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TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Feb 8, 2010 @ 9:02am neoform

CNN -- Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that's free of government censorship and barriers to information access... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Dec 23, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The "real-time Web" is booming. From Twitter to Facebook to new search engines that discover information posted just seconds ago, it seems the 2010 Web will be fueled by our desire for instant gratification... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Dec 18, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The popular microblogging Web site Twitter was hacked overnight, leaving the millions who use the site tweetless... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Nov 23, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Online auction giant eBay apologized Sunday for a daylong glitch that inactivated the search function on its Web site, and said it will compensate sellers for their losses... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Oct 7, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer. It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate. But so far, there have been several hitches. Not everyone has access to the Web, some governments censor the Internet, and we don't all speak the same language. Facebook and Google are trying to overcome this last obstacle... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Sep 29, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Google Wave, a product that promises to revolutionize online communication, will go out to about 100,000 beta testers Wednesday. The Web application from Google Inc. combines elements of e-mail, chat, Wiki documents, blogs and photo-sharing sites to create a form of Internet communication called a "hosted conversation," or a "wave.".. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Aug 19, 2009 @ 9:25am neoform

CNN -- One of the Web's basic tenets is that small contributions from lots of people can amount to something powerful in the aggregate. Now, a growing group of writers, musicians, visual artists and videographers is turning this Wikipedia-era philosophy into online collaborative art... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Aug 6, 2009 @ 9:02am neoform

CNN -- Some Web designers are staging an online revolt against an old version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, which they say is hampering the ability of the Web to move forward in a cool and interactive way... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Jul 7, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- His death nearly brought the Web to a standstill with several sites buckling under the sheer weight of traffic... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Jul 3, 2009 @ 3:01pm neoform

CNN -- Bored with Pearl, the cursing toddler landlord demanding rent money? Not amused by those cutesy pictures of cats with the baby-speak captions? Replenish your list of favorite bookmarks with these 10 new or lesser-known humor Web sites, including some that find comedy in real life... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Jun 15, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Stumped on a tough decision? New Web sites are there to help... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed May 7, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com. With the new security feature — slated to take effect Tuesday — people who search the Internet using Yahoo.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- 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. The.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Apr 2, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- Amazon.com Inc.'s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps ontheir cell phones. Amazon TextBuyIt, which launched late Tuesday, lets people.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Feb 6, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Dec 21, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The FTC ruled in Google's favor on Dec. 20, but the Web search giant still needs the approval of the EU's antitrust commission Score one for Google. The Federal Trade Commission ruled Dec. 20 that it would not block Google's (GOOG) proposed $3.1 billio.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Dec 13, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- 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.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Sep 6, 2007 @ 3:43pm neoform

BBC News -- Yahoo has moved to further strengthen its service to advertisers by buying web marketing business BlueLithium for $300m (�149.4m). Set up in 2004, BlueLithium provides technology enabling websites to better match adverts with users' interests. The.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 6:18pm neoform

Yahoo News -- The New York Times Co. plans to stop charging Internet users for access to its columnists and Op-Ed pieces on a section of its Web site known as TimesSelect, The New York Post reported on Tuesday. The Post, citing a source briefed on the matter, said a.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / OPINION Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 12:48pm neoform

Washington Post -- 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.. Read More