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IBM sets out to make sense of the Web
News With "WebFountain," Big Blue hopes to go well beyond the capabilities of search engines like Google. It wants to tell you what all that data on the Web's myriad pages adds up to.
Probing IBM's Nazi link
News In a controversial new book, author Edwin Black says information technology from Big Blue provided the Nazis with a critical tool in dispatching millions to their deaths.
Probing IBM's Nazi connection
News In a controversial new book, author Edwin Black says information technology supplied by Big Blue provided the Nazis with a critical tool in dispatching millions to their deaths.
Booksellers disavow content of controversial book
News Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com have agreed to post an Anti-Defamation League statement on their Web sites that calls a controversial book an anti-Semitic forgery and a tool of hate groups, the companies said on Tuesday.
AOL, others plan global Net content rating system
News Major Internet companies may embrace a global framework for rating content next week, marking the most aggressive push so far toward a system to filter nudity, hate speech, vulgar language, and other material online.
Lucent scientists charged in theft for Chinese firm
News Two Lucent Technologies Inc scientists and a businessman were charged with passing company secrets to a government-owned telecommunications firm in China, US Attorney Robert Cleary said Thursday.
Global Net ratings committee emerges from Munich summit
News Despite criticism from free-speech advocates, America Online and other major online firms have formed an advisory body to review several proposals that could create a global system for rating and filtering Web content.
Probing IBM's Nazi connection
News In a controversial new book, author Edwin Black says information technology supplied by Big Blue provided the Nazis with a critical tool in dispatching millions to their deaths.
