Internet
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Legal online poker site launches in Nevada
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Poker devotees will soon be able to skip the smoky casino and legally gamble their dollars away on the couch - at least in the state of Nevada.
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Internet sales tax has rare Republican support
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says senators have reached a deal to delay voting on a bill to tax Internet sales until after senators return from a weeklong vacation. A majority of Senate Republicans support the bill, which does not sit well with anti-tax crusaders.
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Online privacy guidelines coming from tech leaders
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America's tech industry is finalizing voluntary disclosure standards on the sensitive information being sucked from your smartphone like your location, surfing habits and contacts.
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Internet sales tax bill would force retails to collect
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The bill would empower states to require online retailers to collect state and local sales taxes for purchases made over the Internet. The sales taxes would be sent to the states where a shopper lives.
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Graph Search: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg introduces new search feature
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new search feature called "Graph Search," which is aimed at making searching and discovering information easier.
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The Internet and adoption
CommentLori Barer Ingber, the President and Founer of Parent Match, came on the show today to talk about how the internet has transformed adoption in the United States.
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Syrians without Internet for second day
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Syrian rebels battled regime troops south of Damascus on Friday and Internet and most telephone lines were cut for a second day, but the government reopened the road to the capital's airport in a sign the fighting could be calming, activists said.
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Syria Internet blackout: Country apparently completely offline
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Several reports indicate that Internet traffic in Syria, which continues to be embroiled in a fierce civil war, completely shut down on Thursday.
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Cyber Monday deals
CommentWant to get great Cyber Monday deals? Laura Harders, the founder of Beltway Bargain Mom, chatted with Natasha about how you can get the best bang for your buck.
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Comcast's Internet offer for low-income families expanded
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Comcast is starting the second year of its Internet Essentials program in Washington to provide high-speed internet at low cost for low-income families.
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Internet voting an 'inevitability,' according to experts
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According to the Maryland Reporter, several leading election experts who participated in a panel held by the University of Maryland Center of American Politics and Citizenship think that Internet voting an inevitability.
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GoDaddy outage: Hacker not to blame for massive outage
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GoDaddy.com says a Web hosting outage that involved thousands and possibly millions of websites on Monday was due to internal problems, not an attack by hackers.
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Daniel Giguere launches 1VoiceInside
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"In order to be great, you have to be vulnerable...," said Daniel Giguere, the creator of "1VoiceInside". Giguere is using the Internet to overcome depression and tragedies in his life and encourages others to do the same.
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Google Talk down: Worldwide message service malfunctions worldwide
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Google Talk, the worldwide voice and messaging system that millions of people use to communicate daily, is down worldwide.
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Marissa Mayer named Yahoo! CEO, fifth one in five years for company
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Yahoo is turning to its longtime nemesis to fix everything that has gone wrong while Google Inc. has been cementing its position as the Internet's most powerful company, hiring Marissa Mayer away to become its new CEO.
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YouTube and breaking news: More viewers checking video site for news
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A new study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters.
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Cable, internet outages remain for some
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Electricity may be back on for many, but internet, phone and cable services have been slow to come around since the June 29 derecho.
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Malware Monday: DNS changer infected computers could lose Internet connection
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Having trouble getting online? Some may find their smartphones working overtime because the family computer couldn't seem to connect to the Internet Monday morning.
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