Latest Internet News
- 14 October 2013
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News: Coming soon to your cable box: Netflix?
Netflix casts a wide net when it comes to device support: The streaming video service works on Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, TiVo, smartphones, tablets, connected TVs, and more. One device Netflix doesn't play nice with, however, is your cable provider's set-top box.
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News: Brazil to fortify government email system following NSA snooping revelations
The Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service, known as Serpro, will build a secure email system for Brazil's federal government following media reports that foreign intelligence agencies intercepted electronic communications in the country.
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News: Microsoft ships tool to block IE11 on Windows 7
Microsoft on Friday shipped a toolkit to block Internet Explorer 11 from automatically installing on Windows 7 PCs, a signal that the new browser will release in the next few weeks.
- 11 October 2013
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News: Report: Broadcasters ask high court to shut down Aereo TV streaming service
A cadre of prominent broadcasters including ABC and CBS petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to shut down Aereo, a television streaming service, alleging that Aereo infringes their copyrights and puts their businesses at risk, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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News: Google reportedly will kill Google TV so that Android TV may live
In move that will shock very few people, it appears that Google is getting ready to put the kibosh on its Google TV brand.
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News: Video autoplay comes to Instagram, but you can set some limits
Tucked into an otherwise innocuous update, Instagram added an arguably more significant feature to its fresh video capabilities for both iOS and Android.
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News: Google to feature user recommendations in ads
Google will feature users in advertisements that run on its suite of websites when those users recommend products or stores.
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News: Major payment players close in on mobile
Visa, Eftpos and Bendigo Bank said enabling mobile payments is a critical part of their near-term business strategies.
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News: China's Alibaba backs Amazon rival ShopRunner
Alibaba Group is targeting the U.S. market with a US$200 million investment in ShopRunner, an online retailer that competes with Amazon.com, a source familiar with the deal said Friday.
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News: Google's Malaysia site latest to be felled in DNS attacks
Google's website for Malaysia was briefly tampered with on Friday, underscoring continuing weaknesses in entities administering crucial website address database records.
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News: Hadoop, Web 2.0 get a path to tape for cheap long-term storage
An appliance designed for Web 2.0 companies may take them back to the future with tape storage.
- 10 October 2013
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News: Soon, everyone will be searchable on Facebook
In a matter of weeks, everyone on Facebook will be searchable by name. But you'll still have ways to control who sees your content, as long as you can navigate Facebook's web of privacy controls.
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News: Report: Microsoft cookies would share data between desktop, mobile, Xbox
Microsoft is baking a replacement cookie technology that would share content between mobile and desktop PC browsers, and even the Xbox, in an effort to take the growing market for mobile ads and target them even more effectively at the end user.
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News: Twitter optimizes Android app for one tablet -- the Galaxy Note 10.1
Maybe Android tablets are getting more impressive. Maybe Samsung just has a lot of clout. Whatever the reason, Twitter decided to develop an Android tablet-optimized version of its official app with a few features that are "unique" for Samsung and just one of its tablets.
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News: People flock to anonymizing services after NSA snooping reports
Companies offering anonymous Web browsing and communication services are seeing a huge increase in business since recent news leaks about the U.S. National Security Agency's mass data collection and surveillance activities.
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News: Twitter appears to try out a news delivery service
Twitter is known to experiment with new features to give its users more ways to find and follow content. Here's what appears to be the latest: a news delivery service.
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News: Aereo's broadcast TV streaming coming to Android this month
After expanding to Utah, Miami, Houston, and Dallas this summer, Aereo--the contentious streaming service that lets you stream local broadcast television over the web--is ready to invade its next big market: the Android nation. After months of promises, Aereo for Android will finally land in Google Play on Tuesday, October 22.
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News: Twitter's Event Parrot account experiments with personalized news alerts
Twitter is renowned for being a go-to resource for real time information about news events such as thepursuit of the Boston marathon bombing suspects or moments of civil unrest in Egypt. Hoping to capitalize on one of its strength, Twitter appears to be testing personalized news recommendations to its users in 140 character bursts.
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News: Mobile ads double in first half of 2013, reaching $3B
Revenue from mobile ads and searches more than doubled in the first half of 2013, reaching $3 billion, as advertisers began seeing value in offering ads over tablets and smartphones.
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News: EU court holds news website liable for readers' comments
Seven top E.U. judges ruled Thursday that a leading Internet news website was legally responsible for offensive views posted by readers in the comments section.
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