Internet
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Google leader gets look at North Koreans using InternetJan 08, 2013 5:04 am - PYONGYANG, North Korea — Students at North Korea’s premier university showed Google’s executive chairman Tuesday how they look for information online: they Google it. B...
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Google executive chairman arrives in North KoreaJan 07, 2013 4:56 am - PYONGYANG, North Korea — Google’s chairman wants a first-hand look at North Korea’s economy and social media during his private visit Monday to the communist nation, his...
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Why Apple Killed the netbookJan 05, 2013 6:20 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — Netbooks are dead. Good riddance! Just a few years ago, these small, underpowered, ultracheap laptops were considered the future of the computer indu...
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6 takeaways from Google’s antitrust settlementJan 05, 2013 6:13 am - Google Inc. has settled an U.S. antitrust probe that largely leaves its search practices alone. In a major win for Google, the Federal Trade Commission unanimously concl...
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Manjoo: My technology new year’s resolutionsJan 05, 2013 6:09 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. — I write about technology for a living, but tech, and the way I use it, frustrates me all the time. I’m constantly finding technology slow or annoying...
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Nielsen becomes a Twitter followerJan 05, 2013 6:06 am - By Jessica Goldstein, The Washington Post The Twitter haters are losing the war. You know who they are, or, perhaps, who you are. Those who dismiss the snappy social net...
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Survey: Library websites get more mobile visitsJan 01, 2013 4:55 am - NEW YORK — A new Pew study reports that around 13 percent of Americans aged 16 and older used a mobile device to visit a library website during the past year. Patrons ag...
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Colleges help students scrub online footprintsDec 29, 2012 10:00 pm - BUFFALO, N.Y. — Samantha Grossman wasn't always thrilled with the impression that emerged when people Googled her name. “It wasn't anything too horrible,” she said. “I j...
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High prices, slow speeds for U.S. Internet usersDec 29, 2012 6:49 am - Editor’s note: Excerpted from “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age.” Terry Huval is a large, friendly man with a lilting Sout...
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Review: Making Facebook a warmer, smaller spaceDec 29, 2012 6:02 am - NEW YORK (AP) — A woman I haven’t spoken to in six years is pregnant with her second son. Another college acquaintance reads the Bible a lot. A high school classmate lik...