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Pioneers steer the course of cyberspace
With the imminent retirement of Bill Gates, the recent departure of Meg Whitman from eBay and uncertainty over the future of Yahoo, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society is attempting to grapple with where the Internet is headed and how it affects people. Two academic books from Berkman scholars explore the impact of the iPhone and so-called digital natives on the Internet.
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Kaiser Permanente and Microsoft join to launch health-records service
Kaiser Permanente is joining with Microsoft Corp. to launch a pilot program that will allow Kaiser members to securely store their personal health information online.
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EU Commissioner disses Microsoft: open standards are smart business
EC Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes made a strong case for open standards and interoperability. And though the company wasn't mentioned by name, it was clear that much of her message was aimed at Microsoft. Read More...
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3 internet providers agree to block Internet child porn (8:40 a.m.)
ALBANY, New York - Online forums where thousands of child-porn images have been posted have been stricken from three Internet providers, including two of the nation's five largest, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday.
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Next generation iPhone revealed (+photos, video)
Kiwis keen to get their hands on Apple's new iPhone 3G will be able to pre-register online later today. The next generation iPhone will be released here on July 11 - and is cheaper and faster than its predecessor.
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Google agrees to play privacy game
WASHINGTON - Google has told a senior Republican lawmaker concerned about privacy that the internet search and advertising company supports a federal privacy law.
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Yahoo facing possible trial before showdown with investor Carl Icahn
Michael Liedtke, The Associated Press June 10, 2008 - 8:42 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. may have to defend its response to Microsoft Corp.'s takeover attempt in a trial that could sway the outcome of the Internet pioneer's August showdown with investor activist Carl Icahn.
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Internet Providers Move To Block Child Porn
A groundbreaking deal with three leading internet providers announced Tuesday will block child pornography from millions of computers across the country.
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Yahoo facing possible trial before showdown with investor Carl Icahn
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. may have to defend its response to Microsoft Corp.'s takeover attempt in a trial that could sway the outcome of the Internet pioneer's August showdown with investor activist Carl Icahn.
Canoe Money |
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Fuel prices put a pinch on yardmen
One enterprising lawn keeper is using the World Wide Web to cut fuel costs.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-06-11 01:18 Major ISPs agree to block child porn newsgroups
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Online forums where thousands of child-porn images have been posted have been stricken from three Internet providers, including two of the nation's five largest, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday.
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Yahoo may face early shareholder trial
San Francisco - Internet pioneer Yahoo may have to face a lawsuit by insurgent shareholders before a key August 1 vote in which the company's board faces reelection, according to court papers released Tuesday. The activist investors led by Carl Icahn...
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Washington County Computer Department To Grow
FAYETTEVILLE - Having one person bear responsibility for the county's 400 or so computers is not smart policy, county administrator John Gibson said.
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Tech-Ed: SQL Server 2008 Nearly Ready
Server and Tools head Muglia provides status on several key IT tools at Tech-Ed 16.
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The European Commission said on Wednesday it told Microsoft that it had competition worries about the firm's new ...
, Vista, another antitrust concern that the software giant must answer in Europe. "We are concerned about the possibility that the next Vista operating system will include various elements which are currently available separately from Microsoft or other companies," Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd said.
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SMS for seven murders
A JAPANESE car worker arrested for stabbing to death seven people in Tokyo’s Akihabara district left a chilling account of his plan of action on the Internet .
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Japanese stabbing suspect ‘an angry, lonely man’
Media reports pulling together Internet postings and police statements drew a picture of an angry, lonely young man who meticulously planned the deadly attack.
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Spyware crooks steal R199m from provinces
THE government has identified at least 26 cases where a syndicate has swindled government departments in four provinces, including the Eastern Cape, of over R199million in the past three years – using cyber spyware.
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Major ISPs agree to block child porn newsgroups
Online forums where thousands of child-porn images have been posted have been stricken from three Internet providers, including two of the nation's five largest, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday.
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BREAKING NEWS: Phones, Internet down in Colusa County
Voice, Internet and 911 emergency-call service throughout Colusa County went dead shortly after 11:35 a.m. today. A breach in a phone cable in downtown Williams is the likely culprit, according to Stephanie Beasly, spokeswoman for Frontier, owner of the county's main phone system.
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CAPITOL COMMENT
The long summer days ahead will bring more than bike rides and trips to the neighborhood swimming pool for today's technology-savvy kids. Many children and teenagers will fill idle time surfing the Internet and logging on to social networking sites to stay connected to their friends.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 13th Jul 2007 19:20 UTC
There's nothing like allegations of predatory conduct to bring two organizations together. Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project has decided to bring Intel on board as a partner and a possible future supplier, just a few months after Negroponte went on 60 Minutes and essentially accused the chip maker of trying to destroy his low-cost PC project.
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Ubuntu Eee Goes Gold
bjcarne writes in to commend Jon Ramvi and his team, who have delivered their first stable release of Ubuntu Eee, an Ubuntu version customized for the Asus Eee PC. "In December Ubuntu Eee started as a one man project, but [over] the last months several people have joined in on the development. We're trying to achieve something which [hasn't] been successful for any other Linux distribution yet: ...
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AdReady partners with New York Times -- is Yahoo next?
Seattle's AdReady has scored a key partnership to provide its self-service display advertising technology to The New York Times.
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Comparing Apple and Microsoft keynotes and Windows 7 vs. Snow Leopard
Analyst Opinion - You really don’t get a sense for Microsoft’s breadth of products unless you attend an event like TechEd. At the conference you are introduced and trained on a product list longer than your arm only to realize that TechEd basically represents only one division of the company. The respective keynotes of Steve Jobs and Bob Muglia, who runs Microsoft’s server and tools business, ...
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