Posts Tagged ‘internet’
Put a cork in the Internet bubble talk for now (AP)
AP – It’s starting to feel like a 1999 flashback. Internet companies — some of them profitable, some not — sense a golden opportunity and are lining up to go public this year.
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Weiner won’t go; new photos surface on Internet (AP)
AP – The second-ranking House Democrat on Sunday joined the party leadership in urging Rep. Anthony Weiner to quit because of his sexting scandal, a request the New York lawmaker has sidestepped in favor of a temporary leave of absence.
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Man dies after fall from balcony while ‘planking,’ dangerous new internet craze
A young man plunged to his death from an apartment balcony in Australia while “planking,” a sometimes-dangerous new craze in which people lie face down in strange places while someone takes their picture.
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Amazon failure takes down sites across Internet (AP)
AP – Scores of websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit crashed or had limited availability Thursday because of problems at a data center run by Amazon.com.
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Internet, phones down as Egypt braces for protests (AP)
AP – The Internet and cell-phone data service appeared to be cut across Egypt on Friday as authorities braced for demonstrations backed by both the country’s biggest opposition group and newly returned Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei.
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Egypt: Internet down, police counterterror unit up (AP)
AP – Egypt’s government has disrupted Internet service and deployed an elite special operations counterterrorism force hours before anti-government protesters expect a new wave of mass rallies to begin.
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Polls gone wild: Political gripes in Internet age (AP)
AP – When a widely publicized poll showed Republican John Kasich with a commanding, 10-point advantage in Ohio’s governor’s race, aides to Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland fought back hard. Against the poll.
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