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  • Opera to Web developers: Come to MAMA

    Posted October 15, 2008 - 3:29 pm

    Opera Software on Wednesday revealed a search engine that indexes structural information about Web pages so Web developers and standards bodies can see what technologies are being used to build Web sites and how they are being used.

  • AOL, Yahoo merger: Remedy worse than the disease?

    Posted October 15, 2008 - 11:50 am

    As rumors about a merger between Yahoo and AOL grow louder, industry experts caution that such a deal could create more problems than it solves.

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    100 funny and unusual 404 messages

    Posted October 14, 2008 - 2:10 pm

    Most commercial sites have figured out that their Page Not Found error pages shouldn't just be bare black text on a white background. But these messages go above and beyond.

  • 16 e-mail and instant messaging boosters

    Posted October 13, 2008 - 1:35 pm

    These 16 great downloads will help you communicate better through e-mail and instant messaging. They'll help enhance the way you use e-mail (whether it's Web-based or handled in software on your PC), and they'll power up instant messaging chats, too. So if you want to be known as the Great Communicator, read on.

  • Google in curious alliance with click-fraud detection firm

    Posted October 12, 2008 - 8:49 pm

    In a development that would have seemed impossible two years ago, Google is cooperating publicly with Click Forensics, a click-fraud detection company with which it has had a rocky relationship.

  • Will Chrome shine for CIOs?

    Posted October 10, 2008 - 4:17 pm

    When Google recently announced the availability of a beta version of its new open-source browser, Chrome, it sent shockwaves through an industry chock-a-block with viable browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

  • Yahoo investor proposal unlikely to push Microsoft

    Posted October 10, 2008 - 3:40 pm

    A relatively small Yahoo shareholder is proposing a new Microsoft takeover offer, but analysts don't think it's enough to entice the companies back to the negotiating table.

  • Favorite Firefox extensions

    Posted October 10, 2008 - 2:38 pm

    One of the big advantages Firefox 3 holds over Safari is extensibility. Savvy users can customize the browser to look, feel and perform in any number of ways. Here are three extensions worth trying.

  • Firefox for Mobile alpha release due next week

    Posted October 10, 2008 - 9:59 am

    By this time next week, Mozilla will have unveiled the alpha release of its mobile Firefox browser, codenamed Fennec.

  • Opera promises faster surfing with new browser

    Posted October 10, 2008 - 9:55 am

    Opera Software, which is battling hard for market share with Google's Chrome, is promising users a faster surfing experience, an improved email client, and better browser-synchronisation capabilities, with the latest version of its browser launched this week.

  • LinkedIn: The network effect revisited

    Posted October 10, 2008 - 9:46 am

    As people make "connections" and build their contacts list on LinkedIn, the popular social network for business professionals, some users have thought long and hard about the quality of their connections versus the number of connections they acquire. According to the service's power-users and social media analysts, establishing the best criteria for making a connection could, over the long term, determine how much value you get from LinkedIn.

  • Microsoft Live Labs releases politically minded Web app

    Posted October 9, 2008 - 9:33 pm

    Just as the U.S. is in its last weeks of a heated presidential campaign, Microsoft's Live Labs group has launched a Web-based application that surfaces what it considers the recent political articles and documents that are getting the most attention and discussion among Web users.

  • Mozilla locks in Firefox 3.1 feature list

    Posted October 9, 2008 - 12:08 pm

    Mozilla Corp. will use a several-week delay it recently added to the Firefox 3.1 schedule to build a private browsing mode and beef up the browser's address bar.

  • Digg's Kevin Rose: "We have to do better"

    Posted October 9, 2008 - 10:36 am

    Digg founder Kevin Rose said the social news recommendation site is not doing enough to reach people with niche interests, which will be key to keeping users engaged.

  • Bring the PermaTabs extension back to Firefox

    Posted October 9, 2008 - 9:18 am

    Much as I love Firefox 3, several of my favorite extensions still haven't been updated to support the new version of the browser. Chief among them is PermaTabs, which lets you make any tab "temporarily permanent" (meaning it appears each time you run Firefox).

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    Google extends e-mail archiving service to 10 years

    Posted October 8, 2008 - 1:03 pm

    Google is extending its hosted e-mail archiving service to hold messages for up to a decade, the company said Wednesday.

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    New Firefox add-on tracks your location

    Posted October 8, 2008 - 11:43 am

    A new Firefox add-on can pinpoint your location using WiFi signals.

  • Yahoo revamps calendar service

    Posted October 8, 2008 - 10:57 am

    Yahoo has developed a new online calendar that the company said offers significant improvement over the current product because it makes it easier to share items and has a more interactive interface.

  • Facebook starts offering Live search

    Posted October 8, 2008 - 10:54 am

    Facebook has begun allowing users to search the Web from within Facebook, using Microsoft's Live search service.

  • Google Maps tests geo-tagged YouTube video

    Posted October 8, 2008 - 10:01 am

    Google is testing a new feature on its Maps site that adds geo-tagged video from YouTube to maps in the same way that photos are currently added.

  • Firefox extension blocks dangerous Web attack

    Posted October 8, 2008 - 9:22 am

    The latest release of NoScript, a popular free security tool for the Firefox browser, will stop clickjacking.

  • Practical Web sites and services

    Posted October 7, 2008 - 4:29 pm

    We all have favorite Web sites that we depend on and visit regularly. Here are some really practical Web sites that you might want to add to your collection.

  • Usenet: Not dead yet

    Posted October 7, 2008 - 4:05 pm

    Over the last few years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other organizations looking to eliminate the illegal swapping of digital media files have attacked the problem through the courts, publicity campaigns, and other means. But while they've managed to close down some peer-to-peer operations, and have successfully (and not so successfully) sued individuals who were uploading movies and music to the Web, there is one part of the Internet that has, until now, been operating under their radar: Usenet.

  • Ask.com upgrade to add improved relevance, speed

    Posted October 6, 2008 - 1:02 pm

    Ask.com plans to upgrade its search engine on Monday with several enhancements that it considers significant and that it believes could give its popularity a boost in a market dominated by Google.

  • Porn producer sentenced to prison for online distribution

    Posted October 6, 2008 - 1:01 pm

    A producer of pornographic video known as Max Hardcore has been sentenced to 46 months in prison after a conviction on multiple obscenity offenses, including charges he transported obscene material over the Internet.
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