 AOL seeks growth in shift from mass site to niches 6 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- A company rooted in bringing the Internet to the masses, AOL is shifting its focus toward serving niche audiences with the launch of dozens of specialty Web sites. The latest - ParentDish for parents ... | |
 How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox? 10 hours ago | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 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 ... | |
Routine conduct at risk with MySpace suicide case 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal crime. Federal prosecutors turned to a novel interpretation of computer hacking law to indict ... | |
NY Times, USA Today multiple online EPpy winners 16 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- The New York Times won three accolades for its Web sites and USA Today won two as the "EPpy Awards" were announced Thursday. | |
EU warns Google over photos on Street View May 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- The EU's top data protection supervisor said Thursday that Google Inc.'s "Street View" map and imaging feature could pose privacy problems if it launches in Europe. | |
 Icahn to Yahoo board: Sell to Microsoft or leave (Update) May 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer ... | |
Colonel suggests using hackers' tool against them May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic. | |
VeriSign wins patent for Internet typo redirection May 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The company that runs many of the Internet's core directory systems has won a patent for its controversial service that helps Internet users find sites even when they mistype addresses. | |
Ask.com acquires Dictionary.com, other references May 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google Inc. and other much larger rivals. | |
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. | |
Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case May 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(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. | |
ComScore puts Google sites at No. 1 for first time May 14, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Google has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular Web site in the United States, according to comScore Inc.'s rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors. | |
 MySpace wins $230 million anti-spam judgment May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- A notorious "Spam King" and his partner now owe MySpace about $230 million in damages after a federal judge awarded the popular online hangout what is believed to be the largest anti-spam judgment ... | |
 Craigslist countersues eBay, saying it broke antitrust laws May 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- Online classifieds giant Craigslist countersued its minority owner, eBay Inc., on Tuesday, alleging the online auctioneer is violating federal and state antitrust laws. | |
 Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool May 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
| User comments: 8
Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors. | |
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