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MSNBC
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What's scary, funny and boring at the same time? It could be a bad horror movie. Or it could be the fine print on your Internet service provider's contract.
Those documents you agree to — usually without reading — ostensibly allow your ISP to watch..
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MSNBC
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Comcast Corp. will start offering faster Internet services in Minnesota's Twin Cities region on Thursday, with plans to extend that type of next-generation system to its entire service area by 2010.
The $150-a-month offering for residential customers c..
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MSNBC
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Sony Corp.'s first Blu-ray disc player that can download bonus materials like trailers and games from the Internet will debut this summer, the company announced Tuesday.
It will be the first new player from Sony, the inventor of Blu-ray, since the form..
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MSNBC
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Unshaken by a two-year losing streak, Yahoo Inc. is poised to take its biggest gamble yet by rejecting Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited bid to buy the slumping Internet icon for $44.6 billion.
Yahoo’s board decided to spurn the takeover bid, originall..
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CNN
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Dubai, renowned for its high-technology facilities, has seen many of its services paralyzed by an extensive Internet failure which affected much of Asia and the Middle East on Thursday. A major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started..
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BBC News
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Google has announced it is in the running for a slice of the US airwaves that would allow it to launch a nationwide wireless internet network.
Part of the spectrum, called the C Block, is being sold by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in..
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Yahoo News
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Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.
The interference, which The Associated Press..
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Ars Technica
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DRM is certainly unpopular, but does it also break the law? A new report from the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (PDF) finds that many DRM technologies appear to violate Canadian privacy laws by gathering inappropriate personal inform..
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Ars Technica
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In a presentation before the European Parliament last week, EU security commissioner Franco Frattini outlined a new set of anti-terror proposals, including plans for a Europol explosives database, airplane passenger list databases, and legislation that wo..
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The Register
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Google is flirting with yet another effort to offer unfettered internet access over American airwaves, and as usual, it's facing endless back-and-forth with the FCC.
Last Thursday, the world's largest search engine sent a note to the good ol' Federal C..
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www.australianit.news.com.au
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JOHN Howard is going to spend $189 million on "cleaning up the internet" for Australian families, blocking pornography, upgrading the search for chat-room sex predators and cutting off terror sites.
Every Australian family will be provided with a free..
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Los Angeles Times
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A federal appeals panel has declined to delay a substantial increase in royalties that Internet radio stations must pay for playing music, clearing the way for the rates to take effect Sunday.
Webcasters had sought an emergency stay from the U.S. Court..
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Washington Post
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If you listen to music, news or other programming via the Internet, you're likely to find a soundstream of silence today. The Day of Silence is a one-day protest being staged by big corporate web radio outlets, innovative smaller companies that are trying..
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Times Online
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There was encouraging news for the growing army of Google-haters yesterday when a leading internet advertising researcher suggested that the search engine’s stranglehold on online promotions was looser than he had expected.
Bill Tancer, a research an..
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Wired
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Friday marks the final day for citizens, corporations, and paid spinmeisters alike to file comments with government regulators on Net Neutrality, a principle that ISPs should treat internet traffic equally. As ISPs like Comcast and AT&T increasingly offe..
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Ars Technica
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In a move that has executives from movie studios and record labels grinning from ear to ear, AT&T has announced that it will develop and deploy technology that will attempt to keep pirated content off its network. The move is spurred in part by the compan..
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Los Angeles Times
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When she competes, Allison Stokke's entire focus is the path in front of her, a narrow stretch of crushed rock leading to a bar balancing between stanchions that soar toward the sky. And when she dashes down that runway, her hands grasping a 13-foot pole..
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BBC News
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Chatroom users who watched a man apparently commit suicide over the internet will not face charges, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.
Kevin Whitrick, 42, of Wellington, Shropshire, broadcast his death over the internet in March.
The father-of-..
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Washington Post
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A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Google did not infringe on the copyrights of an adult publishing company by displaying thumbnail images of its nude photographs, handing Internet search companies a victory by allowing the display of such minia..
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FOX News
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A broad survey about the technology people have, how they use it, and what they think about it shatters assumptions and reveals where companies might be able to expand their audiences.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that adult America..
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