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• New Attack Fells Internet Explorer Symantec says that an unpatched flaw affecting IE 7 and IE 6 has been made public.
• Microsoft's Thoroughly Modern IE9? Browser will get a faster JavaScript and HTML5 support, but we don't know what it will look like, or when it will arrive.
• Internet Explorer 9 Wish List We may get a peek at the next-gen browser at Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference today.
• Guess Who's Hawking Internet Explorer Now? Redmond makes a smart move, hiring country music fixture Dolly Parton to pitch IE8 and its Web Slices feature.
• Egypt Applies First for International Web Domain ICANN is taking applications for international domain names; how might this change the Web?
• Obama Speaks against Internet Censorship, but is Beijing Listening? China's millions of Internet users may applaud, but U.S. promotion of freedom of information may not go far.
• Clicker's Online TV Schedule Goes Live The search engine for TV shows on the Web is now open for business.
• Clicker Hands-On: Web Potatoes, You Need This Finally -- an easy-to-use Internet programming guide that can help you find the really good stuff worth watching.
• Can Firefox Last Five More Years? Forecast: Cloudy The biggest danger to Firefox, as it enters its second half-decade, is the changing role of browsers, from surfing the Internet to running applications.
• Firefox Turns 5, Will it See 10? The Mozilla Firefox web browser celebrates its 5th birthday this week. Does it have any other tricks up its sleeve to remain relevant for another 5 years?
• Firefox: Five Years In The Open Source Hen House Wasn't open source supposed to be the next big thing? Firefox was, but the open source fizzled.
• Study: Internet Users Aren't Isolated (Thank Facebook) Internet users are not as isolated as sociologists thought. A new study finds the Internet broadens our social circle, and Facebook gets particular credit.
• Nearly 1.7 Million T-Mobile Users Hit by Service Disruption Nearly 1.7 million T-Mobile USA subscribers are affected by a service disruption that hit the mobile operator beginning late Tuesday afternoon.
• Migrate to Windows 7--Slowly, Part 5: Migrating Your Bookmarks The easiest way to copy your browser bookmarks from old partition to new? The fabulous freebie known as Xmarks.
• ICANN OKs International Domains: The Pros and Cons Making the World Wide Web truly international is going to bring some complications and potential confusion.
• Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web? ICANN approved new international domain names, but how will this change the Internet and the Web?
• International Domains Get ICANN Thumbs Up In a major technical tweak to the Internet countries and territories will be able to show domain names in their native language.
• Web Goes Worldwide With International Domains ICANN has approved the use of non-Latin alphabet characters in some domain suffixes. The decision takes the Web a step closer to actually being 'World Wide'.
• The Internet’s First 40 Years: Top Ten Milestones From that early, halting digital communication through primitive modems, early browsers, rudimentary video and more to today's speedy electronics, the Internet has rapidly evolved,
• The Internet at 40: History Began With Its First Crash On this day in 1969, what would became the Internet was used for the first time--and crashed.
• Happy 40th Birthday, Internet! On October 29, 1969, the Internet came in not with a bang, but with a "lo."
• Self-promotional Sites With iWeb Businesses are increasingly researching prospective employees on the Internet. So why not direct them to a Web site designed to promote your best work?
• Geocities Shuts Down Yahoo is closing the gates to some of the earliest consumer Websites.
• Lala for iPhone: Coming Soon (Fingers Crossed) An iPhone version of the music service has been touted as "coming soon" for a year — but now, "soon" might finally be just around the corner.
• Yahoo's GeoCities Takes Its Final Bow Today Yahoo announced the impending closure in April, suggesting that users who would like to continue hosting with Yahoo could migrate to one of the company’s paid plans.