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Lawmakers concerned over Charter's Web tracking
(AP:ST. LOUIS) Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to experiment with tracking its customers' Web use in collaboration with an online advertising firm.
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OAP blames web for child porn
A PENSIONER blamed the internet for him downloading 16,500 indecent images of children. William Dalgleish, 67, of Lockerbie, admitted having the photos and film clips.
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Voted #1 Florida Press 2004 FIRST PLACE Best Web Site Florida Keys Keynoter
Ken Davis says he's beholden to no one, and says that makes him the best choice to replace retiring Monroe County Sheriff Rick Roth in this year's election.
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Carl Icahn backed in Yahoo! fight
Star hedge fund manager John Paulson has emerged as one of the key backers of activist investor Carl Icahn in his bid to dethrone the Yahoo! board as the fight for control of the search engine operator's future intensifies.
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Johan Jaaffar: A paean to the old-fashioned creation... books
WE are reading more, not less, but not reading books. We spend more time reading "materials" on the Internet. The good news is the Internet has rekindled a new interest in "reading". Interneters (I didn't coin that word, OK) spend hours surfing, hopping from one item to the next, jumping from one website to another with ease.
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Lawmakers concerned over Charter's Web tracking
Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to experiment with tracking its customers' Web use in collaboration with an online advertising firm. Charter has told its high-speed Internet customers in four markets about the pilot, which will produce enough information for Web advertisers to ...
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European Union Opposition to Google Maps
BRUSSELS (UPI via COMTEX) -- The "Street View" feature of the Google Maps service could prompt a privacy controversy in the European Union, the EU data protection chief says.
HispanicBusiness.com |
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Charter plans to track subscribers' Web use; 2 congressmen concerned about privacy
ST. LOUIS - Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to experiment with tracking its customers' Web use in collaboration with an online advertising firm.
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Lawmakers concerned over Charter's Web tracking
Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to experiment with tracking its customers' Web use in collaboration with an online advertising firm.
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Recent Original Stories
"I worked at Microsoft for about 7 years total, from 1994 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2006.The most frustrating year of those seven was the year I spent working on Windows Vista, which was called Longhorn at the time.
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Recent Original Stories
A review of the latest Fedora Core release, code named "Bordeaux", the Fedora Core 5, which has proven itself to be one of the best Linux distributions out there was published by LinuxForums.org.
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How to Stop Laptop Theft
If you run a small business, your biggest IT worry is probably not when or whether to upgrade to Vista; it's how to keep your valuable equipment--and the even more precious data it contains--out of the hands of thieves.
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Local Man Arrested in Underage Internet Sex Sting
Police say Barron wasn't the only online predator they arrested this week. On Tuesday, a Brazos Valley man was also caught, police say, while trying to solicit sex from a minor.
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Mo. lawmakers pass Internet harassment law, expanded stalking penalties after teen's suicide
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Responding to the suicide of a Missouri teenager who was teased over the Internet, state lawmakers Friday gave final approval to a bill making cyber harassment illegal.
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Update: Why is NBC Flagging Digital TV Programs - and Why is Microsoft Obeying It? Electronic Frontier Foundation
After further investigation of reports of Vista refusing to record NBC, we have found at least one case where a user receiving digital TV over-the-air has been blocked from recording TV shows.
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New Jersey police use new law to arrest 3 sex offenders for surfing MySpace, Facebook
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - Three convicted sex offenders have been arrested for surfing social networking Web sites and are believed to be the first charged under the state's new law that restricts their use of the Internet, authorities said Friday.
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3M, Sony sign licensing deal
3M Co. said Friday it has signed a licensing agreement giving Sony Corp. rights to use some of 3M's optical film technologies in Sony's LCD televisions. (MMM)
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Police Use Infrared Technology To Crack Cases
There is a new way for police to track down criminals and keep neighborhoods safe. For the most part the officer only has to drive the car. Computers and cameras do the rest of the work.
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Yang rallies Yahoo staff against Icahn challenge
Jerry Yang, Yahoo's chief executive implored his 14,000 staff to stick to their day jobs in spite of an audacious effort by the billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn to unseat the internet firm's entire board of directors. Icahn, a 72-year-old New Yorker with a track record of shareholder activism, has fielded a 10-strong slate of dissident nominees in the hope of snatching control of the ...
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The free laptop is a great incentive - if you can get it
It's one of the most appealing broadband deals on offer: a free laptop if you agree to take out Carphone Warehouse/AOL's £20-a-month contract for two years. But six months after she signed up (and paid extra for a better laptop) one customer is at the end of her tether, with no computer, mysteriously cancelled contracts, non-existent refunds and endlessly frustrating attempts to contact the ...
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Dork talk: Simon Armitage looks at computer gadgets for runners
It's probably an age thing, but my heart sinks when I arrive home and find that the item I've bought comes with an installation disc. It means an hour faffing about, another icon on the desktop, something else to go wrong. One day it won't be possible to open a loaf of bread without first downloading the eating instructions. Both of this week's running systems, from Nike and Adidas, ...
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NJ sex offenders charged for MySpace, Facebook use
Three convicted sex offenders have been arrested for surfing social networking Web sites and are believed to be the first charged under the state's new law that restricts their use of the Internet, authorities said Friday. State police set up accounts on MySpace and Facebook, posing as teenagers to monitor the sex offenders, Lt. Joseph Furlong said, but he wouldn't elaborate. The suspects did ...
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Mo. lawmakers vote to bar Internet harassment
Responding to the suicide of a Missouri teenager who was teased over the Internet, state lawmakers Friday gave final approval to a bill making cyber harassment illegal. The bill updates state laws against harassment to keep pace with technology by removing the requirement that the communication be written or over the telephone. Supporters say the bill will now cover harassment from computers, ...
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Lawmakers concerned over Charter's Web tracking
Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to experiment with tracking its customers' Web use in collaboration with an online advertising firm.
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