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Google has released a special version of its homepage doodle for Mothers Day, showing a sheep curled up with her lamb. pretty special stuff.

There are millions of websites out there. Many of them are unique. But the individual impact of any particular site on the overall Internet is generally negligible, if there’s any impact at all. Not so with the fifteen sites here. These sites changed the Internet, mostly for good, in substantial ways.

Most any journalism professor, upon mention of Wikipedia, will immediately launch into a rant about how the massively collaborative online encyclopedia can’t be trusted. It can, you see, be edited and altered by absolutely anyone at any moment. But how much less trustworthy is the site for breaking news than the plethora of blogs and social?

On March 15, 1985, a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name. Although Symbolics.com didn’t spark an instant gold rush, the event planted the first seed of a transformation…

The uTorrent team released the long-awaited version 2.0 of their popular application last month. The overall reception has been very positive, but critics have labeled the new release as unfair, which has resulted in the client being banned from several private BitTorrent trackers.

The Dell Adamo XPS is the world’s thinnest laptop and sports a design that trumps all others, but….

According to the FBI and the IC3 Web site, the popular scam trends for 2009 included hitman scams, astrological reading frauds, economic scams, job site scams, and fake pop-up ads for antivirus software.

Microsoft employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there’s one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.

It’s a brave new world. Unfortunately–continuing the literary allusion–Big Brother is watching. As technology makes more information more accessible, it also threatens to expose information that is not intended to be shared. Privacy is a concept that is caught in the middle of the struggle.

The technology that allows authorities to plot your comings and goings by the transmission towers that pick up your calls offers police an investigative tool that can crack alibis and connect co-defendants, but it also raises constitutional questions about privacy and police tactics.