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Gmail messages that won't die

September 17, 2008 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 23 vote(s) | User comments: 2

Q. I switched to Gmail, and one feature puzzles me: I delete messages at one session, and when I log on again, the messages are back! They are like vampires that refuse to die. How can I drive a stake through unwanted messages?


Kentucky military school saved by eBay

September 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

A listing on eBay might have saved the abandoned 115-year-old Millersburg Military Institute in Bourbon County, Ky. oseph Land, chief of staff of the private United States Army Cadet Corps, said Friday that corps officials ...


Web communities for money management, borrowing gain currency

September 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

The Internet, which has wrought major changes in the way people conduct their lives, is changing the way people manage their finances and borrow money. What social networking sites like My Space and Facebook have done for ...


Site Lines: It's time for rumblin', stumblin' in college football

September 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Normally, The Sacramento Bee's Sports department is nothing like those "This is SportsCenter" commercials. It's more laid-back and the celebrities rarely file through.


Resurfaced story raises questions on Google search

September 12, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | User comments: 6

It has long been the popular term for lightning-speed Web searches. But could "Google" eventually come to mean stumbling accidentally and disastrously onto misleading reports and information?


Kiva more than a do-gooder story

September 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

As an Internet enterprise, you don't get much more improbable than Kiva. In a business world where it's all about eyeballs and monetizing what you're showing them, this is an outfit based on strangers lending money to strangers ...


Congregations putting services on live Web video feed

September 11, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Paul and Courtney Elliott had a sick 2-year-old and Kim Hartzog was on vacation in Tennessee - reasons, ordinarily, to miss Sunday morning services at their local church. But in the Internet age, even "going to church" is ...


Job seekers log on, link in, meet up

September 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

When Jen Vargas suddenly was laid off from her job as a senior administrative assistant at Universal Orlando in June, the 30-year-old's resume was out-of-date and she had no active job prospects.


Entrepreneur breathes new life into funeral business

September 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

At 28, St. Clair, Mich., resident and Internet entrepreneur - known around town as "Joey" - stands out in the tidy, riverside community where he's founded several dotcoms. They include FuneralOne, which brought in $2.8 million ...


Infovell's 'research engine' finds deep Web pages that Google, Yahoo miss

September 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 57 vote(s) | User comments: 6

According to a study by the University of California at Berkeley, traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo index only about 0.2% of the Internet. The remaining 99.8%, known as the "deep Web," is ...


Judge tentatively upholds charges in ‘cyber-bullying' case

September 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

A federal judge handed a partial victory Thursday to prosecutors seeking to put a St. Louis-area woman on trial regarding online harassment of a teenage neighbor who later killed herself.


Defense will try to derail cyber-bullying case

September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

A federal judge in Los Angeles could decide Thursday whether to allow use of an untested legal theory to prosecute a woman accused of helping cyber-bully a St. Louis area teen who killed herself.


Get bank balance with Quicken Beam

September 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Finally, something free from Intuit, the Mountain View, Calif., software company that takes our money every tax season.


Internet law made simple

August 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | No comments yet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Internet law is a new frontier where SMEs fear to tread. Now European researchers have created a new internet law wiki designed to encourage more SMEs to go online. The internet has enabled a brave, new world ...


Scientific wiki solves the 'who wrote what' problem

August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Reporting in Nature Genetics, and working in conjunction with Society in Science, the ETH Zurich-administered fund that is dedicated to exploring new avenues in the relationship between science and society, scientist ...


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