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  • July 2008

    • Domain Name Bug Worries Web Providers

      New York Times  |  Jul 30, 08 9:33 AM CDT

      Domain Name Bug Worries Web Providers

      (Newser) - ISPs worldwide are racing to patch a flaw in the design of the Internet that could allow criminals to steal personal and financial details of Web users by diverting them to fake sites. The flaw resides in the procedures of the Domain Name System, which translates URLs into numerical Internet protocol. The problem underlines the dangers of the Internet's jumbled, decentralized architecture, in which no one entity can fix such a weakness, writes the New York Times . More »

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      Internet  • Microsoft  • Internet security  • domain names  • ISP  • World Wide Web  • DNS

    • Web Whizzes Renovate Rickety Sites to Flip for Profit

      New York Times  |  Jul 29, 08 4:51 AM CDT

      Web Whizzes Renovate Rickety Sites to Flip for Profit

      (Newser) - Web entrepreneurs are taking a page from the real-estate book: they’re buying badly designed websites cheaply, fixing them up, and selling them at a profit. Website sales on eBay and similar sites have soared in the past few months, with many site-flippers happy to sell for just a few hundred dollars, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Internet  • business  • Internet advertising  • website  • World Wide Web

    • FTC Rejects Call for Internet Privacy Law

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 9, 08 5:23 PM CDT

      FTC Rejects Call for Internet Privacy Law

      (Newser) - An federal official testifying at a Senate hearing today shot down calls for a federal law to regulate websites that track users' data for advertising purposes. The FTC doesn't think it's necessary to place a rule on the books—one that could quickly become obsolete—and instead encouraged "meaningful, enforceable self regulation," reports the Wall Street Journal . More »

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      Google  • Microsoft  • online advertising  • Federal Trade Commission  • World Wide Web  • Internet privacy

    • Domain-Name Rule Change 'Brand Owner's Nightmare'

      BusinessWeek  |  Jul 1, 08 5:45 PM CDT

      Domain-Name Rule Change 'Brand Owner's Nightmare'

      (Newser) - The decision of an internet oversight body to allow more domain names opens the playing field to cybersquatters—who register domain names in the hopes someone else will have to purchase them later, BusinessWeek reports. No more is it a matter of simply .com or .net: Squatters may now buy up countless addresses, forcing brand names to keep a much wider-ranging eye on the web. More »

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      Internet  • domain names  • World Wide Web  • ICANN  • web domain  • infringement

  • February 2008

    • Pakistan Bans Access to YouTube

      Associated Press  |  Feb 24, 08 4:25 PM CST

      Pakistan Bans Access to YouTube

      (Newser) - Pakistan has blocked the country’s YouTube access over anti-Islamic videos on the site, the AP reports. One official conceded that a particular video offended authorities: a trailer for an upcoming film by Dutch legislator Geert Wilders. The filmmaker has said that his piece paints Islam as a fascist religion that glorifies violence against homosexuals and women. More »

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      Pakistan  • YouTube  • World Wide Web  • Internet censorship

  • December 2007

    • AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Browser

      CNET  |  Dec 28, 07 7:14 PM CST

      AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Browser

      (Newser) - AOL today announced that it will discontinue support and development of its Netscape Navigator browser, a program that first introduced many to the Internet when it launched 13 years ago. But, CNET's Stephen Shankland writes, Microsoft's Internet Explorer ate into market share for Netscape, which was bought by AOL—which in turn spun off the Mozilla Foundation and its popular Firefox browser. More »

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      Internet  • AOL  • Firefox  • web browser  • World Wide Web  • Netscape

    • Standardization Stifling Change: Web Designers

      Wired  |  Dec 20, 07 11:56 PM CST

      Standardization Stifling Change: Web Designers

      (Newser) - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been the Web's governing body since the "Wild West" days of the mid-90s. It helped end the Netscape/Explorer "browser wars", but  Web designers today are worried that the body's standards management process has slowed the pace of change down to dial-up speed, Wired reports. More »

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      Internet  • technology  • website  • regulation  • World Wide Web  • Internet browsers  • web standards

  • November 2007

    • Facebook to Join Google's 'OpenSocial' Alliance?

      Fortune Magazine  |  Nov 2, 07 4:49 PM CDT

      Facebook to Join Google's 'OpenSocial' Alliance?

      (Newser) - The day after MySpace announced it was joining a Google-led alliance meant to let applications written for one social networking site be used on others, it looks like lone outsider Facebook could join up, too. That's according to Fortune Magazine , which reported that Facebook and Google representatives met yesterday and that a board member said Facebook is open to the OpenSocial standard. More »

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      Internet  • Google  • Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace  • World Wide Web  • OpenSocial  • open standards

  • July 2007

    • How to Survive the Email Onslaught

      Salon  |  Jul 13, 07 5:30 PM CDT

      How to Survive the Email Onslaught

      (Newser) - A spate of new survival manuals is addressing the problem of swamped inboxes, writes Salon's Scott Rosenberg. But how does one navigate through the sea of attachments, spam, and forwarded off-color jokes? Most experts agree on striving for emptiness: delete ruthlessly. More »

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      Internet  • Google  • computer  • email  • etiquette  • World Wide Web  • Gmail  • web

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