With IE 7, green means go for legit sites
Starting early next year, the address bar in Internet Explorer 7 will turn green when surfing to a legitimate Web site--but only in some cases, not all.
The colored address bar ...
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‘Enemies of the internet’ named
A list of 13 "enemies of the internet" has been released by human rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while ...
Web inventor fears for the future
The British developer of the world wide web says he is worried about the way it could be used to spread misinformation and "undemocratic forces".
The web has transformed the way ...
Web access for autos goes on the road
The personal computer has finally gone to driving school.
Three decades after they began appearing on desktops, PCs are about to start showing up in vehicles. They will let people check ...
Record labels wake up to online music reality
For years, major music labels have waged a doomed war against file sharing in the hope lawsuits and secretly corrupted files would convince the millions who download music illegally to ...
US publishers say Child Online Protection Act should be struck down
A group of US online publishers and a lobby group is taking the Government to court to challenge an eight-year-old law which it says amounts to censorship of the internet. ...
Internet Television: Corporate TV Goes After P2P Networks
The phenomenon of Internet television is rising many controversies among the supporters and owners of traditional corporate TVs, because of the potentially devastating changes it might provoke in the mass ...
Video-hungry users could push Net to brink: Nortel
Soaring demand for games, video and music will stretch the Internet to its limits, Canada's Nortel Networks Corp. says, and it expects service providers will make big investments in its ...
FBI Director Asking ISPs To Track Users
What is this world coming to? Microsoft wants to track us via a new OS and keep tabs on registration activities, virus protection and more...and now, now the FBI ...
Iran Outlaws Broadband
The Iranian regime, ever vigilant for the tentacles of "Great Satans" everywhere has been "fortunate enough" to spot one early on before it "infected" households everywhere. In a bid to ...
From the Internet straight to DVD
You won't find Broken Saints, Floaters or Soup of the Day on network or cable TV's fall lineups.
Yet these series are generating talk on the Internet, where they began. The ...
Fox Goes “On Demand”
Fox TV is set to launch a new ad-supported online service called Fox On Demand that will allow users to watch shows online after they have aired.
Using MySpace.com or ...
Swedish Appeal(s) court clears man of file sharing
A 29-year-old man from Västerås in central Sweden suspected of sharing files from his computer was today acquitted by Svea Court of Appeal. Last year the man was the first ...
Internet freedom reigns in Amsterdam
Amsterdam has the world's busiest Internet exchange, thanks to nuclear physicists and mathematicians who in the 1980s connected their network needs with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be ...
The Odd Browsers Out: Deepnet, Netscape, and SeaMonkey
Sure, you've use Firefox and Internet Explorer. You may have even dabbled in Flock and Opera, or even become a devotee of one of these lesser-known applications. But have you ...
U.S. to Renew Web Domain Pact
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that it would extend its oversight of the Marina del Rey- based organization that handles Internet domain name policies, while finding ways to improve the ...
News Corp. may not use Internet portals
Rupert Murdoch told an investor conference Tuesday that he didn't see a need to distribute programming or other media content from his News Corp. conglomerate through Internet portals.
Murdoch, asked why ...
(“Any of You Kids Pirates?”) Feds take a nip-it-in-the-bud approach to Internet piracy
The top official in the U.S. Patent Office took his message to a Bloomington elementary school to talk to the next generation of potential offenders.
Wearing a blue suit and a ...
Kenya aims for own internet cable
Kenya has said it will seek funding to finance its own undersea internet cable after an African joint venture was delayed by disagreements.
The fibre optic cable, expected to cost $110m, ...
Will Vista stall Net traffic?
Thanks to new directory software, Windows Vista could put a greater load on Internet servers. But experts disagree over whether we're headed for a prime-time traffic jam or insignificant slowdown.
Microsoft's ...
