AFP - Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web.
NewsFactor - Online ad company NebuAd faced tough questions from U.S. senators on Wednesday. Privacy advocates have complained that the company's technology is too intrusive and may be breaking laws. -- read full article
CNET - Click fraud, or the act of clicking on text search ads for ill-gotten gains, is the nuisance of the multibillion-dollar search industry. -- read full article
Reuters - Despite new efforts to regulate
Internet pharmacies, 85 percent of sites selling controlled
drugs do not require a prescription, researchers reported on
Wednesday. -- read full article
Reuters - Apple's new iPhone sold out
online in Britain ahead of its Friday launch, defying general
consumer gloom as the country's economy threatened to tip over
into its first recession in more than a decade.
AP - Executives from major Internet players — Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. — are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc. -- read full article
PC World - Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has discovered a flaw in the DNS protocol that allows attackers to spoof Internet addresses. -- read full article
AP - In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more fantasizing on the Web.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The extensions used to connect Second life to the OpenSim server will be made available to the open source community and the OpenSim community. -- read full article
AFP - Videogame colossus Electronic Arts has said an online Scrabble game customized for Facebook will be released this month to challenge the popular unauthorized version Scrabulous.
Reuters - NBC Universal on Tuesday
formally announced the most wide-ranging coverage plan for any
Olympics in history, including 225 hours over 17 days on NBC
and 3,600 hours total across TV, online and mobile.
PC World - China arned Web sites and mobile content providers not to violate the state-owned broadcaster's rights to cover the Olympic... -- read full article
Reuters - Carl Icahn would have more
support in his proxy battle against Yahoo Inc if he pledged not
to sell the company for less than $33 a share, Legg Mason
portfolio manager Bill Miller said on Tuesday.
