Category Archives: Internet

10 sites to help you navigate the new world of music

By doris | Published: July 24, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com It’s hard to tell what’s legal when once-defunct sites like KaZaA and Napster –former bastions of illegal downloads — crawl out of the grave with legit subscription plans. And digital music offerings are expanding. Instead of buying CDs or downloading songs, younger consumers appear to be shifting toward streaming music online [...]

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Yahoo launching front page open to others’ content

By doris | Published: July 22, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Yahoo plans to let people in the United States start selecting a new, more personalized version of the home page beginning Tuesday afternoon. The revamp lets people select basic applications to use not just Yahoo sites, but also others’ such as eBay, Facebook, and Twitter, said Tapan Bhat, Yahoo’s senior vice [...]

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Google vs. Microsoft: What you need to know

By doris | Published: July 16, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com And not more than a month and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its new search engine Bing, which it hopes will steal market share from Google and finally make it real money online. From the news of it, it’s a full-blown tech battle, complete with behind-the-scenes machinations to sic government regulators [...]

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Odds are stacked against Chrome OS’s success

By doris | Published: July 12, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com In competing with Windows, Google Chrome OS will have to deal with many of the same challenges Linux has: compatibility, usability, and unfamiliarity. The record isn’t good: In the past year, Linux-based netbooks have rapidly lost market share to Microsoft, as people find that Linux doesn’t work as expected, may not [...]

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Glitch in antivirus software troubles PC users

By doris | Published: July 11, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN JOSE, Calif. – Antivirus software cuts two ways. It’s great at blocking known viruses, but it can sometimes misfire, mistakenly flagging clean files as malicious. That sends a computer into a tailspin trying to clean up stuff that’s supposed to be on there. The problem can crash a computer, and [...]

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Microsoft: Bing needs to improve when news breaks

By doris | Published: July 3, 2009

Full Story At NEWS.CNET.com One of the biggest news stories in years caught Microsoft’s Bing a little off guard. The flood of traffic on the Internet following reports that Michael Jackson had been rushed to a Los Angeles hospital last Thursday, where he later died, has been well documented: Google at first thought the surge [...]

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Debate: Can the Internet handle big breaking news?

By doris | Published: June 28, 2009

Full Story At News.CNET.Com t happens time and time again: when news breaks, the Internet slows. It’s quite obvious at this point that the Internet has muscled its way into the lives of anyone who needs information. And Michael Jackson’s death Thursday had as great an impact on the Internet as anything in the history [...]

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Bing swing: New search engine ups Redmond’s share

By doris | Published: June 10, 2009

Full Story At Tech.yahoo.com SEATTLE – In the week since Microsoft Corp. launched Bing, its new search engine, the software maker’s share of U.S. Web searches has crept into double digits for the first time in two years. But Bing’s early gain is no predictor of future success. After all, the last time that happened, [...]

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Web site tracks policy changes at popular sites

By doris | Published: June 5, 2009

Full Story At Tech.yahoo.com A new Web site unveiled Thursday will track policies imposed by popular Internet sites such as Facebook and Google, hoping to help users spot potentially harmful changes. TOSBack.org, the brainchild of privacy advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, will track terms of service modifications within hours of an update. The site will [...]

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Time Warner CEO hints at online fees for magazines

By doris | Published: June 1, 2009

Full Story At tech.Yahoo.com SAN FRANCISCO – Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes chimed in Friday with the chorus of publishers wondering how much longer newspapers and magazines can afford to keep giving away their stories on the Internet. “It makes no sense, as you all know, to run a publishing business with no [...]

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Microsoft reverses Windows 7 Starter limit

By doris | Published: May 31, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com SEATTLE – Microsoft said on Friday it would not limit the number of applications available at one time on the Starter edition of its upcoming Windows 7 operating system, reversing its earlier strategy of limiting its capabilities and urging users to upgrade. The move is a significant reversal for Microsoft as [...]

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Q&A: Electronic Health Records And You

By doris | Published: May 24, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CNET) Chuck Morton’s family suffered three disruptive data breaches when its bank, its credit union, and a credit card processor were penetrated by hackers on separate occasions. The laborious process of closing and reopening accounts took them weeks. So it’s little surprise that Morton, who lives in Greensboro, N.C., and [...]

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Computer virus strikes U.S. Marshals, FBI

By doris | Published: May 22, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected from the Justice Department’s computers as a protective measure after being hit by the virus; [...]

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Google Networking Error Caused Outage

By doris | Published: May 15, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News Updated at 12:25 p.m. PDT: Google has confirmed an error on its end caused the outage.Widespread outages involving several Google services – including search, Google Docs, and Gmail – were caused by an upgrade gone awry inside of Google, according to engineers. Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research for [...]

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Official: Craigslist to replace ‘blatant Internet brothel’

By doris | Published: May 14, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com The popular classified-ad Web site, which Blumenthal called “a blatant Internet brothel,” has been accused by law enforcement officials across the United States of promoting prostitution through its erotic ads. “Craigslist is heeding our clear call for conscience and common sense, sending a strong signal that Internet sites must police themselves [...]

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Parents, police monitoring kids’ cell phones

By doris | Published: April 21, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Harris, an investigator for the Child Sex Internet Investigations Unit in Jefferson County, Colorado, thought the service could be a new tool for combating sexual predators. Equipping his phone with the software, Harris posed as an underage child on social-networking sites and began luring pedophiles. He immediately got results. Since then, [...]

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Report: Management shakeup at Yahoo coming

By doris | Published: February 23, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Carol Bartz could announce a major management reorganization as early as next week, according to the blog AllThingsD. The Wall Street Journal-affiliated blog, citing several sources inside and outside the Internet company, said the revamp would likely come on Wednesday, although it could be [...]

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