Date: 02/25/05     Keywords: no keywords

Visa promises greater convenience with "contactless" payment cards, but will consumers and merchants bite?

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Date: 02/24/05     Keywords: no keywords

Beleaguered giant turns to hot Internet phone market in latest effort to bolster flagging dial-up business.

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Date: 02/24/05     Keywords: no keywords

Consumers spent 22 percent more online in the holiday quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, a report says.

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Date: 02/24/05     Keywords: no keywords

New feature lets people find local movie theaters, show times, other information via a PC or cell phone.

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Date: 02/24/05     Keywords: no keywords

The service, which was previously available only to AOL members, lets people personalize search results to their locale and review past queries.

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Date: 02/24/05     Keywords: microsoft

Customers report loss of new and saved messages, while Microsoft remains mum on the scope of the problem.

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Date: 02/24/05     Keywords: security

Homeland Security taps executive from Claria, aka Gator, a company once dubbed a "parasite" by online publishers.

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Date: 02/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

Jupiter says the search market will expand to niches such as travel and financial services.

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Date: 02/23/05     Keywords: software, virus, spam

The software giant's research arm says software meant to sort spam could help fight the deadly virus.

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Date: 02/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

Cyber-journals asked to devote Tuesday to two Iranians said to have been jailed for reporting on free-speech issues.

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Date: 02/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

Russian music site, long a thorn in music industry's side, finally gets targeted by law enforcement.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/MP3s+for+pennies%3F+Russian+cops+say+no/2100-9588_22-5586034.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

Leaders in the open-source movement act against a policy OASIS had promoted as an olive branch.

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Date: 02/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

Brin, Page, Schmidt the only chief officers left out of plan for big bonuses tied to meeting financial, performance objectives.

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Date: 02/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

The agency may have gone too far when outlawing some TVs and computer cards, an appeals court says.

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Date: 02/19/05     Keywords: web

Adding hyperlinks where there weren't any before is like hijacking a Web site, some critics say.

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Date: 02/19/05     Keywords: web

Adding hyperlinks where there weren't any before is like hijacking a Web site, some critics say.

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Date: 02/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

The search giant is opening Gmail up to more people--but says the free e-mail service remains in beta.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Gmail+moves+to+next+stage/2100-9588_22-5582604.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/18/05     Keywords: software

Internet giant says its Winamp software shouldn't be used to swipe free songs from Napster and other digital music services.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/AOL+blocks+music-copying+feature/2100-9588_22-5582618.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/18/05     Keywords: browser, microsoft

Mozilla's browser continues to build a strong following, challenging the dominance of Microsoft's IE.

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Date: 02/18/05     Keywords: browser, microsoft

Mozilla's browser continues to build a strong following, challenging the dominance of Microsoft's IE.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Firefox+reaches+25+million+downloads/2100-9588_22-5581508.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn