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As Magazine Readers Increasingly Turn to the Web, So Does Condé Nast
 Katharine Q. Seelye
Brides.com, an upgraded bridal site combining content from three different magazines, comes from Condé Nast, which, like many magazine publishers, is trying to build its Web presence to keep up with a generation of readers who automatically turn to the Internet instead of the printed page.more »»»
Netflix Hopes Customers will Fall for "Cowboy"
 Gina Keating
Online DVD renter Netflix Inc. hopes its subscribers will fall in love this week with "Cowboy del Amor," and many other unsung movies it is quietly buying at film festivals to release in arthouse theaters.more »»»
Searching for Dummies
 Edward Tenner
Talk of decline was old news in academia even in 1898, when traditionalists blasted Harvard for ending its Greek entrance requirement. But today there's a new twist in the story: Are search engines making today's students dumber?more »»»
Costa Rica Rides High-Tech Wave
 Marla Dickerson
The crates that leave this Central American nation these days are more likely to be stuffed with microchips and telecom components than the bananas that once represented Costa Rica's plantation economy. more »»»
Bishops Post Web Site Disputing "Da Vinci Code"
 Reuters
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops took aim at "The Da Vinci Code," launching a Web site that disputes central points of the best-selling novel. The site denies one point on which the novel turns, saying the New Testament "does not offer any support for speculation about Jesus' being married or having a child."more »»»
US, Google Set to Face Off in Court
 Michael Liedtke
The Bush administration will renew its effort to find out what people have been looking for on Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine, continuing a legal showdown over how much of the Web's vast databases should be shared with the government.more »»»
Study Reveals Internet is Now Main Source for Hiring in the U.S.
 M2 Communications
The Internet is now the main source of hiring for employers, according to an industry study conducted for DirectEmployers Association, a non-profit consortium of more than 200 US employers.more »»»
Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim Defends Telephone Rates
 MarketWatch
Mexican telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim defended service rates at fixed-line phone company Telefonos de Mexico SA (TELMEX.MX), saying the company has lowered its prices while state energy monopolies have raised theirs.more »»»
Small Sites are Fetching Lofty Prices as Big Media Chases their Young Followers
 Jessi Hempel & Tom Lowry
DailyCandy, the popular Web site of fashion, beauty, and lifestyle trends, was founded in 2000 at the height of the last Internet bubble. Now it looks as if they could wind up heralding the arrival of Bubble 2.0.more »»»
Digital Hype: A Dazzling Smokescreen?
 Norman Solomon
As each new season brings more waves of higher-tech digital products, I often think of Mark Twain. Along with being a brilliant writer, he was also an ill-fated investor - fascinated with the latest technical innovations, including the strides toward functional typewriters and typesetting equipment as the 19th century neared its close.more »»»
UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails, Suit Says
 William Lobdell
A renowned psychiatrist from UC Irvine was duped into squandering at least $1.3 million of his family's fortune on a Nigeria Internet scam, according to a lawsuit recently filed by his son.more »»»
Microsoft Says Better Than Google Soon
 David Lawsky
Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday.more »»»
Justice Department Announces Four Pleas in Internet Music Piracy Crackdown
 USNewswire
The first guilty pleas involving members of pre-release music piracy groups from Operation FastLink, a major Department of Justice initiative against online piracy worldwide, were announced today.more »»»
Defendant Ordered To Serve Life In Prison For Child Pornography
 USNewswire
United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein announced today that U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced James A. Reigle, Jr., 46, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to life in prison in connection with his December 8, 2005 conviction by a federal jury.more »»»
Students Embracing Virtual Sex
 Natalie Armstrong
Call it a sexual revolution of the virtual kind. Of more than 2,500 university and college students polled across Canada, 87 percent of them are having sex over instant messenger, webcams or the telephone, according to results of a national survey released on Monday.more »»»
So Many Models in Bikinis, So Many Ways to See Them
 Lia Miller
This year, fans of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue will have an abundance of choice when it comes to formats for viewing the bikini-clad supermodels.
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US Congress Set to Grill Internet Companies over China Clampdown
 AFP
US Internet giants will come under unprecedented grilling in Congress this week for joining hands with China to censor the Internet, despite the proud American tradition of free speech.more »»»
The End of the Internet?
 Jeff Chester
The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.more »»»
Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court
 Saul Hansell
Who is sending threatening email to a teenager? Who is saying disparaging things about a company on an Internet message board? Who is communicating online with a suspected drug dealer?more »»»
Mexico Meets Silicon Valley
 Kerry A. Dolan
For most people, Mexico doesn't equate with a home for high-tech companies. But two-dozen software, hardware and life science companies from Mexico had a coming-out party of sorts in Silicon Valley this week.more »»»
Weekend with Four Aussie Blokes Draws Bids of 40,000 Dollars
 AFP
Four young Australian men offering themselves on an internet auction site as instant best friends for a weekend of beer and sausages have received bids of more than 55,000 dollars (41,250 US).more »»»
Technology Ineffective Foil to Tunnels Under U.S.-Mexico Border
 Elliot Spagat
A U.S. government effort to find tunnels used to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the United States with ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech gear has had little success.more »»»
Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone
 John Markoff
It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop computers in the developing world to help education.more »»»
US Plans to 'Fight the Net' Revealed
 Adam Brookes
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.more »»»
Google Praised, Chided for Sanitized Site
 Christopher Bodeen
Google's decision to filter sensitive topics from Web searches in China is a major triumph for the regime's campaign to have the Internet censor itself, observers said amid mounting criticism of the move.more »»»
UN Body Backs $100 Laptop for World's Kids
 Reuters
The United Nations has thrown its weight behind a project to place a $100, hand-cranked laptop computer in the hands of millions of schoolchildren around the globe.more »»»
Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search
 Katie Hafner
Kathryn Hanson, a former telecommunications engineer who lives in Oakland, Calif., was looking at BBC News online last week when she came across an item about a British politician who had resigned over a reported affair with a "rent boy."more »»»
Man Solves Rubik's Cube in 11.13 Seconds
 AP
A 20-year-old California Institute of Technology student set a new world's record Saturday for solving the popular Rubik's Cube puzzle, turning the tiled brain-twister from scrambled to solved in 11.13 seconds.more »»»
Feds After Google Data
 Howard Mintz
The Bush administration asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases. The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the US Supreme Court. more »»»
Search Engines Going Far Beyond Maps
 Allison Linn
The images are so detailed you can tell whether a neighbor's hedge was recently trimmed or whether the car parked in front of a favorite local eatery might belong to a friend. Such views are available online for anyone to see from some of the biggest names on the Internet, including Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc.more »»»
Mexico Gets New VoIP Provider
 Marin Perez
The Mexican telecommunication carrier IUSACom Networks Inc. will offer VoIP services for business and residential customers in Latin America and the United States.more »»»
Naked News Breaking in Japan Market
 Julian Ryall
Naked News, which features anchors and reporters who disrobe during newscasts, launched its risque take on current affairs in Japan Tuesday. Beneath a banner proclaiming Naked News as "The program with nothing to hide," Sunrise Corp. CEO Takuya Uchikawa described the service as "a unique concept for the Japanese market."more »»»
US Vows Diligence on New Money Laundering Threats
 Laura MacInnis
Internet banking, online payment systems and stored value cards not requiring identification give criminals new opportunities to filter money through the United States, U.S. regulators said on Wednesday.more »»»
Howard Stern Makes Debut on Satellite
 Erin Carlson
Howard Stern began his new satellite radio show on Monday by putting to rest rumors that he got married to his longtime girlfriend, model Beth Ostrosky. "I am not married. It's a nice feeling that we get along great. We're very happy and I don't want to fuck it up," said Stern.more »»»
Yahoo Reaches Out Beyond Browser
 Alfred Hermida
Web giant Yahoo has taken the first steps towards moving beyond the browser. It has announced plans to allow people to use Yahoo e-mail, messaging and other services on mobile phones and via the TV. Yahoo joins a growing number of net firms that are looking to break out of the confines of the PC browser.more »»»
10 Greatest Gadget Ideas of the Year
 David Pogue
On New Year's Eve, don't be surprised to witness more heartfelt celebrating than usual; 2005 was not a year noted for its tidings of good cheer. Still, there were inspiring and gratifying success stories if you knew where to look - and the high-tech industry was one of them.more »»»
Ensnared: Internet Creates New Group of Sexual Addicts
 Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
For many people, a peek at an "adult" site offers merely a titillating glimpse into an illicit world. For others, a peek becomes a moment of respite, a brief vacation from the demands of the real world. Then it becomes a habit. Soon, it is a compulsion that occupies hours and hours every day, shattering careers, marriages and lives.more »»»
New-Generation TVs Put Baja Plants back on Track
 Diane Lindquist
Shoppers this holiday season are snatching up the newest generation of high-tech televisions and, in the process, revitalizing the Baja California factories that make them.more »»»
Web Sites Let Users Send Email to Future
 Nahal Toosi
In the year 2009, on the 25th of April, a man named Greg is supposed to get an email. The email will remind Greg that he is his best friend and worst enemy, that he once dated a woman named Michelle, and that he planned to major in computer science.more »»»
Argus Gets into Mexican Prisons
 USNewswire
Australian identity management company Argus Solutions has cut a deal to sell its software, operating with a fingerprint biometric application, to prisons in Mexico. A statement from the company said the deal would help the company enter the North American market, as well as more Latin American markets.more »»»
Secret Of Mona Lisa's Smile Revealed at Last
 AFP
Now it's official: Mona Lisa was 83 percent happy, nine percent disgusted, six percent fearful and two percent angry. That's the conclusion of a University of Amsterdam computer that applied "emotion-recognition software" to Leonardo da Vinci's work.more »»»
Software Thief Admits To Crimes
 Jerry Markon
Nathan Peterson took on some of the world's largest computer software companies, and for a while, he won. Selling their copyrighted products at a huge discount on his Web site, Peterson caused companies such as Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. to lose nearly $20 million, prosecutors said.more »»»
253 MPH and Still a Little Late
 Dan Neil
At 200 mph, the Bugatti Veyron pounds a beautiful, howling hole in the sweltering haze hanging over the motorway. This, the fastest production car in the world, is broad and low, an enameled ellipse in a spiffy two-tone paint scheme.more »»»
Puromexicano.com Launches to Promote Mexican Products
 PRWEB
Mexican natives currently residing in the United States finally have an outlet for finding made-in-Mexico gifts. Puromexicano.com, a new Web site dedicated to providing the Hispanic community with the best Mexican goods, officially launched on Nov. 19.more »»»
Logging On, On the John - Internet Follows Americans Everywhere
 Yahoo! News
Flushing out the secrets of America's websurfers, a new survey of Internet use has found that more and more people are logging on - in the bathroom. The snapshot of how the Internet has changed American life, concluded that home wireless connections were allowing people to stay connected everywhere.more »»»
Hispanic Consumers are Moving from Spanish to English to the Internet
 Jesus Chavarria
Media Markets Report shows the Hispanic market simultaneously confronting two profound shifts: Hispanic consumers are moving from Spanish to English, and at the same time from traditional media to the Internet, causing confusion on both Madison Avenue and Wall Street. more »»»
All About Google and the Cool Stuff It Can Do
 Erich Haubrich
As most people know, Google is the biggest and best search tool on the Internet, it's also quite a bit more. Started at Stanford University by two graduate students, it was initially dubbed Backrub before the pair adopted the name Google which is a derivative of the word Googol which signifies the number 1 followed by 100 zero's.more »»»
Online Dating Sites Accused of Deception
 Paul Chavez
After looking for love on the Internet and failing to find it, frustrated lonely hearts are heading to court, accusing online dating sites of engaging in deceptive practices. A recent lawsuit against Match.com charged the matchmaking service with sending a female employee out on a date with a male subscriber as "date bait."more »»»
US Senate Committee Passes Spyware Bill
 Grant Gross
A U.S. Senate committee has approved a bill that would outlaw the practice of remotely installing software that collects a computer users' personal information without consent.more »»»
Mexican Web Site Lends Help to LA Coroner
 Susan Abram
Inspired by a site run by Mexican authorities in Tijuana, the county coroner last year set up a virtual morgue, complete with photos of the deceased and a description of when, where and how they were found.more »»»
Cuba for Democracy in Internet
 Prensa Latina
Cuba has called for a "new multilateral and democratic institution" that should administer Internet, while at the same time regulating and promoting international cooperation, transfering financial and technological resources and fostering equality on the information age.more »»»
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