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Lawmakers demand info on Web tracking practices
(AP:WASHINGTON) A congressional committee wants the nation's largest telecommunications and Internet companies to explain whether they target online advertising based on consumers' search queries and Web surfing habits.
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Yahoo CEO optimistic in wake of Microsoft dustup
Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang, under pressure from investors after spurning a $47.5 billion offer from Microsoft, said the company is on the verge of seeing its strategy pay off.
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Lawmakers demand info on Web tracking practices
A congressional committee wants the nation's largest telecommunications and Internet companies to explain whether they target online advertising based on consumers' search queries and Web surfing habits.
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Sun releases preview of Silverlight, Flash competitor JavaFX
Sun Microsystems has released a preview version of its JavaFX technology for building rich Internet applications, which it announced last year would compete with Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash-based AIR.
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Apple's fix for major DNS security hole finally arrives
Nearly three weeks after Microsoft patched its Windows operating system to protect against attacks exploiting a flaw within the DNS system, Apple has delivered its own fix.
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Dozens Of Laptops Stolen From Elementary School
Police are investigating the theft of dozens of laptop computers from an elementary school.
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Kentucky Creating Group to Fight Cybercrime
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway is creating the Cybercrimes Investigative Division, in an effort to work more closely with local law enforcement across the state to fight cyber crime.
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Recent Original Stories
Apple posted a Leopard guided tour video , in the same format as the earlier iPhone and iPod Touch guided tours. It mentions the new Finder, stacks, Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, and so on. In Quicktime, of course.
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Yahoo shareholders blast execs
Yahoo executives on Friday were berated by shareholders upset by their handling of failed takeover talks with Microsoft and exposing of Internet dissidents to Chinese officials.
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Sony aims for 1mn VAIO sales by 2010 - Regional
The Latin American division of Japanese tech firm Sony (NYSE: SNE) expects sales of its VAIO line of laptops to reach 1mn units by 2010, compared to the 500,000 units expected to be sold this year, the company's Latin American VP Pedro Lafarga told BNamericas.
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Sturgis Bike Rally Riders Unite on the Web to Form Sturgis Club
The Sturgis Club Offers Sturgis Motorcycle Rally news, event calendars, t-shirts, memorabilia and information while connecting bikers across the world on, of all places, the Internet. (PRWeb Aug 1, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1170484.htm
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Yahoo shareholders vent at annual meeting
Yahoo executives faced about 200 unhappy shareholders this morning at the company's annual meeting in a hotel in downtown San Jose. Replay live blog from meeting More Microsoft-Yahoo Cassidy's blog: Icahn and Yang: BFF's
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Will Yahoo Be Wearing Two Black Eyes Come Saturday Morning?
After telling the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board that Yahoo’s management was “pathetic,” oilman T. Boone Pickens dumped his 10 million shares of Yahoo stock the other day for a $50 million loss. He acquired the position in May out of sympathy for his friend Carl Icahn’s proxy fight and in hopes of a quick buck. read more
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TRC directed to filter obscene websites
COLOMBO: President Mahinda Rajapaksa has issued a special directive to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) that websites featuring obscene and pornographic material should be filtered with immediate effect to protect children against internet pornography.
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Internet prostitution sting nabs three children
The eight arrests in Pierce County last night included three juveniles, one of whom is on the FBI's list of missing sexually exploited children.
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US Senate polishes new teeth for cyber cops
Prosecution made easy The US Senate has passed a bill to strengthen the hands of federal prosecutors who fight computer crime by removing some of the more common hurdles in prosecuting online miscreants.…
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Organisers to lift Olympics Internet restrictions
CHINA: The International Olympic Committee and the Chinese organisers BOCOG have agreed to lift all Internet restrictions for media covering the Beijing Games, the IOC told Reuters on Friday.
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Top 20 semicon suppliers: Shakeups rock 1H08
USA: IC Insights' recent research for its Strategic Reviews Online IC company database uncovered a big shakeup in the 1H08 top 20 semiconductor supplier ranking (Fig. 1).
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Yahoo shareholders vent at annual meeting
Yahoo executives faced about 200 unhappy shareholders this morning at the company's annual meeting in a hotel in downtown San Jose.
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Time Warner objects to Miller on Yahoo's board?
Former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller was apparently named as one of three potential new board members at Yahoo, but his former boss has pooh-poohed the idea, according to Techcrunch.
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Organisers to lift Olympics Internet restrictions
Produced by Lake House Copyright © 2008 The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.
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US security agency defends border agents' right to seize laptops
A key US national security agency on Friday defended the right of border officers to seize laptops from travelers even if they are not suspected of criminal activity, as lawmakers and rights activists slammed it as unconstitutional and alarming.
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Time Warner Reneges On Letting Ex-AOL Head Miller Join Yahoo Board; Ill Will Galore
In a high-stakes corporate case of Lucy pulling the football out from Charlie Brown, TechCrunch reports and we have confirmed Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes waited until the last minute to tell former AOL CEO Jon Miller that he would not be allowed to join Yahoo's boardafter previously agreeing to an exception to Miller's non-compete. Because Miller has a year left on that non-compete, ...
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Play MPE(R) Launches Canadian Mediabase Downloads With Canadian Major Labels
VANCOUVER, British Columbia , Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Destiny Media Technologies, (OTC Bulletin Board: DSNY) the global standard in digital media delivery, is pleased to announce the rollout in Canada of music downloads directly from the Canadian Mediabase charts to Canadian radio broadcasters.
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Local Democrats hear from former KC mayor
When Dr. Charles B. Wheeler first entered politics as the elected coroner of Jackson County in 1964, computers filled rooms, the Internet was not even a dream yet and television had just proved its ability to affect a presidential race with Richard Nixon’s famous Checkers Speech and the debates between Nixon and John F. Kennedy in 1962.
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