15. May 2008, 12:16
Referred to by various media outlets prior to its beta rollout as a possible acquisition target for Microsoft Corp. as it seeks out a potential ‘Google killer,’ the Powerset search system works by understanding and processing natural language input rather than just key words.
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15. May 2008, 12:02
Search engine giant Google Inc., has confirmed the introduction of facial blurring on its interactive Street View photographic mapping service following a spate of legal wrangling concerning accusations related to instances of invasion of privacy.
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15. May 2008, 11:58
A pair of spammers who failed to show up in court to face charges of spewing out masses of junk e-mail to registered members of popular social network MySpace have today been slapped with a record legal penalty that amounts to paying MySpace a total of $234 million USD in damages.
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13. May 2008, 12:30
“Any app, any site, any friends.” That’s the corporate war cry emanating from search engine behemoth Google Inc. following the announcement of Google Friend Connect, a new service that helps Web site owners to build traffic by allowing the incorporation of social features onto any site.
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12. May 2008, 15:38
Judge Robyn Moberly of the Marion Superior Court in Indianapolis has issued Facebook with an order to provide important user information in a harassment case regarding the creation of a fake site profile in the name of Roncalli High School Dean Tim Puntarelli. ...
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9. May 2008, 11:14
As social networks continually seek fresh ways to attract the registration of online members, News Corp’s MySpace has this week revealed that its service will soon broaden accessibility levels by allowing users to control and share their profile data with other popular Web destinations.
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8. May 2008, 11:53
A Los Angeles district judge has this week ruled that TorrentSpy site owner Justin Bunnell and operator Valence Media LLC are to pay a total of $111 million USD in fines for the facilitation of copyright infringement across a multitude of multimedia files posted through the now defunct Net service. ...
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7. May 2008, 12:33
Extending the reach of its existing SiteAdvisor Web site warning technology, online security specialist McAfee Inc. has joined forces with Internet giant Yahoo Inc. to bring cautionary notification to the search results of Yahoo users.
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6. May 2008, 17:27
United States Senator Sam Brownback (R) has this week accused the Chinese government of exerting pressure on US-owned hotels to install Internet filtration systems that will censor online content during the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing.
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5. May 2008, 08:00
Not all browsers are created equal. As users, we probably have our favourite browser – but webmasters do not have that luxury – their sites should work with all the mainstream browsers. While there are many browsers in existence, four of the best known and most used are Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, and Opera. The latter three function, from a webmaster’s viewpoint, fairly similarly. Internet Explorer though, despite many improvements in version 7, still lags behind somewhat. ...
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