Latest Internet News
- 16 February 2013
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News: Google retail stores could be a smart move, analysts say
Opening its own brick-and-mortar retail stores could help Google sell more of its Chromebooks, Nexus tablets and other hardware, analysts said Friday, reacting to online reports that Google may soon be coming to the local shopping mall.
- 15 February 2013
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News: Facebook targeted by hackers, says no user data compromised
Facebook said Friday it had been the target of a sophisticated hacking attack but that it had no evidence any user data had been compromised.
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News: Facebook defends Graph Search's privacy controls for teens
Facebook is working hard to assure users that Graph Search, its new search engine designed to uncover all sorts of information buried within the site, does not compromise the privacy rights of minors.
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News: Facebook defends Graph Search's privacy controls for teens
Facebook is working hard to assure users that Graph Search, its new search engine designed to uncover all sorts of information buried within the site, does not compromise the privacy rights of minors.
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News: Obama talks about math, online privacy and an open Internet in Google+ hangout
During a Google+ 'Fireside Hangout' on Thursday, President Barack Obama talked about his daughters' math and science studies, the benefits of making computer programming a required high school class and the need to keep the Internet open.
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News: Google+ suffers outage Friday morning
Google+ suffered a site outage Friday morning, prompting users of the social network to complain on both Google+ and Twitter that the site was down or slow to load.
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News: Facebook lets users promote friends' posts
Facebook has expanded its promoted posts program, allowing users to pay to highlight posts made by friends. The move, if successful, could help boost fees Facebook collects from the recently introduced service.
- 14 February 2013
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News: NT government trials online vehicle registration
In a bid to cut queue times, the Northern Territory (NT) government has begun a trial of a QuickPay online Motor Vehicle Registry (MVR) station in Parap, Darwin.
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News: Salesforce.com's Heroku frustrates rapidly growing Rap Genius
One of the largest customers of Salesforce.com's Heroku has charged that the performance of the platform as a service (PaaS) has degraded since Heroku re-engineered the way in which it queues work jobs.
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News: Opera's WebKit move gives it shot at iOS market
Opera's announcement yesterday that it would ditch its own browser and JavaScript engines in favor of the open-source WebKit and V8 engines will let it compete in the lucrative iOS market.
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News: Facebook wins first IPO shareholder case
Facebook has scored an initial legal victory in its IPO case following a federal judge's dismissal of a group of investor lawsuits filed against the company.
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News: Lawmakers, business execs defend privacy in CISPA
Privacy and digital rights groups are overstating the privacy concerns in a controversial cyberthreat information bill introduced this week in the U.S. Congress, the bill's sponsors and leaders of some business groups said.
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News: Google updates Google Now, makes it more prominent on phones
Google is rolling out some enhancements to Google Now, a mobile app that gives Android users personalized information on the fly. The changes could help make the tool a bigger part of people's daily lives.
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News: Google updates Google Now, makes it more prominent on phones
Google is rolling out some enhancements to Google Now, a mobile app that gives Android users personalized information on the fly. The changes could help make the tool a bigger part of people's daily lives.
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News: Google updates Google Now, makes it more prominent on phones
Google is rolling out some enhancements to Google Now, a mobile app that gives Android users personalized information on the fly. The changes could help make the tool a bigger part of people's daily lives.
- 13 February 2013
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News: Lawmakers reintroduce cyberthreat information-sharing bill
Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital rights groups.
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News: Lawmakers reintroduce cyberthreat information-sharing bill
Two U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill over the objections of some privacy advocates and digital rights groups.
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News: Ultimate Google toolbox: 20 tips, tricks, and hacks
Google's search, mail, maps, and cloud services are practically de facto public utilities. Fire up your browser, and there Google is. But don't take Google for granted--there's much more to its core services than meets the eye.
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News: Ultimate Google toolbox: 20 tips, tricks, and hacks
Google's search, mail, maps, and cloud services are practically de facto public utilities. Fire up your browser, and there Google is. But don't take Google for granted--there's much more to its core services than meets the eye.
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News: Ultimate Google toolbox: 20 tips, tricks, and hacks
Google's search, mail, maps, and cloud services are practically de facto public utilities. Fire up your browser, and there Google is. But don't take Google for granted--there's much more to its core services than meets the eye.
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