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June 23, 2004

BEDD: Social Networking Meets Bluetooth

Yahoo! News: Student Gracinia Lim has made new friends thanks to mobile phone software that alerts her to compatible people nearby. She is an early customer of a service in Singapore called BEDD that uses Bluetooth wireless communications to scan...

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June 14, 2004

Blog Readers Defy Stereotypes

MediaDailyNews: Blog readers are just a bunch of kids with too many opinions, too little money, and too much time on their hands. Think again. According to a survey of blog readers conducted by Weblog ad network Blogads, they're older...

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May 10, 2004

Broadband Over Powerlines?

DigitalJournal.com: The Federal Communications Commission is looking into complaints from amateur radio operators about the use of electrical power lines for providing broadband internet service, a concept known as BPL, for Broadband over Power Lines. Many power companies and some...

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April 30, 2004

Internet E-Commerce Poised To Remake Six Major Industries: Jewelry, Bill Payments, Telecom, Hotels, Real Estate & Software

Business Week Online: The Web is threatening to force down the prices charged by traditional players, squeeze their margins, and even put some out of business. New technology, new ways of doing business, and new approaches to cutting out the...

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April 13, 2004

Google Challenges Microsoft Monopoly

TechWeb: While Linux advocates look to desktop software to challenge Microsoft's desktop championship, a new top-ranked contender is coming from a direction that's both unexpected and obvious: Google. But first, Google needs to overcome privacy concerns, as proposed terms of...

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February 13, 2004

F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet

New York Times: Homes could start being connected to the Internet through electrical outlets, and consumers and business may find it easier to make cheaper telephone calls online under new rules that the Federal Communications Commission began preparing on Thursday....

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February 12, 2004

BitTorrent: The Third Wave of File Sharing

New York Times: Three years later, Mr. [Bram] Cohen, 28, has emerged as the face of the next wave of Internet file sharing. If Napster started the first generation of file-sharing, and services like Kazaa represented the second, then the...

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February 9, 2004

Social Networks: Will Users Pay to Get Friends?

New York Times: The idea behind "social networking" Web sites like Friendster, Tribe.net and LinkedIn is almost the opposite of the old Groucho Marx joke: they attract people who want to join a club eager to have them. But as...

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February 4, 2004

Janet Jackson's Bare Breast Tops Internet Searches

Reuters: A flash of singer Janet Jackson's right breast during a halftime Super Bowl performance has become the most-searched image in Internet history, online companies said on Wednesday. Jackson's unscripted flash of flesh during Sunday's Super Bowl halftime send Internet...

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January 28, 2004

Signs Show Massive Reach of Latest Virus Infecting Web

IHT: An antivirus company Wednesday declared Mydoom, the latest global computer virus, as the biggest ever, spreading at a pace likely to make it larger than the Sobig virus of last year. Mydoom clogged the Internet with 100 million infected...

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From KFOG to iPod in Less Than 48 Hours

NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, a record company, radio station, recording group and online music store teamed up to achieve a new level of speed to market in the digital realm. The exclusive digital EP...

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January 24, 2004

Desperately Seeking Sundance Cool

Wired News: PARK CITY, Utah -- Sundance is the Super Bowl of film festivals, at least in terms of advertising. During the 11 days of the Sundance Film Festival, held each January, this tiny ski town grows thick with corporate...

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January 23, 2004

Google Spawns Social Networking Service

CNET News.com Google tip-toed into the hot market of online social networks with the quiet launch of Orkut.com on Thursday. The search company, which is expected to go public this year, is flexing its power with its Internet fans by...

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January 22, 2004

Holiday Season Turns Blue for RedEnvelope

Contra Costa Times: ...RedEnvelope gravely underestimated demand. It has always promoted itself as a purveyor of last-minute gifts and has won customers with its unusual items and its signature red boxes and white bows. During the heart of the shopping...

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January 21, 2004

AOL: You've Got Movies!

CBS Marketwatch: A buck gets you more than a song on the Internet these days. Time Warner's America Online is offering broadband users downloaded movies for 99 cents each. AOL is partnering with MovieLink, a movie download rental service and...

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January 19, 2004

Television Commercials Come to the Web

New York Times: Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives...

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January 3, 2004

Instant Messaging: New Parent-Child Conversation

New York Times: Instant messaging, long a part of teenagers' lives, is working its way into the broader fabric of the American family. The technology "has really grown up in the last 18 months," said Michael Gartenberg, vice president and...

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December 30, 2003

Mobile Phones & Touch Screen Interfaces

SMH.com: With the Internet now entrenched in business, a new wave of opportunity is emerging to extend beyond the network and into the physical environment. Mobile phone technology has become one of the key ways for extending the reach of...

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December 24, 2003

Congress Passes Bill That Will Limit Spam

InsideBaltimore.com Congress moved significantly closer to the first-ever federal protections against unwanted commercial e-mails with the House passing a bill Saturday that would impose new limits on sending irritating offers on the Internet. Final approval by lawmakers could come before...

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December 15, 2003

Voice Over IP

New York Times: Politicians have worked hard to keep access to Internet connections and many forms of Internet communication free from regulation and taxation. But the debate over how government treats the Internet is likely to reach a new level...

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December 11, 2003

AT&T Joins Fray for Cheaper Calls Through the Web

New York Times: This certainly is a significant event," Kate Griffin, an analyst with the Yankee Group, a market research firm, said of AT&T's impending move, noting it may well be the most aggressive effort yet by a major telephone...

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Travel-Related Services on the Internet is Booking Investors Interest

TheAxcess.net: San Francisco CA - According to the latest Nielson NetRatings 60 percent of adults have shopped for travel-related services on the Internet within the last six months. On Wall Street, investors seem to go for travel-related Internet stocks as...

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December 10, 2003

BSP ONElink Launches First Internet-Based Travel Distribution & Settlement Service in India

BusinessWire: SAN FRANCISCO--Dec. 10, 2003--BSP ONElink, Inc. (OTCBB:BSPO), the world's first internet-based integrated distribution and settlement service for the global travel industry, is accelerating its business plan with a planned launch into India next year. The company has named The...

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December 9, 2003

Voice Over Internet Protocol

Tuscaloosa News: But only recently has Internet technology become refined enough that the cable companies felt they could offer reception quality comparable to that offered by traditional telephone companies. The cable companies say they have turned the corner, and they...

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December 8, 2003

Take Back The Net

PC Magazine: Very quickly, the Web was commandeered by those with the money and expertise to maintain and publicize Web sites: corporations, other businesses, the existing mass media. Tim Berners-Lee's creation had inadvertently brought much more power to the establishment...

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December 3, 2003

The Search for the Perfect Gift Grows at Small Online Stores

New York Times: Online sales were the bright spot for retailing over the Thanksgiving weekend. Visa said its online sales, including travel, increased 47 percent in the week ended Sunday, compared with the week last year. Traditional retailers had only...

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November 28, 2003

Friendster: A New Form of Community

New York Times: Boyd explained Friendster this way: "It allows you to purposely say who the people in your world are and to allow them to see each other, through a connection of you." An individual registered at Friendster has...

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Product Search Engines Rev Up For Holidays

Los Angeles Times The sites are offering deal-hungry consumers a way to quickly compare merchandise and prices from thousands of Web retailers. It didn't take long for Paul Rattay to grasp the power of shopping comparison sites on the Internet....

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November 26, 2003

Broadsheet vs. Tabloid: Profound shift in British reading habits and social divisions

StraitsTimes: A new chapter in the history of journalism unfolds today as The Times, arguably Britain's most venerable daily newspaper, appears in both its traditional large-paper format and a smaller, so-called tabloid version. The change is of major importance in...

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November 24, 2003

Answer the Phone, It may be Microsoft

ComputerWorld: Microsoft is bound to play a growing role in enterprise telephony systems over the next few years, helping them to evolve beyond the simple features such as speed dial, conference call and voice mail most companies know today. What's...

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November 17, 2003

In Utah, Public Works Project in Digital

New York Times: In a 21st-century twist on Roosevelt-era public works projects, Salt Lake City and 17 other Utah cities are planning to build the largest ultrahigh-speed digital network in the country. Construction on the project is scheduled to start...

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October 27, 2003

IBM vs. Microsoft: The Future of the Internet

New York Times: One year ago, almost to the day, Samuel J. Palmisano, the chief executive of I.B.M., delivered a speech in New York that sketched his company's vision of the future of computing, which he called "on-demand computing." Today...

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With Cable TV at M.I.T., Who Needs Napster?

New York Times: Two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system for sharing music within their campus community that they say can avoid the copyright battles that have pitted the music industry against many customers. The...

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October 24, 2003

Amazon Launches Book Search- Battle of the Search Engines

Amazon - A Letter from Jeff Bezos: "Starting today, you can find books at Amazon.com based on every workd inside them, not just on matches to author or title keywords. Search Inside the Book -- the name of this new...

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The Great Library of Amazonia

Wired: Jeff Bezos is building the world's biggest digital book archive. It's an info-age dream come true -- and the best way to sell books ever. ... The notion of Amazon scanning all of its books but allowing users to...

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October 21, 2003

Yahoo Launches Anti-Spam E-Mail Decoys

Yahoo! News: Yahoo Inc., the Internet media and services company, on Tuesday launched a new set of premium e-mail features that lets users create hundreds of decoy addresses to thwart spam mail. ... Yahoo said it has seen a...

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October 17, 2003

Physicists Smash Internet Speed Record

CBC News: Researchers have more than doubled the world speed record for internet data transfer. Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland sent the equivalent of a full-length DVD movie in about seven seconds. Colleagues at the California...

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October 14, 2003

To Whom May I Direct Your Free Call?

New York Times: In the fall of 2000, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis had not yet earned any powerful enemies, at least so far as they were aware. They were just two obscure Swedish entrepreneurs who had worked with three...

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New Developments In Local Search

Search Engine Watch: When I need a local product or service, I get low-tech but efficient. I pull the yellow pages off my bookshelf. Within a few minutes, I've found companies that can meet my needs. Surely web-wide search engines...

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October 13, 2003

Going, Going, Gone To The Concert

Washington Post: Imagine that concert tickets had no face value and instead were sold on the Internet to the highest bidders. You might wind up paying more for front-row seats and less for spots in the nosebleed sections. In any...

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October 6, 2003

The Changing Face of Communication

San Francisco Chronicle: For Melvin Patterson, who has been completely deaf since he was a toddler, communication is a visual experience. In the past, conducting a conversation using traditional nonvisual telecommunications tools like telephones and pagers was frustrating. Text...

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September 28, 2003

Dialing the future at Dartmouth

International Herald Tribune: Perhaps because of its geographic remoteness, Dartmouth College in the small town of Hanover, New Hampshire, has long been willing to try novel means of communication. The college introduced e-mail messaging on its campus in the 1980's,...

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IBM Unleashes Search Entry

Daily Times (Pakistan): US technology giant IBM on Thursday unveiled an advanced new search mechanism capable of extracting minute data from among billions of Web pages that it says could become a crucial new revenue source for the firm. The...

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September 22, 2003

Internet Arms Race: Plagiarism

Texas A&M News: Texas A&M University is using a new tool and revamping an old tradition to give professors and students more weapons against cheating. The new tool is a computer service capable of tracking plagiarized material. The revamped tradition...

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September 9, 2003

Comcast to Double Net Speed by End of Year

Yahoo! News: Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable operator, on Monday said it planned to double the downloading capability of its high-speed Internet service by the end of this year to distinguish its product from competitors. "Our job No....

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September 3, 2003

Friendster: A little cash goes a long way?

CNET News.com: With a million members and counting, servers for six-month-old Web site Friendster are staggering under demand. Copycat competitors to the site are cropping up, and rumors of imminent subscription fees are riling members. ... [The company just closed...

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August 31, 2003

More Companies Are Routing Calls via Internet

New York Times: Internet telephony, as it is known, is no longer restricted to adventurous techies. The technology, based on software technology that enables the Internet to route traffic, has matured to the point that voice quality is virtually indistinguishable...

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