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'Mail Goggles' might prevent e-mail regrets

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(AP) -- Here's the scenario: It's Friday night, and what began as an innocent happy-hour margarita morphed into a few pitchers. After all, those tacos were salty.


Web ad sales dipped from previous quarter

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(AP) -- U.S. Internet advertising revenue dipped slightly in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, which likely is a ripple effect from the bad economy given that prior to 2008 the market had seen several ...


Obama has huge lead over McCain -- in cyberspace

October 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | User comments: 8

If the US presidential election was being held in cyberspace, Barack Obama would win in a landslide. The Democratic candidate has raised tens of millions of dollars more than Republican John McCain online ...


Facebook co-founder leaves for new venture

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The college roommate who helped Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook is leaving the fast-growing social networking website in a matter of weeks to create a new Internet technology firm.


China spying on Skype users: Canadian researchers

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2

China is monitoring the chat messages of Skype users and censoring them if they contain sensitive keywords such as "Tibet" or "Communist Party," according to a group of Canadian researchers.


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, ...


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.


Ask.com hopes to make search faster, more relevant

October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Assuming your company's name isn't a verb synonymous with looking things up online, how do you get Web surfers to not just try your search engine, but also frequent it?


EBay cutting 1,600 jobs, 10 percent of work force

October 06, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- After a series of changes designed to draw more people to its online marketplace, eBay Inc.'s latest alteration is aimed at its own employees. The auction site operator said Monday it will cut about ...


Google launches blog tracking service

October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

Google has launched an enhanced blog tracking service that helps people mine a growing mountain of online commentary for gems worth reading.


StumbleUpon steps up online discovery service

October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

StumbleUpon stepped up its personalized Website recommendation service on Wednesday by launching an online query page and alliances that include The Huffington Post and Rolling Stone.


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: ...


Congress passes bill to help save Internet radio

October 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Congress has cleared the way for a potential agreement intended to save the emerging Internet radio market from a crippling hike in copyright royalty rates.


Internet pop-up "scareware purveyors" sued

September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | User comments: 7

Microsoft and Washington state's top prosecutor have filed a lawsuit to stop "scareware purveyors" that trick people with pop-up messages claiming computers need critical repairs.


Q & A with John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla Corp.

October 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

John Lilly became chief executive of Mozilla Corp. in January, moving up from his role as chief operating officer. He's been with the company that created the open-source Firefox browser since 2005, the year Firefox 1.5 was ...


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