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Search engines like Google and Yahoo troll the Web constantly, categorizing and ranking sites so users can find what they're looking for. Why should you care? For starters, it's free. You don't have to pay Google, Yahoo and the other search engines to rank your Web site. It's like a free listing in ...
With outlets like Flickr, Shutterfly and Photobucket, there's been a considerable decrease in demand for programs for creating photo albums that can be uploaded to personal Web space. Still, if you have an account with an Internet Service Provider, you likely have megabytes of Web space begging to b...
In an attempt to combat what it views as illicit activities, the Chinese government announced Tuesday it will deploy two virtual police officers to patrol the Internet, according to reports from the state-run China Daily. The cartoon cops, one male and one female, will hit their beat Saturday and wi...
In what's likely an effort to defend itself against the wildly hyped iPhone phenomenon, cell phone giant Nokia on Wednesday unveiled several new wireless devices and services, including a music-download offering to rival iTunes. Signaling a shift in focus away from hardware and toward software and s...
When ripping and playing digitized music was a novelty, media players basked in the hot software limelight. There were articles about the merits of one over another, about "wars" among vendors and lots of noise when a new version of a player arrived in the market. Today, though, new releases of medi...
Sony has created a personal computer that can work as the core of a high-definition, multimedia system. The Sony Vaio LT HD PC/TV is designed to serve as a "computer entertainment center," said Sony. In addition to powerful computing capability, the new unit can serve as a high-definition television...
Yahoo launched a new version of its Web-based mail service Monday, incorporating advanced communication functions it says have not been offered before. The new version of Yahoo Mail includes "real-time communication" in the form of instant messaging and SMS text messaging as well as several other pe...
PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners in Europe will have something to look forward to in 2008 -- the addition of PlayTV, a TV tuner and personal video recorder for the PS3, as well as a whole slew of additional functionality for the PSP such as a video download service for users in the U.K ...
MTV and MySpace are partnering to give voters greater access to the politicians running for U.S. president in 2008. They plan to hold a total of 11 hour-long dialogues from September through December, held on college campuses nationwide. People will be able to e-mail, instant message or text message...
Although Google didn't get everything it wanted regarding rules for the FCC's upcoming auction of 700 MHz wireless spectrum, it will likely participate in the auction anyway, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. Asked by a T-Mobile executive at a conference if Google would still participate, Schmid...
Employers are denying a growing number of workers access to Facebook, the now ubiquitous social networking site, a Sophos survey shows. The poll queried 600 visitors to the security firm's Web site over a period of weeks earlier this summer. Some 43 percent said they had been denied access to Facebo...
Adobe Systems has upgraded its Flash Player with support for the H.264 video-encoding standard and improved audio-compression technology, the company announced Tuesday. Dubbed "Moviestar," the upgrade permits the playback of video encoded using H.264, the same standard deployed in Blu-ray and HD DVD...
Skype said that a Microsoft patch downloaded on Patch Tuesday triggered a bug in its software that eventually resulted in the IP-based service going dark for nearly two days. The disruption in the free, peer-to-peer network began unexpectedly on Thursday. Service was completely restored by late Frid...
Fears that traffic demands on the Internet are outstripping the Net's capacity to handle them may be premature, though continuous Net growth will necessitate new networking techniques and technologies in the future. According TeleGeography Research, the research division of PriMetrica, average world...
A software problem at Skype left many users of the popular VoIP service unable to log in or make calls Thursday, and with little hope for relief until Friday, the company said. "Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype," the company wrote on its support blog at about 2 p.m. Greenwich Me...
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