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Lots of options available to VoIP users

May 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

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.


Online library gives readers access to 1.5 million books

November 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 146 vote(s) | User comments: 2

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 ...


Paralysed man takes a walk in virtual world

June 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 22 vote(s) | User comments: 2

A paralysed man using only his brain waves has been able to manipulate a virtual Internet character, Japanese researchers said Monday, calling it a world first.


Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web (Update)

July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 42 vote(s) | User comments: 15

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.


Google unveils reference tool after 7-month test

July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | User comments: 6

(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.


Stock exchange for 'grid' computing?

February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 21 vote(s) | User comments: 2

You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the internet, or perhaps buying in extra resources to solve a tricky problem. In either case, network administration used to be a stumbling block – until European researchers ...


Web networking photos come back to bite defendants

July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 4

(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 ...


Privacy protections disappear with a judge's order

July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s) | User comments: 13

(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.


Hackers get hold of critical Internet flaw (Update)

10 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 3

Internet security researchers on Thursday warned that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet.


Scholars plan to reunite ancient Bible -- online

July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again - online.


300 Internet death threats since Tokyo killing spree

June 28, 2008 | User rating: 1.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s) | User comments: 9

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 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, ...


Internet changing consumer electronics world: Intel chief

January 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini today said the Internet will continue disrupting the consumer electronics and entertainment industries in new ways and described how the Internet's evolution will create business ...


No Right to E-mail: NLRB Looks Through the Looking Glass & Sees Absolutely No Problem

December 29, 2007 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 2

The NLRB recently handed down a decision relating to the use of e-mail by an Oregon newspaper guild, (union) and found what is and what was, isn't necessarily true no more.


Google Plans 2008 Launch of Enhanced Web Hosting

December 04, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Google plans to launch Google Sites in 2008. The initial plan is to enhance Google Apps and Google Page Creator features by using JotSpot for collaboration tools. The new enhanced features may set up a possible ...


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