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MSNBC
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Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo.
Analysts and investor..
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BBC News
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People searching the web for information on suicide are more likely to find sites encouraging the act than offering support, a study says.
Researchers used four search engines to look for suicide-related sites, the British Medical Journal said.
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CNN
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A 28-mile "virtual fence" that will use radars and surveillance cameras to try to catch people entering the country illegally has gotten final government approval. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Friday was to announce approval of the fenc..
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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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BBC News
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Google has been told that it may be breaking European privacy laws by keeping people's search information on its servers for up to two years.
A data protection group that advises the European Union has written to the search giant to express concerns...
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Los Angeles Times
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Walt Disney Co. and Cox Communications Inc. are planning an experiment in Orange County this fall to gauge whether people who have advertising-skipping technology are really willing to watch commercials.
The trial program, unveiled Tuesday, will give C..
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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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BusinessWeek
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In British towns, people have been warned, fined, even arrested for using other people's Internet connections without permission
Think before logging onto your neighbour's wi-fi network for some free surfing - you're running the risk of a brush with th..
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CNN
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Two people have been arrested and cautioned for using someone else's wireless Internet connection without permission, known as "piggy-backing," police said on Wednesday.
The practice, which sharply divides Internet users, has been fueled by the rapid g..
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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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New York Times
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For an industry that’s built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths. Thousands of people believe that forwarding a certain e-mail message to 50 friends will bring great riches, that the gigahertz rating of a computer is a good comp..
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ZDNET
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"Storm Worm," one of the larger Trojan horse attacks in recent years, is baiting people with timely information about a deadly, real-life storm front, security researchers said Friday...
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CNET
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YouTube succeeded where Google Video didn't because users were able to see their videos posted immediately, Google executive Marissa Mayer said at the Web 2.0 Summit here on Thursday...
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BBC News
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Almost 500,000 people have been caught out by a booby-trapped media file, says security firm McAfee.
The fake file poses as a music track, short video or movie and has been widely seeded on file-sharing networks to snare victims.
McAfee said the fak..
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MSNBC
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The razor-sharp beaks that giant squids use to attack whales — and maybe even Captain Nemo's submarine — might one day lead to improved artificial limbs for people.
That deadly beak may be a surprise to many people, and has long posed a puzzle for..
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BBC News
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The latest version of web browser Firefox will make changes to the way people search for information online, says its developer.
Mozilla has told the BBC's World Service that the new browser has been designed around the importance of search to users...
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BBC News
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People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering.
A draft consultation suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over users who..
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BBC News
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More books are sold on the internet than any other product and the number is increasing, research suggests.
Polling company Nielsen Online surveyed 26,312 people in 48 countries. 41% of internet users had bought books online, it said.
This compares..
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MSNBC
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Intel Corp. is betting on a big expansion of "ultra-mobile" computing, an idea that depends on people being willing to tote around a portable device beyond their ubiquitous cell phones.
In an interview Monday at the International Consumer Electronics S..
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BBC News
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Handheld computers could help give a voice to the huge numbers of people that do not officially exist.
The gadgets are being used to gather data about the estimated one billion people who live in shanty towns.
The Mobile Metrix project aims to deter..
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