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(AP) -- With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they run in their shrinking ...

Technology / Internet

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 11




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Smartphones, laptops easy to trace but hard to recover

The stolen laptop sent its owner a hopeful message just hours after it had been spirited out of his south Minneapolis home. The message included the exact spot where the laptop had been taken and, conveniently, a photo covertly ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Hackers hijack Twitter accounts of Chavez critics

(AP) -- Over months, Venezuelan TV soap opera writer Leonardo Padron built a Twitter following of about 250,000 people by posting more than a dozen messages a day, many of them skewering President Hugo Chavez.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bartz blasts Yahoo! board

Fired Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz has responded to her dismissal with a characteristically salty blast at the board of directors of the Internet company.

Technology / Business

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cisco's 4Q results, outlook top analyst views

(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. provided a small measure of comfort to the battered stock market late Wednesday with quarterly results that underscored the technology bellwether's resolve to improve its financial performance.

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created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WiFi 'napping' doubles phone battery life

A Duke University graduate student has found a way to double the battery life of mobile devices – such as smartphones or laptop computers – by making changes to WiFi technology.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Blue Jeans Network makes video calls a casual fit

Well-funded start-up Blue Jeans Network (BJN) came out of stealth mode on Wednesday with a service intended to make video conferences as common as telephone calls.

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created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sony's Stringer 'sorry' over data breach

Sony chairman and president Howard Stringer on Tuesday apologised to shareholders and customers over a massive data leak, which helped push its its share price to a two-year low this month.

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created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Technology addiction takes toll in Asia

A baby girl starves to death as her parents raise a virtual child online; a boy scolded for excessive gaming kills his mother then commits suicide -- technology addiction is taking a toll in Asia.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google unveils payment platform for online content

Google unveiled an online payment platform for publishers on Wednesday, a day after Apple launched a subscription service of its own for newspapers, magazines, music and video. ...

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created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hate mobs thrive in Asia's booming social media

A teenager involved in a car crash that killed nine people in Thailand deserves "no happiness forever", according to just one of more than 300,000 Facebook users who support a page set up to condemn her.

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created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 9


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