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Researchers patent enabling technology for spread-spectrum systems

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If you've ever gotten the dreaded "network busy" message while trying to make a cell phone call, you've experienced the complication of sharing a single network with numerous other users.


Vietnam Internet users fear Facebook blackout

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.


Tagged.com settles with NY, Texas in invite fight

Technology / Business

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The social networking site Tagged.com has adopted reforms on the use of invitation e-mails after an attorney general alleged that the Web site essentially stole the identities of some 60 million Internet users.


EU agrees on new Internet user rights

Technology / Internet

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(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.


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Study shows cell phone users miss the obvious, like a unicycling clown

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

How blind to their surroundings can people be when they're talking on their cell phones?


Chinese agencies fight for control of Web game

Technology / Internet

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Chinese regulators are fighting over the right to oversee "World of Warcraft," a popular online game, in a bizarre battle that has thrust bureaucratic rivalry for control of the Internet into the open.


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Swedish court overturns landmark file sharing ruling

Technology / Internet

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A Swedish appeals court on Tuesday overturned a landmark file sharing ruling that forced an Internet service provider to reveal an Internet user's identity to five publishers.


People are still the weakest link in computer and internet security, study finds

Technology / Other

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Two decades ago, studies showed that computer users were violating best practices for setting up hack-proof passwords, and not much has changed since then. What's clear, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...


China has launched a campaign to crack down on online games operating illegally alongside content deemed to be unhealthy

China launches crackdown on online gaming

Technology / Internet

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

China has launched a campaign to crack down on online games operating illegally and featuring content deemed to be unhealthy, state media reported Friday, in the nation's latest Internet clean-up effort.


UK incidence of children living with substance-misusing parents considerably underestimated

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Current figures underestimate the number of children who may be at risk of harm from parental substance use. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health have generated new estimates using five nation ...


SKorea unveils new guidelines on mobile fees

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korea's telecoms watchdog on Sunday unveiled new guidelines on mobile phone fees following mounting complaints over high charges.


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Online payment startup Zuora wants to rescue newspapers

Technology / Internet

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tien Tzuo on Wednesday called on fellow technology entrepreneurs to join him on a quest to rescue newspapers that are dying as their readers get stories free on the Internet.


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Google introduces new commenting tool 'Sidewiki'

Technology / Internet

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Google unveiled a new tool on Wednesday which allows notes and comments to be posted alongside Web pages for others to read.


Samsung Extends Reach to Youth Audience with Launch of the Corby Family

Samsung Extends Reach to Youth Audience with Launch of the Corby Family

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics has followed the successful launch of the Samsung Corby (model: S3650) by announcing two new mobile phones designed around the Corby concept, which aims to deliver stylish devices to support ...


France approves Internet piracy bill

Technology / Internet

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- France's lower house of parliament has approved a pioneering bill allowing authorities to cut off Internet access to people who download illegally.