Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures.
Read more »The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
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Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed
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Apple has suffered another embarrassment. A security breach has exposed iPad owners including dozens of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. They—and every other buyer of the cellular-enabled tablet—could be vulnerable to spam marketing and malicious hacking.
Read more »When you buy an Apple iPhone - iPad think of those who died making it.
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Taiwan's Foxconn Technology, a contract maker of the iPhone and other consumer electronics, insisted Wednesday its treatment of workers is world class after a female employee became the company's eighth Chinese worker to commit suicide this year.
Read more »Federal Gov't misses opportunity to lead digital economy
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A recent decision by the CRTC has the potential to cause major disruption in the internet service marketplace. Fortunately, the decision can be reversed by the federal cabinet, if voices like yours are heard. Here's the issue in a nutshell.
Read more »Judge Bans Microsoft from Selling Word
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U.S. court of appeals on Tuesday upheld a $290 million jury verdict against Microsoft for infringing a patent held by a small Canadian software firm..
Read more »Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
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This week on Q&A, our guest is Ken Auletta, bestselling author whose newest book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" will be published by Penguin next week. The book is a biography of the company Google. It tells the story of the company's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and the many other people involved in the company's success.
Read more »Addiction therapists signing up to World of Warcraft
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Medical staff are creating their own ‘avatars’ in online fantasy games such as World of Warcraft in the hope of treating youngsters addicted to virtual worlds.
Read more »Twitter Financial Info Published after Hacking Incident
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(Reuters) - Technology news website TechCrunch published on Wednesday sensitive internal documents belonging to Twitter, including financial projections, offering a rare glimpse into the wildly popular microblogging site.
Read more »Domain Appraisal Scam is Reborn
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The latest twist on an old scam.
Over the weekend I received three identical e-mails that show the domain name appraisal scam is alive and well.
Read more »Weather Network Thunders at Feds
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Claims unfair restrictions mar Canada's wireless industry.Public frustration over the state of the Canadian wireless industry has generally focused on consumer-oriented concerns, including pricey data plans, misleading system access fees and text message charge policies. Given the consumer focus, the effect on Canadian business is rarely discussed.
Read more »How eBay Is Alienating Selling Allies
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The mighty online auction house only needs to look in the mirror to figure out why sales are slipping, customers are leaving and listings are shrinking. Solution providers that once called eBay "friend" are rejecting its hostile policies. Here’s why.
Read more »Nortel cuts another 3,200 jobs, more possible
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Ailing telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp made good on its plans to slash more jobs on Wednesday, cutting another 3,200 workers worldwide as it continues its fight to survive under the cover of bankruptcy protection.
Read more »Keep Canada's Internet Open
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Big telecoms are trying to ruin Net democracy. Tell the feds to stop them.
In just over 10 days, nearly 4,500 Canadians have written the CRTC demanding that they put a stop to discriminatory Internet throttling by big ISPs. Canadians made it known that they will stand for nothing less than full and open access to all the Internet has to offer, free from ISP control.