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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
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(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...
Google's SPDY will speed up downloads
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers ...
Univision coming to YouTube
Nov 16, 2009 |
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YouTube and Univision announced an agreement on Monday to bring short- and long-form programming from the Spanish-language broadcast network to the video-sharing site.
Google image search gets a 'swirl'
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Google Labs on Tuesday brought more focus to finding pictures online, adding a "Swirl" tool that automatically groups similar images into categories presented on results pages.
Search engines are source of learning
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers.
End of the e-mail era? I'm not buying it
Nov 19, 2009 |
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I don't know about you, but I'm overwhelmed by e-mail. Yes, I know. The Wall Street Journal has declared that e-mail's reign is over. It's supposedly being replaced by technologies such as instant messaging, social networking ...
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.
Webby Awards name top 10 Internet moments of the decade
Nov 19, 2009 |
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The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.
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.
Cyber laws must punish individuals not society: specialist
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Laws regulating cybercrimes must target individuals and not society as a whole, an IT specialist told an Internet governance forum at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday.
UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday.
Internet still under US grip: forum delegates
Nov 18, 2009 |
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The Internet is still under the control of the United States, participants at a governance forum said, despite a move by America to loosen its grip over the private corporation that administers the net.
2 sites selling Beatles songs to remain shut down
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two Web sites that sold songs by The Beatles for 25 cents apiece should remain shut down indefinitely, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Suit over search-engine keywords tries new angle
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's.
MySpace in talks to buy imeem
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
