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FTC expands Google antitrust probe: source (Reuters)
January 13, 2012 by creative · Leave a Comment
Reuters – U.S. regulators looking at whether Google manipulates its search results to favor its own products have expanded the probe to include Google+, the search giant’s new social networking tool, a source familiar with the probe said on Friday.
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FTC expands Google antitrust probe: source
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Officials: Broadband plan would disrupt GPS (AP)
January 13, 2012 by creative · Leave a Comment
AP – Tests show that even the modified plans of the company LightSquared to start up a national high-speed wireless broadband network would cause harmful interference with GPS signals, federal officials said in a letter released Friday.
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Internet Overuse Could Cause Structural Brain Damage [STUDY] (Mashable)
January 13, 2012 by creative · Leave a Comment
Mashable – Unlike drugs and alcohol, excess Internet usage could help your career, make you more informed and keep you up-to-date with the latest hilarious memes. But a recent (small) study by researchers in China showed that too much Internet usage — to the point that it’s an addiction — can cause structural damage to your brain.
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Internet Overuse Could Cause Structural Brain Damage [STUDY]
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Bartz resigns from Yahoo board (Reuters)
September 12, 2011 by creative · Leave a Comment
Reuters – (Editor’s note: Language in last paragraph may be offensive to some readers)
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Bartz resigns from Yahoo board
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House to end page program after nearly 200 years (AP)
August 8, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
AP – After nearly 200 years, the House page program that allowed high school students to serve as messengers and learn about Congress is ending, rendered obsolete by the Internet and email in cost-cutting times.
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US lawmaker Weiner quits, citing ‘mistakes’ (AFP)
June 17, 2011 by creative · Leave a Comment
AFP – US Representative Anthony Weiner has quit Congress, apologizing for the scandal over his lewd online exchanges with women that led to a political uproar.
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US lawmaker Weiner quits, citing ‘mistakes’
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