AFP - A US-based blogger who allegedly accused a Singapore judge of "prostituting herself" was released on bail Thursday and had his passport confiscated.
AP - Turkmenistan has begun allowing private citizens to connect to the Internet, the latest sign that the reclusive Central Asian nation is opening up. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:41:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AFP - Japan's top film rental chain Tsutaya on Thursday unveiled a download-on-demand broadband service, letting customers rent titles from home without going to the store.
InfoWorld - If the buzz among attendees of last week's Google I/O conference in San Francisco revealed a common thread, it was that the search giant's ongoing push for developer mindshare remains intriguing, though rife with questions and concerns. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Companies like MySpace and Tyco are using elements of the developer studio's Concurrency and Coordination Runtime to manage business processes and intranet services. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:42:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The heterogeneous SOA software for Visual Studio will have tools called Architecture Explorer and Architecture Layer Diagram for visualizing application logic in current code. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:10:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - Dissident investor Carl Icahn escalated his attacks on Yahoo Inc.'s beleaguered board Wednesday in an acerbic letter demanding the directors scrap an employee severance plan that drove up the potential costs of a Microsoft Corp. takeover.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Canadian customers have 1,200 movies available to rent or purchase, while their U.K. counterparts can choose from 700 movies. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:28:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
NewsFactor - Up until this week, people looking for free Wi-Fi were reduced to seeking out independent coffee shops that offered the service. That's been OK for folks seeking to go online in their own communities, but at Starbucks -- the ubiquitous purveyor of coffee at airports, shopping centers and on city streets -- the cost of Internet access was virtually prohibitive. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:47:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Companies that use Microsoft Exchange Servers can manage e-mail, calendar, and contacts in real time on many popular cell phones with an application called RemoSync. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:54:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The top five domains ranked in terms of the prevalence of dangerous downloads are .info; .ro; .ws; .biz; and .cn. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - This latest deal is important for Apple in reaching its goal of selling 10 million iPhones, or about a 1% share of the global cellular phone market this year. -- read full article
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:28:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
