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RSS lures venture capital dollars
News Fast becoming mainstream, the technology receives another financial boost from a group of investors.
Tags: Web services
China blocks search engine AltaVista
News The move comes just days after the China government blocked access to Google.
Spyware fight attracts a crowd
News Four groups have come out swinging to defeat the software nuisance, raising the question of who really gets hurt.
Facebook's Holocaust controversy
News Facebook is under fire for allowing Holocaust denial groups to remain on the site, claiming they don't violate the social network's terms of service.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web logs, Terms Of Service, Cooper, GROUP, Berkman Center, social networking, Facebook, CEO, Web 2.0
Google warns entire Internet is malware
News For about an hour Saturday morning, Google listed every site on the Internet as potentially harmful to your computer. At first, Google blamed the problem on StopBadware.org but later had to eat crow.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Malware, Google Inc., Site, Computer, PST, StopBadware.org, Berkman Center
Yahoo's delicate dance in Vietnam
News Search firm is expanding in the Asian country but is taking pains to avoid being drawn into government efforts to curb citizens' use of the Web.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Government, Vietnam, Borders Books & Music, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Singapore, Berkman Center, China
Google filter blocks innocuous sites
News Children using Google's SafeSearch feature, which was designed to filter adult Web sites, may be shielded from far more than their parents ever intended.
Microsoft proposes age-limited digital playgrounds
News Company envisions offline identity authenticators creating digital credentials that could prove you are who you say you are on the Internet as part of its Trustworthy Computing initiative.
Tags: Privacy, Security, Microsoft Corp., Children, Identity, Open Source, Scott Charney, Digital Identity, RSA Security Inc., Environment
Many give the slip to VeriSign's SiteFinder
News As legal and political challenges to VeriSign's SiteFinder domain name redirector mount, Chinese and other overseas network operators have taken technical steps to bypass the controversial service.
Judge sides with Volkswagen in Net name lawsuit
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Judge sides with Volkswagen in Net name lawsuit
News A little-known Net access company using the address VW.net lost its legal battle Wednesday against the giant German carmaker Volkswagen, a sign that judges are again picking Goliath over David in Net name disputes.
Friends, foes file comments in Microsoft antitrust case
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Deploying the wisdom of the crowds against badware
Techguide Professors John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain say this might be the best chance to create a more accountable Internet.
Should YouTube play the censor and sentinel?
News Video-sharing site is embroiled in a heated debate over freedom of speech and how to handle potential criminal activity.
Tags: Web 2.0
Should software developers fear Facebook, Apple?
News Harvard law professor says that controlling third-party platforms may put companies in a gate-keeping position that could stifle innovation.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Protocols and platforms, Apple Inc., App, Developer, Platform, social networking, software, Facebook, co-founder
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