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Campaigners are stepping up efforts to curb online tracking of Internet use by firms that deliver adverts tailored to the specific interests of consumers, as polls reveal widespread unease with the practice. http://www.physorg.com/news176879023.html Technology - Internet Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:20:01 EST news176879023 A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay. http://www.physorg.com/news176749751.html Technology - Internet Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:09:54 EST news176749751 Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history. http://www.physorg.com/news176738669.html Technology - Internet Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:50:01 EST news176738669 (AP) -- EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion. http://www.physorg.com/news176736799.html Technology - Internet Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:38:11 EST news176736799 (AP) -- Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them. http://www.physorg.com/news176636111.html Technology - Internet Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:50:01 EST news176636111 (AP) -- EU lawmakers and governments agreed on new rights for Internet users Thursday, aiming to protect them from arbitrary crackdowns on those who illegally download music and movies on the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news176635871.html Technology - Internet Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:31:50 EST news176635871 Hundreds of privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid on Wednesday for a three-day conference which aims to arrive at a global standard for the protection of personal data. http://www.physorg.com/news176545106.html Technology - Internet Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:50:01 EST news176545106 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine. http://www.physorg.com/news176525157.html Technology - Internet Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:46:36 EST news176525157 The details of your personal life, such as grocery purchases and pizza topping preferences, are collected every day ― online and by club and discount cards from the gym, department store and supermarket. Though this data seems innocent enough, when it's put together it can tell a whole lot about your health, finances and behavior. That information, a Tel Aviv University researcher reminds us, could eventually be used against you. http://www.physorg.com/news176476261.html Technology - Internet Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:50:02 EST news176476261 The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on Latin characters in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive. http://www.physorg.com/news176099055.html Technology - Internet Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:30:01 EST news176099055 (AP) -- Hidden data embedded in electronic public records must be disclosed under Arizona's public records law, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case that attracted interest from media and government organizations. http://www.physorg.com/news176057439.html Technology - Internet Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:10:02 EST news176057439 (AP) -- A new music feature rolled out by Google Inc. Wednesday will bring its U.S. searchers one click away from listening to a full-length song. http://www.physorg.com/news175976398.html Technology - Internet Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:50:01 EST news175976398 Yahoo! and Microsoft have extended the deadline to finalize an agreement on their Internet search and advertising partnership, Yahoo! said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news175976137.html Technology - Internet Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:16:31 EST news175976137 (AP) -- The Los Angeles City Council has tentatively approved a multimillion-dollar proposal to tap Google Inc. for government e-mail and other Internet services. http://www.physorg.com/news175883415.html Technology - Internet Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:00:01 EST news175883415 (AP) -- Google Inc. wants to answer your mobile phone calls when you can't or just don't want to talk. http://www.physorg.com/news175841549.html Technology - Internet Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:53:09 EST news175841549 Yahoo! on Monday closed GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that it purchased for over three billion dollars at the height of the dot-com boom. http://www.physorg.com/news175798207.html Technology - Internet Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:52:04 EST news175798207 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. voted last week to start a process to formulate rules that could force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to uphold six principles that would preserve net neutrality, or what the FCC terms "open Internet". http://www.physorg.com/news175767162.html Technology - Internet Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:20:01 EST news175767162 (PhysOrg.com) -- The beta version of WOWD, the Internet's newest search engine, was launched last week at the 2009 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It aims to differentiate itself from other search engines such as Google and Yahoo by identifying the most popular sites in real-time and by becoming, in effect, the Skype for search. http://www.physorg.com/news175766546.html Technology - Internet Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:02:57 EST news175766546 (AP) -- The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages other than English, an official said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news175758399.html Technology - Internet Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:47:09 EST news175758399 (AP) -- A programming overhaul of the White House's Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it's a snooze - you won't notice a thing. http://www.physorg.com/news175702799.html Technology - Internet Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:20:49 EST news175702799 Leonard Kleinrock never imagined Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube that day 40 years ago when his team gave birth to what is now taken for granted as the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news175695256.html Technology - Internet Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:40:04 EST news175695256 Facebook and Twitter stars shared lessons learned with young entrepreneurs aspiring to be the next hot technology firm. http://www.physorg.com/news175694992.html Technology - Internet Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:10:46 EST news175694992 Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed amazement at resistance to the Internet giant's efforts to digitize the world's books and lamented a deal to have Microsoft handle online search at Yahoo! http://www.physorg.com/news175501780.html Technology - Internet Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:31:12 EST news175501780 A Dutch court Thursday ordered Sweden's The Pirate Bay filesharing website to remove links to works of members of a Netherlands-based music and film copyright protection group. http://www.physorg.com/news175439572.html Technology - Internet Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:13:25 EST news175439572 Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson opened fire on Google, accusing the Internet giant of promoting online news reading "promiscuity." http://www.physorg.com/news175412467.html Technology - Internet Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:41:41 EST news175412467 (AP) -- A Web where Chinese is the dominant language, and connections are so fast that distinctions between audio, video and text are blurred is perhaps just five years away, the head of Google said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news175374359.html Technology - Internet Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:06:30 EST news175374359 (AP) -- Internet power players Google, MySpace and Facebook are adopting strategies to better compete in a music industry that is rapidly shifting online. http://www.physorg.com/news175354678.html Technology - Internet Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:38:30 EST news175354678 (AP) -- Some of technology's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books. http://www.physorg.com/news175326091.html Technology - Internet Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:42:33 EST news175326091 (AP) -- AT&T Inc. is encouraging employees to join its lobbying campaign against proposed federal rules that would restrict the ways broadband companies can manage traffic on their networks. http://www.physorg.com/news175277632.html Technology - Internet Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:20:01 EST news175277632 (PhysOrg.com) -- The struggle of American courts to control the explosion of intellectual property rights violations on some of the most traveled highways of cyberspace poses a legal challenge to the judicial system with implications that could threaten the survival of Web sites clicked on by the average Internet user every day, a University at Buffalo Law School expert on online intellectual property issues said today. http://www.physorg.com/news175278816.html Technology - Internet Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:34:10 EST news175278816