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The eazy way to protect your privacy

Posted April 12, 2012 - 1:56 pm

A new site called Priveazy aims to make protecting your data on Facebook and everywhere else as easy as pie. It might well succeed.
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10 fascinating facts about Internet porn

Posted February 23, 2012 - 1:04 pm

The recent YouPorn security breach that resulted in the theft of more than a million user names and passwords is a reminder that online porn is a huge business.
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Groupon shares fall in extended trading after earnings miss

Posted February 8, 2012 - 8:14 pm

Daily-deals site Groupon reports its first quarterly results since going public in early November.
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SOPA saga shows best and worst of our political system

Posted January 18, 2012 - 4:17 pm

More co-sponsors of controversial bills designed to combat online piracy are caving under public pressure and an online blackout.
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Reddit to 'black out' for 12 hours to protest SOPA, PIPA

Posted January 11, 2012 - 1:47 pm

Social news site reddit plans to "black out" for 12 hours on January 18 to underscore its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act.
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No. 1 tech story of 2011: The war for control of the Internet (and your data)

Posted December 30, 2011 - 6:38 pm

From net neutrality to CarrierIQ to Twitter subpoenas, the battle over digital rights and privacy rages on.
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Newt Gingrich does not approve of this website

Posted December 21, 2011 - 2:24 pm

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wants to throw judges in jail. Now we can add to Gingrich's hit list smart-alecks who create mock-Newt websites in order to embarrass him, a transformative figure in the mold of Churchill.
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Yachts equals money equals data center downtime

Posted December 20, 2011 - 5:06 pm

Ten iPods for everyone!?!
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Jon Bon Jovi says he's not dead. The Internet says he is. Who's right?

Posted December 20, 2011 - 10:50 am

Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi insists he's not dead. The twitterverse suggests otherwise. What say you now, Mr. Livin' On A Prayer?
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Tech stocks party like it's 1999

Posted December 9, 2011 - 6:25 pm

Tech investors get an early holiday present on Friday as shares of Internet, software and mobile companies post gains.
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Microsoft just won't let go of this Yahoo thing

Posted November 23, 2011 - 3:30 pm

Software giant Microsoft reportedly is taking its interest in acquiring Yahoo to the next level, signing a non-disclosure agreement allowing it to inspect the struggling Internet pioneer's books.
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AOL beats low expectations, impressionable investors swoon

Posted November 2, 2011 - 2:52 pm

AOL continues its rocky transition from a subscriber-based company to an ad-supported content provider in the third quarter.
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The Internet weighs about as much as a strawberry

Posted November 1, 2011 - 3:50 pm

A viral video making the rounds is "How Much Does The Internet Weigh?" from the folks at Vsauce. It's an entertaining look at the concept of data actually possessing some weight, although we can't really measure the weight of an individual data point, when taken altogether we get something to the effect of something that does weigh something. Got that?
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Chinese officals urge change in tight controls of Internet: 'Quick, more censorship!!!'

Posted September 6, 2011 - 10:16 am

Number of online Chinese already outnumbers U.S. by 50%, and could triple; despite China-owned analogs for Facebook, Google, Twitter, control may break down and destabilize government, especially if political-protest attacks continue against its current policies.
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A 1999 movie tries to predict 2005 technology, fails miserably?

Posted August 30, 2011 - 4:20 pm

Wait, there were supposed to be "online sex ports" and "virtual brothels?" What happened?
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Google uses fewer servers than we thought

Posted August 1, 2011 - 1:05 pm

How many servers does Google run to keep its search users happy? Maybe not as many as you thought.
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We're outsourcing our memories to search engines

Posted July 15, 2011 - 10:46 am

"Google effect" making it harder for Internet users to remember information, Columbia University researchers say.
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Slide shows: Scourge of the Internet?

Posted June 28, 2011 - 12:35 pm

Are Internet slide shows amusing diversions or instruments of torture? Take our poll!
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Ebert incident a reminder of Facebook's fatal flaw (for users)

Posted June 21, 2011 - 12:45 pm

Roger Ebert's Facebook page was temporarily removed after the film critic commented about Jackass star's death.
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Internet display ads up nearly 15% in Q1

Posted June 13, 2011 - 5:15 pm

Online banner ads increased 14.6 percent in the first quarter, making the Internet the top-gaining media sector.
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Search on 'pointless lawsuit' in any language, and you'll get this

Posted May 25, 2011 - 4:12 pm

Eight Chinese writers and video producers living in New York are suing China's Baidu search engine, arguing that its censorship of the Internet violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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Georgia, Armenia taken offline by elderly scourge of the Internet

Posted April 7, 2011 - 10:57 am

Georgian security teams arrested a 75-year-old woman digging for scrap metal, after she accidentally cut the one fiber strand connecting all of Armenia to Cyberspace.
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Netflix capitulates to Canadian ISP data caps; US may be next

Posted March 29, 2011 - 2:56 pm

Netflix Canada is the first company to have to make major changes in its business due to data caps imposed by Internet carriers; it won't be the last.
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It's a sad day when you can't trust a porn site

Posted March 16, 2011 - 10:27 pm

Nothing ruins a spirited ramble through a porn site like the realization that you may be an unwitting accomplice to an online advertising scam targeting large marketers and Internet companies.
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How-to find the fastest wireless carrier or wired Internet where you live and work

Posted February 23, 2011 - 5:32 pm

One of the facets of the federal government's National Broadband Plan is the National Broadband Map. With this map, you can compare wireless data performance for all carriers anywhere in the country as well as find your best wired Internet options.
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