Latest Internet News
- 23 October 2013
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News: EU leaders consider tougher taxation of online service providers
European Union leaders will meet to discuss the digital economy for the first time on Thursday.
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News: Yahoo to review redacted FISA papers before release
The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has allowed Yahoo's counsel to review declassified documents from a 2008 dispute over data disclosure, after the company said the public release of documents redacted by the government could lead to its role being misunderstood.
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News: Facebook removes gruesome video, examining its policies
A gruesome video that was recently noticed on Facebook and allowed by the company was removed Tuesday, as the social network looks to strengthen its policies around the posting of graphic content.
- 22 October 2013
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News: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is not breaking up with Android
Rumors that Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi might be breaking from Android to develop its own mobile operating system are not true, company executives said on Tuesday.
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News: Network Solutions reports more DNS problems
Network Solutions said Tuesday it was trying to restore services after another DNS (Domain Name System) problem.
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News: Ex-Googler Hugo Barra gushes over Chinese Xiaomi's fanboys
Ex-Googler Hugo Barra has a thing for the fans -- but not Google's.
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News: 'Russian Facebook' CEO Durov disses Zuckerberg, but loves Edward Snowden
Pavel Durov, the CEO of the Russian social networking site VK, does not think very highly of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Edward Snowden instead is his personal hero.
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News: Microsoft repackages popular websites as apps to fill out the Windows Phone Store
Microsoft has been working hard to coax popular apps such asPandora and Tumblr over to Windows Phone in recent months, and in the coming days, Instagram and Flipboard will be the latest mega-popular smartphone apps added to that list. But despite the numerous big name "gets," Microsoft is still trailing Android and iOS when it comes to apps.
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News: Protect your Facebook account from hackers with two-factor authentication
Nobody likes it when their friends suddenly start spewing links to weight-loss supplements and porn on Facebook. Don't be that person. Using Facebook's two-factor authentication feature can help keep undesireables out of your account--perhaps saving some friendships.
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News: Safari sets the bar for mobile browser usability
People are increasingly relying on smartphones and tablets for their computing needs, which means that those users also depend on the mobile browser for their Web surfing. A new survey from FixYa compiles customer input to rank how users feel about the different mobile browser options.
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News: Amazon announces ten-dollar increase to free-shipping minimum
Amazon raised its free shipping minimum on Tuesday from $25 to $35. You won't find this change telegraphed on the main page next to the Kindle. In fact, it's kind of hard to find at all.
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News: From Windows 8.1 to Surface 2 and beyond: What Microsoft's ecosystem needs to thrive
Microsoft's Surface 2 tablets finally go on sale today--so it's a good time to begin thinking about the real impact these devices will have on the greater Microsoft ecosystem. Indeed, ever since the tablets were introduced in late September, most people have been thinking about them the wrong way--the old way, considering them in isolation rather than as individual members of a cohesive team.
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News: Google unveils an anti-DDoS platform for human rights organizations and media, but will it work?
On Monday, Google announced a beta service that will offer DDoS protection to human rights organizations and media, in and effort to slow the amount of censorship that such attacks cause.
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News: U.S. VPN provider shuts consumer service in response to Lavabit case
A VPN provider based in California has decided to shutter its privacy-conscious service rather than hand over its encryption keys to the U.S. government. This continues what can only be described as a chilling effect stemming from the government's aggressive moves to monitor online communications.
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News: Yahoo ordered not to stall Bing rollout in Taiwan, Hong Kong
A court in New York has upheld an arbitration award requiring Yahoo not to delay the roll out of Bing services in Taiwan and Hong Kong under a 2009 agreement.
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News: Google offers DDoS defenses to human rights, elections websites
Google is lending its vast infrastructure to websites that may be targeted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks because of their content.
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News: App developers get first crack at Facebook video ads
Facebook's much-discussed--and oft-criticized--plans to introduced video ads are out of the test phase and into the wild. The social network said Monday that video ads will soon appear in your News Feed.
- 21 October 2013
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News: Transit strike boosts ride-sharing apps in San Francisco
If there's any U.S. city whose citizens are likely to use technology to alleviate a transit strike, San Francisco is it. On Monday, ride-sharing and car-hailing services, many fueled by smartphone apps, reported increased use after a strike halted America's fifth-largest light rail system, the Bay Area Rapid Transit.
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News: Google brings Maps to business owners with Maps Engine Pro
Google wants to turn business owners into cartographers with a new mapping tool designed to visualize their companies' data.
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News: Facebook is broken: Status update error messages abound
The horror is over. Facebook is back to normal.
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