Posts Tagged ‘internet’

Google updates privacy policy

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Google updated its privacy policy on Friday, a day after a video cartoon featuring the Internet firm’s chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square.

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Time Warner Cable gets ESPN3.com in new deal

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

(AP) — Time Warner Cable Inc. customers will finally get access to the sports website ESPN3.com, even if they are not subscribers of the company’s Internet service, according to a long-term deal with The Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday.

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Video lambasting Google on privacy hits Times Square

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

A video cartoon featuring Google’s chief giving away ice cream to snoop on children aired on a giant screen in Times Square as a privacy group continued to hound the Internet giant.

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Melding Wi-Fi with digital TV ‘white space’

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Rice University researchers have won a $1.8 million federal grant for one of the nation’s first, real-world tests of wireless communications technology that uses a broad spectral range — including dormant broadcast television channels — to deliver free, high-speed broadband Internet service.

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Melding Wi-Fi with digital TV ‘white space’

FCC seeks input on rules for online services

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

(AP) — Federal regulators are seeking public input on what rules should apply to wireless Internet access and specialized services that aren’t part of the Internet but are delivered over wired broadband connections.

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Apple set to unveil latest creations

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Gadget lovers were dreaming of iPods, iPads and bargain-rate Internet television Wednesday as Apple prepared to unveil its latest creations at a music-themed special event here.

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Google buys mobile game maker SocialDeck

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Mobile game maker SocialDeck announced on Monday it has been bought by Google, the latest in a string of acquisitions by the Internet giant.

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Google buys mobile game maker SocialDeck

New cables tie West Africa closer to Internet

Monday, August 30th, 2010

(AP) — For a decade, West Africa’s main connection to the Internet has been a single fiber-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.

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Cisco seeking to acquire Skype: TechCrunch

Monday, August 30th, 2010

US networking giant Cisco has made an offer to acquire Internet communications firm Skype, technology blog TechCrunch said Monday.

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Hackers attack Philippine government website

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

The Philippines on Sunday ordered all government offices to tighten Internet security after its main information website was brought down by hackers.

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