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Google Reconsiders Privacy Practices
(PC World)
PC World - Google isn't exactly known for its respect for privacy, but a recent blog post shows the search giant may be attempting to turn a new leaf on what has been called an "irresponsible" stance on user privacy. Maybe.
03/20/2010 - 04:56 PM
Twitter Hit by Site Outage
(PC World)
PC World - Users of popular micro-blogging service Twitter were unable to access the site for almost 30 minutes early Thursday.
03/18/2010 - 06:46 AM
Facebook Sets up Office in India
(PC World)
PC World - Social networking company Facebook said on Monday that it is setting up an office in Hyderabad in southern India. The new office will have online sales and operations teams, said Don Faul, a director of global online operations at Facebook, in a posting on the official Facebook blog.
03/15/2010 - 08:00 AM
Actress Summer Glau playing cute blogger in pilot
(Reuters)
Reuters - Summer Glau is back.
03/14/2010 - 09:15 PM
Amazon reacts to new Colo tax, costing affiliates
(AP)
 AP - Kristie McNealy blogs from her suburban Denver home about raising four children and health issues. Her husband, Rob, a floor installer, runs another Web site offering product reviews and advice on hardwood floors.
03/14/2010 - 07:02 PM
Bloggers battle corruption in Russia
(AFP)
 AFP - It started with a golden bed and African drummers and led to Russia's latest, surprising, political duel pitting tenacious bloggers against bureaucrats whose excesses went a step too far.
03/14/2010 - 05:01 PM
Twitter Adds Location-Sharing: I'm Eating Tacos…In Texarkana
(PC World)
PC World - Twitter users can now add their current location to their tweets. The micro-blogging service on Thursday activated an optional new feature that appends geographical information to your posts.
03/12/2010 - 06:40 PM
Google honours Iranian women bloggers
(AFP)
 AFP - Internet giant Google on Thursday joined a top journalists' rights group in rewarding a collective of Iranian women bloggers for their reporting on last year's post-election unrest.
03/11/2010 - 04:21 PM
Google Tests New Blogger Layout Design Tool
(PC World)
PC World - Google will begin on Thursday a public test of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers' ability to modify the look of their blogs.
03/11/2010 - 01:20 PM
China lawmakers test out microblogging
(AFP)
 AFP - Mao Zedong may have used paintbrush and ink to write classic poems in calligraphy, but his grandson is firmly in the 21st century -- micro-blogging by laptop from China's annual session of parliament.
03/11/2010 - 12:01 PM
Van Gogh work 'The Bedroom' undergoes restoration
(AP)
 AP - One of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings, "The Bedroom," has been taken away for restoration, but art lovers don't have to miss it. They can follow the cleanup on a blog, the Van Gogh Museum said Thursday.
03/11/2010 - 11:13 AM
Hands On: Google Reader Play - A Beta Browsing Tool
(PC World)
PC World - Google launched an experimental Web browsing tool called Google Reader Play Wednesday that allows you to browse content associated with a Google Reader news feed. Google Reader is a Web-based content aggregator that assembles RSS news feeds for online or offline reading. To use Google Reader Play you do not need a Google Reader account, but if you do Google will be able to personalize the experience with your RSS preferences.
03/11/2010 - 10:08 AM
2nd mistrial declared in case against NJ blogger
(AP)
AP - A New York judge has declared a second mistrial in the case against a New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges.
03/11/2010 - 08:30 AM
Twitter Becomes More Proactive About Phishing
(PC World)
PC World - Twitter is finally being proactive about the large number of phishing scams that have plagued the micro-blogging service in the past year.
03/10/2010 - 04:19 PM
Azerbaijan bloggers' appeal denied
(AP)
AP - A court in Azerbaijan has rejected the appeal of two bloggers who were sentenced to prison last year in a case that supporters say was politically motivated.
03/10/2010 - 02:51 PM
Azerbaijan court rejects 'donkey video' bloggers' appeal
(AFP)
 AFP - An Azerbaijani court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by two bloggers jailed after satirizing the government with an Internet video that showed a donkey giving a press conference, their lawyer said.
03/10/2010 - 02:40 PM
HP Turns Steve Jobs' Flash Snub Against Apple's iPad
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - No watered-down Internet. No sacrifices. That's the promise Hewlett-Packard Vice President and CTO Phil McKinney offered consumers in a blog post about the PC giant's upcoming tablet computer. HP's iPad competitor, he promised, will offer a full web browsing experience in the palm of your hand.
03/10/2010 - 11:12 AM
Rackspace Hires to Align With MySQL Offshoot
(PC World)
PC World - A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.
03/09/2010 - 01:00 PM
WordPress Guns for Web Content Management Duties
(PC World)
PC World - Long popular with bloggers, the open-source WordPress blogging software is also starting to find a niche as a low-cost corporate CMS (content management system), at least for managing relatively simple Web sites.
03/08/2010 - 06:40 PM
10 Ways to Save by Going Green
(U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report - The era of new American frugality ushered in by the recession has an added benefit. Many measures that families take to cut costs in tough times--turning down the heat or shopping secondhand, for example--are also good for the planet. "Our carbon footprint is directly tied to our consumption, whether that's consumption of energy or a consumer product," says Josh Dorfman, host of the Sundance Channel show The Lazy Environmentalist and author of the book and blog of the same name. Whether people realize it or not, cutting back has made them accidental environmentalists.
03/08/2010 - 04:39 PM
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