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News from Netcraft
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by Paul
2 May 2008 at 4:05am
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April 2008.
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by Paul
30 Apr 2008 at 7:05am
Several SourceForge, Inc sites, including the popular technology news site Slashdot have been offline for several hours today.
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by Paul
24 Apr 2008 at 6:12am
Following Obama's recent XSS attack, a security researcher in Finland has discovered a similar vulnerability on a Clinton supporter site.
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by Paul
22 Apr 2008 at 5:03am
CNN website suffers another outage and poor performance after Thursday's initial attack by Chinese hackers.
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by Paul
21 Apr 2008 at 4:35am
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by wss
14 Apr 2008 at 11:00am
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by Paul
14 Apr 2008 at 7:19am
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by Paul
14 Apr 2008 at 5:07am
An interesting cross-site scripting vulnerability found in the Google Spreadsheets service would have allowed attackers to gain unauthorised access to other Google services, including Gmail and Google Docs.
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by Paul
8 Apr 2008 at 9:34am
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by Paul
28 Mar 2008 at 7:02am
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News from BBC News | Technology | World Edition
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14 May 2008 at 3:06am
MySpace has won $234m in damages from spammers - but has little chance of getting the cash say experts.
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14 May 2008 at 5:40am
Usernames and passwords from voice-over IP accounts are being traded online, a telecoms firm finds.
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14 May 2008 at 10:00am
Nato backs a new cyber defence centre in Estonia, following attacks on its internet structure.
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14 May 2008 at 5:12am
A survey of software piracy in UK firms has shown that it has fallen for the first time in three years.
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14 May 2008 at 4:42am
A Doctor Who fan is embroiled in a row with the BBC after publishing knitting patterns for the show's monsters online.
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14 May 2008 at 5:15am
Scientists prepare for "seven minutes of terror" as the Phoenix spacecraft attempts to land on the surface.
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12 May 2008 at 10:17pm
The search giant Google is the latest company to launch a service aimed at making the web more social.
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14 May 2008 at 4:11am
Bill Thompson on how to be safe and keep risk alive online
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12 May 2008 at 4:32am
Microsoft cuts the price of its XP operating system for use in the growing ultra low-cost laptop market.
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13 May 2008 at 9:05am
Hewlett-Packard buys information technology provider EDS for $12.6bn in a bid to take on rival IBM.
News from NYT > Technology
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by By MARTIN FOSTER
14 May 2008 at 8:30am
Income at the consumer electronics giant rebounded as the company was able to hold down chip costs, but was hurt by a drop in the value of its financial holdings.
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by By SAUL HANSELL
14 May 2008 at 12:53pm
Charter Communications plans to keep track of every site its Internet customers visit and will sell the data to a firm that will use it to show targeted ads to Charter customers.
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by By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and MIGUEL HELFT
13 May 2008 at 11:08pm
Carl C. Icahn is considering a proxy fight for seats on Yahoo?s board in hopes of pushing the company to restart talks to sell itself to Microsoft.
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by By STEVE LOHR
14 May 2008 at 12:53pm
Researchers at the University of Washington are turning to home computer users in the search for strains of rice that have traits like higher yields, disease resistance and a wider range of nutrients.
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by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
14 May 2008 at 10:28am
Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines owe MySpace about $230 million in damages after a federal judge awarded the online hangout what is believed to be the largest anti-spam judgment ever.
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by By GERALDINE FABRIKANT
13 May 2008 at 11:39pm
Liberty Media and IAC/InterActiveCorp said that they had settled their differences, paving the way for the division of IAC into five companies.
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by By LAURIE J. FLYNN
14 May 2008 at 9:10am
The online classifieds company filed a countersuit against minority owner eBay, accusing it of unfair competition, false advertising, trademark infringement and diluting the value of the Craigslist trademark.
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by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
14 May 2008 at 10:40am
Verizon has backed the LiMo Foundation, which aims to unite handset makers, software companies and carriers on a software platform that will make it easier and cheaper to create new phones.
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by By MATT RICHTEL
13 May 2008 at 11:14pm
Hewlett-Packard proposes to spend $14 billion to acquire Electronic Data Systems, an underperforming technology services provider.
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by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
13 May 2008 at 11:27pm
EarthLink is pulling the plug on its troubled wireless high-speed Internet network in Philadelphia, once seen as a national model.
News from washingtonpost.com - Web Watch -- Frank Ahrens's Guide to What's New and Inte...
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by Frank Ahrens
11 Nov 2006 at 10:00pm
Hard-core Web users are constantly fighting unfair stereotypes:
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by Frank Ahrens
4 Nov 2006 at 10:00pm
Imagine if, in August 2001, the U.S. intelligence agencies had dumped all of their information into one secure, online resource where it was searchable and accessible to anyone who had the proper clearance.
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by Frank Ahrens
28 Oct 2006 at 10:00pm
Amid all the bad news about the future of newspapers -- and there is plenty -- a good news story quietly has been building: Online newspaper revenue is growing.
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by Frank Ahrens
21 Oct 2006 at 10:00pm
An online music store in Russia caused headlines and created some unintentional yuks last week.
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by Frank Ahrens
7 Oct 2006 at 10:00pm
Lazydork was just another loser in a bathrobe, doing movie reviews on his Web site that no one watched. Then, he discovered YouTube. Then, he discovered Emmalina. And a splendid story began about dual lives, the mechanics of Internet fame and chest hair. It leads all the way from a courtroom in Miami to a casino in Vegas.
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by Frank Ahrens
30 Sep 2006 at 10:00pm
The big media companies aren't looking at just the Web for new viewers and more advertising revenue. Increasingly, they are turning to mobile devices, and with mixed results.
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by Frank Ahrens
23 Sep 2006 at 10:00pm
About a month ago, the two founders of Facebook came to The Washington Post, excited to tell me about a product they were planning to launch.
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by Frank Ahrens
16 Sep 2006 at 10:00pm
Three months and millions of page views after lonelygirl15's debut, the most recent Internet phenomenon turned into a detective story and came to a conclusion last week.
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by Frank Ahrens
9 Sep 2006 at 10:00pm
In the wacky Wiki world that is the Internet, it's hard to know which information is reliable and which isn't.
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by Web Watch
26 Aug 2006 at 10:00pm
Frank Ahrens is away. His column will resume when he returns.
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