AFP - Democrat Barack Obama has shown the stunning power of the Internet for political fundraising. Now he is fighting its darker side as a vehicle for "smears" against his bid for the White House.
AP - Yahoo Inc. became Microsoft Corp.'s takeover prey largely because Google Inc. established such a commanding lead in the Internet's lucrative search advertising market.
AFP - The head of the US Senate's antitrust panel has pledged a "careful review" of the joint venture on online search advertising announced by Yahoo and Google.
AP - For the first time, Verizon Communications Inc. is set to give discounts to wireless customers who don't have landlines but order Internet or TV service from the phone company. -- read full article
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:01:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Grammy-winning musician Peter Gabriel
believes the Internet has drowned users with too much choice,
failed to democratize the pop industry as much as was hoped and
eroded the quality of what people listen to.
AP - Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga began blogging to share his knowledge of the local market. He didn't bargain for a $25 million defamation lawsuit when he wrote that a Miami developer had gone bankrupt decades ago. -- read full article
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:14:57 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Microsoft Corp offered
Yahoo Inc $1 billion in cash to buy its search business in a
deal that would have delivered $1 billion in additional annual
operating income to Yahoo, a source familiar with Microsoft's
thinking said on Friday.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The analyst firm projected a 12.5% increase in PC shipments over 2007, largely due to a boost in mobile PC sales in the first quarter. -- read full article
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:52:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Peter Cooper-Ellis has joined SpringSource to lead the development and product management of SpringSource Application Platform. -- read full article
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:45:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
NewsFactor - In an on-stage conversation with New Yorker writer Ken Auletta, Google CEO Eric Schmidt conceded that the search-engine giant doesn't know how to make money off of YouTube, the popular video-sharing site for which it paid $1.65 billion in 2006. -- read full article
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:46:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The sentence is one of the longest imposed to date in the United States for computer hacking, federal officials said. -- read full article
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:50:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
NewsFactor - Just more than 10 years ago, Mozilla threw its open-source code into the public domain. Today, its browser -- Firefox -- is preparing to launch its third major release in hopes of continuing to eat away at Microsoft's Internet Explorer. -- read full article
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:55:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - AT&T Inc., the country's largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. -- read full article
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:06:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Major U.S. providers including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Alltel have already committed to deploying Long Term Evolution wireless technology. -- read full article
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
