Wednesday

MONTGOMERY, W.Va. — After a scathing report described the woeful condition of West Virginia University Institute of Technology, the group tasked with improving the school began its efforts Wednesday by putting all th…

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Facebook filing for IPO Wednesday did good for more than just the social network. Companies associated — even tangentially — saw their stocks soar in trading Thursday.

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Online piracy costs U.S. copyright owners and producers billions of dollars every year, but legislation in Congress to block foreign Internet thieves and swindlers has met strong resistance from high-tech companies, spotlighted by Wikipedia's protest blackout on Wednesday, warning of a threat to Internet freedom.

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BERLIN (Reuters) – A Berlin security firm has cracked the encryption code for some mobile phones using the Internet, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday, citing the company’s chief.

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Eleven mobile phones and more than 40 packets of ganja or cannabis were seized from inmates of a Bihar jail during a raid early Wednesday, police said.

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) – Technology stocks edged higher Wednesday, powered by gains in shares of Internet shares led by Netlfix Inc. , Amazon.com and Google Inc. . The three got a lift from a bullish J.P. Morgan note giving each an overweight rating. Netflix shares were up nearly 4%, while Amazon and Google were each ahead more than 1%. The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.8% to 2,804, while …

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World IPv6 Day looms: what might break (and how to fix it) : Wednesday, June 8, was World IPv6 Day. Top Web destinations were available over IPv6 (as well as IPv4) for 24 hours in order to flush out broken IPv6 installs.  World IPv6 Day went mostly smoothly, with a few surprises : World IPv6 Day, the experiment to determine how common it is for users to have trouble visiting websites that have …

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Major U.S. technology companies provided a surprisingly upbeat assessment of future business conditions Wednesday, helping to propel the stock markets to their highest levels in nearly three years.

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A House panel on Wednesday voted to invalidate Internet access rules created by the Federal Communications Commission. But they will remain in place unless Congress and the president take further action.

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Social networking company says the Deals feature would allow merchants to deliver coupons and specials to Facebook users’ phones. Partners include Gap, Macy’s and Starbucks. Facebook denied rumors that it was developing its own phone Wednesday, but it did announce it was rolling out an ambitious bid to extend its popularity on the desktop to mobile phones.

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SMS mobile virus intercepts one-time passcodes sent by text message A new variation of the Zeus banking malware that intercepts one-time passcodes on mobile phones is still transmitting data to hackers as of Wednesday, although UK police have been notified, according to security researchers.

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