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Amazon Kindle store buy buttons vanish for hours
March 28, 2012 by publisher · Leave a Comment
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Maybe Lord Voldemort put a spell on Amazon.Com Inc.
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Google lets users monitor their online activity
March 28, 2012 by publisher · Leave a Comment
Google on Wednesday began letting people get monthly reports summarizing what they have been up to at the Internet titan’s free online services.
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Latin American Web access could double in a decade
March 17, 2012 by publisher · Leave a Comment
Latin America is the world’s fastest-growing market for Internet access, and could double within a decade, the group that oversees Internet-related tasks said Friday.
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Kony video director hospitalized after "incident"
March 16, 2012 by creative · Leave a Comment
(Reuters) – The director of a video gone viral that calls for the arrest of fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony has been hospitalized in California for exhaustion following an “unfortunate incident,” his group said on Friday. It said filmmaker Jason Russell’s condition stemmed from the emotional toll of recent weeks.
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Top Google+ trends: base jumper aiming for freefall record from space
March 16, 2012 by creative · Leave a Comment
Austrian base jumper Felix Baumgartner is aiming to break the world record for the longest freefall ever recorded by becoming the first person to jump from 120,000ft above the earth’s surface.
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Crack in China’s firewall turns Obama page into freedom forum (Reuters)
February 27, 2012 by publisher · Leave a Comment
Reuters – Chinese Internet users taking advantage of temporary access to Google Inc’s social networking site, Google+, have flooded U.S. President Barack Obama’s page on the site with calls for greater freedom in the world’s most populous country.
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EBay sees strong mobile commerce volume growth in 2012 (Reuters)
February 27, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Reuters – EBay Inc forecast robust growth in its mobile commerce segment as the online commerce and auction site expects more people to shop and pay via smartphones.
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Twitter’s new censorship plan rouses global furor (AP)
January 27, 2012 by creative · Leave a Comment
AP – Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.
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US cybersecurity efforts trigger privacy concerns (AP)
January 27, 2012 by creative · Leave a Comment
AP – The federal government’s plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans’ civil liberties.
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College Sports League to Stream Its Own Content Online (Mashable)
January 27, 2012 by creative · Leave a Comment
Mashable – With television broadcast deals that reach into the billions of dollars, the delivery of college sports as entertainment has long been huge business. Now the Pacific-12 Conference is aiming to create what would likely be college sports’ largest and most futuristic mode of digital distribution yet — a wholly league-owned and operated platform for streaming content to tablets, smartphones, computers and smart TVs around the world.
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