TechWeb - InformationWeek - Analysts credit the iPhone's required data plan for driving European iPhone users to the mobile Web and say the faster 3G network should push usage even higher. -- read full article
NewsFactor - In what may be an early test of enforcing open-access rules for the Internet, the head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that he will seek to have Comcast punished for violating openness guarantees. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The total database market grew at a rate of 12.6% in 2007 and hit $18.8 billion, compared with $16.7 billion the year before, says IDC. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Atul Malhotra is scheduled to be sentenced in October and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release. -- read full article
PC World - Nokia quietly rolled out a new service on Ovi, its online services site, as it continues to face competition from better-known... -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Web monitoring firm Pingdom says Windows Update was up 100% of the time in the second quarter, Apple's Software Update was up 99.9% of the time, and Ubuntu was up 98.64% of the time. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Washington Nationals will enable baseball fans with mobile phones to donate money to fight pediatric diabetes via text messaging. -- read full article
Reuters - The head of the Federal
Communications Commission said on Friday he will recommend that
the agency sanction Comcast Corp for unreasonably restricting
Internet users who share movies and other material. -- read full article
Reuters - Vintage concert performances by
such acts as Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bob Marley will soon join the
nearly 500 recordings already available for download purchase
at the music and memorabilia site Wolfgang's Vault.
PC World - Researchers at IBM's Almaden labs have developed software that lets you created slimmed-down versions of Web sites for mobile... -- read full article
Reuters - Professionals and amateurs alike
will have the chance to remix the third single from Mariah
Carey's platinum-plus album "E=MC2" via a contest hosted on a
startup social network Web site for musicians, Billboard has
learned.
AP - A recommendation to punish Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic should serve as a warning to other service providers, the nation's top telecommunications regulator said Friday.
AP - Google Inc. backs Yahoo in its effort to stave off an unsolicited takeover by Microsoft Corp. because an independent Yahoo will increase competition in the Internet search and advertising markets, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said here Thursday.
USATODAY.com - Apple CEO Steve Jobs expected to launch his App Store - the online venue for third-party iPhone and iPod Touch applications - with 200 software offerings; he ended up with more than 500. -- read full article
