FBI plans new Net-tapping push
The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for ...
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AOL may offer free high-speed connection to Web
Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit may offer its full menu of services, including e-mail, free of charge to anyone with a high-speed Internet connection, The Wall Street Journal said on ...
YouTube challenger offers to pay for video
A new video-sharing site is offering videographers a share of the advertising dollars that their movies generate, at a time when most video-sharing sites are just trying to eke out ...
Is China Rethinking it’s Stance on Piracy?
A few days ago a new Chinese law went into effect that establishes fines for those that distribute pirated copies of music, movies, and software over the internet. ...
Rank outsider sues Google over zero score
Google has defended its right to rank web pages in any manner it likes in a groundbreaking court case over its search engine results.
The search giant is being sued in ...
Academics break the Great Firewall of China
Computer experts from the University of Cambridge claim not only to have breached the Great Firewall of China, but have found a way to use the firewall to launch denial-of-service ...
AT&T takes it to the streets in battle against cable firms for TV viewers
Jesse Vallado looks like your average cable guy: tool belt around hips, golf shirt with company insignia and a van stuffed with gear.
But Vallado, who has been installing television ...
China restricts Internet cafe access
China has launched a campaign to enforce curfews at Internet cafes before schools let students out on summer vacation, a news report said Monday.
The focus of the weeklong crackdown, launched ...
Library phone answerers survive the Internet
For years, a small band of researchers at the New York Public Library has been tackling questions from young and old, the clueless and the haughty, the vexed and the ...
In Mexico, Internet music piracy rising with broadband connections
On Genova Street in downtown Mexico City, illegally copied CDs of music by top U.S. artists sell for 20 pesos, just under $2 a piece, in tiny booths between tables ...
Net neutrality divides bureaucrats, too
Net neutrality continues to wrangle members of the House and Senate as lawmakers debate the pros and cons of the U.S. Telecom Act. They're not alone in being divided, though, ...
Two New Surveys Show Vexing Shifts In Music Consumption
Two new surveys show just how drastically listening habits are shifting and presenting new challenges for the music industry.
Ipod_33A new IPSOS poll reveals that 20% of Americans over age 12 ...
Senate deals blow to Net neutrality
A U.S. Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules on Wednesday, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon.com that had made enacting them a top ...
Senators target Net, phone taxes
Americans will pay less in Internet, mobile and local telephone taxes in the future, according to multiple proposals approved by U.S. Senate committees Wednesday.
One set of tax changes comes from ...
US Congress joins ‘Internet neutrality” debate
Congress has plunged into a multi-million-dollar debate over Internet usage fees that are feared by computing giants like Google and Microsoft and championed by the phone companies.
Opponents of the new ...
Internet firms to crack down on child porn
Create $1m image database
A group of US internet giants have come together to form an alliance in a bid to combat child pornography.
AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online have ...
BitTorrent goes video
BitTorrent is developing a video download website to distribute movies online. They're still negotiating with several movie studios, but they've selected GNi to 'host' their online Video Store.
GNi signed an ...
Senators adopt Web labeling requirement
Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must slap warning labels on their pages or face prison terms of up to 15 years, according to a proposal adopted by a ...
(UK) Law lords to rule on internet defamation
A TEST case comes before the law lords, Britain’s highest court, today that will determine how far newspapers and other internet publishers are open to lawsuits from people alleging that ...
Internet providers to combat child porn
Five leading online service providers will jointly build a database of child-pornography images and develop other tools to help network operators and law enforcement better prevent distribution of the images.
The ...
