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Google removes offensive image of Michelle Obama
San Francisco - Google on Wednesday apologized for an offensive picture of US First Lady Michelle Obama that appeared on top of its image search results, and later removed it after initially saying that company policy prevented it from censoring the ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Facebook 'farewell' post sparks massive manhunt in Israel
Tel Aviv - An Israeli man threatened suicide on his Facebook profile and then disappeared, sparking a massive manhunt once worried friends noticed his farewell message on the social networking site. The unnamed 44-year-old was found, injured, near th...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Four held in crackdown on Austro-German hackers
Berlin - In raids throughout Germany and Austria, police closed down a web gang which stole private credit-card data and used viruses to create a network of 100,000 robot computers, Germany's Federal Crime Office said Wednesday. In Germany, three per...

[Posted on : 2009-11-25 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Depressed Canadian women has benefits cut over Facebook photos
New York - A 29-year-old Quebec woman on sick leave for depression had her benefits cut after her insurance company saw photos of her enjoying herself on Facebook, media reports said Tuesday. Manulife insurance corporation told Nathalie Blanchard tha...

[Posted on : 2009-11-24 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Computer and internet briefs, Sunday 22nd November 2009
Washington - Thinking about upgrading to Windows 7 from XP? You'll need to do a fresh installation of the operating system instead of an in-place upgrade. That means you won't be able to just pop in the Windows 7 installation disk and have the oper...

[Posted on : 2009-11-22 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

New online virus threat comes via banner ads
Cologne, Germany - Recently, criminals managed to place a doctored banner ad carrying a virus on the homepage of the New York Times, a mainstay of American journalism. The fact they could do so is bad enough. Worse: it's not an isolated case. It's be...

[Posted on : 2009-11-22 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

China jails Tibetan website founder for 15 years, group says
Beijing A Chinese court has sentenced the founder of a Tibetan-language website to 15 years in prison after convicting him of disclosing state secrets, while in a separate case a Tibetan blogger was sentenced to five years in prison, rights groups ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-17 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Readers would pay for online news: Italians more than Americans
Washington - Readers would be willing to pay small monthly amounts for online news, according to an international survey released Monday. Americans were at the bottom of the list of what they would be willing to pay, at 3 dollars a month, compared to...

[Posted on : 2009-11-16 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

German official: Europe needs plan to handle 'orphan works' texts
Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief culture adviser welcomed Monday the removal of German books from search giant Google's project to create a world online library, and said Europe must solve the orphan works dilemma on its own. Google...

[Posted on : 2009-11-16 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Egypt launches first Arabic Internet domain
Cairo - Egypt is to create the world's first Arabic language internet domain, with registration opening Monday, the country's telecommunications ministry said Monday. Website owners will now have the option of using .msr in the Arabic script, which...

[Posted on : 2009-11-16 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

 

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