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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) ]

German publishers criticize new Google Books deal
Frankfurt - German book publishers - angered at being included in the Google Books Settlement without being consulted - voiced concern Sunday that they had now been excluded. The US search giant and US publishers announced Friday that the revolutiona...

[Posted on : 2009-11-15 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Computer and internet briefs, Sunday 15th November 2009
Washington - How would you like to have an expert look at your PC and tell you what you need in order to get it running at its potential? You could pay a tech expert lots of money to do the job or you could download the free Belarc Advisor (http://ww...

[Posted on : 2009-11-15 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

First aid for forgotten Windows passwords
Munich - Forget your Windows password and you have got a problem. Without the password, users can't get back into the operating system, says Thomas Baumgaertner, a Microsoft spokesman at the company's Munich office. Access to personal data is then bl...

[Posted on : 2009-11-15 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

 

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