 SKorea ponders closer watch on web after surge of protests June 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
After weeks of tumultuous protests inspired largely by South Korea's netizens, the country which claims to be the world's most wired society is considering new ways to monitor the Internet. | |
 How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox? May 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Everyone who has an e-mail account has probably received a forwarded chain letter promising good luck if the message is forwarded on to others--or terrible misfortune if it isn't. The sheer volume of forwarded ... | |
US mom pleads not guilty in MySpace suicide case June 16, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A 49-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to charges arising from her role in a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a fictitious boy. | |
 OECD ministers agree to make Internet safer, more widely used June 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Ministers and officials from leading industrial nations agreed Wednesday to make the Internet safer and more accessible, to strengthen its role as a driving force in the global economy. | |
 Networking: Is that bank's URL legitimate? May 01, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Computer-security professionals at the weekend were working on what is being described as a just-emerging IT problem -- the kind which, if the pros are correct, potentially could imperil all e-commerce across ... | |
 Latest weapons in spam battle are images May 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Like all wars, the campaign against junk e-mail -- spam -- is marked along the way with victories and casualties. It's an "ever-escalating battle," the senior director of marketing at anti-spam company Commtouch, ... | |
MySpace looks to USC to help servers keep up with users June 27, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
How do you keep a potential half-billion social networkers current? A Viterbi School of Engineering expert tackles the growth problems of one of the world's largest computing systems.
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Lots of options available to VoIP users May 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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The Internet phone industry is growing at an exponential rate and today boasts more than 4 million users, more than doubling in the past year. But as the number of users increases, so does the number of providers. | |
The Web: Reaching an inflection point May 10, 2006 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Is the Web becoming "disruptive" once again? That is, is it vigorously stirring things up as it did when it first came on the commercial scene back in the mid-90s? Experts tell UPI's The Web that the second generation of ... | |
Online library gives readers access to 1.5 million books November 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 146 vote(s)
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The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has ... | |
Informatics researchers throttle notion of search engine dominance August 07, 2006 | User rating: 2.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Search engines are not biased toward popular Web sites, and may even be egalitarian in the way they direct traffic, say Indiana University School of Informatics researchers. Their study, "Topical interests and the mitigation ... | |
More questions than answers over the Net June 19, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
As Congress debates whether to adhere to network neutrality, the consensus within the technology realm is as elusive as a definition of the issue itself. | |
 Probing Question: What is Net neutrality? May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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"Internet Freedom, under attack. What do we do? Stand up, talk back," shouted a group calling themselves the Raging Grannies, outside the Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Inside, the Federal ... | |
'Cyberblackmail' on the rise May 09, 2006 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
As illegal moneymaking schemes go, it's certainly not a new one: Crooks steal something of value from their victims and then demand ransom for its safe return. The 21st-century twist in the tale is that now it's not just ... | |
 US blogger released on bail in Singapore June 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A US-based blogger who allegedly accused a Singapore judge of "prostituting herself" was released on bail Thursday and had his passport confiscated. | |
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