AP - Executives from Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are trying to advance discussions on a possible combination that could give the software maker an alternative to a deal with Yahoo Inc., a newspaper reported Wednesday. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Some developers had gamed the system by placing spaces or characters before the name of their software to achieve a higher placement on the list. -- read full article
AP - Blind people generally use computers with the help of screen-reader software, but those products can cost more than $1,000, so they're not exactly common on public PCs at libraries or Internet cafes. Now a free new Web-based program for the blind aims to improve the situation.
PC World - A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month... -- read full article
AP - Congress has asked Embarq Corp. about its work with a company that tracks online subscribers' Web traffic for advertising purposes, part of growing concern about Internet privacy. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A group in Brazil has unlocked the phone to run on other carriers' networks, and a hacker team has enabled independent apps to run on Apple's latest handset. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - The software company plans to move customers from their current agreements to the new service's pricing model of 22% of license fees by 2012. -- read full article
AFP - Sony Online Entertainment is letting comic book lovers be first to try an online videogame that lets players invent superheroes that could go on to thrash even Superman.
CNET - Cybercrime, the harvesting and sale of credit card and other data for online fraud and theft, is a "shadow economy" that mimics the real business world in its practices and the mafia in its structure, according to a new report from security firm Finjan. -- read full article
AP - EBay Inc. said Wednesday that its second-quarter profit jumped 22 percent, as the online auction company enjoyed strong growth in its e-commerce sites and its PayPal payments service.
Reuters - Three former top executives of Time
Warner Inc's AOL are backing a new online video venture being
launched on Thursday aimed at creating a new outlet for
documentary feature films, a category that has struggled to
gain mainstream attention. -- read full article
Reuters - Just what the television
industry needs, increased competition from those wacky YouTube
videos that 68 million people watch every month. -- read full article
