Internet
AP proposes new article formatting for the Web (AP)
NEW YORK –
The Associated Press is proposing that publishers attach descriptive tags to news articles online in hopes of taming the free-for-all of news and information on the Web and generating more traffic for established media brands.
Tags identifying the author, publisher and other information — as [...]
Congress asked to address extremism in military (AP)
WASHINGTON – One of the country’s main monitors of hate groups asked Congress Friday to investigate possible racial extremism in the military, after finding U.S. service members participating on a social networking site advertised as being for white people only.
Researchers from the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Ala., identified about 40 personal profiles [...]
Chrome and More Chrome, That Pesky Botnet (PC World)
This was quite a week for big IT news, what with Google announcing it plans to release the Chrome operating system and the attack on U.S. government, South Korean and other Web sites from a botnet whose origin remained unknown as of this writing. And those were just the stories that scored the biggest headlines.
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Jackson's death gives birth to new generation of fans (AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) –
MySpace said Thursday that Michael Jackson's death has given birth to a young new generation of fans of the artist at the online social networking site.
MySpace, which launched in 2003, has lost ground in recent years to the spectacular rise of Facebook, which [...]
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General Motors to try selling new cars on eBay (AP)
NEW YORK –
As part of its turnaround plan, General Motors Corp. said Friday it plans to experiment with auctioning new cars on eBay, expanding on an existing partnership covering certified used vehicles on the online marketplace.
GM CEO Fritz Henderson said the company is working on an [...]