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 Google courts bloggers-politicos at US presidential conventions
(AFP) |  AFP - Google will be pampering bloggers and tutoring US policy makers at Democratic and Republican national conventions as Internet culture flexes growing political muscle.
| | Web site educates about hiring war vets
(AP) | | AP - They survived war, but for some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans going to work back home isn't easy, either. | | China limits use of Olympians' names online
(AP) |  AP - China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists' names as Internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves.
| | A modern electoral tradition: selling votes on eBay
(AFP) |  AFP - Ever since the online auction site eBay sprung up 10 years ago as a hub for selling just about everything imaginable, a handful of Americans has tried to sell votes, even though it is illegal.
| | EBay lowering fixed-price sellers' listing fees
(Reuters) |  Reuters - EBay Inc is cutting the fees U.S.
sellers on its site pay for fixed-price items, in one of the
company's boldest moves this year to boost merchandise for
sale, lure new buyers and take on competitors.
| | Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
(AP) | | AP - Some people who sell things on eBay are fed up with new rules the company has been imposing in hopes of making the auction site more attractive to online shoppers. Now even more changes are coming in the next few weeks, but this time eBay Inc. hopes it can cool tempers. | | Olympian blogs range from the bland to the bitter
(AFP) |  AFP - Hugh MacDonald, Canadian's reserve archer for the Olympics, was not a happy blogger.
| | Apple updates iPhone software to fix glitches
(Reuters) |  Reuters - Apple Inc has issued a
software update for the latest iPhone to help fix connection
problems that led to a flurry of online complaints from
customers, a European mobile service provider said on Tuesday
as Credit Suisse reported strong U.S. sales of the device.
| | UK online retail sales up 11 pct in July: survey
(Reuters) | | Reuters - Online retail sales in Britain rose by
11.3 percent in July compared to the month before as wet
weather boosted online clothing sales while electrical sales
also soared, a report said on Wednesday. | | Google outpaces search market growth
(CNET) | | CNET - Google's quantity searches in the United States during July surged 16 percent over the last year, cementing the company's lead at the top of the market, according to statistics released Tuesday by Nielsen Online. | | Attention shoppers: Website promises best deal
(Reuters) | | Reuters - U.S. and UK shoppers in the market for
a television, dishwasher or other big ticket purchases now have
a website that will alert them when the cost of an item they
want drops to a target price they have set. | | Microsoft pursues search improvements, sans Yahoo
(InfoWorld) | | InfoWorld - While the company only has a 10 percent share of the search market with its Live Search technology, Microsoft has big plans to enhance its platform regardless of what happens with its now-dormant proposal to buy Yahoo. | | Friendster supports applications for rival sites
(AP) | | AP - Friendster, an early online social network that has faded in the United States but remains strong in Asia, has begun letting programmers create photo-sharing applications and other programs that work on Friendster as well as rival sites. | | Clueless about trading? Start networking online
(AP) |  AP - Erin O'Brien and her friends are do-it-yourself investors.
| | Bono pumps up the volume, lets slip new U2 songs
(Reuters) |  Reuters - Rock stars may have to rein in their
taste for loud music after a fan overheard U2 frontman Bono
listening to tracks from the group's forthcoming album and
recorded them before posting the songs on the Internet.
| | Google Releases Android SDK, Version 0.9
(NewsFactor) | | NewsFactor - A new beta software development kit is out for Android, the open-source mobile operating system backed by Google. Version 0.9 of the SDK was announced Monday on the Android Developers Blog. | | IOC wants opening ceremonies off file sharing site
(AP) | | AP - The International Olympic Committee is trying to stop downloads of video of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony that are being spread on The Pirate Bay, a file-sharing Web site. | | Germans urge tougher laws after new privacy scandal
(Reuters) | | Reuters - German politicians called for tougher
privacy laws on Tuesday after officials revealed personal and
financial information on millions of Germans was readily
available for cash on the Internet. | | British "Mr Fix-it" al Qaeda cyber-recruiter jailed
(Reuters) |  Reuters - A Briton described by prosecutors as a
terrorism "Mr Fix-it" who recruited young people to al Qaeda's
ideology over the Internet was jailed for 12 years on Tuesday
while one of his accomplices received a 10-year term.
| | Archos Introduces Internet Media Tablets
(PC Magazine) | | PC Magazine - Archos on Tuesday announced three new devices that Archos is calling "Internet Media Tablets." |
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| XELODA Official Site - Sponsored Link | | Ad - Learn About A Proven Effective Oral ChemotherapyGet More Info. | | Google launches Free The Airwaves | | Google on Monday announced the launch of FreetheAirWaves.com, a site promoting the unlicensed use of 'white space' spectrum. With the FCC expected to rule in the coming months on how to allocate unused bandwidth, Google is working with other technology | | Clipboards hijacked in web attack | | The links take victims to a fake selling fake anti-virus softwareComputer security firms are warning about an attack that hijacks the clipboard where copied text is stored.The attack puts a hard-to-delete weblink into the clipboard that, if followed, | | EBay's biggest challenge: Amazon.com | | Extract not available. | | Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Will the Olympics break the Internet? | | Okay, sky-is-falling fans and network neutrality proponents: Were about to find out whether the Internet can " or will " break down under the strain of mass consumption of streaming video. At least thats the opinion of Brick Eksten, the president and CEO | | Why the Olympics didn't 'melt' the Internet | | I admit it, even I was skeptical. When I received the first demonstration of the Silverlight plugin and the NBCOlympics.com web site back in March of this year at the , where a group of Open Source experts gathered from around the world were asked for | | Internet TV: watch this space | | The British internet TV market could generate revenues of 1.78bn by 2011, according to research carried out by technology company Alcatel-Lucent. Although the industry is in its infancy, several British companies, including TV website Joost, already | | Ancestry hunters stuck in past as web project fails | | Genealogists reacted with anger yesterday after it emerged that a government website, which promised direct access to 171 years of family records, had been delayed indefinitely following the failure of a Whitehall computer project. An attempt to scan, | | Google murders second Anonymous AdSense account | | Exclusive Google has shutdown the AdSense account of another anti-Scientology site. Three months after served to Enturbulation, a site dedicated to promoting activism against the Church of Scientology and all its related organizations, Google has done | | T-Mobile to Offer First Phone With Google Software | | T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google?s Android software, according to people briefed on the company?s plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile phones in the world, and is | | Microsoft, Google and Yahoo sued for foetus sex selection ads | | The Supreme Court of India has issued notices against Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! for advertising products to select the sex of foetuses. Sabu Mathew George filed the complaint against the three firms. He told the New York Times that the ads | | 2 Backed by Icahn to Join Yahoo Board | | Yahoo said on Thursday that it would add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board as part of the companys deal to avoid a proxy fight with the investor Carl C. Icahn. The company chose Frank J. Biondi Jr., the former chief | | Smartphone Is Expected via Google | | T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Googles The high-end phone is expected to match many of the capabilities of Apples iPhone and other so-called smartphones that run software from Palm, Research in Motion, Microsoft and | | Yahoo! board! adds! Icahn! allies! | | Following through on its pact with Wall Street kingpin Carl Icahn, Yahoo! said today that two Icahn pals have been added to its board of directors. In late July, Icahn called off his Yahoo! proxy battle in exchange for three board seats: one for himself | | Are you losing your memory thanks to the Internet? | | Extract not available. | | Yahoo! knows! where! you! Are! | | Yahoo's punter-locating database officially launched yesterday and already has privacy advocates in a flap, despite offering users complete control as well as expecting them to lie every now and then. Fire Eagle is a free central service to which punters | | Yahoo gets into place with Fire Eagle | | Yahoo has officially launched a new service, dubbed Fire Eagle, that lets internet users identify their physical location automatically. The middleware can be built into applications so that internet users can specify their geographical location at any | | AOL phisher jailed for 7 years | | A Connecticut man was sentenced to seven years in prison on Wednesday for masterminding a phishing scam targeting AOL members. Michael Dolan, 24 and of West Haven, Connecticut, was also ordered to serve three years' probation after his release. Dolan | | Woman to Woman, Online | | Heather Armstrongs wickedly funny blog about motherhood, Dooce, is more than just an outlet for the creativity and frustrations of a modern mother. The site, chock full of advertising, is a moneymaking machine - so much so that Ms. Armstrong and her | | eXpresso to expand online access to Office files | | While Microsoft considers whether it will release a version of its Office suite as an online service, a California-based startup is giving business users a way to view and share Web-based versions of Office documents through its own hosted service. |
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