Google faces rivals for city Wi-Fi project

Google faces rivals for city Wi-Fi project

As San Francisco leaders near a decision on who should build and operate a citywide Wi-Fi network, an experienced municipal wireless provider and a nonprofit group working with two IT heavy-hitters appear to remain in the fray along with Google and partner EarthLink.

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-read full story from infoworld.com, April 3 2006


Phishers set hidden traps on eBay

With about 181 million users worldwide, eBay is arguably the world's most popular online marketplace. As such, the San Jose, Calif., company, with its online payment unit PayPal, is among the biggest targets for online scammers--including phishers.

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-read full story from ZDnet Technology News, March 31 2006
Microsoft aims to take the desktop 'Live'

Microsoft started testing Windows Live Mail Desktop this week. It will let people manage their Hotmail--or e-mail from other accounts such as Yahoo Mail and Gmail from Google--offline without accessing a Web-based server. They still must connect to the Web to send and receive e-mail.

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-read full story from ZDnet Technology News, March 31 2006
Unease over how the net is run
Internet governance issues usually attract the attention of a relatively small number of net users. However, concerns associated with the current system have begun to grow, writes internet law professor Michael Geist.

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-read full story from BBC News, April 3 2006

Government sites fail web tests
More than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research shows. Some 60% of UK government websites contain HTML errors, according to a study by the University of Southampton.

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-read full story from BBC News, April 3 2006
China's 'Net policies in spotlight
China's booming Internet usage continues unabated, with latest figures suggesting that as many as an estimated 110 million Web surfers are on the mainland.

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-read full story from BBC News, March 26 2006

US newspapers try to cash in on blogs
With a new blog created every second, some media futurists have predicted that "citizen journalists" will be producing half of the world's news by 2021. A number of newspapers are trying to cash in on the trend by creating online venues where bloggers can share local news and opinions.

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-read full story from Yahoo!News, April 3 2006
BEA seeks to modularize app server
BEA Systems is working to modularize services from its WebLogic Server application server, enabling them to run independently with open source frameworks, a company official said on Thursday.

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-read full story from Yahoo! News, March 30 2006