 Obama has huge lead over McCain -- in cyberspace October 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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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 ... | |
 StumbleUpon steps up online discovery service October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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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)
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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: ... | |
 Google launches blog tracking service October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Google has launched an enhanced blog tracking service that helps people mine a growing mountain of online commentary for gems worth reading. | |
 Internet pop-up "scareware purveyors" sued September 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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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. | |
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. | |
Peer-to-peer networking takes internet out of the equation October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(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, ... | |
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. | |
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 ... | |
Digg aims to raise its profile October 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
YouTube made a splash last fall when CNN engaged the video-sharing Web site to show mainstream Americans posing questions to candidates in the presidential primaries. Now the "social news" site Digg is bidding to enter the ... | |
Use the Web to find the best bargains in shopping, shipping September 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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ShopSmart, a Consumer Reports publication, has compiled a list of seven Web sites that will help you skip the Web surfing and get to the real deals quickly. Here are their picks, which will appear in the November issue. | |
Google teams with film stars to register US voters October 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Film stars including Forest Whitaker, Leonardo DiCaprio and Dustin Hoffman joined forces with Google on Wednesday in a campaign to get US citizens to vote in the coming presidential election. | |
Ask.com hopes to make search faster, more relevant 20 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 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? | |
Have couch, will travel September 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
There is a new way to hop around the world for travelers whose budgets can't keep up with their wanderlust, and the perks may be more than financial. For adventurous travelers only, Couchsurfing.com is a Web site that connects ... | |
 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. | |
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