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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Google, South Korea consider wider deal

Google is in talks to expand an existing agreement with South Korea's second largest search site. Talks with Daum Communications include search and user-generated video services. >>

Friday, May 25, 2007

Google launches test version of translation service

Google has released a beta version of a translation tool that allows users to search the Internet and translate the results into the language of their choice. The "cross-language information retrieval" feature can be accessed online at http://translate.google.com/translate_s. >>

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

New e-mail service by-passes phone to avoid long-distance fees

Jangl Inc launched Wednesday a new way for Internet users to make phone calls and avoid traditional telephone charges. The new service assigns virtual phone numbers to e-mail addresses, keeping your real phone number private. >>

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

MySpace to release sex offender data

Facing demands from attorney generals from eight states, MySpace.com has announced that it will provide the data on registered sex offenders it has found using the popular social networking website. With its 177 million registered users, the site has become a place for spammers and scammers to target. >>

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Google to digitize 800,000 books and manuscripts from India's Mysore University

Google, the world's leading Internet search engine, is going to digitize a collection of more than 800,000 books and manuscripts housed at the University of Mysore, in Karnataka, India. Among the digitized manuscripts will be India's first political treatise, the Arthasastra, written by Kautilya in the 4th century B.C. >>

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

China backs down from requiring bloggers use real names

China revised a controversial regulation that would require bloggers to use their real names when registering blogs. Internet users are now "encouraged" to submit their names. >>

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Report: Beatles music 'well on the way' to going online

The music of former Beatles lead singer Paul McCartney reportedly will be sold online next week by a digital music company with links to MTV and Yahoo. >>

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Soldier's blog of post-war Iraq wins Lulu Blooker Prize

A U.S. soldier describing his experience in war-torn Iraq has walked away with the $10,000 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize. This comes amid the U.S. government's campaign to restrict soldiers' blogs that have not won prior approval from the government. >>

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Internet clothing sales now more lucrative than computer sales

For the first time in history people are spending more money buying clothing online than they are on purchasing computer hardware and software. Online purchase of clothes has brought in more money than any other category, excluding travel tickets, since online retailing began about a decade ago. >>

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

DoD blocks access to 13 major social networking sites

In a bid to reduce the Internet traffic that blocks army computer networks and minimize the potential security risk, the U.S. Department of Defense on Monday began blocking access to some websites. They include major social networking sites such as YouTube and MySpace. >>

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Facebook plans to offer free classifieds

Facebook reportedly will begin offering free classified ad listings to its high school and college-age users. The Internet site joins Craigslist, MySpace and others offering free classified ads to ensure visitors return. >>

Saturday, May 12, 2007

New domain names may appear mid-2008

For the first time since 2000, new Internet domain names will join the ranks of the venerable ".com," ".net" and ".org" addresses, according to the agency charged with overseeing Internet domains. The general domain names could appear the middle of next year. >>

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Google's Desktop 5 Beta application now available in 29 languages

Google Inc. on Thursday announced the release of its new Google Desktop 5 Beta application in 29 languages. The addition comes nearly two months after the Internet search giant released the newest version of its desktop search software. >>

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Google glitch puts engineers in a frantic chase

A glitch in Google's personalized homepage portal had its engineers on a "frantic chase" to find the cause of the bug on Thursday. >>

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

U.S. Telco Group blasts Google-DoubleClick Deal

Advocate group NETCompetition.org on Tuesday claimed that the Google-DoubleClick merger shows how the search company is exploiting U.S. antitrust laws. >>

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