Police seize illicit medicines from web merchants - Summary
Wiesbaden, Germany/Washington - Police in 24 nations raided illegal internet pharmacies this week, intercepted parcels at mail depots and seized stocks of illicit medicines, German police and US officials said Thursday. The raids, which began Monday,...
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Yahoo triples profits thanks to cost cutting
San Francisco - Yahoo tripled its third-quarter profits Tuesday as aggressive cost-cutting offset a slight decline in revenue. The struggling internet pioneer said that it earned 186 million dollars compared to 54 million dollars in the year-ago quar...
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eBay settles Skype software suit
San Francisco - E-commerce giant eBay has settled its long- running legal feud with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for a 2-billion-dollar sale of the internet telephony pioneer, the company announced Friday. Under the terms of the settlement...
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German Muslims protest outside Shirbini trial
Berlin - Around 100 German Muslims protested against anti- Islam internet incitement on Wednesday, in the city of Dresden where a verdict in the murder case of Egyptian Marwa el-Shirbini may be delivered later. The participants called on the governme...
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Network music and middleman: New technology products
Music from the network: Sonos ZonePlayer S5Berlin - Sonos has released a new network-ready music player. The ZonePlayer S5 costs 399 dollars and comes with five integrated speakers to play back music stored on a home network or streamed from internet...
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YouTube says hi to high-definition
San Francisco - Online video site YouTube is to introduce high definition video capabilities next week in a move that marks another milestone in the transformation of the internet into a full-fledged video viewing platform. The Google-owned company s...
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German high court tightens internet copyright law
Karlsruhe, Germany - Germany's high court issued a ruling Friday that tightens copyright restrictions on the internet, awarding damages against a company which runs a site that swaps food recipes. Under German internet law, owners of community websit...
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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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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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Six dead in air crash at Sharjah - report - Update
Dubai - Six people were killed Wednesday when a Sudanese plane crashed while taking off from the emirate of Sharjah, the Gulf News reported on its internet site. The paper said the plane flipped over while taking off and broke into flames. Gulf News ...
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Tensions heightened after Cairo 'attack' on Algerian footballers
Cairo - Tensions in Cairo ahead of Saturday's World Cup qualifying match are at a fever pitch following accusations that a crowd of Egyptian football fans attacked the Algerian team. Amateur videos published on the Internet and subsequently broadcast...
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Slimming drug blamed for causing Hong Kong teen's mental illness
Hong Kong - Hong Kong health officials issued a warning Wednesday after they said a teenage girl became mentally ill after taking slimming pills she bought over the internet. The 17-year-old became paranoid, began hallucinating and having suicidal th...
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Vietnam users annoyed as government blocks Facebook
Hanoi - Employees at Vietnamese internet providers confirmed Thursday that the government had ordered their companies to block the social networking site Facebook. Vietnamese Facebook users had complained of being unable to access the site for days, ...
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Farrah Fawcett cut Ryan from trust
Documents leaked on the internet show Farrah Fawcett's last living trust omitted partner Ryan O'Neal but she left $100,000 to an ex-lover, with the bulk of her estate going to son Redmond O'Nea.
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Michael Schumacher's first world title car up for auction
Hamburg - Michael Schumacher's first Formula One world championship-winning car is up for auction at internet sellers ebay, with the 1-million dollar mark passed on Tuesday. The Benetton B174 was driven by Schumacher in 1994 when he won the first of ...
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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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Thai police arrest two for violating computer offence act
Bangkok - Thai authorities over the weekend arrested two members of the securities industry for posting false information about the king on internet websites during last month's stock market crash, media reports said Monday. Thiranant Wipuchanin, 43,...
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European telecoms overhaul overcomes final hurdle
Brussels - A major overhaul of the European Union's telecoms market aimed at boosting consumer choice and the spread of high-speed internet connections has overcome a final hurdle and should now come into force early next year, officials in Brussels ...
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