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Workers move a Michael Jackson billboard outside the Staples Center after a press conference telling people how to get tickets to the upcoming memorial for the music legend at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles. The website set up to process applications for tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service received more than half a billion hits in less than two hours, officials said Friday.

Jackson ticket site gets half billion hits: official

AFP - Saturday, July 4

The website set up to process applications for tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service received more than half a billion hits in less than two hours, officials said Friday. More »

Ericsson announces broadband contracts in China
AFP - Saturday, July 4
Swedish mobile phone network supplier Ericsson won contracts to supply broadband Internet to millions of users in China by a deal with three operators there, it said Friday. More »
US government Internet traffic to be screened: report
AFP - Saturday, July 4
The Obama administration is planning to use the National Security Agency to screen Internet traffic between government agencies and the private sector, the Washington Post reported Friday. More »
PC makers offer China Internet filter
AFP - Saturday, July 4
Several PC makers said Friday they were voluntarily including China's controversial Internet filter software in new shipments despite Beijing's decision to postpone making it mandatory. More »
Conviction reversed in web hoax that led to suicide
AFP - Friday, July 3
A woman who was convicted of computer fraud in an Internet hoax that led to the suicide of 13-year-old girl was tentatively acquitted Thursday by a federal judge. More »
MySpace suicide conviction tentatively dismissed
Reuters - Friday, July 3
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Internet used to help young smokers quit
Reuters - Friday, July 3
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment for young adults aged 18 to 24 years. More »
Microsoft adds selected "tweets" to Bing
AFP - Friday, July 3
Microsoft is integrating messages from prominent users of Twitter, the hot micro-blogging service, into the results generated by its new Internet search engine Bing. More »
Facebook revising privacy settings
AFP - Friday, July 3
Facebook is revising its privacy settings to give the more than 200 million users of the social network the ability to share as much or as little about themselves online as they want. More »