Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao answered
just two questions in his online debut on an official website
on Friday, the first being -- what do you usually do on the
Internet?
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's CEO said the
company will not seek to make a spate of other Internet
acquisitions in the wake of its failed bid for Yahoo Inc
, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Reuters - EU's telecoms chief Viviane Reding
said on Friday that China's censorship of the Internet was
"unacceptable" and that the Beijing Olympics were a chance for
the country to show its commitment to free flow of information.
USATODAY.com - Even if you're an active Web surfer you probably don't pay much attention to the browser you are using. By default, you likely employ Microsoft's Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, if only because Internet Explorer sits right there on your desktop. The Apple crowd typically sticks with Safari. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:03:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Chinese authorities gave the green
light to a number of firms to run online video-sharing
services, after ordering dozens of firms to halt operations
earlier this year. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:58:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AFP - The US military has lost hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, in the latest embarrassment for The Pentagon, the Financial Times reported in its online version Thursday.
Reuters - Floods sweeping southern China seem to
have fulfilled the final stanza of an Internet curse involving
Beijing's Olympic mascots, but censors have been quick to
remove postings that might fuel the superstition.
AFP - Chinese censorship of the Internet and restrictions on reporting have worsened despite Beijing's pledge to improve media freedom ahead of the Olympic Games, an activist said Thursday.
Reuters - CNET Networks Inc shareholder Jana
Partners LLC on Thursday said it dropped its effort to win
control of CNET's board in light of CBS Corp's plan to buy the
Internet media company. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:29:14 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Nine purported "mastered, finished"
tracks from Guns N' Roses' 14-years-in-the-making album
"Chinese Democracy" have been leaked online by the Web site
Antiquiet.com, prompting a quick cease-and-desist from the
band's handlers and the removal of the links.
Reuters - The top Republican on the U.S. House
of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has sent a
letter to Yahoo's chief executive expressing concern about the
effect of Yahoo's deal with Google on Internet users' privacy
and advertising rates.
Reuters - EBay Inc buyers and sellers using
its PayPal online payments service will be protected from fraud
for the full value of auction purchases, expanding a more
limited program, eBay said on Thursday.
AFP - US military authorities are unable to find hundreds of nuclear missile components, The Financial Times reported in its online edition Thursday, but the Pentagon shrugged it off as simple record-keeping woes.
AFP - A media rights watchdog on Thursday urged Vietnamese authorities to free a blogger arrested before the Olympic torch relay who the group said was being targetted for his political views.
