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CNN sniffs out and fires employee/by-night blogger

CNN employee Chez Pazienza, a producer with American Morning, was recently fired by his employers for his blog, Deus Ex Malcontent.Surprisingly, however, the blog...

WordPress users: You’ve got mail – and a DoS attack!

The horror, the horror: users of Wordpress were hit with a denial-of-service (DoS) attack over the weekend, which silenced bloggers and their eager commentators....

RIM: We’re supposed to be the ones charging exorbitant prices

Research In Motion, the market leader in attracting and pursuring intellectual property lawsuits, is sparring with arch-rival Motorola in a series of patent disputes....

If you sell yourself online, you deserve to know who the buyer is

So a German woman agrees to be auctioned off to whomever happens to log onto a particular Web site. Said woman gets pregant with...

Forget about XP – it’s time to SavePolaroid.ca!

This week our flagship publication, ComputerWorld Canada, decided to offer a collective voice for all those frustrated by Microsoft's decision to get rid of...

Yahoo! Another megamanical company that wants us!

With Microsoft's Steve Ballmer potentially ready to pounce even harder on Jerry Yang, rumours have Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. -- which is already busy...

Johnny Depp is officially insulted

The United States has made its list and presumably checked it twice, and Canada has not ended up on the "nice" column for our...

Searchin’ with Kanye

Hip-hop megastar Kanye West has launched his own search engine, SearchWithKanyeWest.com. The engine—"enhanced by Google and Ask"—allows users to submit searches and thus win...

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