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Twitter on Tuesday linked to LinkedIn, letting people share updates and tweets between the hot microblogging service and the career-oriented online social networking website. http://www.physorg.com/news177101856.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-10T19:10:03-07:00 Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. http://www.physorg.com/news177083680.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-10T14:10:02-07:00 Members of an elite Australian college linked to Sydney University provoked outrage Tuesday after it was revealed they had set up a "pro-rape" group on social networking site Facebook. http://www.physorg.com/news177056206.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-10T07:10:02-07:00 Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp. empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content. http://www.physorg.com/news177056010.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-10T06:14:01-07:00 (AP) -- Google says it needs until Friday to come up with a new proposal that would give it the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. http://www.physorg.com/news176996016.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-09T13:33:54-07:00 (AP) -- Google Inc. is buying mobile advertising network AdMob for $750 million, underscoring the Internet search leader's determination to ensure its marketing machine reaches the growing number of people surfing the Web on phones. http://www.physorg.com/news176995839.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-09T13:31:19-07:00 (AP) -- Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. http://www.physorg.com/news176909257.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-08T13:40:04-07:00 Campaigners are stepping up efforts to curb online tracking of Internet use by firms that deliver adverts tailored to the specific interests of consumers, as polls reveal widespread unease with the practice. http://www.physorg.com/news176879023.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-08T06:20:01-07:00 US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs. http://www.physorg.com/news176810199.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-07T11:10:01-07:00 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 - Internet 2009-11-07T10:00:01-07:00 Massive power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that impacted millions were caused by cyber hackers attacking control systems, the US television network CBS said Sunday. http://www.physorg.com/news176810339.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-07T09:59:44-07:00 A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay. http://www.physorg.com/news176749751.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-06T17:09:54-07:00 Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history. http://www.physorg.com/news176738669.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-06T14:50:01-07:00 (AP) -- EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion. http://www.physorg.com/news176736799.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-06T13:38:11-07:00 (AP) -- Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them. http://www.physorg.com/news176636111.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-05T09:50:01-07:00 (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. http://www.physorg.com/news176635871.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-05T09:31:50-07:00 Google pitched its fledgling Wave communications platform as a way for businesses to turn routine email into collaborative exchanges that ramp up productivity. http://www.physorg.com/news176620782.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-05T05:40:01-07:00 Linden Lab on Wednesday announced it is adding a new dimension to Second Life online world to give businesses private places for virtual meetings. http://www.physorg.com/news176620087.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-05T05:11:25-07:00 (AP) -- Most people know eBay Inc. for its online marketplace, where deals abound on everything from gadgets to antique furniture. But soon, eBay's biggest business will likely be PayPal, the online payments service that has been growing steadily even as the economy has stumbled. http://www.physorg.com/news176579784.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-04T18:20:07-07:00 (AP) -- Google Inc.'s quarterly lobbying expenses eclipsed $1 million for the first time during the summer as the company tried to build on its dominance of Internet search and expand into other markets. http://www.physorg.com/news176561463.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-04T12:52:35-07:00 (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. http://www.physorg.com/news176556977.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-04T12:20:01-07:00 Hundreds of privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid on Wednesday for a three-day conference which aims to arrive at a global standard for the protection of personal data. http://www.physorg.com/news176545106.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-04T08:50:01-07:00 PayPal has opened its software platform to outside developers in a move designed to unleash a flood of creative uses for the online financial transaction service. http://www.physorg.com/news176534752.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-04T05:50:01-07:00 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine. http://www.physorg.com/news176525157.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-04T02:46:36-07:00 The details of your personal life, such as grocery purchases and pizza topping preferences, are collected every day ― online and by club and discount cards from the gym, department store and supermarket. Though this data seems innocent enough, when it's put together it can tell a whole lot about your health, finances and behavior. That information, a Tel Aviv University researcher reminds us, could eventually be used against you. http://www.physorg.com/news176476261.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-03T14:50:02-07:00 Two of my best friends are named Pete. We went to the same high school and the same university, Cal State Fullerton, which has been described as "the Harvard of north Orange County" -- by me, at least. http://www.physorg.com/news176451879.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-03T06:40:01-07:00 (AP) -- Best Buy Co. is trying to nudge consumers away from its stores' DVD aisles by making it easier for them to rent and buy movies over high-speed Internet connections. http://www.physorg.com/news176448617.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-03T05:33:39-07:00 (AP) -- The founder of the online gambling site BetOnSports.com was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison, ending a lengthy investigation and prosecution into one of the world's largest offshore sports gambling companies. http://www.physorg.com/news176409635.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-02T19:00:01-07:00 Google's voice search tool now understands Chinese. The Internet giant announced on Monday that users of Nokia S60 series mobile phones could now search the Internet using voice commands in Mandarin Chinese. http://www.physorg.com/news176401966.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-02T16:34:19-07:00 (AP) -- A free and legal song download service says it now will be getting traffic from China's largest search engine, which is trying to reduce online music piracy. http://www.physorg.com/news176398796.html Technology - Internet 2009-11-02T15:50:03-07:00