Internet
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Google phasing out ‘iGoogle’ in latest purgeJul 07, 2012 7:22 am - SAN FRANCISCO — Google is phasing out a service that allows millions of people to personalize its home page with applications such as weather updates and stock quotes. T...
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Can you be fired for what you post on Facebook?Jul 07, 2012 7:00 am - On a Saturday morning in October 2010, Mariana Cole-Rivera, a domestic violence advocate at the group Hispanics United of Buffalo, began the Facebook thread that would g...
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Jerry Seinfeld to debut Web series set in carsJul 05, 2012 12:00 pm - NEW YORK — Jerry Seinfeld is going back on the road. The comedian announced Thursday that he'll debut the Web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” on July 19. The ...
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Government extends contract to firm overseeing all domain namesJul 04, 2012 6:00 am - The U.S. Commerce Department awarded a new contract to the nonprofit managing the Internet’s address system four months after saying the group hadn’t met revised require...
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At 88, chef taps into Facebook marketJun 28, 2012 6:20 pm - LONGBOAT KEY, Fla. — At a time when overcooked spaghetti and Chef Boyardee defined Italian food for most Americans, Marcella Hazan dared them to try a bite of something ...
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Yahoo teams up with Spotify for on-demand musicJun 28, 2012 6:19 pm - LOS ANGELES — Yahoo is ditching its provider of on-demand music, Rhapsody, for a similar service provided by Swedish subscription-music service Spotify. The changes to t...
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What’s next after Facebook buys facial rec software?Jun 23, 2012 7:45 am - Chances are Facebook knows a lot about you. But can it pick you out in a crowd? Probably not yet, but that could be on the horizon. Facebook on this week confirmed that ...
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What’s next for online radio?Jun 23, 2012 6:50 am - LOS ANGELES — Songza, a new online radio service, leapfrogged Pandora as the most popular free music app for Apple devices last week. But it immediately faces a struggle...
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Tweets are about to get longerJun 23, 2012 6:20 am - Almost a year ago, I proposed that Twitter double its character limit from 140 to 280. The microblogging site long ago outgrew its original purpose as a platform for sim...
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Kenny Chesney, Jonathan Demme team for livestreamJun 19, 2012 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — And now for something a little bit different: Kenny Chesney and Jonathan Demme are working together. Country music's king of the road and the Academy ...