Popular Internet-based school-friends linkup company Schoolfriends.com elected to be acquired by the United Kingdom-based Friends Reunited largely to gain access to its family-tree and dating search services, one of its founders said.
Thanks to e-mail, we all have thousands of "contacts," but in some ways, this newfound popularity makes it harder to keep up with our true friends.
Despite the hype, it seems few IT departments are testing Google's recently launched Web browser Chrome yet.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the inventor of the Web, has described online security as a "never-ending battle".
Conroy's blind adherence to his net filtering plan will abandon net neutrality ideals and push ISPs down a slippery slope of unprecedented responsibility for a callously politicised Australian internet.
Optus' involvement in the controversial government blacklist project could fall on either side of the fence. In kissing the ring, is Optus conceding that censorship is inevitable or hatching a scheme to discredit Conroy's folly from within?
It's just two months until Microsoft plans to pull the plug on Windows XP arguably its best operating system to date.
Firefox is still king when it comes to daily work on the tubes, despite the steady increase in the buzz surrounding the open-source Webkit project, on which Safari and Google Chrome are based.
SMS may have turned into a cash cow for the world's telcos, but Twitter's growing popularity gives customers an easier, cheaper option that may force carriers to come to the party or risk missing out.
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Microsoft is showing off Windows Mobile 6.5, an update to its phone operating system, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The update, however, won't start showing up on phones until the fourth quarter of the year.
Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.
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Microsoft this summer will lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.
Matching a touchscreen with a full-QWERTY keyboard at this price point is fantastic. Anyone looking to make their cyber-life mobile should check out the Xenon.
Microsoft Expression Web is a solid Web site layout program that replaces FrontPage and offers tools for dynamic designs, although we'd like more help for newbies.
Microsoft is aiming higher with the new version of FrontPage, which will be launched later this year and sold as a standalone product.
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