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Internet flaw a boon to hackers Las Vegas (AFP) Aug 6, 2008 
Computer security professionals crammed into a Las Vegas ballroom on Wednesday for the first public briefing on an Internet flaw that lets hackers hijack traffic on the World Wide Web. "There is bunch of weird (stuff) going on out there right now," expert Dan Kaminsky told AFP, confirming that attacks are being launched online despite efforts to conceal and patch the vulnerability in the ... read more |
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Yahoo board re-elected after blasting by shareholders
San Jose, California (AFP) Aug 1, 2008Yahoo executives were resoundingly re-elected Friday after being berated by shareholders over failed takeover talks with Microsoft and for exposing Internet dissidents to Chinese officials. Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang got 85.4 percent of the votes cast by shareholders while board chairman Roy Bostock got the support of 79.5 percent of the shareholders. The weakest support was shown ... more Internet Addiction Growing Around The World 
Washington (UPI) Jul 30, 2008 The Internet is where we spend more and more of our time, but for a growing number of people, it is becoming an out-of-control habit rather than a necessary part of life. Internet addiction -- online compulsive behavior that interferes with normal living and causes severe stress on family, friends, loved ones and work -- is a psychological and behavioral problem that is spreading around ... more China has 'nothing to fear' from Internet: White House 
Washington (AFP) July 30, 2008US President George W. Bush said China has "nothing to fear" from Internet freedom, after Beijing sparked an uproar with its plans to censor the Internet during the Olympics, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. "President Bush has long said that China has nothing to fear from greater access to the Internet or to the press or from more religious freedom and human freedom and human rights," press ... more Ex-Google workers launch Internet search rival Cuil 
San Francisco (AFP) July 28, 2008A group of former Google engineers on Monday launched a rival Internet search engine, Cuil, saying it is an improved version of the world's most popular Web-scouring tool. Cuil's founders are taking unabashed aim at their one-time workplace, claiming they out search Google when it comes to depth and breadth on the rapidly expanding Internet. "The Internet is getting bigger and more ... more Microsoft posts sharp profit rise, cautious guidance 
Los Angeles (AFP) July 17, 2008Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, on Thursday reported a sharp rise in fourth-quarter and fiscal year profit but signaled a weak outlook ahead. Microsoft said net profit jumped 41 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter from a year ago to 4.29 billion dollars. Fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) were 46 cents, a penny shy of the 47 cents expected by Wall Street analysts. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) July 2, 2008Microsoft is considering a new attempt to buy part of Yahoo in a deal with other media companies that would likely see a break-up of the Internet firm, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Microsoft has approached Time Warner and News Corp, among other media companies, to assess their interest in different parts of Yahoo, according to sources close to the discussions quoted by the new ... more Yahoo defends Google deal, bashes Icahn agenda 
San Francisco (AFP) June 25, 2008Yahoo on Wednesday sent a letter to stockholders defending its alliance with Google and criticizing Carl Icahn's campaign to install a Microsoft-friendly board of directors. Yahoo's board is lobbying for allies as it heads for a showdown with the billionaire corporate raider at an annual gathering of the California firm's stockholders on August 1. Icahn accuses Yahoo's board of bungling ... more Hughes Breaks The Speed Barrier With Fastest Consumer Satellite Internet Access Plans Ever 
Germantown MD (SPX) Jun 23, 2008 Hughes Network Systems has announced the availability of the fastest consumer broadband satellite Internet access plans ever offered. The new service plans, Elite and ElitePlus, operating over the HughesNet service, give rural Americans access to speeds on par with terrestrial broadband services utilizing affordable consumer equipment. The Elite plan features download speeds of up to 2Mbps ... more Lower costs drawing users to mobile Internet: industry 
Singapore (AFP) June 17, 2008Lower costs are drawing more and more users to access the Internet via their mobiles, and opening up opportunities for advertisers, industry players said Tuesday. Flat rates for data are becoming increasingly common, and mobile devices for accessing Internet content are more widely available, said Andre Levisse, of management consulting firm McKinsey and Company. "It becomes cheaper and ... more Ships Face Loss Of Broadband Cover 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 10, 2008MARITIME satellite communications provider Inmarsat will temporarily suspend its broadband services while launching its last I-4 satellite this year in a move to create a new coverage network of three, high-powered satellites positioned over the Americas, Europe and Africa and Asia. To extend coverage, it must temporarily shut down its first two I-4 units and reposition all three satellite ... more |
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New York (AFP) May 4, 2008Microsoft's failed attempt to buy Yahoo will send it searching for new allies and likely see Yahoo's share price plummet, leaving Internet giant Google the big winner, analysts said. Microsoft announced Saturday that it had given up its quest for the struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo, which rejected Microsoft's offer even after it raised the original bid by five billion to more than 46 ... more Microsoft takeover deadline for Yahoo expires without comment 
San Francisco (AFP) April 27, 2008A Microsoft deadline for Internet service company Yahoo to accept its 44.6 billion-dollar (28.5 billion-euro) acquisition offer expired at midnight Saturday, setting the stage for a hostile takeover bid by the software giant. The expiration of the Sunday 0700 GMT deadline -- without comment from either side -- was likely to pave the way for an ugly proxy battle -- a fight by Microsoft for a ... more China world's largest Internet market 
Beijing, April 21, 2008 A Chinese research firm said China has surpassed the United States as the world's largest Internet market based on number of users. BDA, a firm based in Beijing, said data from the China Internet Network Information Center indicated China had an Internet population of 210 million at the end of last year, compared to 216 million in the United States. "Based on these sources and th ... more World's Fastest Satellite Internet Connection To User Terminal Via KIZUNA 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 22, 2008The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) performed a verification of regenerative switching functions between an ultra small-size user terminal (45 cm-diameter antenna) and a high-speed small ground station (1.2 m-diameter antenna) using the onboard multi-beam antenna(1) of "KIZUNA," and confirmed that Internet ... more Microsoft threatens proxy battle against Yahoo
Washington (AFP) April 5, 2008Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer set a three-week deadline as he threatened Saturday to go directly to Yahoo's shareholders to advance his company's efforts to take over the Internet giant. "We believe now is the time for our respective companies to authorize teams to sit down and negotiate a definitive agreement," Ballmer said in a letter to Yahoo's board of directors and posted on ... more
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