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Facebook struggles in battle with clones
Facebook's international challenges illustrate just some of the ways global expansion can bedevil major U.S. Web companies as they seek swarms of users and advertising dollars in new markets.
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N.J. Legislator Resigns Amid Child Porn Probe
Veteran Democratic New Jersey Assemblyman Neil Cohen has resigned amid an investigation into alleged possession of child pornography on his legislative office computer.
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India Carries Out Raids After Bombings Kill 45
AHMADABAD, India -- Anti-terror squads have carried out raids in the search for leads into the deadly synchronized bombings that killed at least 45 people in western India over the weekend, police said Monday.
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Square Enix's latest Dragon Quest remake racked up huge sales during its first week on sale in Japan and easily topped the weekly game ranking. Symantec Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 deliver industry leading Windows data protection and system recovery.
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Humax releases two Freeview PVRs
Humax is releasing two Freeview+ set-top boxes, one with a 320MB hard drive.
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Yahoo Search Marketing Announces New July Features
YahooPete has visited the forums lately to announce a number of new features within Yahoo Search Marketing for the month of July. Now, there are ad performance report enhancements which contain three new columns: your ad ID, a visual representation of your ad, and the destination URL. Additionally, status changes have been implemented. Some example statuses include "bid too low," ...
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Recent Original Stories
Amid the hype surrounding the release of Windows Vista, Mac users are taking solace from the fact that Mac OS X is still a champ on many fronts. Here are some reasons why reviewer John C. Welch opts for Apple.
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What Kinds of Changes Were Made to Google PageRank?
In May, we blogged about Google VP of Engineering Udi Manber's post where he introduced search quality. In the same post, he says that Google has "made significant changes to the PageRank algorithm in January." Last week, Matt Cutts told us that we're in the midst of a PageRank update , and now forum members are wondering what kinds of changes were made to the PR algorithm. In a ...
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New search engine Cuil to take on Google
MENLO PARK, Calif. — A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.
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Chinese Government Accused of Being Behind 'Titan Rain' Cyber Attacks
China has been accused of sponsoring cyber attacks at the International Crime Science Conference held in London, UK recently. Security expert, John Walker, CTO of forensics consultancy Secure-Bastion, said that the Chinese government was behind the 'Titan Rain' attacks on the US and the UK. Titan Rain is codename given by the U.S. government to a series of coordinated attacks on American ...
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Former Google engineers launch new search engine
A new search engine created by former engineers from Google Inc. launched Sunday night, claiming to cover three times as many Web pages as Google. (GOOG) (EBAY)
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"Money No Enough 2" features more computer—generated scenes
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s all—time highest—grossing local movie "Money No Enough" is back. This time, it focuses on issues other than money.
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Assemblyman resigns amid child porn investigation
TRENTON -- The veteran state assemblyman alleged to have child pornography on his state-issued computer has resigned his legislative post, a statehouse source said.
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Recent Original Stories
Dave Morse (1943-2007), Amiga Computer co-founder, died on Saturday , November 2nd.
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Recent Original Stories
Here is a page discussing various myths surrounding Firefox . "We have all seen these banners before or heard people say 'Firefox is faster, Firefox has lower requirements, Firefox is secure, Firefox defends me from all spyware, etc.' How misleading is it? Read on."
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Program Invented to Track Kids Health and MD Visits
HomeTreeTech will help parents of children and adults who are chronically ill keep track of doctor's visit, medications, and health related symptoms, thanks to a new computer program especially helpful to parents and doctors.
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Recent Original Stories
"The more I think about Microsoft, the more I realise that they are, possibly for the first time, seriously cornered (or surrounded, depending on how you want to see it).
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"When they change their minds and go with Microsoft's increasingly open format (still not perfect though), they're all of a sudden corrupt, beaurocratic and evil."
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FairPoint teams with Cisco Systems in New England
FairPoint Communications Inc. has hired Cisco Systems Inc. to launch its broadband initiative in New England. (FRP) (VZ) (CSCO)
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Openbravo simplifies ERP for midsize businesses with new additions to the Openbravo Network family of products
SAN FRANCISCO----Openbravo, the leading developer of web-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning and Point of Sale solutions for enterprises, has extended its Openbravo Network family of products specifically for small and medium businesses and Independent Software Vendors .
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Facebook fends off attack of the clones
In its bid to go global, Facebook is facing off against itself. Clones of the wunderkind social-networking Web site - some of which resemble Facebook right down to color, font and layout - have popped up in local languages around the world. These competitor sites offer identical core services, letting users post pictures, make groups and choose their friends. All are complicating Facebook Inc.'s ...
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Cuil Search Engine Has No Chance to Compete Against Google
The Associated Press reported this morning the launch of Cuil. IMHO, as much as the search results are displayed on a slick and 'cool' page, these guys have little or no chance of competing with Google but there's a real chance they will be bought for a crazy astronomic $5-10b by Microsoft before the end of this week. What Microsoft does with it is another matter.
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Microsoft Calls Forrester's Windows Vista Report 'Schizophrenic'
A Forrester report telling large businesses to hold off on deploying Windows Vista contradicts earlier reports on the operating system, Microsoft says.
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Social networking: Is there a bottom-line benefit?
YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Second Life, Linkedin or Twitter, Dopplr and Jaiku – what are they? They are virtual Social Networks. Why do you need one and what will you gain from joining? What is Social Networking? We all know what networking is – from the local Cub Group (two intersecting networks the members and the parents). Service clubs like Rotary, or the neighbourhood knitting ...
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Former Googleers Unveil Search Engine Called Cuil
A start-up led by former star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size, but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.
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