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Bruce Eckel's Free Electronic Books Downloads (Mirror Links)
By John Henry Xu - Mon Dec 26, 2005 9:52:43 AM ET
The mirror links for downloading his online books are listed below. Download Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition These are electronic books in HTML on C++ and Java, along with the source code. The HTML books are fully indexed, use ...

Create Load Balance For Tomcat
By Jack Xu - Mon Jun 20, 2005 6:33:34 PM ET
In this article, we provide steps of creating a cluster of Tomcat web application servers. We use tomcat 5.5.x that can be downloaded from http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html.
1. Other software requirement We use Apache web server to work with tomcat servers. Apache web server ...

Study: Shoppers naive about retail prices online
By John Henry X - Thu Jun 2, 2005 12:05:21 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- Most American consumers don't realize Internet merchants and even traditional retailers sometimes charge different prices to different customers for the same products, according to a new survey. The study, "Open to Exploitation," found nearly two-thirds of adult Internet users believed ...

'Tagging' helps unclutter data
By John Henry X - Tue May 3, 2005 3:38:12 PM ET
NEW YORK -- Here's how we tend to organize our digital photos: We stick them into a folder on our computer and label it "Hawaii trip," or whatever. Here's a new way: Forget folders or albums. Just "tag" the photos based on what's actually in each frame. Now, extrapolate this concept to the ideas, ...

Shopping.com Sees Fertile Ground in Europe
By John Henry X - Fri Apr 1, 2005 7:58:22 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - Europe is a complex market with big price differences -- and big opportunities for operators of shopping search engines, the chief executive of U.S.-based Shopping.com told Reuters on Friday. "In many respects, Europe is much more fertile ground for comparison shopping than the United ...

Yahoo Buying Photo-Sharing Service Flickr
By John Henry X - Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:12:44 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO ? Yahoo Inc. is acquiring a Canadian photo-sharing company that lets people share digital images with select groups or the whole world, expanding its portfolio of self-publishing and "social networking" services. The startup, Flickr Inc., lets people upload digital photos from computers ...

Swap home, see world
By Steven Charles - Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:23:22 AM ET
NEW YORK - It's not unusual to find strangers lurking in Janet and Peter Lessem's Manhattan brownstone, fingering the cutlery, peeking in the medicine cabinet, sleeping Goldilocks-style in the beds. But the Lessems aren't calling the police. They're holed up in the homes of those very same strangers, ...

Online Banking Growing Rapidly
By Steven Charles - Wed Feb 9, 2005 3:45:52 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Nearly half of all U.S. adult Internet users now manage their bank accounts online, making banking the fastest-growing online activity, according to a survey released on Wednesday. Forty-four percent of U.S. Internet users bank online, up from 30 percent two years ago, the Pew Internet ...

Ask Jeeves Buys Blog Search Provider Bloglines
By Steven Charles - Tue Feb 8, 2005 11:39:29 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - Web search company Ask Jeeves Inc. (ASKJ.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said late on Monday it bought privately held Bloglines, which helps users search for articles posted on Web logs, or blogs. Ask Jeeves, which did not disclose terms of the deal that closed late last week, said it ...

Some EBay Sellers Say Fee Cut Falls Short
By John Henry X - Tue Feb 8, 2005 1:28:44 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - Some eBay Inc. sellers on Monday balked at concessions made over the weekend by the giant Web marketplace, which is still planning to go forward with previously announced fee increases that will hit people who peddle wares through small stores on the site. Bill Cobb, eBay's ...

China Internet Firms Seek New Sources of Revenue
By Steven Charles - Mon Nov 29, 2004 3:23:34 PM ET
HONG KONG - China Internet media firms, which struck gold with mobile phone messaging services last year, are scrambling to diversify after a government clampdown on sex-related material and a billing overhaul. Some have found new lucrative veins in online games, advertising and search services as ...

Holidays Looking Merry for Web Retailers
By Steven Charles - Tue Nov 23, 2004 7:30:37 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - It's shaping up to be a very merry holiday season for online retailers. Web shopping got off and running for the busiest season of the year with traffic up 60 percent for the week ended Nov. 14 from the prior seven-day period, Nielsen//NetRatings said on Tuesday. The share of Internet ...

File-Sharing Network Thrives Beneath the Radar
By John Henry X - Sun Nov 7, 2004 11:51:29 AM ET
LONDON - A file-sharing program called BitTorrent has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking notice. For those who know where to look, there's a wealth of content, both legal -- such as hip-hop from the Beastie Boys and ...

Movie Studios to Sue Internet File Traders
By John Henry X - Sun Nov 7, 2004 11:49:35 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - Taking a cue from the music industry, film studios and the Motion Picture Association of America said on Thursday that they were readying the first lawsuits against people suspected of illegally distributing movies over the Internet. The civil suits will seek to stop trading and damages ...

Monster Says It Could Enter Japan by Mid-2005
By John Henry X - Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:51:44 AM ET
HELSINKI - U.S. Internet job search company Monster Worldwide Inc. (MNST.O: Quote, Profile, Research) could enter the Japanese market next year as strength in its European businesses allows it to look further afield, the company's founder said on Monday. "We are profitable in Europe today and our business ...

C. Europe Job Portals Merge to Take on Monster
By Steven Charles - Sat Oct 2, 2004 6:45:49 PM ET
PRAGUE - Four central European web portals have agreed to merge their Internet job search sites hoping to smooth labor movements within the EU's newest members and take on the global job Web Site Monster Worldwide (MNST.O: Quote, Profile, Research) . The alliance, ONREA (On Line Recruitment Alliance), ...

US House Passes Bill Targeting Net Song Swappers
By John Henry X - Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:22:43 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Users of Internet "peer to peer" networks, already dodging lawsuits from the recording industry, could face up to three years in prison under a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. The House voted to enlist the government to a greater degree in the entertainment ...

Savvy Web Surfers Catch New Wave of Browsers
By Steven Charles - Sun Sep 26, 2004 6:33:05 PM ET
LONDON - Since Microsoft won the browser wars in the late 1990s, its Internet Explorer software has been the way most people surf the Web. But with some slick new challengers on the scene, that may be about to change. While Internet Explorer has remained largely unchanged for years, alternative Web ...

Ask Jeeves Launches Personalized Web Search Service
By Steven Charles - Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:27:31 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - Ask Jeeves Inc. (ASKJ.O: Quote, Profile, Research) , the third-biggest U.S. Web search provider, late on Monday unveiled MyJeeves, a new product that helps users personalize their Internet searches. The release comes amid a round of competitive salvos from Web search providers, each ...

Amazon Offers Discount to A9 Search Users
By Steven Charles - Mon Sep 20, 2004 9:38:05 AM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is offering a 1.57 percent shopping discount to registered users of its new A9 Web search service as a way to increase A9 use and promote buying on Amazon, the company's Web site showed on Friday. In a note on its Web ...

Brazil Internet Craze Angers English Speakers
By John Henry X - Sun Jul 18, 2004 12:05:41 PM ET
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazil has butted heads with the United States this year on issues ranging from cotton subsidies to the war in Iraq. But perhaps none of the battles has been so personal as the one being fought on the Internet. Thousands of Brazilians have become devotees of Orkut (http://www.orkut.com), ...