December
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Efforts underway to ensure no shortlink rots
News Internet Archive and Archive Team running separate projects aimed at archiving shortened Web URLs, to ensure longevity of such links.
Tags: Web sites, Universal Resource Locators, Web sites, Service, Internet, Web Site, Web, termination
Facebook in Vietnam: Social-networking blues
News Hanoi users are apparently facing problems accessing the social network. But is the government to blame?
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Google Inc., Tran, Yahoo360Plus, Blocked Web Site, Web 2.0, Vietnam, Social Web, Internet Service
YouTube, Warner Music feud nearing an end
News Two companies have reached terms on most of the major issues and it appears Warner Music's videos will return to YouTube within weeks.
Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Music, Video, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Sony Pictures, Warner Music Group Corp., Sony BMG Music Entertainment, YouTube Inc., content company
'Godfather of Spam' sentenced to four years
News Alan Ralsky and many of his gang of spammers have been given prison sentences in the United States for a pump-and-dump spam operation.
Tags: Spam, Spam and phishing, Legal, Prison, U.S. Department Of Justice, attorney, Stock, Michigan, U.S. Government, Internet
Microsoft licenses another flash file format
News Software maker says it has begun licensing technology related to exFAT, the Extended File Allocation Table memory format included in Windows 7.
Tags: Software licensing, Protocols and platforms, Storage, Sanyo Electric Co., File Allocation Table, Patent, Canon Inc., Microsoft Corp., TomTom, Video
When technology costs more than human
Blogs Movie director James Cameron waited 15 years for technology to catch up before it was sufficiently advanced for him to c...
Google set to promote Chrome extensions
News One of the standout features of Chrome 4.0 is customization through extensions. Google appears on the brink of launching a gallery to showcase them.
Tags: Web browsers, Extension, Google Inc., Web Browser, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Apple Mac OS, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla: Firefox 3.6 won't be late
News The first beta of Firefox 3.6 may have crossed the finish line weeks late, but Mozilla says the final version should still be done this year.
Tags: Web browsers, Open Source, Wiki, Web Browser, motivation, Mozilla Corp., Beta, release candidate, Mozilla Firefox, proprietary software
Kindle patents lay out plan for ads
News Patents, both approved and pending, show that Amazon may bundle free, ad-supported digital books with sales of physical books.
Tags: Patents, Regulations, Sales/revenue, Internet advertising, Patent, E-book, Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., revenue, Internet advertising
10 tips for working with dates in Microsoft Access
Techguide Handling dates in Access is often a little tricky and non-intuitive. These tips will help you avoid the most common date-related headaches.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Expression, DateSerial, Returns, Value, Cell, Microsoft Corp., data entry, SQL, Microsoft Excel
Will India finally see 3G spectrum auction in December?
Blogs The auction for 3G spectrum was to happen in December 2008, but a host of issues (such as lack of agreement between mini...
Google hopes to turn the river into a canal
News Searching on real-time services like Twitter is akin to standing in front of a firehose on a hot day: you'll get cooled off, but knocked over. Google wants to change that.
Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Tiger Woods, Twitter Inc., Web Page, Web 2.0, healthcare reform, Google News, Internet
Skype retiring third-party Extras
News Developers and users will have some adjustment time. Skype won't certify any new submissions, but it won't yank support for existing Extras until their certificates expire.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Backup, Developer, Mozilla Firefox, API, adjustment
What Y2K can teach us about 2012
Blogs Dec. 21, 2012. It's a big day on the calendar, particularly because some believe it marks the last day of the world as w...
EC reveals details of Intel antitrust breaches
News The European Commission has published its full decision against Intel, releasing evidence of how the chipmaker engaged in anti-competitive practices.
Tags: Components, Processors, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PC Company, CPU, payment, antitrust, Dell Computer Corp., agreement
