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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out at critics of the company’s plans to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library. Writing in the New York Times, Mr Brin said he wanted to “dispel some myths” surrounding the project. He said the plan would make millions of “out-of-print” books available to the public [...]
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YouTube now gets over a billion hits a day, according to a new video blog post by the founder of the website. Chad Hurley’s blog marks the third anniversary of YouTube’s controversial acquisition by Google. The site was bought by Google in 2006 for $1.65bn – a price it later described as “a premium”. Earlier [...]
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Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader is going on sale in more than 100 countries around the world, including the UK. The reader has been confined to the US since its launch in November 2007; Amazon expects to have sold a million of the devices by the end of the year. The global version will run on [...]
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Microsoft has confirmed that thousands of Hotmail accounts have been compromised in a phishing attack. BBC News has seen a list of more than 10,000 e-mail accounts and passwords which had been posted online. The software giant, which owns the web-based e-mail system, said that it “had launched an investigation”. Phishing involves using fake websites [...]
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The High Court has given permission for an injunction to be served via social-networking site Twitter. The order is to be served against an unknown Twitter user who anonymously posts to the site using the same name as a right-wing political blogger. The order demands the anonymous Twitter user reveal their identity and stop posing [...]
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