A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organization last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say. The DDoS attack started ...
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FORMER Australian schoolboy Nick D'Aloisio is set to become one of the world's youngest self-made multi-millionaires after selling his Summly news summariser app to internet company Yahoo!. The 17-year-old, born in London to Australian ...
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A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to punish Chinese Internet company Baidu for blocking pro-democracy works on its search engine. One legal expert said the case was more of a publicity stunt than an actual legal challenge to ...
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Google has fully implemented a security feature that ensures a person looking up a website isn't inadvertently directed to a fake one. The Internet company has run its own free public Domain Name System (DNS) lookup service, called Public ...
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Lovers of the soon-to-be-defunct Google Reader have vented anger over the decision to pull the plug on the RSS service and are petitioning to keep it alive. A "Keep Google Reader Running" petition at change.org had racked up more than ...
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Google has acquired a startup from the computer science department of the University of Toronto to get key researchers in the area of deep neural networks. The Internet company acquired DNNresearch, which was set up last year by Professor ...
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Facebook is set to unveil an updated News Feed on Thursday and analysts have a wish list of changes that users might welcome. Facebook on Friday sent out press invitations for a March 7 event at the company's offices in Menlo Park, Calif. ...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has received a $US1.1 million ($1.08m) bonus for her first five-and-half months running the internet company. The award disclosed on Wednesday supplements Mayer's annual salary of $US1m and $US56m in long-term ...
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FreedomPop, America's new free Internet company, today announced the public availability of its new Burst home router device, offering 100 percent free high-speed Internet in the home or small office. FreedomPop's new home broadband device ...
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After creating a ruckus for calling all of its telecommuters back into the office, Yahoo is trying to quell some of the furor. Yahoo last week issued a memo informing employees that the company was ending work-at-home arrangements. As of ...
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After causing uproar by calling all of its telecommuters back into the office, Yahoo is trying to quell some of the bad publicity. Yahoo last week issued a memo to employees that the company was ending work-at-home agreements. As of June, ...
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Yahoo! has a new look online following a makeover engineered by its chief executive Marissa Mayer. The long-awaited makeover of Yahoo.com's home page is the most notable change to the website since the internet company hired Marissa ...
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Egypt‘s telecom regulator said last week that it is not viable for it to follow a court order to block YouTube in the country, and is appealing the ruling. The order banning YouTube and some other websites for 30 days was issued by ...
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Egypt's telecom regulator says it is not viable for it to follow a court order to block YouTube in the country, and is appealing the ruling. The order banning YouTube and some other websites for 30 days was issued by a Cairo court after ...
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Google filed a patent infringement lawsuit against BT Group companies in a court in the U.S. stating it was defending itself against the British communications services company's own "meritless patent claims" and its arming of patent ...
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