Latest Internet Articles
- 19 June 2013
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Feature: 11 brilliant tricks to search Google faster
Google has introduced many search 'widgets' recently, so you can get a weather forecast, check what's on at the cinema or even find a hotel without visiting another website. Here's how to use the best ones.
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News: The panic is over. Facebook is back up
Facebook suffered a service disruption for about four hours Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times.
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How-Tos: How to sell music online
Here's how to sell music you have made online, via iTunes, Google Play and other digital stores, and how to sell your CDs and vinyl online.
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News: Making peril permanent: Google's Gmail app redesign
Google's recent update of its Gmail app made archive the default setting, encouraging its users to save their email, literally, forever.
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News: Don't panic! It's just that Facebook has been down
Facebook has been down on Tuesday night, giving users error messages or long response times.
- 18 June 2013
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News: Microsoft Dynamics ERP software now available on the Azure cloud
Microsoft is upping the stakes in the growing market for cloud-based ERP, with its Dynamics GP 2013 and NAV 2013 products now available for deployment on its Azure service.
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News: Google asks to make surveillance orders public, citing First Amendment
Google has asked the court overseeing terrorism-related surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency to allow the company to publish information on the number of surveillance requests it receives.
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News: US states' attorneys general to take aim at Internet 'safe harbor' law
Frustrated by their difficulty prosecuting cases involving online content that is illegal or damaging to individuals, a group of state attorneys general are taking action.
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News: Startup beams your text msgs to extraterrestrials
For 25 cents, would you send a short message deep into outer space in the hopes that an alien race might receive it?
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News: Google puts $7M into fighting child porn, abuse
Google said it's spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them.
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News: US officials: Surveillance programs helped stop 50 terrorist plots
U.S. law enforcement agencies have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the U.S. and other countries with the help of controversial surveillance efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency, government officials said Tuesday.
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News: Africa Tech Shifts from Infrastructure to growing businesses
Africa's tech community is embracing policy concerns for the first time at the annual Africa Internet Summit, after focusing on the goal of affordable connectivity for a number of years.
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News: EU institutions' sites move toward compliance on cookie-tracking laws
Europe’s top law-making body is working to bring its websites into line with the cookie tracking laws it enforces on other entities.
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News: Great gig in the cloud: Full remastered Pink Floyd discography lands on Spotify
That didn't take long. Four days after Spotify promised to bring the Pink Floyd discography to its music service if--and only if--the classic track "Wish You Were Here" was streamed one million times, the company announced Monday that the milestone was shattered. All the Pink Floyd tunes you could ever want are now available to soothe your savage breast over on play.spotify.com or via the Spotify desktop application.
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News: Facebook set to beef up Instagram with video?
Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos.
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News: Yahoo discloses user data requests from US law enforcement agencies
Yahoo has received between 12,000 to 13,000 requests for user data from law enforcement agencies in the U.S. between Dec. 1 and May 31 this year, the company said Monday.
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News: DreamWorks deal will bring 300 hours of original kids' shows to Netflix
Netflix may have lost its grip on Dora and Spongebob, but the streaming-video giant hasn't forgotten about kids. (Please, think of the children!)
- 17 June 2013
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News: Digg's Google Reader replacement expected to launch in beta next week
When I launched my beloved Google Reader tab this morning, a pop-up box reminded me of a sad truth I've been trying oh-so-hard to ignore: The service's last day is just around the corner.
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News: Bing voice search improves accuracy, speed
In 2012, Microsoft's Rick Rashid blew an Asian audience away with a live translation of his speech into Mandarin. On Monday, Bing added some of that technology to Bing Voice Search, to cut down the processing response time of voice input into Windows Phone by half, while improving accuracy at the same time.
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News: US NSA can access data without court approval, leaker says
Analysts at the U.S. National Security Agency can gain access to the content of U.S. targets' phone calls and email messages without court orders, NSA leaker Edward Snowden said, contradicting denials from U.S. government sources.
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