 Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool May 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors. | |
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 ... | |
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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)
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(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. | |
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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