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Norwegian royals open Facebook page
Oslo - The Norwegian crown prince couple have signed on to the social networking site Facebook, the palace said Tuesday. Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit have earlier kept friends and others updated about some of their activities vi...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-10 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Firefox celebrates five years
San Francisco - The open source internet browser Firefox marked its fifth anniversary Monday, celebrating its rise from an unknown challenger to Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a formidable competitor that has been downloaded over 1 billion times by...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-09 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Google to buy AdMob for 750 million dollars
San Francisco - Google is to pay 750 million dollars to buy AdMob, a provider of advertisingon mobile phones, the internet search leader announced Monday. The deal is the third largest ever undertaken by Google and underscores the company's strategy ...

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[Posted on : 2009-11-09 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

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) ]

ANALYSIS: Israeli moratorium, a PR stunt or enough to revive talks?

ICC prosecutor: Prosecute Kenyan election violence suspects - Summary

Norway protests confiscation of Iranian Nobel laureate's medal

Anti-Islamic Dutch politician cancels Prague visit - Summary

EXTRA: Former German minister pressed over Afghan airstrike

EU regulators charge Philips, others over cathode ray tube cartel

Namibia's SWAPO in huge lawsuit against opposition on eve of polls

Palestinians reject Israeli settlement move - Summary

No Swiss justice appeal, Polanski expected to be freed on bail

Early military decisions dictated rush into Iraq war, diplomat says

Ukraine focus for new energy efficiecy programme

One dead in shooting on university campus - Update

EU officials eye 3.7 per cent pay rise despite crisis

India commemorates Mumbai attacks - Summary

Iranians secular dissident sentenced to six-year jail term

Football match-fixing probe makes international waves

Three ministers to join Czech interim government

ICC prosecutor: Prosecute Kenyan election violence suspects

Russian president set for first meeting with Pope Benedict

Taiwan, China plan cultural representative offices