Posted by on under human rights groups, google yahoo, internet companies, business dealings, google, authorities, china, microsoft, yahoo |

Leading Internet companies long criticized by human rights groups for their business dealings in China -- including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft -- are agreeing to new guidelines that seek to limit what data they should share with authorities worldwide and when they should do so.


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Posted by on under emotics, aim chat, voice chat, sip, voip, yahoo |

Fring is an application that allow you to chat! Mainly chat, but it also allows voice chat via VOIP.
It allows chat with many clients, more than other chat applications. It allows chat with Skype, MSN, ICQ, SIP, Gtalk, Twitter (chat only), Yahoo chat only, and AIM (chat only).
The chat on Fring is basic. No emoticons, [...]
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Posted by on under wder, iranian protesters, reas, few minutes, iran, yahoo |

We have no reason to suspect this is true, but a ZDNet blogger claims that Yahoo! has been passing personal information about Iranian protesters to Iran's government. In the last few minutes, Yahoo! has denied the claim. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it could possibly be true. (YHOO)



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Posted by on under yahoo mail, iranian government, crackdown, internet access, yahoo |

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Posted by on under beverly hills internet, internet surfers, geocities, web pages, yahoo |

Founded in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, what is now Yahoo GeoCities was one of the first services to offer an easy way for early Internet surfers to publish their own Web pages. Once the Internet's third most visited domain, it will be shutting down on Monday, Oct. 26.



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