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The photographs available on Google's new Street View utility are not live and were taken from a device with multiple cameras attached to a car that drove down each available street. The problem for some is that the cameras took photos of people not expecting to be photographed and broadcast across ...

A former substitute teacher for a Connecticut middle school has been granted a retrial following a conviction that launched a wave of sympathy and outrage. Julie Amero could have been sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of exposing her students to Internet pornography. However, ...

At the end of 2006, more than 100 million households in the United States subscribed to Internet services, cable or satellite television and other telecommunications services. By 2012, the number of new subscribers will increase by some 50 million households. As the technology behind Internet, pay T...

A Chicago man faces the possibility of three years in prison for leaking four episodes of the Fox show "24" onto the Internet before they had aired on prime-time TV. Jorge Romero, 24, is accused of uploading the first two episodes of this season's "24" onto LiveDigital.com on Jan. 6, and doing the s...

Online search giant Google and EMI Music agreed to let users of Google's YouTube video-sharing site access music and clips produced by EMI artists. The London-based publisher contracts popular recording artists including Coldplay, Norah Jones and David Bowie. EMI will now work with Google to develop...

Rupert Murdoch, who lost a chance to buy YouTube last year when the massive video-hosting site was gobbled up by Google, has snagged two other Internet companies that are popular with young people: Photobucket and Flektor. Murdoch's Fox Interactive Media, which owns the heavily visited social networ...

Turn on your monitor and boot up your computer, because class is in session. Many college students now raised on the Internet and mobile devices will not be limited to sitting in traditional "brick-and-mortar" classrooms as schools look to the latest offerings in virtual technology and Internet broa...

Web surfers all too familiar with the distorted-letter tests that accompany so many site registration forms today can now take heart -- the time they spend on those tests is being put to good use. Thanks to a project at Carnegie Mellon University, a new version of those pesky CAPTCHA tests makes the...

MySpace competitor Facebook has introduced a new open platform that allows developers to build applications that integrate with the social networking site and can be chosen by users to appear within their Facebook profile pages. Announced Thursday by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- and c...

Digital cinema distribution and projection systems are gaining momentum, while the film industry is seeking new ways to pack theaters. The new formats not only offer film studios, distributors and cinema operators significant cost reductions, but also provide unrivaled viewing experiences that compe...

In recognition of Memorial Day, Ancestry.com announced Thursday that it is offering the largest collection of searchable military records online at no charge to users through early June. The company's U.S. military collection, featuring more than 90 million names, captures all major wars and conflic...

Starting Thursday, PlayStation 3 owners in North America will be able to add some new capabilities to their gaming console with the release of the latest PS3 firmware update. The regular system update from Sony bumps up the appearance of standard definition PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games as wel...

The super-popular MySpace social networking site has been buffeted by a storm of negative press over the actions of several state attorneys general and their recent requests for sex offender information. The whole mess has unfolded like a bad soap opera -- and it must be particularly baffling for My...

It was a time-tested tactic during ancient Roman times for generals to embrace their adversaries and bring them into the fold when they represented significant threats to the Empire that they could not otherwise defend against. A modern variation of this practice is becoming common across the media ...

After a brief showdown last week with a group of attorneys general, MySpace announced Monday that it will give the group the information it requested about registered sex offenders with profiles on the site. The attorneys general delivered a subpoena to the social networking site on the same day. W...

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