inc.'s HBO to feed television shows to its online iTunes store, reeling in one of the last holdouts among major channels and agreeing to a rare pricing concession to land hit ...


Chile probes data theft and posting by hacker

May 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- A prosecutor was appointed Monday to investigate how a computer hacker accessed government data for 6 million Chileans and posted it to the Internet.


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