I had the misfortune to live in Manhattan during the ’80s, when all conversations turned ineluctably to real estate and the shops and people that made New York interesting were being wiped out by a boom economy. Then, you’d see a slightly faded kosher butcher shop replaced by an Italian fusion [...]
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Tens of thousands of Napster users who were denied access to the online music sharing software company at the request of the band Metallica want to log back on.
Napster Inc. officials announced Tuesday it received notice from more than 30,000 users claiming they were misidentified as having illegally traded Metallica’s copyrighted [...]
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Forget privacy seals, forget air-tight security.
They’re both essential components of online data protection. But, if you ask Austin Hill, the key to keeping personal data private is for users to have absolute control over their online identity.
“From an economics point of view, your data is becoming a commodity,” said Hill, president of [...]
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Orange (France Telecom) and the online encyclopedia Wikipedia announced Thursday it has signed a partnership to make the site accessible from the Internet portal and mobile operator and work together on new services.
“This partnership, the first of its kind, is aimed firstly at increasing access to contents Wikimedia (the name of the foundation that oversees [...]
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This is a fledgling, but maybe the beginning of a new web language. Google Labs has unveiled Monday O3D application, a new programming interface (API) for creating 3D content for web pages.
This is an open application, launched by Google in order to create standards for programming the web 3D.
Google and its grain of salt in [...]
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Conficker did nothing more than what the computer experts on the planet, who try to contain it, waiting for: he transferred on 1 April, increasing its resistance and its initiators making more difficult to pirate localiser.Les are behind Conficker have not yet given specific orders, but “there are still millions of PCs that may, unbeknownst [...]
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The web page optimization is the process of changing information from a website to improve its position in Internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, etc..
Also known as SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Optimization of web pages is to apply several techniques to improve the position of your website on Internet search engines. This [...]
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A domain name registrar recently accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has allegedly released for sale several URLs that had already been purchased.
Customers say BulkRegister recently sold several domain names to customers then released them for sale again a day or two later. The names were later [...]
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A Presbyterian minister will begin serving a six-month suspension of duties today for what a judicial committee found to be the downloading of pornographic materials onto his church’s computer.
The Rev. David Bowman of the First Presbyterian Church has been ordered to seek personal and spiritual counseling during his six-month suspension. Bowman [...]
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