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More advertisers seek to block Yahoo-Google pact

September 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1

An international network of advertisers publicly criticized the proposed search-advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. on Monday, saying the deal may "have a detrimental effect on competition."


Life isn't 2-D, so why should our encyclopedias be?

August 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Biologists and biochemists are now able to access 3D images of biomacromolecules underlying biological functions and disease. Rather than relying on text to provide the understanding of biomacromolecule structures, a collaborative ...


Sellers squawk as eBay evolves to combat rivals

August 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

Flocks of eBay sellers were squawking as the pioneering online auction website continued "bold changes" aimed at wrenching market share from Internet retail giant Amazon.


Scientific wiki solves the 'who wrote what' problem

August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Reporting in Nature Genetics, and working in conjunction with Society in Science, the ETH Zurich-administered fund that is dedicated to exploring new avenues in the relationship between science and society, scientist ...


Circuit behind the Internet Age turns 50 years old

September 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | User comments: 1

The computer chip industry on Friday celebrated the 50th birthday of the integrated circuit, a breakthrough that set the stage for the Internet and the Digital Age. A half-century ago a young engineer named ...


S.Korean police arrest four over massive customer data theft

September 07, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1

South Korean police on Sunday arrested four people over the theft of data on 11 million customers of a local oil refiner in what is being called the country's largest-ever data leak.


Web communities for money management, borrowing gain currency

September 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

The Internet, which has wrought major changes in the way people conduct their lives, is changing the way people manage their finances and borrow money. What social networking sites like My Space and Facebook have done for ...


Japan's online social scene isn't so social

September 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else's. It's got pictures of the funky Tokyoite modeling the clothes she designs ...


E-mail accounts easy to break into

October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | User comments: 1

The hacker who infiltrated Sarah Palin's e-mail account last month may have intended to embarrass the Republican vice presidential candidate, but the prank also exposed one of the Internet industry's most uncomfortable secrets: ...


Skype admits privacy breach by Chinese partner (Update)

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

Skype on Thursday became the latest US firm embroiled in controversy over its operations in China, acknowledging that its Chinese partner had been archiving politically sensitive text messages.


Peer-to-peer networking takes internet out of the equation

October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers allows independent, ...


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