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Computer great Dennis Ritchie dies at 70

By doris | Published: October 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS ANGELES — The world has lost another computer pioneer. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who invented the C programming language and co-developed the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. The New York Times reports that Ritchie’s body was found in his New Jersey home. While working [...]

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Steve Jobs as master showman, cult hero

By doris | Published: October 7, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — Dozens of video-capable smartphones — most of them Steve Jobs’ own creations — peered out over the sea of technology journalists like digital periscopes. Nothing particularly video-worthy was going on in that moment: It was January 2010, and a bunch of us tech writers, wearing plaid and skinny jeans and [...]

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Porn sites closer to getting ‘.xxx’ Web address

By doris | Published: December 12, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Porn sites are closer to getting their own address on the Internet. The online red-light district would be in the form of an “.xxx” domain name suffix alongside longstanding ones such as “.com” and “.org.” Following a decade-long battle, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, [...]

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Are you ready for the big internet crunch?

By doris | Published: May 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The internet as we know it is reaching its limits. Within 18 months it is estimated that the number of new devices able to connect to the world wide web will plummet as we run out of “IP addresses” — the unique codes that provide access to the internet [...]

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