Information Technology
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Tumblr blogging site back up after massive outageDec 05, 2010 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — The popular blogging site Tumblr is recovering from an outage that had left it out of service for about 24 hours. Tumblr says the problem was in one of its da...
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Report: AOL considers breakup, merger with YahooDec 05, 2010 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A published report says AOL Inc. is considering breaking itself up and then combining its content division with Yahoo Inc. The news agency Reuters said Monda...
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U.S. cable: China leaders ordered hacking on GoogleDec 04, 2010 10:00 pm - BEIJING -- Contacts told American diplomats that hacking attacks against Google were ordered by China's top ruling body and a senior leader demanded action after finding...
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Visited porn? Web browser flaw secretly bares allDec 04, 2010 10:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO -- Dozens of websites have been secretly harvesting lists of places that their users previously visited online, everything from news articles to bank sites...
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Comcast broadband down for around five hoursDec 04, 2010 10:00 pm - A Comcast broadband outage affected the Chicago area and other parts of the Midwest Sunday evening and into early Monday, according to company officials. Internet servic...
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Facebook's new facelift plays up photos, friendsDec 04, 2010 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Facebook is redesigning the profile pages of its 500 million-plus users to make it more of a reflection of their real lives and emphasize one of the site's m...
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Amazon invests $175 mil in Groupon competitorDec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com Inc. says that it is investing $175 million in social coupon service LivingSocial, a sign the online retailer is getting its feet wet in a boo...
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Russian accused of mass-spamming charged in Wis.Dec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - MILWAUKEE — A 23-year-old Russian man accused of running a worldwide spamming network, which Internet-security experts say on some days accounted for one of every three ...
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BlackBerry maker RIM buys Swedish software firmDec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Research In Motion Ltd., maker of BlackBerry smart phones, said on its blog Thursday that it will buy Swedish software developer The Astonishing Tribe, which ...
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App-DNA makes Schaumburg its new headquartersDec 01, 2010 10:00 pm - A software development firm that provides products and services to help workers do their jobs has spun off from its British parent and has settled in Schaumburg. App-DNA...