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Yahoo shares drop over exodus and reorganization plans

Yahoo shares drop over exodus and reorganization plansSan

Mozilla Firefox claim world record for most downloads

Melbourne, June 19 : Mozilla Firefox claim world record for most downloads

Facebook, Google Earth fuelling impromptu pool party craze

London, June 18 : Teenagers are using satellite images on the internet to find houses with swimming pools - and then turning up uninvited for an impromptu dip.

The craze, known as ‘dipping’, involves using the Google Earth programme, which provides high-quality photos of Britain and other countries, reports the Telegraph.

Once a target is chosen, the youngsters use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo to arrange to meet.

According to the police, residents have woken up to find youngsters 'dipping' in their back gardens, or have come home from work to a swimming pool full of beer cans.

World will run out of Internet addresses by 2010

Melbourne, June 17 : The Internet will run out of addresses in another two years as only 700 million separate addresses are remaining for allocation out of the 4.3 billion available on the present

Computer and internet briefs

Washington  - Computer and internet briefsSummertime is for gardening.

Yahoo, Google agree on ad alliance

San Francisco, June 13 : Google has agreed to deliver ads next to some of Yahoo’s search results and on some of its websites in the United States and Canada according to an agreement signed by both

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