TechWeb - InformationWeek - Knol's means of encouragement is Google's AdSense program, which will let verified subscribers generate income from the articles they've authored. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The companies have entered into a 15-year agreement regarding wireless technology patents, and have dropped all litigation. -- read full article
PC World - Baidu, China's most popular search engine, saw year-on-year profit for the second quarter of 2008 grow by almost 87 percent. -- read full article
AP - Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said Kevin Johnson, the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations and an instrumental player in the company's failed $47.5 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc., is leaving the company. -- read full article
PC World - Microsoft has built its massive software business by watching other companies take the lead in emerging technology markets and... -- read full article
AP - With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore. -- read full article
AFP - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference..
AP - Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.
Reuters - Chinese police have arrested a
prominent Internet dissident for violating his probation terms,
a rights group said, as the country steps up a pre-Olympic
crackdown on dissent to ensure the Games go smoothly.
