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Twitter targets phishing scams by screening links

jcahealey | 2010-03-10 02:24:47

Twitter said Tuesday that it is taking aggressive steps to stop phishing attacks on its popular social networking site. In a blog post, the company said it has launched new features that can “detect...

Apple Inc. is now a $200-billion whopper

jcahealey | 2010-03-10 02:16:00

Times financial columnist Tom Petruno blogs in Money & Company that Apple Inc. shares rose to new heights Tuesday, lifting the company's stock market value past $200 billion for the first ti...

Verizon to stream NFL games and other coverage on phones

jcahealey | 2010-03-10 02:14:14

Verizon Wireless has scored a deal to stream National Football League games and other coverage, starting with the April 22 draft. Sprint previously had an exclusive deal with the league and will reti...

Cities and counties campaigning to land Google fiber-optic network

jcahealey | 2010-03-10 02:05:43

With two weeks to go, municipalities across the country are rolling out attention-grabbing campaigns to convince Google that it should build its much-anticipated fiber-optic network in their backya...

Why wait for Google's DocVerse? OffiSync already hooks Office to Docs [Updated]

jcahealey | 2010-03-10 01:58:49

When Google announced last week that it had purchased DocVerse, a program that lets Microsoft Office users work together on documents, it alluded to perhaps adding integration with its Web-based Docs...

Facebook may launch location service

jcahealey | 2010-03-09 20:55:24

The old adage is just as true on the Internet: location, location, location. FourSquare, Gowalla and other services that have made it easy for users to broadcast their location are quickly gaining tra...

Ho-hum statistics come alive with Google Public Data Explorer

jcahealey | 2010-03-09 17:55:15

Last year Google launched a public data search feature that allowed users to find statistics within the company's search service. Public data search includes statistics from the World Bank, the U...

GlobalPost betting that international news will have online appeal

jcahealey | 2010-03-09 15:00:00

GlobalPost, the fledgling international news website, is looking to upend a couple of kinds of conventional wisdom at once. In a media world often dominated by the kinds of titillating, star-studded ...

Most around the globe believe Web access is a 'fundamental right'

jcahealey | 2010-03-08 19:10:18

Respondents from 26 countries overwhelmingly agree that access to the Internet is a "fundamental right," the BBC found in a recent survey. According to the BBC, which surveyed more than 27,0...
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