Pilots used laptop computers while straying off course Two distracted US pilots were using laptop computers against company rules last week when they overshot their destination by some 150 miles (240 kilometers), federal investigators said. [...] October 27, 2009 12:40 AM InternetFacebook users protest home page changes Legions of Facebook users united in protest, demanding that the world's most popular social-networking service undo recent changes to its home page. [...] October 27, 2009 12:26 AM InternetLala.com gets in tune with Facebook gift shop Facebook on Monday continued phasing Lala.com music service into its online shop, providing US users a way to buy music at the leading social networking service. "You will now be able to purchase... October 26, 2009 10:49 PM InternetYahoo! shuts down GeoCities Yahoo! on Monday closed GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that it purchased for over three billion dollars at the height of the dot-com boom. "We have enjoyed hosting websites created by... October 26, 2009 09:12 PM InternetNew owners take control of Chicago Sun-Times The sale of the Chicago Sun-Times, the 15th largest newspaper in the United States, and its sister publications to a group of local businessmen was completed on Monday, the newspaper said. The Sun... October 26, 2009 09:07 PM InternetVideo firm settles lawsuits clearing way for Google buy Video software firm On2 Technologies Inc. announced on Monday that it had settled five pending lawsuits, potentially clearing the way for its takeover by Internet giant Google. [...] October 26, 2009 07:39 PM InternetUS newspaper circulation slide accelerates Daily circulation figures for US newspapers released on Monday provided more bad news for an industry battling the flight of readers to the Web and battered by a steep decline in advertising... October 26, 2009 07:22 PM InternetSwiss foreign ministry hit by computer attack Unidentified hackers have penetrated the Swiss foreign ministry's computer system to seize data, forcing parts of it to be shut down for several days, the ministry revealed Monday. [...] October 26, 2009 05:30 PM InternetSony says US unit being probed by US authorities Japan's Sony Corp. said Monday that its optical disk drive business in the United States was being investigated by the US Department of Justice in relation to antitrust issues. [...] October 26, 2009 03:22 PM InternetSony, Netflix in deal to stream movies using PS3 Sony and Netflix announced on Monday that PlayStation 3 owners will soon be able to use the game console to stream movies and TV shows to their television sets or computers. Sony Computer... October 26, 2009 03:01 PM InternetInternet addresses to expand into non-Latin scripts The Internet is set for its biggest technical change in decades when a new multilingual address system is approved this week, a global regulatory body said Monday. The Internet Corporation for... October 26, 2009 08:59 AM InternetInternet 'a teenager' at 40 Leonard Kleinrock never imagined Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube that day 40 years ago when his team gave birth to what is now taken for granted as the Internet. [...] October 25, 2009 05:10 PM InternetYoung entrepreneurs get tips from Facebook-Twitter Facebook and Twitter stars on Saturday shared lessons learned with young entrepreneurs aspiring to be the next hot technology firm. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter co-founders Evan Williams... October 25, 2009 04:27 PM InternetYoung entrepreneurs get tips from Facebook-Twitter Facebook and Twitter stars shared lessons learned with young entrepreneurs aspiring to be the next hot technology firm. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz... October 25, 2009 05:50 AM InternetWorld solar car race begins in Australia A 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) solar car race across Australia's desert heartland began in the northern city of Darwin Sunday, organisers said. [...] October 25, 2009 05:33 AM InternetIndia says will start 3G auction in January India said Saturday a long-delayed auction of radio bandwidth for third generation (3G) telecommunications services will start in January and will be open to foreign firms. [...] October 24, 2009 05:42 PM InternetIcahn resigns from Yahoo! board Billionaire investor Carl Icahn resigned from his position on the Yahoo! board, saying the US Internet giant no longer needed an "activist" director like him. [...] October 24, 2009 02:38 AM InternetFacebook revamps home page feed Facebook has modified its news feed feature to let members of the world's leading social-networking service catch up on tidbits they may have missed while away from the website. Facebook now lets... October 24, 2009 01:19 AM InternetMicrosoft beats expectations to cap off big week Microsoft on Friday capped off a rousing week in which it released Windows 7, snagged a deal with Twitter and released quarterly earnings that easily beat the expectations of Wall Street analysts.... October 23, 2009 09:31 PM InternetItaly's intelligences services launch website Italy's intelligence services announced Friday the launch of an Internet website to explain their duties and shed light on the organisation within the interior ministry. [...] October 23, 2009 06:12 PM Internet |