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Facebook OKs deal on user restrictions
BOSTON -- The popular social networking Web site Facebook has agreed to impose strict new rules on users aimed at protecting children from online predators.
Sentinel & Enterprise |
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Google Sees YouTube Products Soon, Warm On Yahoo
Google expects to launch new products for its YouTube Web video service in the next few months and sees reason for closer cooperation with Yahoo, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
InformationWeek |
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Raw Garden powers ahead with online sales of garden furniture: sales grow 50%
Raw Garden, the direct retailer of garden furniture, has announced excellent trading results for the first half. Raw Garden sells garden and conservatory furniture and outdoor equipment via the internet and call-centre, including picnic tables, barbeques, gazebos and lighting. Year-on-year sales...
e-Consultancy |
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Exports fall 6.8% as chip sales dip in March — NSO
Exports contracted by 6.8 percent in March to $4.18 billion due to lower electronics shipments, mostly computer chips, government data releases yesterday showed.
The Daily Tribune |
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Facebook agrees to stronger safeguards
Facebook and attorneys general in 49 states reached an agreement covering new privacy and safety rules to protect young users of the social networking site.
BizJournals |
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Anheuser-Busch, National Fatherhood Initiative Launch Online Forum for Parents on MySpace
While there is no instruction manual for raising teens, parents now have the benefit of learning from each other about how to help prevent underage drinking via a new online resource.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Out of the Gate: Sonus climbs after swinging to 1Q profit
Shares of Sonus Networks Inc. rose Friday after the Internet Protocol equipment and software maker said it swung to a profit in the first quarter, surprising analysts.
AP via Yahoo! Finance |
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Vista as insecure as Windows 2000
Good news for users of Windows Vista. According to figures compiled by PC Tools, the OS has experienced only slightly more vulnerabilities than Windows 2000, which appeared eight years ago when malware was far less common. Or is that the bad news? Despite having a reputation as the least vulnerable of Microsoft's operating systems, Vista still managed to record 639 unique vulnerabilities ...
InfoWorld |
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Apple iMac (24-inch, 2.8GHz)
A slight bump to the specifications for the same price, the option to upgrade the graphics means the 24-inch iMac keeps the Editors' Choice it earned last year.
ZDNet Australia |
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McAfee Secures The Whole Internet
Bit self-righteous this, but McAfee is all set to launch a secure search service and new ‘McAfee Secure' Trust mark. And the point? Well, with declining consumer confidence in Internet safety, McAfee's Secure Search Service (to be launched this summer) will alle...
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Linkin Park and Busta Rhymes Make It On Video
A new video featuring Linkin Park and Busta Rhymes has been released online. ( Read )
antiMUSIC |
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Yahoo turns to Google after Microsoft deal ends
The search company had planned to announce the partnership by midweek, a source familiar with the plan said. Under the deal, Google would supply text ads next to Yahoo search results; Yahoo conducted a limited-scope test of the Google ads for two weeks in April.
ZDNet Australia |
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
Will your iPhone destroy the Internet? "The rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the Internet, a leading academic has warned in a new book," Peter Griffiths reports via Reuters.
Mac Daily News |
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Nvidia CEO talks about his beef with Intel
Jen-Hsun Huang describes his company as laser focused on just one thing: visual computing. This is leading to clashes with chipmaker Intel, which is shifting its focus to this area.
CNET |
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WiMax future may start in Chicago
The future of wireless communication may have its start this year in Chicago, industry observers said.The service known as WiMax can roll television broadcasts, phone service, Internet connections and other data transmissions into one high-speed pipeline.WiMax was given a corporate push Wednesday, when Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp, put together a $14.5 billion partnership involving ...
Moldova.org |
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Travelzoo Releases Top Ideas for Memorial Day Travel
NEW YORK, May 9, 2008 -- Travelzoo , a global Internet media company, today released its list of travel deals for the Memorial Day holiday. Travelers can save as much as 60% on destinations such as Mexico, Florida and major U.S. cities.
PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Twitter Leads Social Site Downtime
May 9, 2008 -- ( <http://www.thewhir.com> WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Popular microblogging service Twitter (twitter.com) has been determined as the "worst performing" social media website.
Web Host Industry Review |
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How Important are Header Tags?
A High Rankings Forums member wants to know if header tags (H1, H2, H3, H4...) are weighted on search engines. The answer is probably not, but some people think that there's minimal weight from search engines. The point is that header tags are for user readability versus focusing on search engines. If you wanted to test the theory, you could remove the header tags and instead use CSS to ...
Search Engine Roundtable |
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Big Debate: Does Search Engine Optimization Have Long Term Viability?
In the middle of the week, my good friend Jeremy Schoemaker, aka Shoemoney, blogged that SEO has no future . He believes that personalized data will be more important, especially from the toolbar, user history, and analytics data. Social voting is becoming more important, and he explains that his sitelinks are the most trafficked pages on his site. Well, the SEO community did not really want ...
Search Engine Roundtable |
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A Fool Looks Back
Superheroes, software, and summer stocks went for a cozy stroll down Wall Street this past week.
The Motley Fool |
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Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power
The US space agency is hoping for a petaflop...
Silicon.com |
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Net beats Desperate and Dateless
IT'S been the setting for millions of kisses and even a marriage or two. But after 20 years the Desperate and Dateless Ball has become the victim of internet dating.
Daily Telegraph |
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Tjoos Launches Online Style Recommendation Service
Online shopping portal Tjoos.com today launches it's personal style recommendation service for clothing and accessoiries. Traditional shopping sites present clothing in the same way they present digital cameras, allowing shoppers only to shop based on price and features. The deciding factor however for most people is whether they like the look of it and if it matches their style.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News |
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Real Estate Blogs: The Latest Trend In The Real Estate Business
To address the growing need of expanding their real estate business to greener pastures, many individuals are now looking into the capability of blogs to do just that.
Turks.US |
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Facebook, states set bullying, predator safeguards
HARTFORD, Conn. - Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday.
phillyburbs.com |
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