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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/technology/internet technology Internet News en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:20:39 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/technology/internet http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/wr_nm/us_australia_hackers nm/20100210/us_australia_hackers Reuters technology Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:20:39 GMT Reuters - Computer hackers disabled several Australian government websites Wednesday in coordinated attacks protesting against a planned internet filter aimed at pornography. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/wr_nm/us_google_social nm/20100210/us_google_social Reuters technology Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:05:37 GMT Reuters - Google Inc is tapping its huge network of Gmail users and Web surfers to create a Buzz that it hopes will help it catch up with online social networking leaders Facebook and Twitter. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100209/tc_pcworld/slewofcriticalupdatesfrommicrosoft pcworld/20100209/slewofcriticalupdatesfrommicrosoft PC World technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:41:00 GMT PC World - Time flies. Another month has gone by and Patch Tuesday is upon us again. Microsoft is delivering a record-tying 13 security bulletins for February, a virtual avalanche of updates after a relatively quiet January that saw only one security bulletin on Patch Tuesday, and one released out-of-band mid-month to address a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that was used to launch attacks against Google and other companies in China. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_gets_social ap/20100209/us_tec_google_gets_social AP technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:36:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_gets_social"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d887227af63d45798a9f2d8e32a05b95.google_gets_social_nybz176.jpg?x=83&y=130&q=85&sig=TwpN_Fagf.wR5xFPl4c9Jw--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="In this screen shot provided by Google Inc., the company's new 'Google Buzz' feature for Gmail is shown. The feature unveiled Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, will enable Gmail users to create status updates on Google Buzz and read and comment on the updates posted by their friends. (AP Photo/Google Inc.)" border="0" /></a>AP - Google Inc. opened a new social hub in its e-mail service on Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the Internet search leader is girding for a face-off with Facebook.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_gets_social"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.d887227af63d45798a9f2d8e32a05b95.google_gets_social_nybz176.jpg?x=83&y=130&q=85&sig=TwpN_Fagf.wR5xFPl4c9Jw--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="photo" title="In this screen shot provided by Google Inc., the company's new 'Google Buzz' feature for Gmail is shown. The feature unveiled Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, will enable Gmail users to create status updates on Google Buzz and read and comment on the updates posted by their friends. (AP Photo/Google Inc.)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100209/tc_nf/71580 nf/20100209/71580 NewsFactor technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:18:05 GMT NewsFactor - Google has watched more or less on the sidelines as social-networking sites -- most notably Facebook and Twitter -- have captured the public's attention. Facebook, especially, has become more than a destination web site. It has become a user-centric world where users communicate via status updates, third-party applications, and shared groups. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/tc_afp/uschinaitcompanyearningsinternetbaidugoogle afp/20100209/uschinaitcompanyearningsinternetbaidugoogle AFP technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:59:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/tc_afp/uschinaitcompanyearningsinternetbaidugoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265756302612-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=qC4svVh7OzHcByObtu2ZYg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A woman walks past the Baidu office in Beijing. Chinese Web search giant Baidu, which stands to potentially benefit if Google pulls out of China, posted a nearly 50 percent increase in quarterly net profit on Tuesday on sharply higher revenue.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Chinese Web search giant Baidu, which stands to potentially benefit if Google pulls out of China, posted a nearly 50 percent increase in quarterly net profit on Tuesday on sharply higher revenue.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/tc_afp/uschinaitcompanyearningsinternetbaidugoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265756302612-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=qC4svVh7OzHcByObtu2ZYg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A woman walks past the Baidu office in Beijing. Chinese Web search giant Baidu, which stands to potentially benefit if Google pulls out of China, posted a nearly 50 percent increase in quarterly net profit on Tuesday on sharply higher revenue.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100209/tc_pcworld/paypalindiapaymentssuspendedforatleastafewmonths pcworld/20100209/paypalindiapaymentssuspendedforatleastafewmonths PC World technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:00:17 GMT PC World - PayPal said a ban on personal transactions to and from India will continue for "at least a few months" while the online payment service tries to resolve a problem with local regulators. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_iac ap/20100209/us_earns_iac AP technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:56:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_iac"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.b4f8bdfb220243b08535774bc06b9024.earns_iac_nyml601.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=1cOVMdEraqUtfVzpl1vIVA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this Oct. 26, 2009 photo, the IAC building is shown in New York. Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online advertising market is improving.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online advertising market is improving.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_iac"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.b4f8bdfb220243b08535774bc06b9024.earns_iac_nyml601.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=1cOVMdEraqUtfVzpl1vIVA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Oct. 26, 2009 photo, the IAC building is shown in New York. Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010, because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online advertising market is improving.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wr_nm/us_google_china_interview nm/20100209/us_google_china_interview Reuters technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:53:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wr_nm/us_google_china_interview"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r3475313235.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=dgUSIxDHWkdlr8U.bVTT_A--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Google Inc co-founder Sergey Brin said on Tuesday it has become "very hard to operate" in China, but he is optimistic that the Internet company can continue to "open up information for everyone everywhere, free of political censorship."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/wr_nm/us_google_china_interview"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r3475313235.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=dgUSIxDHWkdlr8U.bVTT_A--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion in Mountain View, California February 9, 2010. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_iac_on_the_call ap/20100209/us_tec_iac_on_the_call AP technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:53:01 GMT AP - Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp's Ask.com search engine is the fourth-largest in the U.S., trailing offerings from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_paypal_india ap/20100209/us_tec_paypal_india AP technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:27:38 GMT AP - Online payments service PayPal says its suspension of certain transactions in India could last months. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100209/tc_pcworld/virginiafirmfilesencryptionlawsuitagainsttechgiants pcworld/20100209/virginiafirmfilesencryptionlawsuitagainsttechgiants PC World technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:30:20 GMT PC World - TecSec, an encryption vendor based in McLean, Virginia, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against several large tech vendors, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, eBay, Oracle and Adobe Systems. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_earns_iac_summary_box ap/20100209/us_earns_iac_summary_box AP technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:22:36 GMT AP - ONLINE ADS: The latest earnings report from Barry Diller's Internet company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, indicates that the online advertising market is picking up. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100209/tc_pcworld/gmailgoessocialwithgooglebuzz pcworld/20100209/gmailgoessocialwithgooglebuzz PC World technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:08:00 GMT PC World - Google introduced a social networking tool called Google Buzz Tuesday that allows sharing of status updates, images, and videos via a new Gmail tab called Google Buzz. The Google Buzz features will also be available on Android based phones as well as the iPhone (via a Web-based application) allowing for real-time updates to your Google Buzz feed that can show up on a new version of Google's mobile maps. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_rural_broadband_maine ap/20100209/us_rural_broadband_maine AP technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:04:05 GMT AP - A new company is promising to lay 1,100 miles of fiber optic cable across Maine to help expand high speed Internet service to remote parts of the state. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_en_mu/us_people_perez_hilton_punched ap/20100209/us_people_perez_hilton_punched AP entertainment Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:16:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_en_mu/us_people_perez_hilton_punched"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.62456a1e3e1c4a308e119d76e87d5dbd.people_perez_hilton_nyet781.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=bUNdjN743FTh38HgpSDXzw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="FILE - In this May 20, 2009 file photo, Gossip blogger Perez Hilton arrives at fashion designer Marcus Molinari's birthday party at h.wood in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)" border="0" /></a>AP - A judge is dismissing a civil lawsuit filed against a Black Eyed Peas manager who punched blogger Perez Hilton in a nightclub last year.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_en_mu/us_people_perez_hilton_punched"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.62456a1e3e1c4a308e119d76e87d5dbd.people_perez_hilton_nyet781.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=bUNdjN743FTh38HgpSDXzw--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this May 20, 2009 file photo, Gossip blogger Perez Hilton arrives at fashion designer Marcus Molinari's birthday party at h.wood in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_hi_te/us_itunes_top10 ap/20100209/us_itunes_top10 AP technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:11:38 GMT AP - iTunes' top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending Feb. 8, 2010: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100209/tc_pcworld/ecsredingfaultsfacebookonprotectingchildren pcworld/20100209/ecsredingfaultsfacebookonprotectingchildren PC World technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:40:13 GMT PC World - Social networking sites need to tighten up their privacy settings to protect children, European commissioner for the information society Viviane Reding said Tuesday at the launch of the Safer Internet Day initiative. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/tc_afp/lifestylechinaitinternetgames afp/20100209/lifestylechinaitinternetgames AFP technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:13:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/tc_afp/lifestylechinaitinternetgames"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265730180719-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=yvTCtwSjcXUBk1kGqZvGnw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="This handout image received in 2007 shows Activision, Inc.'s "World of Warcraft" video game. Chinese Internet portal NetEase has said it will reapply for a licence to operate "World of Warcraft", one of the most popular online role-playing games with millions of users in China alone.(AFP/ACTIVISION INC.-HO/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Chinese Internet portal NetEase has said it will reapply for a licence to operate "World of Warcraft", one of the most popular online role-playing games with millions of users in China alone.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/tc_afp/lifestylechinaitinternetgames"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265730180719-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=yvTCtwSjcXUBk1kGqZvGnw--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="photo" title="This handout image received in 2007 shows Activision, Inc.'s "World of Warcraft" video game. Chinese Internet portal NetEase has said it will reapply for a licence to operate "World of Warcraft", one of the most popular online role-playing games with millions of users in China alone.(AFP/ACTIVISION INC.-HO/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/tc_afp/usitcompanyinternetgooglefacebooktwitter afp/20100209/usitcompanyinternetgooglefacebooktwitter AFP technology Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:28:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/tc_afp/usitcompanyinternetgooglefacebooktwitter"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265744821529-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=I1F76GX13LAvaFB43AKXeA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Google on Tuesday gave its free email service a "Buzz," adding Twitter and Facebook style social networking features.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google is giving its free email service a "Buzz" by adding social-networking features which could challenge the supremacy of platforms like Facebook and Twitter.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/tc_afp/usitcompanyinternetgooglefacebooktwitter"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265744821529-3-0.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=I1F76GX13LAvaFB43AKXeA--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Google on Tuesday gave its free email service a "Buzz," adding Twitter and Facebook style social networking features.(AFP/File/Loic Venance)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)