Category Archives: Internet

‘Mrs. Brady’ turns ‘cybermom’ to help seniors tackle tech

By doris | Published: October 20, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Now, actress Florence Henderson, otherwise known as Mrs. Brady, has a new mission: Helping older adults learn to use technology. Her new business, Floh Club, is a “telephone-based technical support service” focusing on people who didn’t grow up with computers — especially grandparents who want to stay in touch with family [...]

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‘Digital dirt’ can haunt your job search

By doris | Published: October 13, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CareerBuilder) — Just like Vegas, what happens on the Internet, stays on the Internet. How that affects your job search is up to you. Gone are the days when all you were concerned with was whether or not your résumé and cover letter were error-free. Now, you’ve got bigger things to [...]

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Doc makes more cash selling clothes on eBay

By doris | Published: October 9, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Lickteig runs a clothing store on eBay, where she’s a “Gold PowerSeller,” ranking among the top 1½ percent of merchants on the online marketplace. The 35-year-old family practitioner says she earned $120,000 last year on eBay, more than she did practicing medicine. “It’s just kind of this thrill,” she said. “It [...]

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Who’s the better translator: Machines or humans?

By doris | Published: October 8, 2009

Full Story at  CNN.com But, so far, there have been several hitches in that plan. Not everyone has access to a computer and a broadband connection. Some governments still censor the Internet. And of course, we don’t all speak the same language. For the World Wide Web to be truly global, shouldn’t Chinese speakers be [...]

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Cybersecurity starts at home and in the office

By doris | Published: October 5, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – When swine flu broke out, the government revved up a massive information campaign centered on three words: Wash your hands. The Obama administration now wants to convey similarly clear and concise guidance about one of the biggest national security threats in your home and office — the computer. Think [...]

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Google Wave to be released to 100,000 testers Wednesday

By doris | Published: September 30, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The Web application from Google Inc. combines elements of e-mail, chat, Wiki documents, blogs and photo-sharing sites to create a form of Internet communication called a “hosted conversation,” or a “wave.” Google demonstrated Wave at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, California, in May. The closed group of beta [...]

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Justice Department urges court to reject Google book deal

By doris | Published: September 19, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com In a highly anticipated announcement, Justice Department attorneys cited “class action, copyright, and antitrust” concerns in asking U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin in New York to reject the currently constructed class action settlement between Google and the Authors Guild, which had sued them. Despite the perceived problems, the federal government [...]

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Microsoft, Google expand search-engine tools

By doris | Published: September 17, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Or what if you’re in the market for a new camera? You saw a friend with a credit-card-thin model at a party last weekend. But was that a Canon? A Nikon? A brand you’ve never heard of? If you’re like many people, you’d turn to the Internet for answers. But you [...]

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Easy money can kill a business

By doris | Published: September 8, 2009

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com (Fortune Small Business) — In 2001, DNA Software won a $1.5 million, three-year grant from the state of Michigan to develop computer programs for genomics researchers. Four years later, the eight-employee Ann Arbor company was on the verge of bankruptcy. What happened? On paper DNA Software had been living every startup’s dream. [...]

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The future of libraries, with or without books

By doris | Published: September 5, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Books are being pushed aside for digital learning centers and gaming areas. “Loud rooms” that promote public discourse and group projects are taking over the bookish quiet. Hipster staffers who blog, chat on Twitter and care little about the Dewey Decimal System are edging out old-school librarians. And that’s just the [...]

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Can you trust free antivirus software?

By doris | Published: September 4, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com Free antivirus programs vary just as much as paid security programs do in the quality of their protection. And frugal computer users on the hunt for no-cost antivirus software — already faced with tons of options — will have even more to choose from when new free offerings from Microsoft and [...]

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$1 million Netflix prize to be awarded soon

By doris | Published: September 3, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com It’s been a long journey, but it’s almost over. Netflix said Tuesday it would announce the winner at an event in New York on Sept. 21 — where details about the Netflix Prize 2 sequel would also be unveiled. As things stand now, nobody outside of Netflix knows which team will [...]

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Gmail outage deprives millions of e-mail

By doris | Published: September 2, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The cause of the outage, which Google said lasted an hour and 45 minutes, was not apparent by early Tuesday evening. “We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now — we are too, and we definitely feel your pain,” Google Engineering Director David Besbris wrote in a [...]

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Report criticizes Yahoo over prescription-drug ads

By doris | Published: August 23, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Two small research firms, Legitscript.com and KnujOn.com, say that during a three-month period in the spring and early summer of 2009, Yahoo routinely accepted ads from dozens of online pharmacies that dispensed drugs without a valid prescription. The allegation is included in a new report by the two firms, which said [...]

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Twitter hit by denial-of-service attack

By doris | Published: August 7, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com It’s unclear if the attacks were coordinated against the social media sites. Twitter says its site’s blackout was caused by a “denial of service attack,” which likely means a hacker used a herd of infected computers to send bad information to the site to overwhelmed it. A post to Twitter’s blog [...]

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PayPal outage frustrates merchants, consumers

By doris | Published: August 4, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN JOSE, Calif.— PayPal suffered periodic breakdowns that crimped Internet sales for more than four hours Monday. The main outage occurred from 1:30 p.m. EDT through 2:30 p.m. when PayPal was unable to process any transactions worldwide, according to company spokesman Anuj Nayar. The online payment service continued to experience scattered [...]

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Hackers expose weakness in trusted sites

By doris | Published: August 3, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com LAS VEGAS – A powerful new type of Internet attack works like a telephone tap, but it operates between computers and Web sites they trust. Hackers at the Black Hat and DefCon security conferences have revealed a serious flaw in the way Web browsers weed out untrustworthy sites and block anybody [...]

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Jury awards $675K in Boston music downloading case

By doris | Published: August 1, 2009

Full Story atTech.yahoo.com BOSTON – A federal jury on Friday ordered a Boston University graduate student who admitted illegally downloading and sharing music online to pay $675,000 to four record labels. Joel Tenenbaum, of Providence, R.I., admitted in court that he downloaded and distributed 30 songs. The only issue for the jury to decide was [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo: Search partners

By doris | Published: July 30, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday in a bid to challenge Google’s dominance in online search. Under the 10-year deal, Yahoo.com and Bing.com will maintain their own branding but search results on Yahoo.com will say “powered by Bing.” Yahoo, in turn, will be responsible for [...]

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Verizon changes tune on Wi-Fi

By doris | Published: July 29, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com On Monday the company announced that customers subscribed to its Verizon Fios Internet service with 20Mbps per second downstream and 15Mbps upstream or faster and customers who subscribe to its 3Mbps/768 Kbps or higher DSL service will be able to connect to Verizon Wi-Fi hot spots, at no additional charge as [...]

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