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AT&T Announces Free Wi-Fi For iPhoners
July 18, 2008
on Networking
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Jane McEntegart
Over the last few months we’ve seen the on-again-off-again free iPhone Wi-Fi at AT&T hotspots. The company announced this morning that there would be free Wi-Fi at AT&T hotspots around the country and it looks like this time around.... Read more
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Woman Fired For Allegedly Sending Death Threats From Work Account
July 17, 2008
on Using the Internet
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Jane McEntegart
A woman working for an online floral delivery company has been fired following allegations that she sent a death threat to a professor in a Minnesota university from her work machine. Read more
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Apple Apologises for MobileMe Mess
July 17, 2008
on Business & Law
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Jane McEntegart
It seems as though Apple has finally come out and apologized for the “rocky” transition to MobileMe, although they’re not covering the messy issue of the not so free trials of the service. Read more
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Partnership Between Buy.com and eBay Raises Concerns Among Sellers
July 16, 2008
on Business & Law
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Jane McEntegart
There’s trouble brewing for those of you that count on eBay for all or part of your income. The Internect auction site has just signed a deal with Buy.com, which will allow the latter to sell products on eBay at a fixed price. Read more
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Build Your Own Search Engine: Yahoo Spices Up Search API
July 10, 2008
on Using the Internet
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Wolfgang Gruener
Sunnyvale (CA) - Yahoo is offering a re-engineered version of its search API that allows individuals and organizations to create their own search engines based on Yahoo's technology. Read more
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Gmail Adding Protection and Monitoring Features
July 10, 2008
on Using the Internet
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Humphrey Cheung
Mountain View (CA) - Google is adding two important security features to Gmail that lets users monitor their accounts and log out all their sessions. Read more
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The Most Spammed Country in the World? Switzerland.
July 10, 2008
on Using the Internet
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Wolfgang Gruener
Chicago (IL) - You may be complaining about the number of spam emails finding their way to your email account every day, but it may come as a surprise to you that the U.S. is actually not the most targeted country by spammers. Read more
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Google Launches 3D Chat Program, Lively
July 9, 2008
on Networking
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Jane McEntegart
Yesterday saw Google Labs launch the beta version of a program they like to call Lively. Read more
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Google's YouTube Ad Revenue Short Of Expectations: Report
July 9, 2008
on Business & Law
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Reuters (via Yahoo)
Advertising revenue from YouTube is likely to total about $200 million this year and thus fall short of parent company Google's expectations, The Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Read more
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UK's Most Spammed Person Bombarded With 44001 Emails A Day
July 8, 2008
on Security
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Humphrey Cheung
London (England) - Spam emails are the scourge of any Internet user, but chances are your email inbox isn't bombarded with nearly as many emails as one British man. Read more
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Mozilla Sets World Record for Most Downloads With 8 Million
July 3, 2008
on Networking
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Jane McEntegart
The results are in; the downloads have been counted and verified to bring you a result we’ve known for weeks was coming: Mozilla has successfully made the Guinness Book of World Records for the most downloads in 24 hours. Read more
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Internet Explorer 8 Beefed Up Against Hackers And Phishers
July 2, 2008
on Using the Internet
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Humphrey Cheung
Redmond (WA) - Microsoft is beefing up its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser with several security improvements against hackers and phishers. Read more
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Firefox Weave: Sync Your Internet Life
July 2, 2008
on Using the Internet
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Wolfgang Gruener
First Look - Wouldn't it be great to have an automated backup of your complete Firefox environment up in the cloud? Read more
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Digg.com Announces Launch Of Recommendation Engine
July 1, 2008
on Networking
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Jane McEntegart
There’s good news for Digg fans as the website has announced that the Digg Recommendation Engine will be launched this week. Read more
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Adobe Opens Flash To Search Engines, Finally
July 1, 2008
on Using the Internet
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Christian Zibreg
San Jose (CA) - There may be one more reason to create Internet content in Flash soon: Adobe said that it is working with Google and Yahoo to enable crawlers to index content currently trapped in proprietary SWF files. Read more