Category: ‘Tech’
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
yahoo tech: A new study from the University of Michigan has found that more than 75 percent of banking websites are not completely up to snuff when it comes to security.
The study looked at 214 financial institution websites and focused on both design flaws and improper security practices. None of ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
laTimes: Viacom's billion-dollar lawsuit against Google's YouTube has enormous implications for the flow of information online. At stake is the degree to which websites will have to monitor and restrict the material that users post for others to peruse -- a community approach to content that's at the heart of ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
nyTimes: WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a major expansion of the government’s surveillance powers, handing President Bush one more victory in a series of hard-fought clashes with Democrats over national security issues.
The measure, approved by a vote of 69 to 28, is the biggest revamping ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Mozilla's new browser Firefox 3.0 has been downloaded over 8 million times in 24 hours. The Mozilla Foundation has encouraged users worldwide to download their latest browser in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, with what is referred to as Download Day 2008. The target of ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008: The supercomputer, which can perform trillions of calculations per second...
The US Department of Energy yesterday unveiled the IBM Roadrunner, the world's fastest computer. The computer, which is designed to conduct virtual tests for nuclear weapons, is able to carry out 1,000 trillion (or 1 quadrillion) calculations ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
nyTimes.com: Some Comcast customers who actively download software and video files may soon find one set of unexplained delays replaced with a different sort of equally cryptic slowdowns.
Comcast is starting to test new approaches to protecting its network from what it describes as congestion caused by a handful of customers ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
msnbc: General Motors may take a detour around Vista, the latest computer operating system from Microsoft. The automaker has encountered so many speed bumps getting Vista to work on its machines that it may just wait for the next version of Windows, due in 2010 or 2011.
"We're considering bypassing Vista ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
reuters.com: LONDON (Reuters) - The rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the Internet, a leading academic has warned in a new book.
Professor Jonathan Zittrain says the latest must-have devices are sealed, "sterile" boxes that stifle creativity ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
washingtonPost.com: Bearing video cameras, laptops and cellphones, a small army of young activists flooded into a recent federal meeting in protest.
Members of public-interest group Free Press weren't there to support a presidential candidate or decry global warming. The tech-savvy hundreds came to the Federal Communications Commission's hearing at Harvard Law ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
arsTechnica.com: Virginia's Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first US felony conviction for spamming. The spammer will serve nine years in prison for sending what authorities believe to be millions of messages over a two-month period in 2003.
Jeremy Jaynes is the man who will make history. A Raleigh, North ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
news.com: In what may be an unprecedented decision, Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to lower the retail prices for several flavors of Windows Vista.
For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista, and only for the upgrade version used to move ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
EU has fined Microsoft $1.35 billion (899 million euros) for failing to comply with the 2004 antitrust order. It is highest ever fine charged by EU and it is also the first time ever when EU has fined a company because of non-compliance with an antitrust decision.
The first decision in ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
portfolio.com: Comcast spokeswoman Jennifer Khoury said that the company paid some people to arrive early and hold places in the queue for local Comcast employees who wanted to attend the hearing.
Some of those placeholders, however, did more than wait in line: They filled many of the seats at the ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
techCrunch.com: Network Solutions and ICANN are being sued over the “front running” domain registration practices that we covered last month.
“Network Solutions has forced millions of people to buy Internet domain names from them instead of cheaper competitors through a scheme that’s netted the firm millions of dollars,” according to ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
usatoday.com: SAN FRANCISCO — The biggest boycott by eBay (EBAY) sellers concludes Monday, capping a week of acrimony after the online-auction site raised fees and changed its feedback policy.
Auction listings on eBay.com dropped some 13% since the strike started Feb. 18 to about 13 million items, according to third-party ...
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