AFP - The Beijing Olympics were plunged into another controversy on Wednesday as China announced a backflip on Internet freedoms for the thousands of foreign reporters covering the Games.
Reuters - Internet conglomerate
IAC/InterActiveCorp posted quarterly results on Wednesday that
beat Wall Street forecasts, although charges for its online
mortgage and catalog units resulted in a net loss. -- read full article
AP - Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens has sold all of his holdings in Yahoo Inc. in a pique over the way the Internet company's management handled sales talks with Microsoft Corp.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The proliferation of user-generated content on popular Web 2.0 sites has opened the door for hackers to plant malware, says Websense report. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Industry giants Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo announced Tuesday a joint project to research large-scale cloud computing, the ability to use applications, servers, storage and other computing services on the Internet without hosting, maintaining or configuring them locally. Early cloud applications include desktop office suites, but have rapidly grown to include enterprisewide services such as storage and network management.
What's in the Cloud? -- read full article
Reuters - Internet service providers (ISPs)
Comcast Corp and United Online Inc's NetZero have agreed to
block access to child pornography, the New York Attorney
General's office said on Tuesday. -- read full article
Reuters - A fifth of U.S. television viewers are
putting down their remote controls and clicking on a mouse
instead to watch primetime programs online -- particularly
professional women, according to a new survey.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The exploit code was released July 17, two days after Oracle issued its second-quarter Critical Patch Update. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Gores Group will get a majority stake in the new venture, which will combine Siemens technology with other Gores holdings. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The 8-inch computer ships with Windows Vista, either an Intel Pentium Dual Core or Intel Core 2 Duo processor, up to 4 GB of memory, and 320 GB of storage. -- read full article
Reuters - Three tech giants --
Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo -- said on Tuesday they are
teaming up on a research project to help turn Web services into
reliable, everyday utilities.
AFP - The creators of online Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous said Tuesday they have pulled their application from US and Canadian Facebook pages due to a lawsuit filed by game-making giant Hasbro.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback claims foreign-owned hotels have been asked to install Internet monitoring equipment to spy on hotel guests during the Beijing Games. -- read full article
PC World - With the Internet increasingly taking on the role of the PC operating system and the growing prevalence of virtualization... -- read full article
