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U.S. uses Internet over newspapers, but TV still tops

A recent Pew Research Center study found that four out of ten U.S. citizens use the Internet, bypassing newspapers for the first time as the source for their national and...

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Australian cricket going down the tube - the YouTube, that is

Cricket Australia is joining big-name sports leagues and bodies by starting its own YouTube Channel. Will this test match the success other sports have achieved in terms of attracting an...

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Would you rather do the internet or have sex?

Intel and Harris Interactive surveyed over two thousand American adults. The survey found that nearly 50% of the women and 30% of the men would give up sex for two...

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Geeks seek to hack depression

It's easy to tell an extroverted IT professional: they're staring at YOUR shoes. Jokes aside, the stereotypical computing worker may be hiding a dark secret. Yet, they're not alone, according...

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Scrabulous developer settles Hasbro lawsuit, but the Facebook game has changed

Indian software developer RJ Softwares has settled its long-running legal dispute with Hasbro over offering Scrabble-like word games for users of Facebook, but one consequence for players is that the...

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Age and disability should be no barrier to web usage, says W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has introduced a new standard to help Web designers and developers create sites that better meet the needs of older users and those with...

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Bebo Social Inbox unites disparate feeds

A new feature of AOL's Bebo social media network allows users to gather together diverse aspects of their online life. The Social Inbox unites various feeds and mail services.

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Gmail adds simple Task lists

Tasks in Gmail is one of the most often requested features. In an early Christmas present for many people, in the past few days, Google has released a Labs application...

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Wikimedia welcomes IWF backdown in album cover controversy

The censorship decision that led to some or all of Wikipedia becoming inaccessible to up to 95 percent of UK Internet users has been reversed.

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UK Wikipedia filter a sign of things to come?

As the outrage continues to build in Australia over Government plans to introduce mandatory Internet filtering for ISPs, a furor has erupted in Britain over a number of UK ISPs...

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Zoho launches SQL cloud data access service

Cloud computing and SaaS provider Zoho has developed a new service that aims to bridge the divide between data stored in the cloud and traditional locally stored applications.

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Click fraud: advertisers to watch closely in 2009

A new report says that “click fraud” will shape advertiser decisions in 2009, while CFN’s “Click Fraud Index” shows that “the growth in click fraud traffic from botnets continues to rise and...

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Google tweaks Street View

Improvements to Google Maps' sometimes controversial Street View feature make it easier to images for a location on a map.

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YouTube bigs it up with widescreen player

Fed up with letterboxed content in YouTube? The Google subsidiary's new player presents movies in the 16:9 widescreen format.

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Super High Definition video streamed around the world

The first 4K Super High Definition video stream to Australia has just been delivered to the University of Queensland. The 4K format has been proposed as a standard for the...

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Cloud computing could be white knight in economic downturn

While cloud computing cops a bashing from some industry pundits, it could in fact be one of the more important factors in helping enterprises cope with the economic downturn. This is the...

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Dave Barmy trapped by wife’s virtual dick

When cartoons get caught with their pants down, the real life consequences are not always funny - as Dave Barmy has discovered.

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Finally, EstDomains to be Terminated by ICANN

After an on-again, off-again saga, EstDomains has been advised of irrevocable termination of their status of ICANN-accredited registrar.

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One in four domain name servers wide open to attack

Dan Kaminsky's discovery earlier this year of a new way to attack domain name servers caused near panic in the global Internet community and a rush to implement protection measures....

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IBM hired to build power line broadband networks

IBM is to provide the project management for a major build of Broadband over Power Line (BPL) networks in rural areas of the eastern United States for International Broadband Electric...

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