Reuters - New York Attorney General Andrew
Cuomo, who has pressured Internet service providers to block
access to child pornography, on Monday said his office would
pursue legal action against Comcast Cable Communications LLC if
it did not quickly agree to reforms. -- read full article
Reuters - Britain's largest pay-TV firm BSkyB is
to launch an online subscription music service and has signed
the world's largest music group Universal as its first partner,
in a deal that could challenge Apple. -- read full article
PC World - Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Mobile Internet Device editions of Linux are gearing up to compete with Windows on mini-PC devices this year. -- read full article
PC World - A Kaspersky Lab's partner Web site was defaced over the weekend but resulted in no damage, as the site was under construction... -- read full article
NewsFactor - TiVo and Amazon expanded their digital partnership Monday. The pioneers in digital video recorders and online retail have teamed up to give TiVo subscribers the ability to purchase products from Amazon.com on TV sets, using the TiVo remote control. -- read full article
Reuters - News Corp's MySpace Internet social
network will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its
users take their online identity to other sites and social
networks without having to register again.
AP - A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. -- read full article
PC World - An appeals court strikes down COPA, a U.S. law requiring Web sites with adult material to keep those sites from minors. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - There were an additional seven patches for PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards applications, seven for the recently acquired BEA product suite, and six for Oracle E-Business Suite. -- read full article
Reuters - New York Attorney General Andrew
Cuomo, who has pressured Internet service providers to block
access to child pornography, on Monday said his office would
pursue legal action against Comcast Cable Communications LLC if
it did not quickly agree to reforms. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The case stems from a 1992 licensing agreement in which Nokia obtained certain rights to Qualcomm patents. -- read full article
AP - People planning for retirement got a new tool this week: a fast and easy online estimator for their Social Security benefits. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The politically oriented DDoS attack seems to have originated from Russian hackers, according to a volunteer security watchdog organization. -- read full article
NewsFactor - According to an online community, the latest iPhone operating system 2.0 has been hacked less than a week after its release. The iPhone Dev Team, a portal for iPhone hacks, cracks and comments, announced in a blog entry that it had broken the code. -- read full article
