India plans free software for all
India is expanding a government-led program to provide free, local language software to all of its citizens, as it tries to broaden computer use in the country.
India is expanding a government-led program to provide free, local language software to all of its citizens, as it tries to broaden computer use in the country.
The move to [...]
iPhone software found in iPod updater?
Yeah, everybody’s been grasping at straws (including us) for possible info on the iPhone for, well, the last couple of years now, and the latest adds fuel to the speculative fire without providing any answers.
So what else is new? Anyhow, in the June 28th iPod updater package, apparently if one were to analyza few [...]
China crisis for web’s biggest names
China could block the operations of some of the internet’s biggest names in an apparent bid to take more control of the net economy. Yahoo!, eBay and Google all operate in China.
Foreign companies must already allow Chinese investors to own 50 per cent of all ventures in the country, and the government has begun to [...]
AOL to test-launch video search service
AOL plans to announce on Monday it will test launch a new Internet video service in an attempt to demonstrate how much it has learned from mistakes that cost the once reigning king of the online world its leading position.
The new service, AOL Video, aims to be the one-stop shop for online videos and will [...]
Media heir wants ‘Airbus of the web’
Christoph Mohn, the heir to the Bertelsmann media empire, has called for Europe to create an Airbus of the internet, to compete with US giants such as Google and Ebay.
Mr Mohn, chief executive of Lycos Europe, said his online community and search company would introduce some products to the US market in the next 12 [...]
Police: Camcorder used in movie piracy
Crockett and Tubbs — the crime fighting duo of “Miami Vice” — woulda been proud.
West suburban police busted a Chicago man at a midnight showing of the new film “Miami Vice” as he allegedly tried to film the flick with a camcorder.
“We never had one like this before,” said a spokeswoman for the Lombard police, [...]
Azureus gets Commercial Funding
The popular bittorrent client Azureus received funding by BV Capital, a company that previously supported del.icio.us and peerflix.
Azureus is currently implementing a “content layer” where commercial downloads will start to appear. Users will be able to search for certain keywords, or browse through the available content by tags.
Azureus is downloaded almost 2million times every month, [...]
Chat rooms could face expulsion
Web sites like Amazon.com and MySpace.com may soon be inaccessible for many people using public terminals at American schools and libraries, thanks to the U.S. House of Representatives.
By a 410-15 vote on Thursday, politicians approved a bill that would effectively require that “chat rooms” and “social networking sites” be rendered inaccessible to minors, an age [...]
KaZaA deal worth gloating about?
The international record industry has been heralding as a great victory their deal with P2P software producer Sharman networks, the makers of the KaZaA P2P client. Read for example this note from FT.com, where the settlement is described as as one of the biggest victories against online piracy for the music industry.
Under the terms of [...]
Rolling Stones play live to phones
IF WE WERE to tell you that a pioneering live music service that lets fans listen to their heroes’ live performances over the phone at a significant cost to the consumer is to broadcast a concert tour – or “gig” for you readers under 40, if we have any — by one of the biggest [...]
