 France's Larousse sets up Wikipedia rival May 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
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 May 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(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 ... | |
Facebook to let users carry profiles with them May 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Facebook Inc. is loosening its grip on millions of personal profiles to allow inhabitants of its popular Internet hangout to transplant the information and applications to other Web sites. | |
 Google execs hope for long-term ad deal with Yahoo May 09, 2008 | User rating: 2.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Google Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. - a deal that would lower ... | |
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. | |
 EBay's PayPal rule in Australia draws fire May 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- EBay Inc. is exploring whether to require customers to use its online payment service PayPal, a move that has angered users and prompted antitrust scrutiny in Australia, where a PayPal-only rule takes ... | |
Hackers' posts on epilepsy forum cause migraines, seizures May 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims. But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web ... | |
Google joins effort to make more Web sites more sociable May 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The effort to make it easier for Web surfers to connect with their friends is attracting a crowd. | |
 MySpace lets users take profile data outside site's walls May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
MySpace announced Thursday it is opening the gates of its popular online community by letting users automatically transfer profile information to other social-networking websites. | |
 With Microsoft mum, analysts mull next moves for Live Search May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Without the influx of Web traffic that Microsoft bet would quickly follow a Yahoo buyout, the software maker is facing a long slog if it wants to turn its money-losing online services business into ... | |
 Review: Mint shows me the money, and that's half the battle May 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
| User comments: 3
(AP) -- Confession: I've never balanced a checkbook or devised a realistic budget. I'm too impatient to follow through with manual record-keeping when all the transactions are digital. | |
 Papa John's surpasses $1 billion in online pizza sales May 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Sometimes during peak hours, the phones are silent in Andy Freitas' pizza restaurants, yet the cooks are busy keeping pace with hungry customers. That's because orders are rolling in through the Internet. | |
Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards May 08, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday. | |
AP sources give inside look at Microsoft's raised Yahoo bid May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Just how serious was Microsoft Corp. about raising its bid to $47.5 billion for slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc.? The answer is taking on greater importance as more outraged Yahoo shareholders threaten to sue ... | |
 Hackers harpoon US executives with phony email subpoenas May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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US federal court officials have warned that hackers are emailing phony subpoenas embedded with malicious software to high-ranking executives to steal valuable corporate information. | |
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