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Article | 10/09/2007 Seattle man gets two years for eBay fraud

A Seattle man has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling computers and cameras on eBay but never actually delivering the goods.

Article | 7/09/2007 US DOJ questions net neutrality rules

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should resist calls to impose net neutrality regulations on broadband providers because such rules could hu...

Article | 7/09/2007 Spam up in August, despite PDF type's short life

August was a busy month for spammers, with junk e-mail levels reaching nearly 70 percent of all messages sent -- despite the quick decline of a new ty...

Article | 7/09/2007 Bush doesn't confront China over alleged Pentagon hack

U.S. President George W. Bush did not confront China's president Hu Jintao Thursday over allegations that the Chinese military has hacked Pentagon com...

Article | 7/09/2007 Judge strikes down part of US Patriot Act

A U.S. district judge has struck down a part of the antiterrorism-inspired Patriot Act that requires telephone and Internet service providers to turn ...

Article | 7/09/2007 Rich Web technologies debated

While the landscape for rich Web development technologies is getting crowded, industry dignitaries at The Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose T...

Article | 7/09/2007 Microsoft springs 'Flash killer' with Linux flourish

Microsoft as expected shipped its Silverlight 1.0 multimedia browser plug-in Wednesday and added an unexpected spin by saying it would work with Novel...

Article | 7/09/2007 Cisco conferencing coming to homes

Cisco Systems expects to take its TelePresence high-definition conferencing system from the boardroom to the living room within two or three years for...

Article | 7/09/2007 Google to boost universal search effort

Google will become more aggressive with its universal search effort, making a bolder push to blend a variety of Web links into a single results list.

Article | 7/09/2007 High-speed wireless promises to move multigigabit files in seconds

Imagine a wireless network that could achieve bandwidth high enough to transfer an entire video presentation from your laptop directly onto a conferen...

Article | 7/09/2007 Seattle man arrested for P-to-P ID theft

A Seattle man faces as many as 29 years in prison after being charged with using the LimeWire and Soulseek P-to-P (peer-to-peer) networks to commit id...

Article | 7/09/2007 Google Book Search offers new ways to search books

Google has launched new features for Google Book Search designed to make it easier for users to organise and find books online.

Article | 7/09/2007 Morgan Stanley, Pfizer turning to Web 2.0 tools

Morgan Stanley and Pfizer are among several companies launching initiatives to fold Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis and social networks into the enter...

Article | 7/09/2007 Wikipedia blocked in China yet again

Wikipedia's English site is blocked again in China, after over two months of being accessible, continuing a saga of on-again, off-again availability.

Article | 7/09/2007 Pfizer PCs hijacked to send Viagra spam

Spammers have set a new benchmark for mockery, hijacking PCs inside drug giant Pfizer to send out adverts for the company's most famous product, Viagr...

Article | 7/09/2007 Cisco consumer move afoot, leaders suggest

Cisco Systems executives hinted at major changes in the company's consumer strategy on Wednesday even as they voiced optimism about networking and the...

Article | 7/09/2007 Analysts: Safari browser makes iPod Touch intriguing

Apple has made headlines in the past for introducing disruptive technologies, but Wednesday's announcement of the iPod Touch could be a real sleeper.

Article | 30/08/2007 Power Wi-Fi using the sun, says startup

A small US startup has announced technology for running Wi-Fi routers in remote places using only the power of the sun.

Article | 6/09/2007 Facebook to make listings public via search engines

Facebook is changing its social networking site to make the names and profiles of its members available to nonmembers and eventually accessible throug...

Article | 5/09/2007 Local telecoms market sluggish except for broadband

The Australian telecoms market will grow a paltry 2.8 percent in the 2008 financial year to $36.3 billion driven largely by broadband and data service...