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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:00:00 GMT
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Microsoft pursues search improvements, sans Yahoo
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:00:00 GMT
While the company only has a 10 percent share of the search market with its Live Search technology, Microsoft has big plans to enhance its platform regardless of what happens with its now-dormant proposal to buy Yahoo. At the Search Engine Strategies
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Google to Invest in Geothermal
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:05:00 GMT
Google.org, the public-spirited division of Google.com, charged with addressing climate change, poverty and emerging disease, is using the backdrop of the National Clean Energy Summit here in Las Vegas to announce a new round of clean energy financing.
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Google invests in drilling
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:12:00 GMT
Google on Tuesday took the drilling debate in a different direction - announcing that Google.org is investing nearly $11 million in technology to expand the nations geothermal reserves. Thats more than the U.S. government is spending on geothermal
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U.S. mobile-phone sales take a hit
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:57:00 GMT
Mobile-phone makers are already feeling the pinch in the U.S. market of an economic slowdown amid tough competition. U.S. mobile-handset sales were down 13 percent in the second quarter compared to the same quarter in 2007, NPD Group said in a study
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Internet-threat portal on tap from TippingPoint
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:49:00 GMT
TippingPoint is beta-testing a Web portal that lets customers view Internet-threat intelligence the company has gathered from around the globe, as well as polls of how other customers are dealing with those threats. Called ThreatLinQ, the portal presents
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Free the airwaves, cries Google
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:00:00 GMT
Google has launched another round in the PR battle over American white space, with a new website asking visitors to sign a petition to convince the FCC to allow unlicensed use of the spaces between TV channels. This isn't the first website Google has set
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Yahoo opens Digg rival to all publishers
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:56:00 GMT
Yahoo has expanded its 'Buzz Up' content recommendation service to include many more publishers, stepping up its challenge against Digg. Almost any publisher can now add a Buzz Up button to its Web site, Yahoo said. If a Web site doesn't have a button,
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ICANN backs auction of disputed domains
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:18:00 GMT
The body behind the internet's addressing systems has said that it will settle disputes over who wins the right to new generic top level domains (gTLDs) by auction. ICANN (International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has said that auctions
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Student Files Are Exposed on Web Site
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:44:00 GMT
The Princeton Review, the test-preparatory firm, accidentally published the personal data and standardized test scores of tens of thousands of Florida students on its Web site, where they were available for seven weeks. A flaw in configuring the site
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Google launches Free The Airwaves
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:46:00 GMT
Google on Monday announced the launch of FreetheAirWaves.com, a site promoting the unlicensed use of 'white space' spectrum. With the FCC expected to rule in the coming months on how to allocate unused bandwidth, Google is working with other technology
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Clipboards hijacked in web attack
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:55:00 GMT
The links take victims to a fake selling fake anti-virus softwareComputer security firms are warning about an attack that hijacks the clipboard where copied text is stored.The attack puts a hard-to-delete weblink into the clipboard that, if followed,
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EBay's biggest challenge: Amazon.com
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:43:00 GMT
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Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Will the Olympics break the Internet?
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:22:00 GMT
Okay, sky-is-falling fans and network neutrality proponents: Were about to find out whether the Internet can " or will " break down under the strain of mass consumption of streaming video. At least thats the opinion of Brick Eksten, the president and CEO
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Why the Olympics didn't 'melt' the Internet
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:22:00 GMT
I admit it, even I was skeptical. When I received the first demonstration of the Silverlight plugin and the NBCOlympics.com web site back in March of this year at the , where a group of Open Source experts gathered from around the world were asked for
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Internet TV: watch this space
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:29:00 GMT
The British internet TV market could generate revenues of 1.78bn by 2011, according to research carried out by technology company Alcatel-Lucent. Although the industry is in its infancy, several British companies, including TV website Joost, already
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Ancestry hunters stuck in past as web project fails
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:32:00 GMT
Genealogists reacted with anger yesterday after it emerged that a government website, which promised direct access to 171 years of family records, had been delayed indefinitely following the failure of a Whitehall computer project. An attempt to scan,
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Google murders second Anonymous AdSense account
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:50:00 GMT
Exclusive Google has shutdown the AdSense account of another anti-Scientology site. Three months after served to Enturbulation, a site dedicated to promoting activism against the Church of Scientology and all its related organizations, Google has done
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T-Mobile to Offer First Phone With Google Software
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:00:00 GMT
T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google?s Android software, according to people briefed on the company?s plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile phones in the world, and is
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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo sued for foetus sex selection ads
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:19:00 GMT
The Supreme Court of India has issued notices against Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! for advertising products to select the sex of foetuses. Sabu Mathew George filed the complaint against the three firms. He told the New York Times that the ads
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Smartphone Is Expected via Google
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:43:00 GMT
T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Googles The high-end phone is expected to match many of the capabilities of Apples iPhone and other so-called smartphones that run software from Palm, Research in Motion, Microsoft and
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2 Backed by Icahn to Join Yahoo Board
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:44:00 GMT
Yahoo said on Thursday that it would add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board as part of the companys deal to avoid a proxy fight with the investor Carl C. Icahn. The company chose Frank J. Biondi Jr., the former chief
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Yahoo! board! adds! Icahn! allies!
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:33:00 GMT
Following through on its pact with Wall Street kingpin Carl Icahn, Yahoo! said today that two Icahn pals have been added to its board of directors. In late July, Icahn called off his Yahoo! proxy battle in exchange for three board seats: one for himself
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Are you losing your memory thanks to the Internet?
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:18:00 GMT
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Yahoo! knows! where! you! Are!
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:59:00 GMT
Yahoo's punter-locating database officially launched yesterday and already has privacy advocates in a flap, despite offering users complete control as well as expecting them to lie every now and then. Fire Eagle is a free central service to which punters
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Yahoo gets into place with Fire Eagle
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:18:00 GMT
Yahoo has officially launched a new service, dubbed Fire Eagle, that lets internet users identify their physical location automatically. The middleware can be built into applications so that internet users can specify their geographical location at any
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AOL phisher jailed for 7 years
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:35:00 GMT
A Connecticut man was sentenced to seven years in prison on Wednesday for masterminding a phishing scam targeting AOL members. Michael Dolan, 24 and of West Haven, Connecticut, was also ordered to serve three years' probation after his release. Dolan
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Woman to Woman, Online
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:22:00 GMT
Heather Armstrongs wickedly funny blog about motherhood, Dooce, is more than just an outlet for the creativity and frustrations of a modern mother. The site, chock full of advertising, is a moneymaking machine - so much so that Ms. Armstrong and her
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eXpresso to expand online access to Office files
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:28:00 GMT
While Microsoft considers whether it will release a version of its Office suite as an online service, a California-based startup is giving business users a way to view and share Web-based versions of Office documents through its own hosted service.
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How creepy is Google's Street View?
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:36:00 GMT
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Google will eat itself in 202,345,117 years
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:24:00 GMT
For more than two and a half years, a band of wily European performance artists has used an ongoing Google click fraud scheme as a means of acquiring hundreds of shares in Google stock. With this ingenious online ploy - dubbed - Hans Bernhard and his
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