Internet karaoke gets serious
Cyber sing-along sites are betting that everyone loves a talent show.
Technology changes, but popular taste doesn't. Everyone loves a talent show, which is why audiences tuned into the Major Bowes ...
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Boomer’s social Web site comes with death alerts
A social networking Web site for Americans aged 50-plus went live on Monday -- complete with an online obituary database that sends out alerts when someone you may know dies ...
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 ...
Music TV battles to survive in Internet age
Music television is the endangered species of the pop world, and is learning the hard way that it must adapt to the Internet age, or die.
Britain's "Top of the Pops", ...
United States cedes control of the internet – but what now?
In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate ...
Microsoft balks on Net neutrality explainer
Microsoft wants to block an effort for a shareholder vote forcing the world's largest software maker to explain its support for Internet network neutrality, according to a company letter obtained ...
Congress spanks naughty sex sites
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it a federal felony for Webmasters to use innocent words like "Barbie" or "Furby" but actually feature ...
Hearing looks at Net name privatization plan
The U.S. Department of Commerce will hold a Wednesday hearing on the government's September deadline to give up control over Internet domain names, a schedule that some high-tech industry advocates ...
Networks’ Nervous Foray Online
Summer in Southern California means sun, surf and a chance for television journalists from around the country to question the big networks -- and some bigger Hollywood stars -- about ...
US government urged again to end net role
The United States government is under pressure again, this time from two high-profile insiders, to end its overseeing role on the internet and transistion its role to an international body.
A ...
Combating the TiVo Effect: Does the Web Have the Answers?
As video advertising on the Web has proliferated, the best marketers have found what works and what doesn't, said Bruce Kasanoff, president of interactive marketing firm Now Possible. Traditional 30-second ...
ATT launches Homezone TV and Internet service
U.S. phone company AT&T Inc. said on Wednesday it began marketing its AT&T Homezone, a long-awaited service that combines high-speed Internet and satellite television in one set-top box.
Homezone, which offers ...
Groups urge US passage of law aimed at global online free speech
Fourteen human rights urged Congress Tuesday to pass legislation aimed at preventing US technology companies from cooperating with China or other countries in stifling online free speech.
The groups, including Reporters ...
How ‘Saving The Net’ may kill it
The engineer's case against Net Neutrality.
If you've followed the occasionally surreal, and often hysterical debate around 'Net Neutrality' on US blogs and discussion forums, you may have encountered Richard Bennett. ...
US government told to take its hands off internet
The United States government has been told to end its oversight role of the internet during its own consultation exercise over the future of net governance.
In a stark result, over ...
China sentences net writer to two years
China sentenced reporter Li Yuanlong to two years in jail on Thursday, adding to its list of writers imprisoned for expressing themselves through the country's expanding but tightly censored internet.
Li, ...
How Washington will shape the Internet
The most potent force shaping the future of the Internet is neither Mountain View’s Googleplex nor the Microsoft campus in Redmond. It’s rather a small army of Gucci-shod lobbyists ...
Cable & Wireless likely to suspend file-sharers’ accounts
The 42 Cable & Wireless customers accused by the music industry of unauthorised file-sharing look likely to have their accounts withdrawn in line with a demand from industry body the ...
The Revolution in Internet TV
Oxford activists Hamish Campbell and Richard Hering from Undercurrents have kick-started a radical TV station called OfflineTV. It uses the revolutionary new peer-to-peer open source project Democracy Player.
OfflineTV is innovative ...
Online wagering under attack in Congress
Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables won't like what Congress is doing. On Tuesday, the House plans to vote on a bill that would ban credit cards for ...
