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/ 24 March 2008

Start a web business in a few minutes

When David Pangelinan isn’t logging 14-hour days driving a fuel tanker, he’s at his computer indulging his latest hobby: building a succession of online stores in minutes. Pangelinan has built four online stores offering hundreds of products for sale, from Bulova watches to Betty Boop pillows, using the website Zlio.com.

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/ 22 March 2008

Start a web business in minutes

When David Pangelinan isn’t logging 14-hour days driving a fuel tanker, he’s at his computer indulging his latest hobby: building a succession of online stores in minutes. Pangelinan has built four online stores offering hundreds of products for sale, from Bulova watches to Betty Boop pillows, using the website Zlio.com.

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/ 19 March 2008

New website guides music lovers to concerts

British internet start-up Songkick launched on Wednesday with a vow to inspire digital-age music lovers to reclaim the joy of hearing bands play live in real-world venues. The London-based website debuts with a free online service that matches people’s tastes in music with the schedules of bands performing in the United States or Britain.

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/ 17 March 2008

Hulu turns on internet television

News Corporation and NBC Universal has begun offering free online television to the United States public through internet joint venture Hulu.com. The much-anticipated online service boasts a rich library of shows and films people can view old-fashioned television style — supported by advertising.

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/ 14 March 2008

Google has DoubleClick in the bag

Google expanded its power in online advertising on Tuesday when it completed its takeover of DoubleClick, a move that increases the pressure on rival Microsoft to win its hostile bid for Yahoo!. The merger came after European regulators signed off on the deal, and strengthened Google’s domination of the lucrative online ad business.

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/ 7 March 2008

Who needs IT experts? Workers take control

Savvy office workers frustrated that their on-the-job computer tools don’t function as smoothly as, say, an Apple iPod are taking matters into their own hands. No longer are they relying on company technicians, or information technology (IT) administrators, to choose the software needed to get the job done.

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/ 5 March 2008

Ask.com abandons pursuit of Google

In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine internet search leader Google and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives. As part of the new direction outlined on Tuesday, Ask will lay off about 40 employees.

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/ 5 March 2008

Facebook lures top exec from Google

Facebook has raided Google to hire a new chief operating officer, providing the popular online social network with more seasoned management and advertising savvy as it strives to make more money without alienating its audience. Sheryl Sandberg’s defection from Google, announced this week, represents a coup for Facebook.

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/ 4 March 2008

Apple to detail iPhone software plans

Apple is expected to give details this week of how outside programmers can create software for its iPhone, a move aimed at spurring demand for the multifunction device. Apple also said it will unveil new iPhone features aimed at businesses, potentially stepping up competition with Research in Motion’s popular Blackberry devices.

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/ 3 March 2008

Google branches out with website tools

Google, already the world’s most popular spot for finding websites, is aiming to become the go-to place for creating websites too. It is taking its first step toward that goal with the debut of a free service designed for high-tech neophytes looking for a simple way to share information with other people working in the same company.

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/ 3 March 2008

Microsoft drops Vista price to boost sales

Microsoft has announced steep price cuts in its Vista operating system in a bid to spur sales of its year-old operating system. The move, announced late last week, came as the company is facing a troubling class-action lawsuit that alleges it colluded with Intel to market computers as being ”Vista-capable”.

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/ 28 February 2008

Google aims to store patients’ health records

Google will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that is likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the internet search leader. The pilot project will involve 1 500 to 10 000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States.

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/ 20 February 2008

Employees offered buyouts at Bay area papers

The publisher of three of the San Francisco Bay area’s largest daily newspapers is offering employees buyouts and bracing them for layoffs in another blow to the struggling newspaper industry. The Bay Area News Group publishes the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times and other daily and weekly newspapers in the region.

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/ 28 January 2008

YouTube goes mobile

YouTube on Thursday began making all of its videos available on the latest-generation cellphones as people increasingly shift to accessing the internet on the go. YouTube for Mobile lets people view any of the popular website’s videos, provided their cellphones can stream the data and are linked to a high-speed 3G network.

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/ 14 January 2008

Next attraction: Unlimited movies over the net

Girding for a potential threat from Apple, online DVD rental service Netflix is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed internet connections. The change will become effective on Monday, on the eve of Apple’s widely anticipated move into the movie rental industry.

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/ 26 December 2007

eBay launches microlending website

Online auction giant eBay has launched a microlending website that lets people invest in entrepreneurs in poor communities around the world and get a return on their money. Microplace.com offers investors profits for funding folks trying to build better lives, said founder Tracey Turner.

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/ 26 December 2007

The year of social networking

Online social-networking websites saw their ranks swell and values soar in 2007 as everyone from moody teenagers and mellow music lovers to mate-seeking seniors joined online communities. Seven out of the 10 hottest topics that triggered Google internet queries during the year involved social networking.

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/ 23 December 2007

Balco ledgers outline Jones’ drug use

Ledgers gathered in the Balco steroid investigation outline the detailed doping programme of disgraced sprinter Marion Jones, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Saturday. The newspaper cited court documents filed by prosecutors in New York in support of their case against Jones, who has pleaded guilty to lying to investigators.

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/ 18 December 2007

Social networking frenzy points to web’s future

Social networking websites saw their ranks swell and values soar this year as everyone from moody teenagers and mellow music lovers to mate-seeking seniors joined online communities. Google’s freshly released <i>Zeitgeist 2007</i> reveals that seven out of the 10 hottest topics which triggered internet queries during the year involved social networking.

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/ 15 December 2007

Get ready for Googlepedia

Google is working on a new internet encyclopedia that will consist of material submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibly profit from their knowledge. The concept, outlined in a posting on Google’s website, poses a potential challenge to the non-profit Wikipedia, which has drawn upon the collective wisdom of unpaid, anonymous contributors.

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/ 11 December 2007

Voyager 2 finds solar system’s shape is ‘dented’

Nasa’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has found that our solar system is not round but is ”dented” by the local interstellar magnetic field of deep space, space experts said on Monday. The data was gathered by the craft on its 30-year journey into the edge of the solar system when it crossed into a sweeping region called the termination shock.

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/ 30 November 2007

Facebook users rebel against ad system

Seeking to keep the peace in its popular online hangout, Facebook has overhauled a new advertising system that sparked privacy complaints by turning its users into marketing tools for other companies. Users will have greater control over whether they want to participate in a programme that circulates information about their online purchases.

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/ 27 November 2007

Internet superhighway jam by 2010?

The information superhighway could become clogged with data by 2010, forcing broadband users to revert to dial-up modems, according to a new study. The report predicts that unless more than -billion is invested in the global internet infrastructure, a level of gridlock will develop that will make it almost impossible to use rich-media sites.

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/ 16 November 2007

Baseball’s Bonds accused of lying about steroid use

United States baseball home-run king Barry Bonds used steroids to fuel his success and then lied about it, US prosecutors said on Thursday in charging him with perjury and obstruction of justice. The indictment stems from the investigation into the San Francisco Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative whose top figures have already served jail time on steroid distribution charges.

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/ 14 November 2007

Unknown health impact of nanotech worries some

Nanotechnology has been hailed as the science of the future, with micro-particles already powering innovations that remove lines from faces, strengthen beer bottles and clean clothing without water. Yet early studies also indicate some of these particles, enabled by the latest in engineering science, can cause cancer.

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