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Visa business network boosts Facebook's ad efforts

June 24, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Facebook Inc.'s quest to lure more advertisers to its popular online hangout is getting an assist from Visa Inc.'s marketing machine.


Online database shows Britain-Australia links

June 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Details of millions of Britons who travelled to Australia in the late 19th and early 20th century in search of economic success were released online Wednesday as part of a social history collection.


Comcast's Fandango acquires Movies.com from Disney

June 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

(AP) -- Movie ticketing and entertainment site Fandango Inc. said Monday it has acquired Movies.com from Walt Disney Co. for an undisclosed amount.


iTunes Store Tops Over Five Billion Songs Sold

June 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Apple announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store. iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight million ...


How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox?

May 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s) | User comments: 4

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 ...


US blogger released on bail in Singapore

June 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

A US-based blogger who allegedly accused a Singapore judge of "prostituting herself" was released on bail Thursday and had his passport confiscated.


Probing Question: What is Net neutrality?

May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

"Internet Freedom, under attack. What do we do? Stand up, talk back," shouted a group calling themselves the Raging Grannies, outside the Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Inside, the Federal ...


Networking: Is that bank's URL legitimate?

May 01, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | No comments yet

Computer-security professionals at the weekend were working on what is being described as a just-emerging IT problem -- the kind which, if the pros are correct, potentially could imperil all e-commerce across ...


Latest weapons in spam battle are images

May 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 20 vote(s) | No comments yet

Like all wars, the campaign against junk e-mail -- spam -- is marked along the way with victories and casualties. It's an "ever-escalating battle," the senior director of marketing at anti-spam company Commtouch, ...


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.


The Web: Reaching an inflection point

May 10, 2006 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

Is the Web becoming "disruptive" once again? That is, is it vigorously stirring things up as it did when it first came on the commercial scene back in the mid-90s? Experts tell UPI's The Web that the second generation of ...


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 ...


Informatics researchers throttle notion of search engine dominance

August 07, 2006 | User rating: 2.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s) | No comments yet

Search engines are not biased toward popular Web sites, and may even be egalitarian in the way they direct traffic, say Indiana University School of Informatics researchers. Their study, "Topical interests and the mitigation ...


More questions than answers over the Net

June 19, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

As Congress debates whether to adhere to network neutrality, the consensus within the technology realm is as elusive as a definition of the issue itself.


Users of Yahoo Answers seek advice, opinion, expertise

April 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

One of the first large-scale analyses of how people share knowledge on Yahoo Answers has found that participants use the site to exchange advice and opinions, in addition to technical expertise.


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