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Raging against the Internet machine
Insight newsmaker Cultural critic and author Lee Siegel believes the time is ripe for a mature debate about the Web's impact on society, personality and culture.
Tags: Strategic analysis, Web sites, Web 2.0, Internet advertising, Google Inc., message board, Voice, social networking, Web 2.0, America
Dodgy domains spam message boards
News The amount of message board spam has been escalating dramatically since mid-2005, according to experts.
Tags: Web sites, Spam and phishing
Missing Chinese pilot gets a site
News China's official news agency has set up a memorial Web site for the Chinese pilot who apparently was killed April 1 in a collision with a US intelligence plane.
Share information, documents with open source Liferay Portal
Blogs If you're building a small-scale, low-cost enterprise portal for sharing information and documents, take a look at Lifer...
Online traders cry foul as they get shut out of rally
News Web stock-trading accounts are freezing up or slowing down, preventing online traders from taking advantage of an end-of-week market rally buoyed by Wall Street optimism.
Tags: E-commerce, Financial, Security, Ameritrade Inc., message board, Federal Reserve Board, trader, E*Trade Financial Corp., bank, S&P
Apple fixes iPhone 'coma mode' with OS update
News Apple has fixed iPhone and iPod Touch bugs introduced in September's software update, which included device crashes and interruptions to cellular service.
Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Mobile platforms, Apple Inc., Coma Mode, Operating System, Apple iTunes, Streaming Video, cellular network, Software Update
Symantec creates havoc with unsigned Norton patch
News Mysterious Norton patch triggers firewall alerts and sends users flocking to forums where Symantec finds itself fending off a spam attack.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Antivirus software, Norton Co., Norton Internet Security, Bot, Internet Security, Washington Post Co., Patch, Symantec Norton AntiVirus
iPhone 3G travails: Network, interrupted
News news analysis Users of Apple's marquee gadget say they are having trouble getting, and staying, connected to the 3G networks in their areas.
Tags: Smart phones, Mac OS, 3G (Third Generation), Mobile/Wireless, Apple iPhone 3G, 3G Network, Advertisement, phone, message board, AT&T Corp.
Twilight time for Yahoo search
News Uncertainty is in the air at Search Engine Strategies 2009 in the wake of Yahoo's deal with Microsoft: what will Redmond keep, and what will it discard?
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers, API, CEO, marketing, Yahoo Search, California, Web browsers, Web sites
Hiccups in Dell's Windows 7 upgrade program
News Some customers who recently bought PCs at U.S. retail stores were unable to sign up for free upgrade to Windows 7, but Dell says it's now resolved.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Personal Computers, Microsoft Windows 7, computer, Florida, retail company, Microsoft Windows, Best Buy Co. Inc., customer service, Dell Inspiron
Before and after: IT snapshot
Blogs Yes, yes, I finally updated my photo byline. It's long overdue, especially since the previous one was taken when I first...
Online anonymity wins again
News In another victory for online anonymity, a California judge has ruled that Yahoo does not need to reveal the identities of some message board posters.
US court: Posters' IDs can stay under wraps
News In a decision hailed as a victory for anonymous speech, a California judge rules that Yahoo won't be compelled to reveal the identities of people who posted critical remarks online.
Schwab site users report another outage
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Trickster convicted after posting phony Lucent warning
News A Texas day trader was convicted of stock fraud today for posting a phony profit warning for Lucent Technologies on an Internet message board.
