Internet
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On YouTube channels, comedians shift the punchlineAug 11, 2012 7:39 am - NEW YORK — On the debut episode of “Smart Girls at the Party,” Amy Poehler sits in a dark studio and solemnly introduces her first guest as a “singer, actor, dancer, mus...
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China in the middle of a microblog crazeAug 04, 2012 7:37 am - BEIJING — China’s Twitter was raucous Thursday with horn-tooting over Beijing’s gold rush at the London Olympics, a digital reflection of the nation’s exuberant mood — e...
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Review: NBC offers plenty of live Olympics onlineAug 04, 2012 7:32 am - NEW YORK — Soccer and balance beam gymnastics on the desktop. Swimming and badminton on the laptop. Boxing on the iPhone. Gymnasts’ floor exercises on the iPad. Vault ro...
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A new outlook on email and reason to ditch GmailAug 04, 2012 7:26 am - Two years ago, Microsoft attempted to transform Hotmail, its ancient Web mail service, into a program fit for modern times. The company put a great deal of thought into ...
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Did the government really invent the Internet?Jul 28, 2012 8:07 am - Earlier this month, President Obama argued that wealthy business people owe some of their success to the government’s investment in education and basic infrastructure. H...
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YouTube wants commenters to use real namesJul 28, 2012 7:11 am - In an attempt to clean up its notorious comments section, YouTube is encouraging users to give up the tool that most enables online abuse — their anonymity. Commenting o...
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Skype quiet on whether if can eavesdrop on your conversationsJul 28, 2012 7:10 am - New surveillance laws being proposed in countries from the United States to Australia would force makers of online chat software to build in backdoors for wiretapping. F...
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Fantasy sports widows: Don’t get mad, get celeb-edJul 22, 2012 7:03 am - NEW YORK — Widowed by hubby’s fantasy sports obsession? Don’t get mad, get Kim Kardashian. Or Tom Cruise. Or Kate Middleton. Fantasy sports leagues are big business onli...
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iPad serves all-you-can-eat magazine banquetJul 21, 2012 8:50 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Movie fans have Netflix. For music lovers, there’s Spotify. So why not an all-you-can-eat service for magazine readers? Now there is one: Next Issue, a n...
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The most common passwords from the Yahoo mail leakJul 21, 2012 7:54 am - We learned last week that about 400,000 Yahoo Mail passwords were apparently leaked. Another annoying bit of news for those who struggle to come up with new secret codes...