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Craigslist Cracks Down on 'Erotic Services'
Craigslist on Thursday filed suit against 14 companies and individuals who stand accused of using the classifieds Web site to facilitate human trafficking, child exploitation, and prostitution. “The incidence of crime on Craigslist is actually exceedingly low, considering the tens of millions of legitimate ads posted each month by well-intentioned users," Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster said ...
Experts: Tech to Help Obama Solve Economic Crisis
Technology initiatives will likely take a backseat to the economy in the first few months of an Obama administration, but the president-elect does have the opportunity to utilize technology in his efforts to revive the country's economic situation, two technology experts said Thursday. It is “hard to imagine anything on the [technology] industry agenda... that will ...
Hands On: Audio Bone Bone-Conduction Headphones
"Ludwig van Beethoven, the famous 18th century composer who was partially deaf, discovered Bone Conduction," asserts the Audio Bone Web site. “Beethoven found a way to hear music through his jawbone by attaching a rod to his piano and clenching it in his teeth. There have been many attempts at bone conduction listening since Beethoven, but ...
Book: Web Surfers Evolving into Superior Humans
The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order. Gary Small, a neuroscientist at UCLA in California who specializes in brain function, has found through studies ...
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Forge Free Speech Pact
A joint effort between Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo might seem like an awkward encounter waiting to happen, but the three Internet giants confirmed Tuesday that they will work together on an initiative aimed at preserving free speech on the Web. The Global Network Initiative (GNI) is intended to provide guidance to technology companies with regard to ...
Twitter, Tagged Users Surge, but Lag Myspace
Twitter is expanding beyond the Web 2.0 elite. The micro-blogging site logged a 343 percent growth over the last year, according to a Thursday report from Nielsen Online. Twitter had about 2.4 million unique visitors in September 2008, up from 533,000 in September 2007. Following closely behind was Tagged.com, which grew by 330 percent over the ...
Samsung Blu-Ray Players Add Netflix, Pandora Services
On Thursday, Samsung announced new partnerships with two Internet multimedia companies for the purpose of incorporating audio/video streaming services into the company's latest Blu-ray disc players. Samsung BD-P2500 Samsung said it would partner with the online video disc rental company Netflix and the music recommendation and Internet radio service Pandora. Both will bring Internet-based multimedia streaming ...
Lala Makes Web-Based Music Easier
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Record Site Taken Down for Violating Own Copyright
A donation-based record label is back online Tuesday after its Web-hosting company took the label's Web site offline for alleged copyright violations. One problem, though. The label – Quote Unquote Records – produces all of its own content, and was perplexed as to how it could have infringed upon itself. “A little over a week ago, ...
Twine: Track Your Interests Online
Newfangled search tool Twine is launching out of beta today. The service specializes in building customized vertical search silos that aggreg...yikes. Nevermind, I won't explain it that way. It's more interesting than its explanation, rest assured. Basically, Twine lets you track your interests. If you want to find out everything about Britney Spears (and who doesn't?), ...
