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CBS buys tech web CNET
New York - TV Network CBS is buying CNET, the internet's leading provider of hi-technology information for 1.8 billion dollars, the company announced Thursday. The move will greatly expand CBS' presence on the web and allow it to reach a greater inte...

[Posted on : 2008-05-15 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Online speed dating helps people pair up with a click
Hamburg - After hours of preparation and excitement over a blind date, there's nothing worse than meeting the guy and having to listen to him talk for hours about his bonsai trees. Thanks to speed dating, singles can avoid such horror dates and get t...

[Posted on : 2008-05-15 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Web warrior Estonia signs NATO cyber-defence deal - Summary
Brussels - Estonia signed a deal with six other NATO members Wednesday to make it the military alliance's leading expert on internet-based warfare, in a move seen as recognizing its surviving a major web-based attack a year ago. The attack clarified...

[Posted on : 2008-05-14 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Some tips on how to outsmart the spammers - Feature
Washington - If you think you spend too much time dealing with junk e-mail, you are not alone. Each day, nearly 80 per cent of all e-mail sent is spam, according to a recent study by the University of Maryland. That means that if you get your fair sha...

[Posted on : 2008-05-12 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Computer and internet briefs
Washington - Can a faster computer allow you to surf the internet with fewer lags? Yes, but only to a point. The speed of your computer has relatively little to do with pure internet performance. Most of the time you spend waiting will be a result of...

[Posted on : 2008-05-11 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Virus-infected web sites on the rise
Mainz - The number of web pages infected with viruses continues to climb. Between January and March 2008, US-based IT security company Sophos discovered a newly-infected web site every five seconds on average. ...

[Posted on : 2008-05-11 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Love in your inbox? Be careful
Bonn - Internet users should be extra suspicious of an ongoing wave of e-mail messages claiming to hold links to love letters or video clips. These messages are currently the weapon of choice by hackers trying to build what are known as Storm botnets...

[Posted on : 2008-05-11 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

The computer helper: Tips and tricks for PDFs - Feature
Washington - Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) has proliferated. Originally designed as a file format that allows content creators to distribute documents to those who did not have the application that created them, PDF files are now found widel...

[Posted on : 2008-05-10 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

MySpace announces data-sharing for users
San Francisco - MySpace is hoping to become everyone's space. The world's largest social networking site is to allow users to transfer key information from their profiles to other websites, ending the walled garden approach that had turned many use...

[Posted on : 2008-05-09 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Yahoo-Google pact seen likely after 'brilliant' trial
San Francisco - An advertising alliance between Yahoo and Google was viewed as increasingly likely Friday after Google CEO Eric Schmidt said a two-week test had been a brilliant success. Expanding the test, which involved Google serving ads on Yaho...

[Posted on : 2008-05-09 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

 



 

 


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