Privacy protections disappear with a judge's order July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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(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. | |
Ways consumers can safeguard personal data on Web July 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Your privacy protections may disappear with a court order or subpoena, but there are steps that privacy activists suggest you take to reduce your exposure. | |
Cuomo: AT&T and AOL block child porn newsgroups July 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
(AP) -- Two more Internet access providers have agreed to eliminate certain newsgroups that contain child pornography and purge their servers of child pornography Web sites in an agreement with state Attorney General Andrew ... | |
 Apple opens 'extras' store as iPhone 3G hits shelves (Update) July 10, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Apple's international launch of iPhone 3G began in New Zealand and Japan on Friday, as a freshly-opened "App Store" tempted fans with independently created mini-programs for the coveted devices. | |
 Wikipedia opens online library on human genes July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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A group of US researchers laid out the foundations Monday for a new online library on human genetics stored within the existing framework of open-access encyclopedia Wikipedia. | |
 Yahoo opens search toolkit in quest for more ads July 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Having fallen so far behind Google Inc. that it became a takeover target, Yahoo Inc. is banking on the creativity of other Web developers to help preserve its independence and regain ground in the ... | |
Crowd-powered NowPublic news site buys rumor website July 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Virtual news-gathering website NowPublic said Thursday it has bought rumor-backing Truemors to go beyond eye witness accounts to exposing developments "bubbling under the hood." | |
 Outraged Icahn refocuses on ousting Yahoo board July 14, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Apparently abandoning hopes for a truce with Yahoo Inc., investor Carl Icahn sharpened his focus on replacing the Internet company's board Monday after his attempt to negotiate a deal with Microsoft ... | |
 Chinese man jailed for hacking Red Cross quake site: report July 12, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A Chinese man has been sentenced to two years in jail for hacking into a Red Cross website and asking for earthquake relief donations to be sent to his bank account, state media reported Saturday. | |
 New media turn Beijing Olympics into e-Games July 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
When Coroebus of Elis won the first Olympic sprint in 776 BC, the result was scratched on to parchment and read out in market places in the following days and weeks. | |
Microsoft acquires semantic search firm Powerset July 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it is buying Powerset, a firm which specializes in interpreting the intent of people's Internet searches instead of matching specific words they use. | |
 300 Internet death threats since Tokyo killing spree June 28, 2008 | User rating: 1.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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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. | |
 Japan to scrap iPod copyright fee July 10, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Japan will stop pushing for legislation to charge royalties on the sales of iPods and other portable digital music players, giving in to opposition from electronics makers, officials said Thursday. | |
 Russia to create Internet addresses in Cyrillic June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Russia will be able to create its first Internet addresses using the Cyrillic alphabet next year, communications ministry official Vladimir Vassiliev told Interfax news agency on Sunday. | |
PopTok lets movie snippets do the talking in online messaging June 30, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Israeli startup PopTok on Monday began inviting people to test a free service that weaves snippets from memorable films or hot music videos into instant messages and email. | |
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