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JFK Library Goes Digital on 50th Anniversary of Camelot

The JFK Library and Museum has unveiled the nation's largest online presidential archives, making the writings, speeches and personal correspondence of John Fitzgerald Kennedy available to more people than ever before. Fifty years after Kennedy's inauguration on Jan. 20, 1961, the days of his presidency have come alive...

Hawaii U Posted Private Info of 40,000 Students Online

(Oct. 29) -- More than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students now know what plenty of others before them have regrettably experienced firsthand: Security online can be elusive. The students' Social Security numbers, grades and other private information were made public after a faculty member at the school...

Sex vs. the Internet: 12 Percent of Women Would Rather Stay Online

(Oct. 27) -- The Internet is a glorious invention, but is it really better than sex? For most Americans, the answer is still a decided "no." But there is a subset of the population, at least, that would rather give up fun between the sheets than cascading style sheets, if forced to choose between the two. Meet the true...

You Say It's Your Birthday: The Web Celebrates John Lennon's 70th Early

(Oct. 8) -- Although nearly three decades have passed since John Lennon was murdered on a cold December night in New York, there is no question that the Beatles legend's legacy remains vital among his worldwide fans. Lennon, born Oct. 9, 1940, would have turned 70 years old on Saturday, and people who both revere his...

Birth, 2.0: Many Babies Born Online Before Real Life

(Oct. 7) -- In Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's "The Social Network," a cocaine-addled Sean Parker, played by Justin Timberlake, rattles off a vision of the future that, depending on your point of view, is either dystopia or utopia. "We lived on farms, we lived in cities," he says. "Now we'll live on the Internet." For...

Background on online

Digital distribution (also called content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution (ESD), among others) describes the delivery of media content such as audio, video, software and video games, without the use of physical media usually over online delivery mediums, such as the Internet.

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