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Zott writes "Apparently, 'some readers' of the New York Times site are getting a bit more with their news: an apparently syndicated adware popup with a faux virus scan of the user's computer indicatin

Michael_Curator writes "Executives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.-owned papers (including current Tory spokesman Andy Coulson) allowed reporters to hack into phone conversations of celebrities and the

Traditional media outlets like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have begun to use some of the tools of social media — blogs, Facebook pages, even Twitter accounts.

circletimessquare brings us an update to the status of the million-dollar Netflix competition to develop a better algorithm for movie recommendations.

One of the seemingly eternal questions in managing personal computers within organizations is whether to centralize computing power (making it easy to upgrade or secure The One True Computer, and its

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times runs an article about the spammers' choice of presidential candidate.

JerkBoB links to a story at the New York Times about the future prospects of Sun's Solaris, excerpting: "Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following

Naturalist writes with an excerpt from a New York Times story about the need for a more secure method for identification than the password-based system almost everyone currently uses.

miller60 writes "Are major web sites going down more often? Or are outages simply more noticeable?

The New York Times reports that Microsoft is going to raise its bid for Yahoo by a few dollars. They quote an unnamed source, but seem to be pretty confident that Microsoft is upping the ante a bit.

Diehards have tried to revive The Industry Standard, the original dot-com tome that went bust in 2001, more than once over the years.

Slide has taken $50 million from Fidelity and T-Rowe Price, according to Brad Stone at the New York Times, exchanging a 9-percent stake of the company at a valuation of $500 million.

Kids’ plush toy social network Webkinz.com has started running advertising, a move that, if recent articles in New York Times and Silicon Alley Insider are to be believed, has greatly upset parents.

Coca Cola’s decision to pause and rethink their involvement with Facebook’s Beacon advertising program was a big topic of discussion over the weekend in this corner of