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Reuters – News Corp will charge readers for online versions of its UK Times and Sunday Times newspapers from June, becoming the first media firm to test consumers’ appetite to pay for mass-market news online. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Chinese EBay Rival Taobao to Share Wide Transaction Data (PC World)
March 26th, 2010 
Vince PC World – China’s Taobao.com, a rival to eBay, plans to open up site-wide transaction data so users can learn about buying trends in the world’s biggest market, a person familiar with the plans said. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Beware online knights in shining armor, US Army warns (AFP)
March 26th, 2010 Vince 
AFP – Online scammers are posing as US serviceman posted overseas and promising love and marriage to cheat women out of thousands of dollars, the US Army’s Criminal Investigation Command has warned.
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Time Warner Offers New York Subscribers Free Wi-Fi (NewsFactor)
March 25th, 2010 Vince NewsFactor – Time Warner Cable is looking to the airwaves to maintain and build its ISP business, offering more than one million New York City subscribers access to free Wi-Fi hot spots throughout the city, beginning Thursday. And in an agreement with rival Cablevision, customers from both companies will have access to each other’s Wi-Fi networks in the Tri-State area, vastly increasing the amount of available hot spots. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
PWN2OWN Hackers Take Down Browsers and iPhone (NewsFactor)
March 25th, 2010 Vince NewsFactor – Conference organizers at CanSecWest dangled the carrot in front of hackers yet again. And hackers participating in the PWN2OWN contest targeted at Internet browsers took down the latest versions of several browsers. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Netflix Streaming Via Wii Coming Really Soon (PC World)
March 25th, 2010 Vince PC World – It’s no secret that Netflix has been gearing up to stream movies and TV shows via the Nintendo Wii console, but now it appears the launch is near. Netflix today announced that it has shipped instant-streaming discs to some of members for testing. “Their feedback will ensure that we deliver a great experience to everyone when we launch,” writes company spokesperson Jessie Becker on The Netflix Blog. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
IE8, Safari, Even iPhone Fall at Pwn2Own Contest (PC Magazine)
March 25th, 2010 Vince PC Magazine – The annual Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest is underway, and on the first day Web browsers fell to attack. Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.6.2 on 64-bit Windows 7 and Safari on OS X all were forced to run exploit code. To add insult to injury, an iPhone was cracked and the SMS database lifted from it. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Wikipedia Suffers Global Collapse (PC World)
March 25th, 2010 Vince PC World – Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation Web sites went down for hours on Wednesday in a global outage caused by a domino effect of technical problems. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
AdMob: iPhone, Touch Crushing Other Smart Devices (PC Magazine)
March 25th, 2010 Vince PC Magazine – Online ad networks have seen an increase in traffic from Android-based phones, but the iPhone remains the dominant OS, according to a Thursday report from AdMob. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Republicans Question Parts of FCC’s Broadband Plan (PC World)
March 25th, 2010 Vince PC World – Republican members of a U.S. House of Representatives committee objected Thursday to parts of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s new national broadband plan, saying it leaves broadband carriers open to new regulation. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Oracle Enacts ‘all or Nothing’ Hardware Support Policy (PC World)
March 25th, 2010 Vince PC World – Oracle has adopted what amounts to an “all or nothing” hardware support policy, according to a document the vendor has posted on its Web site. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Speak Up to Help Shape the Future of Broadband (PC World)
March 25th, 2010 Vince PC World – The FCC vision for the future of communications in the United States, and its proposals for getting from where we are to where we need to be are imperative to maintaining a level playing field for business in America. The limited bandwidth is running out, and the digital divide continues to grow, and businesses on the wrong side of that divide will find it very hard to keep up with the competition. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Lawmakers Debate the FCC’s Broadband Plan (NewsFactor)
March 25th, 2010 Vince NewsFactor – U.S. legislators examined key aspects of the FCC’s national broadband plan Thursday during testimony given by all five commissioners before the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. The urgency to move forward was emphasized the previous day by a wireless industry executive, who warned that continued investment and innovation in broadband will depend on the adoption of a clearer regulatory system. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Bing Rolls Out New Features for Spring Revamp (PC World)
March 25th, 2010 Vince PC World – Microsoft introduced new features to its Bing search engine Thursday including Quick Tabs, an Answer box, and new mapping tools powered by Foursquare to deliver real-time data embedded in maps. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Lawmakers Offer Support for Public Safety Network (PC World)
March 25th, 2010 Vince PC World – U.S. lawmakers plan to start implementing parts of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s new national broadband plan soon by introducing legislation to pay for a nationwide wireless broadband network for public safety agencies, one lawmaker said Thursday. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
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