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10/12/2008 02:52 AM |
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Error puts data on 30 million German phone users on Internet
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 AFP - Confidential data on 30 million German phone users could be consulted on the Internet as a result of an error until the phone company locked access, a spokesman for Deutsche Telekom said Saturday.
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10/11/2008 11:11 PM |
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FCC report negates free Internet interference claims
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CNET - A Federal Communications Commission engineering report released late Friday essentially backs a plan to open up wireless spectrum to create a free wireless Internet service by dismissing concerns about interference for existing providers.
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10/11/2008 04:29 AM |
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President signs broadband data collection bill
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CNET - President Bush on Friday signed into law a bill that would facilitate the collection of data regarding broadband access in the United States, though most of the actions required by the law have already been accomplished by federal regulators.
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10/11/2008 02:21 AM |
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Amazon Lowers Costs for Its S3 Online Storage
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NewsFactor - Amazon Web Services announced Friday that it will be lowering prices for its Simple Storage Service, known as Amazon S3. Beginning Nov. 1, there will be new volume discounts, based on a tiered pricing structure that offers greater discounts as storage volume increases.
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10/11/2008 02:20 AM |
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IBM builds online version of China's famed Forbidden City
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 AFP - IBM on Friday opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that served for centuries as an exclusive realm for the nation's emperors.
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10/11/2008 02:19 AM |
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Zoho Mail Goes Public With Offline Capabilities
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NewsFactor - Zoho Mail has emerged from its private beta-testing stage. Tapping functionality built into Google Gears, Zoho's Web-based e-mail application now sports a "setup offline" link at the top of the page that gives users offline e-mail access.
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10/11/2008 02:17 AM |
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Sinking shares could make Yahoo a target again
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 AP - When Yahoo Inc. co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang spurned Microsoft Corp.'s rich buyout offer this spring, he promised brighter days in Sunnyvale were just over the horizon.
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10/10/2008 10:50 PM |
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Yoo-Hoo! Google's Satellite Can See You Much Better
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NewsFactor - For people who worry that it's impossible to escape from Google's amazing search capabilities, the ability to hide just got harder. Last month, Google helped sponsor the launch of the high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After a month of calibration and testing, the satellite's first image was released Friday by Satellite Imaging, a Houston-based remote sensing and survey company.
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10/10/2008 08:15 PM |
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Ray Kurzweil Launches MMO Forecasting Game
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PC Magazine - Crystal ball-peering transhumanist Ray Kurzweil has recently unveiled the world's first massively multiplayer online forecasting game, Superstruct.
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10/10/2008 08:10 PM |
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'Lord of the Rings Online' Expansion Drops Nov. 19
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PC Magazine - On November 18, Codemasters and Turbine will release Mines of Moria, the first expansion to The Lord of the Rings Online. But only a dedicated fan is going to have time, given that its chief competitor, World of Warcraft, releases its own expansion a few days earlier.
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10/10/2008 07:45 PM |
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Kazakh bloggers say can't access popular website
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 Reuters - Internet users in Kazakhstan complained of censorship Friday after being unable to access the popular blogging service Livejournal, but the state-owned telecoms company denied it was blocking it.
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10/10/2008 06:30 PM |
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Microsoft elaborates on Oslo
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InfoWorld - Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering code names and citing the company's DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform.
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10/10/2008 02:38 AM |
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SlingCatcher Outruns Digital Media Boxes
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NewsFactor - On Thursday, Sling Media pushed out its latest innovation -- the SlingCatcher. The SlingCatcher lets customers watch online video from a diverse spectrum of sites on the Internet, including network television venues like ABC.com, video content sites like Hulu.com and CollegeHumor.com, community video sites like YouTube, and even online movie rentals from popular services like Netflix.
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10/09/2008 11:15 PM |
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Ben Huh can has successful business model?
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CNET - LONDON--On Thursday afternoon at the Future of Web Apps conference, I had to make a choice: Was I going to blog about a talk hosted by Six Apart engineer David Recordon, talking about the "open social Web," or a talk by Ben Huh, the "Chief Cheezburger" of goofy "lolcat" meme site ICanHasCheezburger.com?
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10/09/2008 11:06 PM |
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Google-sponsored satellite sends first image
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 AFP - A Google-sponsored satellite has beamed its first picture back to Earth in a successful test of a camera that will supply images for the Internet giant's free online map and navigation services.
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10/09/2008 07:21 PM |
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Wall Street gives Net titans price cut, sector caution
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CNET - A number of Internet titans received an across-the-board stock target haircut on Thursday from UBS Securities analyst Ben Schachter, who said a weakening economic outlook is expected to take a toll on display advertising and, to a lesser degree, search advertising.
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10/09/2008 03:52 PM |
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Web traffic jam as people search for financial news
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 AFP - The financial crisis has people flocking to the Internet for the latest money news along with tips on how to salvage investments and save on the routine costs of living.
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10/09/2008 02:58 PM |
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Google extends AdSense to online games
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Reuters - Google Inc on Wednesday launched technology to insert advertisements into online video games and boost revenue from the booming gaming sector.
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10/09/2008 07:43 AM |
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Web TV shows porn, without the sex
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Reuters - It started when three brothers joked about making pornography for fans of the genre who happen to be offended by on-screen sex. Out of that joke came an idea for a website, and they called it "PG Porn."
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10/09/2008 03:18 AM |
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Google adds computer games to online advertising kingdom
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 AFP - Google said Wednesday that it is expanding its advertising kingdom to include the booming online computer game market.
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