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Computer and internet briefs, Sunday 8th November 2009
Washington - Having trouble figuring out how to create a PDF document? If you already have a program such as Acrobat, Foxit, or PDFCreator installed and you do not see the PDF button in the application from which you'd like to create the PDF file, yo...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-08 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Youth ministry blocks any email bearing the word 'teen'
Wellington - The New Zealand government department responsible for issues to do with young people cannot receive any emails with the word teen in them because they are automatically blocked as potentially pornographic, a news report said Wednesday....

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[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Computer and internet briefs, Sunday 1st November 2009
Washington - Run across a web page you don't want to forget? In Windows Internet Explorer, you can quickly place a shortcut to it on your desktop by right-clicking inside the page and selecting Create Shortcut from the pop-up menu. Creating shortcu...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-01 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Windows 7's hidden gems - Feature
Washington - Windows 7's headline features naturally get all the attention. If you have read anything about Microsoft's latest operating system, you probably already know that Windows 7 is faster, more compatible, and less annoying than Windows Vista. ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-31 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Internet oversight group approves non-Latin domain names
San Francisco - The organization that oversees the internet has authorized the use of non-Latin characters in domain names in a move that should help the web grow around the world. The adoption of the Internationalized Domain Names system will allow ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-30 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Facebook awarded 711 million dollars in spam damages
San Francisco - Spam king Sanford Wallace has been ordered to pay 711 million dollars in damages for bombarding Facebook members with unwanted messages, the social networking site said Friday. The award was made at the San Jose District Court on Thur...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-30 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Web addresses become multilingual
Seoul - Plans are in motion to create fully internationalized Web addresses - those completely in non-Latin scripts like Korean or Arabic, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, announced Friday. We just made the intern...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-30 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Conference celebrates 40th birthday of internet
Los Angeles - The man who sent the first-ever internet message in 1969 recalled the event Thursday at a conference celebrating the 40th birthday of the revolutionary communications network. It's the 40th year since the infant internet first spoke, ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-30 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Lo, it began: Internet founder recalls first message - Feature
Los Angeles - Samuel Morse had the prescience to select a suitably imposing quote with which to make history when he sent the first telegraph message in 1844. He tapped out: What God hath wrought? Some 125 years later...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-28 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Internet regulator emphasizes 'world' in World Wide Web - Feature
Seoul - A simpler World Wide Web for non-English speakers is on the horizon, according to the world's internet regulator, which is hosting its 36th International Public Meeting this week in South Korea's capital Seoul. The Internet Corporation for ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-26 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

PROFILE: Lebanon's national unity cabinet

Chelsea suffer Cole set-back

Striker Rooney warned over ref jibe

Netanyahu wants peace with Palestinians 'soon'

Gone with the rain: 130 dead in El Salvador - Feature

Paltrow, Kidman to star in transsexual movie

Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange 9 November 2009

London Stock Exchange quotations 9 November 2009

Dominoes topple to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall

European leaders mark 20 years since fall of Berlin Wall

Clinton urges Iran to free US hikers - Summary

Palestinians dent Israeli barrier on day of Berlin Wall anniversary

World marks the day the Berlin Wall came tumbling down

PREVIEW: Peres visits Brazil two weeks ahead of Ahmadinejad

EXTRA: Berlin's mayor remembers Nazi pogroms 71 years ago

Fall of Berlin Wall sets example for today, says Brown

Lebanese president announces national unity cabinet - Summary

European leaders mark 20 years since fall of Berlin Wall

Fort Hood focusing on healing after shootings

EXTRA: Paris celebrates fall of Berlin Wall with music and light