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Police blotter: Google searches nab wireless hacker
Date: 12/20/06
Keywords: google
In this week's installment, a wireless provider's disgruntled ex-employee finds his Google searches used against him.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6144962.html
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Pakistani groups offer animal sacrifice via Net
Date: 12/19/06
Keywords: no keywords
Sites are designed to help Muslims perform the Eid al-Adha ritual, which includes giving the meat to the poor.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6144700.html
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3D tech will search for just the right photo
Date: 12/19/06
Keywords: technology, web
Swedish start-up Polar Rose's technology is designed to more efficiently search for pictures on the Web.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6144494.html
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Australian court rules against MP3 link site
Date: 12/18/06
Keywords: no keywords
Judges say now-defunct MP3s4free.net violated the law by linking to copyright music, even though it didn't host any MP3s itself.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6144590.html
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Into the wild blue virtual yonder
Date: 12/18/06
Keywords: no keywords
VatSim gives pilots and other aviation enthusiasts online airspace that mimics real conditions and exotic destinations.
Images: Flight sim has users flying high
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6144347.html
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Yahoo's IM update: A trojan horse of surprises
Date: 12/15/06
Keywords: software
Company stops prompting customers to update the software until it can ensure fix for bug works.
Video: Watch this before installing update
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6144286.html
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Amazon hits back at IBM over patents
Date: 12/15/06
Keywords: no keywords
E-commerce giant bashes suit, lodges its own patent infringement claims. Big Blue stands by allegations.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6144216.html
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Google, Baidu eye online videos in China
Date: 12/15/06
Keywords: no keywords
Search rivals are exploring partnerships with or buyouts of local video sites, industry sources say.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6144042.html
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Microsoft, Baidu form paid-search partnership
Date: 12/14/06
Keywords: microsoft, google
After Google sells its Baidu shares, company links up with Microsoft to have its listings appear on Microsoft's Chinese sites.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6143776.html
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Google launches patent search site
Date: 12/14/06
Keywords: no keywords
Company claims its site--though still limited--offers a better search format than the U.S. government's site.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6143715.html
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Monster says it overstated profit from 1997 to 2005
Date: 12/14/06
Keywords: no keywords
Company says it overstated profit by a total of $271.9 million, a result of its investigation into stock option grants and accounting.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6143637.html
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Google wins patent for search results page design
Date: 12/13/06
Keywords: no keywords
Intellectual property lawyers say there's no need to fret about infringement lawsuits unless sites are veritable copies.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6143586.html
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Fox sites top Yahoo as most-visited on U.S. Web
Date: 12/13/06
Keywords: web, yahoo, microsoft
Popularity of MySpace helps push Fox's lead over Yahoo among Web users in U.S. Microsoft in third place.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6143288.html
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Survey: iTunes music sales tumble in early 2006
Date: 12/13/06
Keywords: no keywords
Transactions decline 58 percent during first half of year, leading to 65 percent drop in monthly revenue, Forrester says.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6143278.html
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Behind the 'MySpace fugitive' capture
Date: 12/12/06
Keywords: no keywords
Law enforcement worked with MySpace and city to track wanted man to Philadelphia library.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6143157.html
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Firefox 3 gets a first run
Date: 12/12/06
Keywords: web
Mozilla wants Web application developers and its own testing community to get their hands on Gran Paradiso Alpha 1.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6142960.html
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European social-networking site to expand
Date: 12/12/06
Keywords: no keywords
Passado.com, which has more than 5 million users in Germany, Spain and Italy, raises $13.2 million to move into U.K., Russia and Italy.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6142886.html
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Mozart's entire musical works now free on Net
Date: 12/12/06
Keywords: hosting
Site hosting complete oeuvre of the classical composer, backed by Packard Humanities Institute, is being flooded with traffic.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6142845.html
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Yahoo opens ad system upgrade to newcomers
Date: 12/12/06
Keywords: no keywords
Opening up the new ad system for testing by newcomers and potential converts from rivals marks progress in its long-awaited upgrade.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6142825.html
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Congress and tech: Little to show
Date: 12/11/06
Keywords: no keywords
Lawmakers made a lot of noise over MySpace, China and Net neutrality, but tech-related laws were hard to come by.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6142709.html