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Revived Fervor for Smart Monitors Linked to a Server Instead of having a big, loud and complex computer on your desk, what if you could have a quiet, thin machine that rarely needed an upgrade or a fix? Link By Link: Spinning a Web of Lies at Digital Speed In recent days there has been a range of false Internet reports that managed to gain great purchase across the globe while the truth is still logging on. Korean Star?s Suicide Reignites Debate on Web Regulation When movie star Choi Jin-sil was found dead, South Korean police, the media and members of Parliament immediately pointed fingers at the Internet. Advertising: Newspapers? Web Revenue Is Stalling Newspapers, already facing a grim economic forecast, are digesting another piece of bad news. Drilling Down: A Pop-Up Ad That?s Less Annoying In a 2003 survey, nearly a third of respondents said that Internet pop-up advertisements were ?never appropriate.? Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites By embracing the hyperlink ethos of the Web to a degree not seen before, news organizations are acting in effect like aggregators. Campaign Articles From Newsweek Become E-Books for Amazon Kindle It would seem to be a magazine?s dream: Take something you have already published and sold, repackage it and distribute it without paper or ink expenses. Slipstream: Intuition + Money: An Aha Moment The discovery of a new material called black silicon offers a lesson in government financing of science and technology. Amid the Gloom, an E-Commerce War Seven years ago, eBay was an online juggernaut and Amazon.com its weaker rival. How times have changed. Overfeeding on Information It's hard not to watch the news, with the financial markets in meltdown and the presidential campaign entering the homestretch. But how much is too much? Novelties: Keeping Your Own Health Chart, Online New tools are being developed that may help harried patients monitor their medications, home tests and other details. Study Warns of Hearing Loss From Music Players A scientific study for the European Union found that listening to personal music players at high volume can threaten permanent hearing loss. Verizon Wireless Plans to Charge Companies Sending Text Messages Verizon told companies that send out text messages that starting Nov. 1 it will impose a fee of 3 cents for each message it delivers to the phones of its subscribers. YouTube to Offer TV Shows With Ads Strewn Through YouTube said it would start offering full-length episodes of some television shows on its sprawling Web site. Memory Maker Reduces Work Force Falling prices for the flash memory used in a wide range of consumer electronics have forced Micron Technology to shut down most of a factory it shares with Intel and lay off close to 3,000 workers. Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds While the study suggests many girls have exceptional talent in math, they are rarely identified in the U.S. because culture discourages girls ? and boys ? from excelling.