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eBay sells Skype

EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service.

English websites spread al-Qaida messages

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Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West.

What kind of email user are you?

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Recent study highlights South African email trends

Low cost music sites shut down

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Two Web sites that sold songs by The Beatles for 25 cents apiece should remain shut down indefinitely, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Google adds automatic captions to YouTube

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Think of it as closed captioning for the new media world.

AOL to cut jobs

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AOL says it plans to cut about a third of its work force once it is spun off from the media conglomerate Time Warner Inc.

Top 10 internet moments of the decade

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The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster the iPhone, Facebook and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.

eBay founder launches online news service

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EBay founder Pierre Omidyar announced on Wednesday that he was launching an online news service about his adopted home Hawaii.

US still controls the Internet

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The Internet is still under the control of the United States, participants at a governance forum said, despite a move by America to loosen its grip over the private corporation that administers the net.

State pressure affecting Internet social networks

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Government pressure on companies linked to social media networks is threatening to infringe civil liberties, an Internet forum in Egypt heard on Wednesday.

New .za rules in the pipeline

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New licensing regulations to safeguard Internet users who register .za domain names released for comment

Internet traffic will increase six fold by 2012

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Internet traffic will have increased six fold by 2012 in a five-year period as more users view and post videos online, delegates at an Internet forum heard on Wednesday.

Is your online activity being monitored?

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Local industry experts speak out about online piracy and Internet traffic monitoring

Chinese defence ministry hacked 2 million times

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The website of China's defence ministry has been hacked more than two million times since it was launched three months ago, state media said Wednesday.