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MSNBC
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Apple said Monday its online stores in the U.S. and U.K. are sold out of the iPhone, a sign supplies are being winnowed ahead of the launch of the device's next generation featuring faster Internet surfing speeds.
The Cupertino-based company confirmed..
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MSNBC
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You're never too old to fall in love.
That's what Yoji Kawamura figured after retiring at the age of 62 and deciding that part-time work and his new hobbies of photography and computers weren't enough to fill his days.
Like a small but growing numbe..
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MSNBC
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Facebook said on Tuesday it is introducing new privacy controls that give users of the fast-growing social networking site the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online.
Facebook executives told reporters at..
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BusinessWeek
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The official marriage of search- and display-ad titans Google and DoubleClick may take a while to pay off, but it deals a blow to Microsoft now
The long-awaited completion of Google's $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick will kick off a new online adve..
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MSNBC
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Microsoft Corp.'s online advertising researchers will spend this year teaching computers to be smart about sticking ads into video clips, and to be even smarter about targeting ads to specific Web surfers.
Microsoft showed off a handful of early-stage..
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BusinessWeek
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A plan to offer online video rentals could turn up the heat on Netflix and Amazon—and reinvigorate interest in Apple TV
In much the same way it upended online distribution of music, Apple may now be poised to redefine the way movies are rented online..
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BBC News
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A website which facilitated the online exchange of films, music and TV programmes without permission has lost a US copyright case.
TorrentSpy was taken to court by the Motion Picture Association of America.
A judge made a default ruling in favour of..
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BBC News
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Microsoft has bought online mapping company Multimap to expand its web business, the US firm said.
Multimap, which was established in 1996, is among the UK's top 10 visited websites, receiving more than 10 million users each month.
Microsoft hopes t..
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MSNBC
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Expect cheers among hardcore online game enthusiasts when they learn Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Or, more accurately, expect them to "w00t."
"W00t," a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness, topped all other..
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New York Times
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The foundation that runs Wikipedia has finally agreed to pay contributors to the online encyclopedia a modest fee for their work. But it won’t pay the thousands of people who participate in creating the wiki pages — just artists who create “key illu..
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MSNBC
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Some users of the online hangout Facebook are complaining that its two-week-old marketing program is publicizing their purchases for friends to see.
Those users say they never noticed a small box that appears on a corner of their Web browsers following..
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BBC News
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The first online anti-bullying channel has been launched to encourage young people to denounce the intimidation.
YouTube has set up a site where youngsters can post their own videos and messages.
It follows growing concern about the increase in pers..
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BusinessWeek
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Can more targeted pitches on Facebook and other sites reverse the shrinking response to online ads?
In June, Luke Mitchell's student marketing service, Reach Students, ran a series of Web ads to promote an offer from a major parcel delivery service. Th..
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Los Angeles Times
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Stung by the recent success of rival Blockbuster Inc., online DVD rental pioneer Netflix Inc. battled back in the third quarter with lower prices that revived subscriber growth and catapulted its profit well beyond analyst expectations.
The news, relea..
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BBC News
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An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the CIA was involved in editing entries.
Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency's computers made edits to the page of I..
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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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Yahoo News
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Yahoo Inc. is greatly expanding its relationship with the newspaper industry, announcing the addition Monday of four new publishing companies to a consortium that works with the Internet company to sell advertising online.
Yahoo is also broadening the..
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New York Times
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Google reached an agreement today to acquire DoubleClick, the online advertising company, from two private equity firms for $3.1 billion in cash, the companies announced, an amount that was almost double the $1.65 billion in stock that Google paid for You..
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Yahoo News
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Videos removed at the behest of copyright owners accounted for only a small percentage of viewership on top online video service YouTube, according to a study published this week, drawing the ire of media companies that dispute this conclusion.
Less th..
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Los Angeles Times
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The handful of people who have gathered on the patio of a Pasadena coffeehouse are either the answer, or the big question mark, in the upcoming presidential election.
They have come at the behest of Mike Barako, a Los Angeles special-ed teacher who has..
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