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Zuma debate filters on to Facebook
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/ 4 September 2008

Zuma debate filters on to Facebook

The debate surrounding African National Congress president Jacob Zuma has made its way on to online social network Facebook.

By Miranda Andrew
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/ 3 September 2008

MySpace overtakes Yahoo! in display ad views

Yahoo! has lost its lead of the United States market for online display advertising to MySpace.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 2 September 2008

Internet Explorer 8 available for test-drive

Microsoft has released a second test version of Internet Explorer 8, delivering a feature-complete upgrade to the popular web browser.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 2 September 2008

Google launches its own web browser

Google is set to introduce on Tuesday a new web browser designed to handle more quickly video-rich or other complex web programs.

By Eric Auchard
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/ 2 September 2008

Feeling discomgoogolated? You’re not alone

Feeling stressed or anxious at an inability to access the internet? Don’t worry, you’re not alone — and there’s a word for it: ”discomgoogolation”.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 27 August 2008

Dead Sea Scrolls to go digital on internet

Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the documents available on the internet.

By Joseph Nasr
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/ 16 August 2008

Magazine-sharing website threatens copyright

The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy.

By Jeremy Herron
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/ 14 August 2008

Wife auctions evidence of husband’s affair on internet

An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by auctioning his mistress’s "huge" panties and his "size small" condom packet on eBay.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 August 2008

Why broadband is bad for you

Surfing the net for hours at a time could put your health at risk, says Nechama Brodie.

By Nechama Brodie
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/ 13 August 2008

Why broadband is bad for you

Surfing the net for hours at a time could put your health at risk, says Nechama Brodie.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 August 2008

Iraq has a new (but scorned) matchmaker

Young Iraqis in Baghdad are surfing the internet to search for life partners as violence takes its toll on traditional forms of socialising.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 13 August 2008

‘Snooper’s charter’ to check SMSs, emails in UK

Hundreds of public bodies in the United Kingdom are to be given the power to access details of everyone’s personal SMS, email and internet use.

By Alan Travis
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/ 12 August 2008

Bandwidth prices predicted to fall rapidly

Prices of bandwidth are set to fall more rapidly in the future as submarine and terrestrial fibre-optic cable developments gain momentum.

By Tiisetso Motsoeneng
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Article
/ 6 August 2008

Giant online security hole slowly shrinking

A giant vulnerability in the internet’s design is allowing criminals to redirect traffic silently to websites under their control.

By Jordan Robertson
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Article
/ 31 July 2008

How the digital revolution could save the Olympics

For the Games, the digital revolution is armed with a double-edged sword — it has lured the younger generation away, but brings new opportunities.

By Robert Woodward
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/ 24 July 2008

Technophobia — the sign of a born leader?

Hedge-fund billionaire Carl Icahn, who has this week been given three seats on the board of Yahoo!, does not, it has been revealed, have a computer.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 21 July 2008

Yahoo! reaches deal with Icahn to end proxy battle

Yahoo! announced on Monday it has reached an agreement with corporate raider Carl Icahn, ending his effort to oust the internet giant’s board.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 9 July 2008

Internet flaw could let hackers control the web

Computer-industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the internet that would let hackers control traffic on the web.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 7 July 2008

Microsoft willing to restart Yahoo! talks

Microsoft on Monday said it would be willing to reopen talks to buy all or part of Yahoo! — but only if a new Yahoo! board is elected.

By Dane Hamilton
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/ 3 July 2008

Inquiry into Yahoo! ad link with Google ramped up

The US Department of Justice has begun a formal investigation into competition concerns surrounding an advertising tie-up between Google and Yahoo!.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 27 June 2008

Surf the web for .pepsi in .paris

Regulators have voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in web history.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 26 June 2008

Vodacom boosts internet, multimedia offerings

Vodacom brings effortless internet to all its cellphone customers and makes a deal with South African social-media website <i>Zoopy.com</i>.

By Sapa Author, Mail Guardian Online Reporter and I Net Bridge
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/ 9 June 2008

Watch out for Hong Kong’s websites

Hong Kong websites are the most likely to hit visitors with unwanted ads, viruses and spam, research from an internet security company has found.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 18 January 2008

Music for the mass stream

Chris Salmon offers a guide to the best music you can find, for free, on the internet.

By Chris Salmon
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/ 28 December 2006

It’s all in the execution

Predictably, half of our most popular stories in the past week were about the hanging of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

By Staff Reporter
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