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The website of China's defence ministry has been hacked more than two million times since it was launched three months ago, state media said on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177759440.html Technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:37:57 EST news177759440 Industry tracker comScore on Friday released a study showing that Internet users in September spent more time at Microsoft websites that at any other online properties. http://www.physorg.com/news176809758.html Technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:00:01 EST news176809758 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 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:30:01 EST news176099055 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 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:52:04 EST news175798207 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 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:13:25 EST news175439572 US media giant Hearst Corp. on Friday launched LMK.com, a free online magazine that scours the Internet for news and photos and presents the information as topic pages. http://www.physorg.com/news174318493.html Technology Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:50:30 EST news174318493 Cisco launched software that shines light on potentially troublesome websites hidden in what the US computer security firm dubbed the "Dark Web." http://www.physorg.com/news174284556.html Technology Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:50:01 EST news174284556 Google on Wednesday released free software that lets website operators automatically translate online pages into any of 51 languages. http://www.physorg.com/news173560476.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:14:56 EST news173560476 (PhysOrg.com) -- On May 21, the day the White House unveiled its Open Government Initiative, it also launched the website data.gov, which put information like Medicare cost reports, residential energy consumption and state-by-state toxicity reports online. Finding new technical means to make data accessible is central to the Obama administration's plans for increasing government transparency, and as those plans unfold, the administration will have growing support from the World Wide Web Consortium's eGovernment interest group. http://www.physorg.com/news173004532.html Technology Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:00:01 EST news173004532 Answers.com on Wednesday debuted a website that merges the power of crowds with knowledge from encyclopedias to sate the curiosity of inquiring minds. http://www.physorg.com/news172998694.html Technology Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:12:44 EST news172998694 The fear of dying suddenly, without the chance to mend wrongs or say goodbye, has prompted an Australian entrepreneur to start a website where people can contact loved ones from beyond the grave. http://www.physorg.com/news172391757.html Technology Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:29:38 EST news172391757 South Korea plans to train 3,000 "cyber sheriffs" by next year to protect businesses after a spate of attacks on state and private websites, a report said Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news172073001.html Technology Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:03:45 EST news172073001 More than half of all websites selling goods such as game consoles and digital cameras face closure or heavy fines for trying to "cheat" consumers, the European Union warned on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news171725693.html Technology Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:40:01 EST news171725693 Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal said Monday they were continuing to fend off cyber attacks that last week derailed the popular Internet services. http://www.physorg.com/news169133086.html Technology Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:40:01 EST news169133086 A hacker believed to have struck celebrity Twitter accounts previously has reportedly broken into accounts of the microblogging service's workers including co-founder Evan Williams. http://www.physorg.com/news166855578.html Technology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:50:01 EST news166855578 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Newcastle University are about to give office workers a perfect excuse to play games: it's all in the name of research. Dr Jeff Yan, together with his PhD student Su-Yang Yu, has created 'Magic Bullet' as an effective solution to a problem which no known computer algorithm can yet solve. http://www.physorg.com/news166856692.html Technology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:05:27 EST news166856692 China blocked access to Twitter, Flickr and other websites Tuesday, two days ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said, expressing "outrage" at the move. http://www.physorg.com/news163171496.html Technology Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:25:27 EST news163171496 (AP) -- Bedtime stories and beloved teddy bears? Snack-time silliness and bath-time hijinks? For "mommy bloggers" across the country, the rules are clear: If it relates to your kid, go ahead and blog about it. http://www.physorg.com/news160848870.html Technology Wed, 06 May 2009 17:15:14 EST news160848870 In some school classrooms, paper is becoming more of a relic than an educational staple. http://www.physorg.com/news157640113.html Technology Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:55:56 EST news157640113 (AP) -- Australia's communications minister has defended a proposed Internet blacklist as necessary to combat child pornography but admitted that at least one site had been wrongly blocked during trials. http://www.physorg.com/news157371619.html Technology Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:32:24 EST news157371619 It's the online answer to a "Gallic Shrug": a tongue-in-cheek French website where people can let off steam about the small miseries of daily life has become a surprise hit export to the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news157289752.html Technology Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:36:34 EST news157289752 (AP) -- Her videos aren't quite viral yet and she's not tweeting, but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is embracing new media, using the Web to promote the agency and her role as the nation's top envoy. http://www.physorg.com/news157032662.html Technology Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:11:34 EST news157032662 (AP) -- The Ann Arbor News will cease publication in July after 174 years and will be replaced by a Web-focused community news operation built from the ground up. http://www.physorg.com/news157032209.html Technology Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:04:17 EST news157032209 In the week leading to the most recent SAT college-admission exam, some 600 students logged on to the INeed APencil Web site. There, they reviewed lessons, quizzed themselves on grammar and quadratic equations and even took full-length practice tests. http://www.physorg.com/news156784954.html Technology Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:25:13 EST news156784954 (AP) -- A whistle-blower organization claims a secret list of Web sites that Australian authorities are proposing to ban includes such innocuous destinations as a dentist's office. http://www.physorg.com/news156769928.html Technology Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:14:56 EST news156769928 (AP) -- Patrick Sheldon has been a loyal reader of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 1965, when his dad started buying it because he preferred its sports coverage to that of rival Seattle Times. http://www.physorg.com/news156594813.html Technology Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:34:29 EST news156594813 (AP) -- Music fans who want to mix games and social networking while listening to songs on the Internet now have a site called Loudcrowd, created in part by developers behind "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero." http://www.physorg.com/news156517151.html Technology Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:59:33 EST news156517151 The World Wide Web (WWW) on Friday marked its 20th anniversary and its founders admitted there were bits of the phenomenon they do not like: advertising and "snooping." http://www.physorg.com/news156154426.html Technology Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:30:19 EST news156154426 YouTube on Monday said it is blocking certain copyrighted music videos in Britain until it overcomes an impasse in a licensing deal with the Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS). http://www.physorg.com/news155845312.html Technology Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:22:18 EST news155845312 A schoolboy and his father have unleashed software that lets people listen to YouTube's vast collection of music videos as if it were a private collection. http://www.physorg.com/news155845130.html Technology Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:19:29 EST news155845130