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In 1991 Ziff Davis Publishing Company brought together a small, diverse set of online forums and information services (most notably "PC MagNet") under the name "ZiffNet," which later evolved into ZDNet. Under the direction of Ziff-Davis Interactive president Michael Kolowich and vice president David Shnaider, the effort was the first online information service to be created by a major print publishing company. Hosted initially on the CompuServe and Prodigy information services as well as its own Interchange Online Network, ZiffNet eventually consolidated its services onto the World ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Is Google the black hole at the center of the net?
Another day, another announcement about Google pulling the net into its gravity well. Salesforce.com and Google have announced an integration that tightly couple AdWords ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
E-mail monitoring may contravene European laws
Monitoring employees' Internet and telephone use at work may contravene human rights laws, after a landmark case in the European Court of Human Rights last week. The case ...Posted by Ari Hakkarainen -
FCC to study need for more Net neutrality regulation
"Simply because telephone and cable companies are on their best behavior today, while the commission and Congress examine the issue, is no reason to delay action to protect ...Posted by David Patterson -
Google's achilles heel
There's a paradox at the heart of Google's success that highlights the location of its Achilles' heel. It makes money because users of its search engine find what they want by ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Yesterday, Slashdot asked 'What if TinyURL goes down?' Today, it's down (and it hurts)
(Blog Post) Yesterday, in Slashdot’s huge-gigantic-massive-insignificant-concerns dept, Indus Khaitan posed this hypothetical question: Thanks to twitter, SMS, and mobile web, a lot ...Posted by David Fox -
9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net | ZDNet Government | ZDNet.com
Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That’s what a military judge ruled last week. . .Posted by Randy Benson -
Resurrecting E-voting
As I noted yesterday, an expert dragged into court to testify and asked point blank whether it is theoretically possible that a voting process built around voting machines ...Posted by Mike LaBonte -
Meet the king of coal
The U.S. derives 49 percent of its electricity from coal. China has been erecting 2 gigawatts worth of power plants a week, according to an oft-heard stat, and most of them ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
U.S. healthcare industry: Google wants to protect you from Michael Moore's Sicko
Google can help protect them from the negative impact of Michael Moore's just released film "Sicko," which does to the U.S healthcare system what Fahrenheit 9/11 did to the ...Posted by Arden Currie -
The webification of advertising
Yes it's a bubble. If, like me, you thought Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of Doubleclick was over-the-top, then what else can we make of Microsoft splurging $6 billion on ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
More organizations shift to Web 2.0 while IT departments remain wary - Enterprise Web 2.0 - ZDNet.com
A couple of recent announcements from two large, very well-known organizations provides an interesting data point on how Web 2.0 is affecting the product designs and business ...Posted by Bob McInnis -
Novell ditches top execs
The board of Novell has dismissed two top executives, including chief executive Jack Messman,as part of a management shake-up at the software and networking firm. Novell ...Posted by Rod Amis
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