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Amazon Lowers Costs for Its S3 Online Storage (NewsFactor)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:51:59 GMT
NewsFactor - Amazon Web Services announced Friday that it will be lowering prices for its Simple Storage Service, known as Amazon S3. Beginning Nov. 1, there will be new volume discounts, based on a tiered pricing structure that offers greater discounts as storage volume increases.
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IBM builds online version of China's famed Forbidden City (AFP)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:50:48 GMT
AFP - IBM on Friday opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that served for centuries as an exclusive realm for the nation's emperors.
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Zoho Mail Goes Public With Offline Capabilities (NewsFactor)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:49:59 GMT
NewsFactor - Zoho Mail has emerged from its private beta-testing stage. Tapping functionality built into Google Gears, Zoho's Web-based e-mail application now sports a "setup offline" link at the top of the page that gives users offline e-mail access.
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Sinking shares could make Yahoo a target again (AP)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:47:25 GMT
AP - When Yahoo Inc. co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang spurned Microsoft Corp.'s rich buyout offer this spring, he promised brighter days in Sunnyvale were just over the horizon.
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Yoo-Hoo! Google's Satellite Can See You Much Better (NewsFactor)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:20:55 GMT
NewsFactor - For people who worry that it's impossible to escape from Google's amazing search capabilities, the ability to hide just got harder. Last month, Google helped sponsor the launch of the high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After a month of calibration and testing, the satellite's first image was released Friday by Satellite Imaging, a Houston-based remote sensing and survey company.
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Ray Kurzweil Launches MMO Forecasting Game (PC Magazine)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:45:32 GMT
PC Magazine - Crystal ball-peering transhumanist Ray Kurzweil has recently unveiled the world's first massively multiplayer online forecasting game, Superstruct.
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'Lord of the Rings Online' Expansion Drops Nov. 19 (PC Magazine)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:40:57 GMT
PC Magazine - On November 18, Codemasters and Turbine will release Mines of Moria, the first expansion to The Lord of the Rings Online. But only a dedicated fan is going to have time, given that its chief competitor, World of Warcraft, releases its own expansion a few days earlier.
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Kazakh bloggers say can't access popular website (Reuters)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:15:10 GMT
Reuters - Internet users in Kazakhstan complained of censorship Friday after being unable to access the popular blogging service Livejournal, but the state-owned telecoms company denied it was blocking it.
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Microsoft elaborates on Oslo (InfoWorld)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:00:00 GMT
InfoWorld - Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering code names and citing the company's DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform.
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SlingCatcher Outruns Digital Media Boxes (NewsFactor)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:08:44 GMT
NewsFactor - On Thursday, Sling Media pushed out its latest innovation -- the SlingCatcher. The SlingCatcher lets customers watch online video from a diverse spectrum of sites on the Internet, including network television venues like ABC.com, video content sites like Hulu.com and CollegeHumor.com, community video sites like YouTube, and even online movie rentals from popular services like Netflix.
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President signs broadband data collection bill (CNET)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:59:00 GMT
CNET - President Bush on Friday signed into law a bill that would facilitate the collection of data regarding broadband access in the United States, though most of the actions required by the law have already been accomplished by federal regulators.
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Ben Huh can has successful business model? (CNET)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:45:00 GMT
CNET - LONDON--On Thursday afternoon at the Future of Web Apps conference, I had to make a choice: Was I going to blog about a talk hosted by Six Apart engineer David Recordon, talking about the "open social Web," or a talk by Ben Huh, the "Chief Cheezburger" of goofy "lolcat" meme site ICanHasCheezburger.com?
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Google-sponsored satellite sends first image (AFP)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:36:45 GMT
AFP - A Google-sponsored satellite has beamed its first picture back to Earth in a successful test of a camera that will supply images for the Internet giant's free online map and navigation services.
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Wall Street gives Net titans price cut, sector caution (CNET)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:51:00 GMT
CNET - A number of Internet titans received an across-the-board stock target haircut on Thursday from UBS Securities analyst Ben Schachter, who said a weakening economic outlook is expected to take a toll on display advertising and, to a lesser degree, search advertising.
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Web traffic jam as people search for financial news (AFP)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:22:44 GMT
AFP - The financial crisis has people flocking to the Internet for the latest money news along with tips on how to salvage investments and save on the routine costs of living.
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Google extends AdSense to online games (Reuters)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:28:55 GMT
Reuters - Google Inc on Wednesday launched technology to insert advertisements into online video games and boost revenue from the booming gaming sector.
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Web TV shows porn, without the sex (Reuters)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:13:26 GMT
Reuters - It started when three brothers joked about making pornography for fans of the genre who happen to be offended by on-screen sex. Out of that joke came an idea for a website, and they called it "PG Porn."
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Google adds computer games to online advertising kingdom (AFP)

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:48:19 GMT
AFP - Google said Wednesday that it is expanding its advertising kingdom to include the booming online computer game market.
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Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses (AP)

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:48:11 GMT
AP - Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker.
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Web Surfers Face Dangerous New Threat: 'Clickjacking' (NewsFactor)

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:47:54 GMT
NewsFactor - Internet and Web browser security experts are sounding the alarm about a new type of malicious attack called "clickjacking," a technique that can be used to dupe Web surfers into revealing confidential information while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. Among other things, a clickjacking attack can be used to take control of a computer's Webcam and microphone without the knowledge of the user.
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