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(AP) -- After cutting its newsroom by half because of the recession and sagging advertising revenue, The Hartford Courant found a new source for news - its competition - and found itself in a plagiarism scandal. http://www.physorg.com/news171295923.html Technology Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:30:03 EST news171295923 (AP) -- Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture. http://www.physorg.com/news170503534.html Technology Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:06:11 EST news170503534 (AP) -- Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House's primary Web site. http://www.physorg.com/news169448480.html Technology Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:30:01 EST news169448480 (AP) -- Do you use your kids' names? Your pet's? Your favorite color? We all use some dumb passwords that are too easy to guess. http://www.physorg.com/news169304379.html Technology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:00:16 EST news169304379 (AP) -- Visitors to the Web sites of newspapers owned by News Corp. will have to start coughing up fees to read the news within the next year, Chairman Rupert Murdoch said. http://www.physorg.com/news168800121.html Technology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:10:02 EST news168800121 (AP) -- Some details about denial-of-service attacks, like the one Thursday against Twitter. http://www.physorg.com/news168796857.html Technology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:01:55 EST news168796857 (AP) -- In hindsight, it seems so obvious. We look back at the creepy online ramblings of a tortured soul like George Sodini and realize we should have known all along of the horrors to come. http://www.physorg.com/news168765542.html Technology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:19:20 EST news168765542 Newspaper Web sites attracted 70.3 million unique visitors in June, representing about 36 percent of all Internet users, according to a new Nielsen Online study commissioned by an industry trade group. http://www.physorg.com/news168717315.html Technology Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:00:03 EST news168717315 (AP) -- The Iraqi government has decided to crack down on Internet service providers and ban sites that incite violence or carry pornography, officials said Tuesday, a move that has been strongly criticized by freedom of speech advocates as a dangerous first step toward political censorship. http://www.physorg.com/news168693213.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:50:03 EST news168693213 A traveler booking a night at the Ft. Wayne Marriott hotel on Aug. 19-20 may get a surprise when checking prices online. http://www.physorg.com/news168542215.html Technology Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:20:01 EST news168542215 (AP) -- China has banned Web sites from advertising or linking to games that glamorize violence, another step in China's censorship campaign aimed at ensuring social stability ahead of the 60th anniversary of communist rule on Oct. 1. http://www.physorg.com/news167991051.html Technology Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:40:03 EST news167991051 Do Eskimos have more words for "snow" than we do? You're probably not alone if you thought the answer was yes. http://www.physorg.com/news167499468.html Technology Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:40:02 EST news167499468 (AP) -- Like many people, I often find myself with a dozen open browser tabs and countless bookmarks as I plan trips or comb through reviews for a new gadget. http://www.physorg.com/news167500371.html Technology Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:54:55 EST news167500371 (AP) -- A British judge has ruled that Google cannot be held responsible for defamatory words that appear in results on the popular Internet search engine. http://www.physorg.com/news167407882.html Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:12:21 EST news167407882 (AP) -- Two more Web sites dedicated to social networking went offline in China on Tuesday amid tightening controls that have blocked Facebook, Twitter and other popular sites that offered many Chinese a rare taste of free expression. http://www.physorg.com/news167402583.html Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:43:42 EST news167402583 (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is sprucing up its Web site's home page with a long-promised makeover that is supposed to make it easier to see what's happening at the Internet's other hot spots. http://www.physorg.com/news167372397.html Technology Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:30:14 EST news167372397 (AP) -- It might seem an odd move for a company that relies on money from advertising. Yet AOL is reducing the number of ads it shows on its home page and some other Web sites it runs. http://www.physorg.com/news167277142.html Technology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:20:10 EST news167277142 Last week, Google said it's working on a Web-based operating system called Chrome, sharing a name with its Web browser. http://www.physorg.com/news166984707.html Technology Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:38:48 EST news166984707 (AP) -- The hotel review may sound too good - citing obscure details like the type of faucets - or perhaps one stands out as the only negative rating of an otherwise popular location. http://www.physorg.com/news166903142.html Technology Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:20:01 EST news166903142 Ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Evidently millions are asking themselves that very question when they go online to enter into some kind of sweepstakes or contest. Loosely defined, a sweepstakes requires only a simple entry that wins via a drawing while a contest requires some kind of competition between all those who enter. Maybe it's a sign of the times but the numbers show that more and more of us are cruising the Internet to enter into all kinds of promotions that hold the promise of winning anything from automobiles to vacations with lots of cash in between. But given that there are so many of these sweeps and contests out there, how do you know the legit ones from the scams, and of the ones you do find and enter, how can you keep track of everything? http://www.physorg.com/news166888458.html Technology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:00:01 EST news166888458 (AP) -- Hackers extracted lists of files from computers that they contaminated with the virus that triggered cyberattacks last week in the United States and South Korea, police in Seoul said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news166768093.html Technology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:28:41 EST news166768093 Government Web sites were operating normally on Wednesday, officials said, after a broad attack on public and private computer systems that targeted sites operated by the White House, the New York Stock Exchange and The Washington Post, among others. http://www.physorg.com/news166337790.html Technology Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:57:08 EST news166337790 When people worry about the dangers of the Internet, a Web site built by the producers of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" is probably not what they have in mind. http://www.physorg.com/news166293370.html Technology Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:40:01 EST news166293370 (AP) -- Investigators are piecing together details about one of the most aggressive computer attacks in recent memory - a powerful "denial-of-service" assault that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies, companies and institutions, in some cases for days. http://www.physorg.com/news166284935.html Technology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:30:01 EST news166284935 (AP) -- The powerful attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than initially realized, also targeting the White House, the Pentagon and the New York Stock Exchange. http://www.physorg.com/news166272104.html Technology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:42:18 EST news166272104 A study published in the July 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology revealed that internet-based lung cancer information was of a higher quality in the United States (US) than in Japan. Dr. Yasushi Goto of the National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo and his team of researchers from both the US and Japan evaluated 150 Web sites and determined noticeable differences in the quality and type of information on lung cancer available over the internet in the two countries. http://www.physorg.com/news165644706.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:25:44 EST news165644706 (AP) -- Terrorist groups that have long used the Internet to spread propaganda are increasingly tapping the Web to teach Islamic extremists how to be hackers, recruit techies for cyberwarfare and raise money through online fraud, U.S. officials say. http://www.physorg.com/news164593543.html Technology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:40:01 EST news164593543 Everyone's a critic, as the saying goes. Nowhere is that more true than in cyberspace. The number of user-generated ratings sites has exploded in recent years, with citizen reviewers posting millions of opinions about everything from their local dry cleaner to their latest hotel stay. http://www.physorg.com/news164455995.html Technology Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:50:05 EST news164455995 With an estimated 40 percent of the 100 million U.S. singles trying online dating, researchers at the University of Arkansas caution users that some Web sites` claims of scientific justification may be `junk science.` http://www.physorg.com/news164292891.html Technology Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:30:01 EST news164292891 (AP) -- China wants all personal computers sold domestically to come with software that blocks online pornography, one of the developers said Monday, potentially giving the government another avenue to control Internet use. http://www.physorg.com/news163666250.html Technology Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:51:37 EST news163666250