The internet's relationship with books, it is fair to say, has been a tumultuous one. Ever since the digital revolution started changing our relationship with information, the printed word – one of the most successful technologies in history – has been on the back foot.
Amazon has altered the face of the industry twice – first
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Written by Cecilia Kang for
The Washington Post, Thursday, July 2, 2009.
Vice President Biden yesterday announced guidelines for $4 billion in stimulus funds to expand high-speed Internet access across the nation, jump-starting a program that has been criticized for taking too long to get off the ground.
The first round of grants and loans
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Searches for Michael Jackson surged a little before 3 p.m. PDT Thursday.
(Credit: Google)
Google has confirmed that the surge of Michael Jackson-related searches on Google News Thursday was first interpreted as an attack on its service.
Google News was inaccessible for some people Thursday afternoon right as rumors of Jackson's death began to circulate
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The Chinese government has blocked access to Google across large swathes of the country and accused the internet giant of breaking Chinese law.
An initial nationwide ban saw screens go blank between 9pm and midnight on Wednesday.
However, Google was inaccessible in several cities and on some mobile phone networks yesterday evening, a
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Comcast and Time Warner say that their 'TV Everywhere' experiment will extend cable programming to the Internet "free and on demand," that is, as long as you are a cable subscriber. Should advocates of the free, online video model be worried?
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Programmers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components.
Whether the outcome of this competition is another sign that math and science education in the U.S. needs improvement may spur debate. But the fact remains: Of 70 finalists, 20 were from China, 10 from Russia and two from the U.S.
TopCoder Inc., which runs software competitions as part of its software development service, operates To
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About seven in 10 U.S. residents believe the next great technology entrepreneur will come from somewhere else, according to a new poll.
Asked where the next Bill Gates will come from, 29% of respondents in a new Zogby International poll said the U.S., while 28% said India, 15% said China and 11% said Japan. But the poll, released Monday, also found 67% of U.S. residents saying they believe the economic, educational and societal conditions still exist in the U.S. for anothe
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Supporters of low-power FM (LPFM) radio won a victory on Friday when a federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit to stop the Federal Communications Commissions from protecting LPFM stations from full power station signal interference.
"This is terrific news for the low power radio community," declared Sakura Saunders of the Prometheus Radio Project, which helps LPFMs. "Now, these stations can focus on servi
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June 8 (Bloomberg) -- China plans to require all personal computers sold in the country as of July 1 to include software that prevents access to an automatically updated list of Web sites banned by the government, the
Wall Street Journal reported.
The plan is aimed at preventing “harmful” information from influencing young people, according to an unpublicized Ministry of Industry and Information Technolo
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Written by Jordan Robertson, for
The Associated Press, June 5, 2009.
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government has severed the Internet connection of a company accused of helping criminals serve up a "witches' brew" of nasty content online, from computer viruses to child pornography.
It's likely to be a short-lived victory in the fight against cybercrime, though, since bad guys are very good at ge
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will start smashing its first protons in October and run through the winter to keep it ahead in the international race to find the elusive “God particle”, the project’s leader said today.
The CERN laboratory’s unprecedented decision to operate the £4bn particle accelerator all year round makes it very unlikely that the LHC will be beaten to the discovery of the Higgs boson, even after a serious fault forced a year-long shutdown, Lyn Evans to
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Three strikes and you're off the internet is too draconian, Andy Burnham tells music industry, written by Alexandra Topping, for
The Guardian, June 4, 2009.
The government will acquire powers to apply "technical measures" to crack down on persistent illegal filesharers on the internet, the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, said today.
The government's response to problem fil
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Written by Seth Schiesel for
The New York Times, June 3, 2009.
Los Angeles:
Trying to reclaim its leadership in the quickly shifting video game market, Sony announced on Tuesday that i
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Watch Google's Development Preview for
Google Wave.
Courtesy of
Reuters
Perhaps stung by complaints that it announced the arrival of its new search engine Bing days before actually letting people use it, or psyched by the enthusiastic recep
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Written by Brandon Keim for
Wired, June 1, 2009.
By combining cutting-edge chemistry with the ancient concept of signaling flares, researchers have made an information-dense fuse that transmits complicated message
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When CardSystems Solutions was hacked in 2004 in one of the largest credit card data breaches at the time, it reached for its security auditor’s report.
Written by Kim Zetter, for
Wired, June 2, 2009.
In theory, CardSystems should have been safe. The industry’s primary security stan
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A construction crew working on an office building in Virginia in 2000 severed a fiber optic cable that wasn’t on anyone’s map. Apparently it was a ‘black line’ used for carrying secret intelligence data, according to sources who spoke recently with the
Washington Post.
Within minutes of cutting the cable, three black SUV’s pulled up carrying men i
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The internet's war with Scientologists has stepped up a gear, after Wikipedia administrators decided to ban the church from making changes to its site.
After a long debate, the online encyclopedia has decided to block anyone using an internet connection linked to the church from making changes to Wikipedia pages - in order to prevent propaganda changes and what it calls
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News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch says that the future of newspapers is digital, but it may be 10 to 15 years before readers go fully electronic.
Murdoch, in an interview with the News Corp-owned Fox Business Network, also said that newspapers, faced with eroding print advertising revenue and circulation, are going to have to start charging readers on the web.
The News Corp
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Microsoft today sparked a games console war when it unveiled a
