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| Criminals Take Control of CheckFree Web Site
(PC World)
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| PC World - Online criminals took control of the Domain Name System (DNS) record for payment processor CheckFree and briefly redirected the site's visitors to a their own server. |
| CBS to run Yahoo's Internet radio service
(Reuters)
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| Reuters - Chalk up another Internet radio casualty of significantly increased royalty fees for airing music online. Yahoo Music, once the top music destination on the Web, is handing over the bulk of its Launchcast Internet radio operations to CBS Radio. |
| Chinese City Requires Net Cafes to Use Legitimate Software
(PC World)
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| PC World - Nanchang, the capital of China's eastern Jiangxi province, has required Internet cafe operators to replace pirated server software with licensed versions. Cafes that don't will lose their license to operate, but some are grumbling about the cost of installing legitimate software. |
| Shoppers Opened Their Wallets on Cyber Monday
(PC World)
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| PC World - Cyber Monday, the day after the Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S., lived up to its reputation for big online retail sales, triggering disproportionately high spending during this so far modest holiday shopping season. |
| Internet Needs Multilingual Support for Next Billion People
(PC World)
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| PC World - The Internet must support the large number of languages in the world at all levels, including content, hardware, software, and internationalized domain names if it is to reach the next billion people, according to speakers at an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Hyderabad, India. |
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