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Valete (03 July 06:32) |
| A tradition in decline ONE fixture of college life is rapidly disappearing. Yearbooks, those beloved annual publications recording the events and people of the academic year, are suffering f... |
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Blog standard (26 June 06:54) |
| Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to outwit themWHAT do Barbra Streisand and the Tunisian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, have in common? They both tried to bl... |
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Asian invasion (26 June 06:54) |
| A new business model: give away the game and charge avid players for extrasFOR millions of East Asians, online gaming is not so much a hobby as a way of life. ?Massively multiplayer? online ... |
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The three survivors (19 June 06:18) |
| What the diverging fates of Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon say about the internet AND so Yahoo! survives. The internet company?which, at the age of 14, is one of the oldest?appears in the end to ha... |
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Handbagged (19 June 06:18) |
| The online auctioneer braces itself for some court decisions in FranceHIGHFASHIONX, a retailer on the American website of eBay, an online auctioneer, is offering 52 handbags, belts, necklace... |
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Logging on (16 June 07:00) |
| Denmark and Switzerland fall several places behind America, Hong Kong and Sweden as they jostle to make their markets ideal for electronic business E-readiness continues to advance across th... |
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Rummaging through the internet (05 June 07:34) |
| Computing: New techniques to navigate and gather information online promise to revolutionise web browsing THE web has changed in many ways since it first emerged in the mid-1990s. The first ... |
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Your number?s up (05 June 07:34) |
| Networking: The internet will run out of addresses unless a new numbering system is adopted. After years of inaction, there are now signs of progress NOBODY would expect a city water system ... |
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Watching while you surf (05 June 07:34) |
| Online advertising: New ad-targeting systems, which determine users? interests by monitoring which websites they visit, are proving controversial IS IT a worrying invasion of privacy for web... |
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Not necessarily a bad idea (05 June 07:30) |
| A new way to target online advertisements could do a lot of good. But only if it is handled sensitivelyIF YOU are reading this, it is a fair guess that you are interested in advertising, onl... |
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Unbound (05 June 07:30) |
| Publishers worry as new technologies transform their industryJEFF BEZOS, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, destination for nearly four-fifths of online book buyers, appears harmless... |
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The free-knowledge fundamentalist (05 June 05:30) |
| Jimmy Wales changed the world with Wikipedia, the hugely popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. What will he do next??WHY is this working??, Jimmy Wales recalls pondering during t... |
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Rewired (29 May 07:11) |
| The long-awaited reorganisation of China's vast telecoms industry beginsBY ANY measure?revenues, employees, customers?it is the largest industrial reorganisation ever. And, reflecting how bu... |
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The broadband myth (23 May 01:17) |
| To what good, these high-speed links?IN 1987 Robert Solow, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, famously said: ?You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.? It wa... |
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Dial I for internet (22 May 06:22) |
| Phone-book companies are heading for a long, slow declineWHEN the drains are blocked, the air-conditioning has given up or your life depends on someone delivering a take-away, you pick up th... |
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Publish and be taxed (08 May 06:10) |
| Uproar over a decision to put everybody's income-tax returns on the internet ITEM 100237099149 was a bargain. Offered for sale on eBay on May 5th, it was a CD of the ?income-tax returns for ... |
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No deal (08 May 06:10) |
| Microsoft walks away from Yahoo!, and both companies loseRATHER as John McCain cannot be displeased to have seen Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama fighting it out, Google has for the past thr... |
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Broadband TV (05 May 12:40) |
| Who watches television via the internet? NEARLY a third of Hong Kong's households watch television via the internet, according to a new report from Telecommunications Management group, a con... |
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In the dock, and on the web (01 May 05:39) |
| Dickensian London comes alive?YES,? admitted Giuseppe Farnara, through an interpreter, ?I plead guilty; I had the intention to blow up the capitalists, and all the middle classes.? Farnara a... |
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Pain in the aaS (24 April 06:11) |
| Online crooks adopt the software industry's new service-based modelIT WAS bound to happen. One after another, pieces of software have been moving online in a trend towards ?software as a ser... |
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Still No (24 April 06:11) |
| Yahoo!'s Jerry Yang braces himself for Microsoft's hostilityEVEN by the low linguistic standards of earnings calls, Yahoo!'s have long been stultifying. Jerry Yang, the internet company's bo... |
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Delivering the bits (18 April 03:16) |
| Fear not, the dumb old internet can still cope A DOZEN years have passed since David Isenberg, then a distinguished engineer at AT&T Labs, wrote his seminal essay ?The Rise of the Stupid... |
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Beware grannies on Facebook (17 April 06:12) |
| Disgruntled small investors in Canada flex their musclesIN A world where might often prevails, a group of Canadian grannies and other small investors has successfully forced a number of fina... |
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Semi-connected (17 April 06:12) |
| British politics is missing out on the potential of new mediaEVEN the least fogeyish of politicians have been flummoxed by the internet. Tony Blair, champion of all things modern, paid no en... |
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Start making sense (09 April 05:30) |
| Big and small companies are getting into the business of building an intelligent web of linked dataSOME new ideas take wing spontaneously. Others struggle to be born. The ?semantic web? is d... |
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The case of the missing clicks (03 April 06:27) |
| What does it mean when people click on Google's ads less often?DID Google, the world's largest web-search engine, peak last November 6th, when its share price hit an all-time high of $742? S... |
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Break down these walls (19 March 07:10) |
| History suggests that open standards will once again trump ?walled gardens? on the internet?THE farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.? Apply Winston Churchill... |
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Byte by byte (19 March 07:10) |
| The inalienable right to a toaster?but not quite yetWHEN Raul Castro took over the presidency of Cuba from his ailing brother, Fidel, last month his acceptance speech to the National Assembl... |
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Everywhere and nowhere (19 March 07:10) |
| Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a businessA LARGE but long-in-the-tooth technology company hoping to become a bigger force in onli... |
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A boy's best friend (19 March 07:10) |
| Gentlemen prefer buying diamonds online?MEN are intimidated when they go into a jewellery store to buy their first diamond,? says Diane Irvine, the chief executive of Blue Nile. Creating a w... |
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Mogul v mogul (13 March 06:43) |
| Barry Diller and John Malone have their day in courtTHE divorce of a celebrity couple could hardly be juicier than the corporate battle that began on March 10th in a Delaware court. Actually... |
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The perils of modernity (13 March 06:43) |
| The government's cyber-enthusiasm comes back to haunt itON MARCH 8th Malaysia's electoral upset unfolded at glacial pace on government-owned television channels. As the approved pundits stum... |
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Deconstructing Jerry (13 March 06:43) |
| A subtle gesture by Yahoo! allows Microsoft to keep things polite, for nowTHIRTEEN years ago a great many people first saw the internet through ?Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web?. It was ... |
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On strike, virtually (13 March 06:43) |
| French workers embrace new forms of protest that stop short of strikingVISITORS to France have always had to watch out for strikes that might disrupt their holidays or business trips. So far... |
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Leaks and lawsuits (06 March 06:25) |
| Lawyers and governments battle over free speech on the internet BEFORE they were leaked onto the internet, the activities in the Cayman Islands of Bank Julius Baer, and how far they may or m... |
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Hold the front page (06 March 06:25) |
| How to replace the editor with a computerIT IS the ultimate editorial decision: what to put on the front page and where to put it. Should pride of place go to another piece on the presidenti... |
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Bugging the cloud (06 March 06:25) |
| Law enforcement: Governments want to extend wiretapping rules from phones to the internet, but doing so is hardAMONG the many benefits of the internet's rise over the past decade has been th... |
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The battle for Wikipedia's soul (06 March 06:25) |
| The internet: The popular online encyclopedia, written by volunteer contributors, has unlimited space. So does it matter if it includes trivia? IT IS the biggest encyclopedia in history and ... |
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Cool it! (04 March 05:30) |
| The data centres that power the internet demand a lot of power. Time, then, to make them more efficientAS ONE industry falls, another rises. The banks of the Columbia River in Oregon used to... |
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Blocked YouTube (27 February 04:44) |
| What does the government keep from you?WHAT you see--or rather, what you don't see--on the internet may be determined by your government. The attitude of officialdom varies when it comes to ... |
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Facebook fatigue (25 February 03:15) |
| Are you tired of social networking?THE number of Britons logging on to Facebook has fallen for the first time, according to Nielsen Online, an internet-metrics firm. In January, 8.5m unique ... |
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Bringing the poor online (22 February 02:30) |
| It won't be as easy as providing mobile phonesTHE mobile-phone industry returned from its mammoth annual trade show, 3GSM, held earlier this month in Barcelona, gloating over its successful ... |
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There will be blood (21 February 05:32) |
| Hollywood is doing its best to ignore the internet. That is a big mistakeIN 1948, when only one in ten Americans had seen a TV, Time magazine sized up the new medium. Its quiz shows, cooking... |
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Coming soon (21 February 05:32) |
| The internet could be a boon for Hollywood--but only if it can conquer its fearsTO SEE what the future of film distribution might look like, go to a website called ZML.com. It offers 1,700 f... |
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Government offline (14 February 06:17) |
| Why business succeeds on the web and government mostly failsIN ONE respect at least, it has been a huge success. Selling new technology to governments has brought private contractors a bonan... |
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Of internet cafés and power cuts (07 February 05:58) |
| Emerging economies are better at adopting new technologies than at putting them into widespread useWITHIN a few months China will overtake America as the country with the world's largest num... |
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Giants in combat (07 February 05:58) |
| Microsoft should be allowed to buy Yahoo!--and Google should be free to fight back THIS was the week that seemed to confirm the new balance of power in the technology industry. Computing is ... |
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Of cables and conspiracies (07 February 05:58) |
| An online frenzy that seems way out of lineWHEN two undersea cables were damaged, apparently by ships' anchors, five miles north of Alexandria on January 30th, it seemed like a reminder of t... |
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The limits of leapfrogging (07 February 05:58) |
| The spread of new technologies often depends on the availability of older onesMOBILE phones are frequently held up as a good example of technology's ability to transform the fortunes of peop... |
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When clouds collide (07 February 05:58) |
| Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! is not just about online advertisingTHE collision of two clouds is a gentle affair--except, that is, in the digital skies of the technology industry. But such a vi... |
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