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, ... | |
 Expert: Wikipedia won't go away, so learn how to use it February 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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The popularity of Wikipedia makes it important that users learn to use the online collaborative encyclopedia as a starting point for their research rather than as the final word, says a Purdue University communications ... | |
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 Sky Turns Computer Into Telescope August 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away through Sky in Google ... | |
Hole Found in Protocol Handling Vital National Infrastructure March 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Systems that control dams, oil refineries, railroads and nuclear power plants have a vulnerability that could cause a system takeover, according to a recent research report. | |
 Japan's online social scene isn't so social September 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Like a lot of 20-year-olds, Kae Takahashi has a page on U.S.-based MySpace, and there is no mistaking it for anyone else's. It's got pictures of the funky Tokyoite modeling the clothes she designs ... | |
 Rice U study finds that consumers may fare better with peer-to-peer online lending Web sites June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A new study conducted by Associate Professor of Management Paul Dholakia at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management shows that online peer-to-peer lending Web sites may be more attractive to Americans ... | |
 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. | |
 'Google hacking' attacks rising May 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Web sites are more vulnerable to “Google hacking” than many people realise and “hacking” attacks are on the rise, according to a recent study by Massey University (New Zealand) researchers. Personal information ... | |
Some colleges checking students' social-networking sites September 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Lauren Pfeiffer said she doesn't have to worry about what's on her Facebook profile, but she can't say the same about her fellow students. | |
Hundreds Click on 'Click Here to Get Infected' Ad May 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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The fact that 409 people clicked on an ad that offers infection for those with virus-free PCs proves that people will click on just about anything.
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Notorious software pirate pleads guilty June 16, 2006 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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The head of what U.S. officials called a "massive for-profit software piracy Wed site" pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and copyright infringement. | |
Some eBay Users Abuse Auction Site's Feedback System, Professor Finds January 12, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Some eBay users are artificially boosting their reputations by buying and selling feedback on the Internet auction site, according to John Morgan, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. | |
Google Marches Toward Universal Search May 17, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Beginning today, Google is starting down a path toward integrating search information from previously disparate sources like books, Web sites, video, maps, news, and more. | |
 The Quarterlife Dilemma: WWW Means World-Wide-Web December 26, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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The Twenty-something twice-weekly drama, "Quarterlife The Show" is the first independent production to move to big time broadcasting. Its initial blockbuster appearance on MySpace and YouTube has waned recently. ... | |
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