IT News, 09 Dec 01:21
Microsoft offered Monday to abide by a European privacy panel’s request that it reduce the length of time it kept records of Web searches if its rivals, Yahoo and Google, did the same.
Google and Yahoo, in separate statements, said that for now they were unwilling to change their policies.
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IT News, 28 Oct 02:18
The Computerworld story "U.S. Army lays out scenarios with terrorists using Twitter," posted to the wire on Monday, contained two paragraphs at the end that might have incorrectly implied a connection between voting problems and terrorism.
The story has been clarified on the wire. The last two paragraphs, which read as follows, have been deleted:
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IT News, 27 Oct 10:30
LOS ANGELES--Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft's own data centers.
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IT News, 03 Oct 01:27
In Friday's IT Blogwatch, we stand open-mouthed at eBay's Chinese security-censorship-surveillance PR faux pas. Not to mention Mister Lucas's weird imaginings of amazing, other-worldly conflicts...
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IT News, 29 Sep 11:56
Sprint Nextel's next generation XOHM WiMax service, a high-speed wireless data service launching in Baltimore, is being touted as a new option for accessing broadband service.
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IT News, 28 Sep 11:04
While the technology industry is not immune to the troubles facing the U.S economy, it is positioned to weather a downturn, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a talk last week in Santa Clara.
"As I travel and talk to people in the industry, I would say given the current circumstances, people still see a certain buoyancy in the market," he said.
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IT News, 22 Sep 01:19
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IT News, 13 Sep 06:34
The Virginia Supreme Court today struck down a state anti-spam law, saying the statute violated the First Amendment right to free and anonymous speech. The decision also tossed out the conviction of a North Carolina man once described as one of the most prolific spammers.
The Washington Post's Tom Jackman writes:
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IT News, 09 Sep 01:36
Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers’ historic archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers’ own Web sites, the company said Monday.
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IT News, 08 Sep 01:55
Jerry Seinfeld's long-running sitcom is often described as a show about nothing. The same might be said of a baffling new Microsoft Corp. commercial featuring the comedian and Bill Gates -- not, as "Seinfeld" characters might say, that there's anything wrong with that.
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