InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to enable the Python and Ruby languages to be used for client-side development of rich Internet applications that leverage the company's Silverlight browser plug-in technology. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:28:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - Amazon.com's Web site experienced problems in North America for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday because of system issues, the online retailer said.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Instead of spending $250,000 on new Fibre Channel disks, state officials used Akorri's BalancePoint to realign the way logical storage units were using shelves to spread the I/O load. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:50:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - T-Mobile USA is suing Starbucks,
saying the coffee shop chain secretly colluded with AT&T to
offer free WiFi Internet access in its cafes despite an
exclusive agreement with T-Mobile. -- read full article
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:32:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Time Warner Inc's AOL plans to expand
its Internet advertising business, Platform-A, in Europe as it
aims to stake a bigger claim in the global display ad business. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:16:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - A plan by the nation's top telecommunications regulator to provide free wireless high-speed Internet service hit a snag this week over concerns about possible interference and a proposed censoring feature that upset free speech advocates. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:46:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
NewsFactor - A free wireless Internet proposal by the Federal Communications Commission has been put on hold. According to Reuters, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Thursday that he would delay a vote on his proposal to auction a 25-MHz spectrum with the specific condition that the winner provide free Internet access. Martin said he wanted more time to investigate concerns by wireless carriers that there could be interference with frequencies already in use. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:23:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - France will begin issuing authorization
for online betting operators from the second half of 2009 after
agreeing with the European Union to open up the market, Budget
Minister Eric Woerth said on Friday. -- read full article
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:24:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - Hoping to negotiate a compromise, activist investor Carl Icahn urged Yahoo Inc. to declare it's willing to sell for $49.5 billion — about $2 billion above Microsoft Corp.'s last offer for the Internet pioneer.
AFP - US action film star Vin Diesel and his girlfriend, model Paloma Jimenez, are new parents of a baby girl, People magazine reports in its online edition.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The $8.1 billion transaction would give Nokia a stronghold in the navigation business, one of the fastest-growing segments in the technology industry. -- read full article
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:05:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
