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Yahoo! shuts down GeoCities
Oct 26, 2009 |
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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.
Metcalfe's Law Is Wrong
Jun 21, 2006 |
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The devil is in the details. Of all the popular ideas of the Internet boom, one of the most dangerously influential was Metcalfe's Law. Simply put, it says that the value of a communications network is proportional to the ...
AT&T, Yahoo! in Internet phone deal
Apr 26, 2006 |
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AT&T and Yahoo! jointly launched an integrated Internet-based voice communications service.
Yahoo! abandoning GeoCities
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Yahoo! said Thursday it will close its GeoCities service that provides people a free online locale for home pages.
Intel designs rugged PC for rural India
Mar 29, 2006 |
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Intel is introducing a new personal computer designed to meet the demands of India's often-rugged countryside.
Boom times ahead for mobile Web access
Apr 24, 2009 |
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After a slow start, mobile Web access has finally taken off, thanks in large part to better technology, and it will drive growth in Internet use in the future, industry leaders say.
Egypt applies for first Arabic domain name
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Egypt's technology minister says the country has applied to register an all-Arabic domain name.
Nokia Showcases 3D Cell Phone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Finnish giant Nokia, the world's biggest phone manufacturer, is developing a 3D mobile phone with a stereoscopic display. And you don't need 3D glasses to get the three-dimensional effect.
Video spurs explosion of Internet traffic
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Internet traffic will have increased six fold by 2012 in a five-year period as more users view and post videos online, delegates at an Internet forum heard on Wednesday.
Updated Silicon Valley history book shows how far we've come
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Silicon Valley historian John McLaughlin figured maybe it was time to update his work.
Internet 'a teenager' at 40
Oct 25, 2009 |
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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.
Internet activists push for greater democracy
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say.
Where's the next boom? Maybe in 'cleantech'
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet - the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates ...
Key milestones in the development of Internet
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Key milestones in the development and growth of the Internet.
EU assembly adopts Internet, phone user rights
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The European Parliament has endorsed new telecom rules that would give phone and Internet users more rights and allow them to appeal to national courts if they are cut off for illegal file-sharing.
