 'Unfriend' is New Oxford American word of the year The New Oxford American Dictionary named "unfriend" -- as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook -- its word of the year on Monday. [...] November 16, 2009 09:09 PM Internet Semiconductor revenue to fall 11 percent: Gartner Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to decline by more than 11 percent in 2009 over last year, less than previously forecast, market research firm Gartner said Monday. [...] November 16, 2009 08:18 PM Internet Univision coming to YouTube YouTube and Univision announced an agreement on Monday to bring short- and long-form programming from the Spanish-language broadcast network to the video-sharing site. YouTube said shows from... November 16, 2009 07:42 PM Internet Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' The first applications were accepted on Monday for internationalised domain names (IDNs), in one of the most significant steps to making the Internet more accessible around the globe. [...] November 16, 2009 06:17 PM Internet Oldest US newspaper for gays and lesbians shutting down Washington Blade, the oldest newspaper in the United States for gays and lesbians, said Monday it was shutting down. [...] November 16, 2009 04:33 PM Internet Samsung, Acer team up with AT&T on netbooks South Korea's Samsung and Taiwan's Acer are teaming up with US telecom giant AT&T to introduce low-priced netbook computers for the holiday shopping season. [...] November 16, 2009 04:05 PM Internet In China, Obama says sites like Twitter should be open US President Barack Obama Monday admitted in China that he had never used Twitter but said sites like the micro-blogging network should be available everywhere, even though his hosts restrict its... November 16, 2009 04:04 PM Internet Taiwan, China may develop electric cars together Taiwan and China are looking into developing electric cars together and will hold a conference here next week to seek areas where they can cooperate, a Taipei official said Monday. The November 24... November 16, 2009 04:04 PM Internet Europe's first 'personalised paper' rolls off the presses Billed as Europe's first "personalised paper", "niiu", a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 08:00 am, made its first appearance in Berlin on... November 16, 2009 04:03 PM Internet European publishers give Google book deal cautious welcome European book publishers gave a cautious welcome Monday to new proposals by Internet giant Google to clear the way for millions of books to be sold on-line. [...] November 16, 2009 04:03 PM Internet India plans fingerprint IDs for billion-plus citizens India's 1.16 billion people are each to receive their own identity number under a monumental plan designed to cut corruption and improve distribution of state benefits. [...] November 16, 2009 03:58 PM Internet Cisco raises offer on Norway's Tandberg US networking giant Cisco said on Monday it had raised its bid for Norwegian video-conference company Tandberg from 3.0 billion dollars (2.0 billion euros) to 3.4 billion dollars. The American... November 16, 2009 03:58 PM Internet IBM makes Big Blue cloud IBM on Monday announced it has created the world's largest business computing "cloud" capable of holding an amount of digital data on a par with 250 billion iTunes songs. [...] November 16, 2009 03:57 PM Internet "Assassin's Creed 2" hits stores on Tuesday "Assassin's Creed 2," a new videogame from Ubisoft, hits stores on Tuesday in a hotly anticipated swirl of treachery, swordplay, history, and artistry set in scenic Renaissance Italy. [...] November 15, 2009 10:25 PM Internet All eyes on Murdoch as newspapers ponder digital future Is Rupert Murdoch bluffing? Making a bold high-stakes gamble that will save the troubled newspaper industry? Or pursuing a pipe dream that can only end in failure? [...] November 15, 2009 10:12 PM Internet Chinese online users bombard Obama with questions The state of Barack Obama's marriage and Tibet are just two of the topics raised in thousands of questions submitted by Chinese Internet users ahead of the US president's maiden visit to China. [...] November 15, 2009 10:06 PM Internet Internet to 'speak Arabic' Egyptian Minister of Communication Tarek Kamel announced on Sunday the introduction of the first Arabic domain, in a step that would ease Internet access to millions of Arabic speakers around the... November 15, 2009 01:51 PM Internet Internet supermarket booms in bad times The Internet global supermarket is booming because people and businesses are looking for bargains and new outlets in bad times, a new report says. And the this great global shopping mall can only... November 15, 2009 05:05 AM Internet Underwater robot probes depths for Istanbul quake clues French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) team prepares to put in water the robot BOB (Bubbles OBservatory module) to observe and study the link between gas bubble... November 14, 2009 05:41 PM Internet Google submits revised digital book settlement Google and US authors and publishers submitted a revised settlement to a US judge Friday seeking approval of an agreement that would clear the way for millions of books to be sold online. [...] November 14, 2009 05:22 AM Internet |
