 Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web (Update) July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web. | |
Privacy protections disappear with a judge's order July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Credit card companies know what you've bought. Phone companies know whom you've called. Electronic toll services know where you've gone. Internet search companies know what you've sought. | |
 Crackdown launched on illegal downloads 23 hours ago | User rating: 1.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Britain's six biggest internet providers have backed a government plan to clamp down on rampant music and film piracy, it was reported Thursday . | |
 300 Internet death threats since Tokyo killing spree June 28, 2008 | User rating: 1.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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As many as 300 Internet warnings of mass murder and other death threats have been posted online in Japan after a knifing rampage in Tokyo left seven people dead, media said Saturday. | |
Web 2.0: Opening up, or dumbing down? April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Are Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and other Web 2.0 giants the scourge of American culture, laying waste to its 20th-century institutions and dumbing down society? | |
Internet-savvy voters shake up US presidential election June 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Videos shared on YouTube and blogs scrutinizing candidates are part of an Internet-age revolution shaking up the US presidential election and sweeping in a new political era. | |
 Australia unveils online code of conduct July 16, 2008 | User rating: 2.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Australia on Wednesday unveiled a new code of conduct to regulate online and mobile phone content which will call for classifications similar to those for films, a government spokesman said. | |
 Google unveils reference tool after 7-month test July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is taking the wraps off an Internet encyclopedia designed to give people a chance to show off - and profit from - their expertise on any topic. | |
 How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox? May 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
| User comments: 4
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 ... | |
 Yahoo spurns Microsoft again as bad blood boils July 13, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
| User comments: 4
(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a "take or leave it" proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise. | |
Web networking photos come back to bite defendants July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed ... | |
YouTube breeding ground for anti-vaccination views December 05, 2007 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
As cold and flu season hits this year amid growing debate over the necessity of vaccinations, University of Toronto researchers have uncovered widespread misinformation in related videos on YouTube. | |
 Web 3.0: user-generated networks? January 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
| User comments: 3
European researchers took the concepts of Web 2.0, like user-generated content and social networking, into the real world. They hope to create user-generated physical networks so internets could be set up, ... | |
Study Finds Men More Than Women Share Creative Work Online June 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A Northwestern University study finds that men are more likely to share their creative work online than women despite the fact that women and men engage in creative activities at essentially equal rates. | |
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 ... | |
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