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    Georgia targeted in cyber attack (AFP)

    Around 50,000 Georgians rally in front of the parliament building in central Tbilisi on August 12, to protest against the ongoing armed conflicts involving Russia and Georgia. Georgian government websites have been under intense cyber attack on top of the Russian military strikes launched against the country late last week, a US Internet firm said Tuesday.(AFP/Zviad Nikolaishvili)AFP - Georgian government websites have been under intense cyber attack on top of the Russian military strikes launched against the country late last week, a US Internet firm said Tuesday.


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    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:47:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Phelps makes biggest splash at Games and online (Reuters)

    Michael Phelps of the U.S. shakes hands with Alain Bernard of France after the men's 4x100m freestyle relay swimming final at the National Aquatics Center during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 11, 2008. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps is not only the hottest competitor the pool in the first week of the Beijing Olympics but also the athlete causing the biggest buzz online.


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    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:09:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Yahoo to Allow Users to Opt Out of Custom Ads (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - In the wake of a congressional inquiry into how Internet companies and ISPs track their users' activities, Yahoo on Friday announced that it would it would allow users to opt out of customized advertising by month's end. -- read full article
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:43:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Russian hackers continue attacks on Georgian sites (AP)

    Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili arrives for a news conference in Tbilisi, August 11, 2008. Saakashvili said Moscow was trying to overthrow his government as Russian troops pushed into two separatist regions, but Moscow said it had no intention of invading.  REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze/Pool  (GEORGIA)AP - Attacks by Russian hackers against Georgian Web sites, including one hosted in the United States, continued Tuesday even as Russian President Dmitri Medvedev ordered a halt to hostilities against Georgia.


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    Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:47:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Gmail Outage Raises Doubts About Cloud Computing (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Google's Gmail service suffered a major outage Monday afternoon, with many users locked out of their e-mail for several hours. The company confirmed the outage in an unusual apology on its Gmail blog. Titled "We feel your pain and we're sorry," the blog post said the problem was caused by a "temporary outage in our contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading properly." -- read full article
    Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:25:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    What's the Value of Online Comments? (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - The problem with online discussion threads is that any useful comments get buried beneath an avalanche of garbage. -- read full article
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:40:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    PC Tools' Security Software Adds ThreatFire (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - PC Tools said Monday that it had begun shipping the 2009 versions of its security suite and desktop tools. In addition to the expected improvements in detection, both the Internet Security 2009 suite and Spyware Doctor 6 include "Behavior Guard," a fancy name for the ThreatFire behavioral technology PC Tools previously offered as a standalone product. -- read full article
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:00:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Review: Online Olympics is ambitious, but not TV (AP)

    This screen shot shows a replay of the Angola-Germany men's basketball game with text commentary from Rotoworld.com, a sports site partnering with NBC, on NBCOlympics.com. (AP Photo)AP - NBC Universal is running an unprecedented 3,600 hours of Olympics coverage on television and the Internet, most of it live online, letting fans track their favorite sports in a way not possible even if they'd gone to Beijing.


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    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:23:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Faster Attacks Break DNS Patches in Under 10 Hours (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - The Internet remains vulnerable to exploits of a critical security flaw in the Domain Name System, a Russian programmer demonstrated last week. Writing on his blog on Friday, Evgeniy Polyakov posted that he had succeeded in getting patched DNS software to return an incorrect location in less than 10 hours. -- read full article
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:57:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Flash Faces Competition for Rich Internet Applications (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - The old debate over HTML versus Flash has become stale. A new debate, however, has surfaced. -- read full article
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:59:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Mr. Spock Unveils Preview of Star Trek Online (NewsFactor)

    In this photo released by Cryptic Studios shows the logo for 'Star Trek Online'. After years in development limbo, the 'Trek'-themed massively multiplayer online game will engage, according to game developer Cryptic Studios, who recently announced they secured rights to develop and publish 'Star Trek Online' from CBS Consumer Products after now-defunct gamemaker Perpetual Entertainment set the besieged project to kill. (AP Photo/Cryptic Studios)NewsFactor - It's the year 2409 in the upcoming Star Trek Online massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), which was previewed at the annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas.


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    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:59:29 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Google Disavows Deep-Packet Inspection of Web Traffic (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - Google is seeking to draw clear distinctions between the methods it uses to target ad placements based on search queries and a controversial data-mining practice known as deep-packet inspection. The deep-packet technique gathers and stores information on an individual's Web-site visits and Internet usage without first obtaining the user's consent. -- read full article
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:00:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Napster quarterly loss increases, revenue falls (Reuters)
    Reuters - Napster Inc posted a bigger quarterly loss on Monday as the number of its paid subscribers declined, and the online music service predicted revenue to be mostly flat in the current quarter. -- read full article
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:07:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Sector Wrap: Major Internet stocks rise (AP)
    AP - Major Internet stocks rose Monday, with Amazon.com Inc. shares rising after some positive analyst notes, including one saying sales of the online retailer's e-book reader Kindle seem to be "much stronger than expected." -- read full article
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:21:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
    Liberty Media open to discussing AOL dial-up deal (Reuters)

    Liberty Media Corporation Chairman John Malone returns to the Chancery court in Wilmington, Delaware, after a lunch break March 10, 2008. (John Randolph/Reuters)Reuters - Liberty Media Corp would be open to discussing a deal to swap its stake in Time Warner Inc for the media conglomerate's AOL dial-up Internet business, Liberty Chairman John Malone said on Monday.


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    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:23:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
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