Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal (CNET)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:52:00 GMTCNET - Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
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1 euro eBay baby goes home (CNET)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:37:00 GMTCNET - The German baby taken from his parents after they put him up for sale on eBay for a euro--apparently as a joke--is back home, according to the Associated Press.
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Lithuania: Attacks Focused on Hosting Company (PC World)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:10:10 GMTPC World - A vulnerability in a Web server contributed to the attacks on some 300 Web sites in Lithuania earlier this week, a computer...
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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs (AP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:52:12 GMT
AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.Read more...
Google ordered to give YouTube user data to Viacom (AFP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:26:34 GMTAFP - A US judge has ordered Google to expose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used YouTube in a decision condemned by the Internet giant and privacy advocates.Read more...
Kate Moss hair extension sells for 805 euros in eBay: report (AFP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:54:19 GMT
AFP - A blonde hair extension that British supermodel Kate Moss reputedly lost in Berlin has been auctioned on eBay for 805 euros (1,264 dollars), Bild newspaper said on Friday.Read more...
VeriSign names interim CEO (CNET)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:02:00 GMTCNET - VeriSign, which runs the master database for the .com and .net domains, has replaced its CEO and president, who resigned suddenly earlier this week.
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Judge orders Google to give YouTube user data to Viacom (AFP)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:48:36 GMTAFP - Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.Read more...
Apple Drops Price Of MacBook Air (TechWeb)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:25:00 GMTTechWeb - InformationWeek - The price reduction appears to be the result of a drop in the price of the 1.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a reduction in the price of the 64-GB solid-state drive.
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Google Employees Warned Of Data Breach At Benefits Company (TechWeb)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:55:00 GMTTechWeb - InformationWeek - As a precautionary measure, the company is offering to enroll affected employees in Kroll's IDTheftSmart identity and credit protection program for a year.
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A Tale of Two City Wi-Fi's (PC World)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:40:11 GMTPC World - Different approaches to wireless Internet access in San Francisco and neighboring Silicon Valley are producing very different...
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Interview With 'Net Pioneer Vint Cerf (TechWeb)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:37:00 GMTTechWeb - Vint Cerf said this week that he never intended to seriously propose that the U.S. government should nationalize the Internet. But he does think the Internet is seriously broken, with an economic system that discourages competition and innovation and encourages harmful monopolistic practices. He argued that the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which governs Internet service providers, is obsolete and needs to be revised.
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'Containers' Out Perform Virtualization For KV Pharmaceuticals (TechWeb)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:00:00 GMTTechWeb - InformationWeek - With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.
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Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses (AP)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:57:39 GMTAP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.
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Mobile Music A $7.3 Billion Industry By 2011 (TechWeb)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:46:00 GMTTechWeb - InformationWeek - Research firm eMarketer predicts that music sales as a whole will continue to decline, but online and mobile markets will grow rapidly.
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Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own online (CNET)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:44:00 GMTCNET - A day before the United States celebrates its independence, we continue to question our individual freedoms online. In Thursday's Daily Debrief, CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and I discuss a federal judge's recent ruling in the ongoing Google-Viacom lawsuit that orders Google to turn over YouTube user activity. This will include videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames as part of an ongoing copyright infringement case.
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Adobe to make searching easier on Flash sites (AP)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:47:27 GMTAP - Internet users will now have an easier time finding sites that rely heavily on the popular Flash video format.
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IBM Develops Audio Masking Technology To Protect Call Center Recordings (TechWeb)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:35:00 GMTTechWeb - InformationWeek - Using speech analytics, the technology identifies and masks credit card numbers and other sensitive information in audio recordings.
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IBM Back On Top Of Server Market (TechWeb)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:19:00 GMTTechWeb - InformationWeek - Gartner revised figures for the first quarter, lowering server revenue growth from 4.3% to 2.5% and putting IBM back in first place ahead of HP.
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RIM Gets A Delay In Visto Patent Trial (TechWeb)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:15:00 GMTTechWeb - InformationWeek - In a case that could shut down RIM's network, the judge has granted a stay until the disputed patents are fully reviewed.
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