NewsFactor - According to a Web report, there may be some problems with integrating the Google-led open-source mobile platform Android into devices, delaying the release of an Android phone until early next year. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:51:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
NewsFactor - Your cell phone might become your personal translator if one of the new services from Internet telephone company JaJah catches on -- a free, real-time, machine translation service. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:51:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
NewsFactor - When the executives of social-networking Web site Facebook sued a German-based business that had launched a copycat site, it was accepted as a good move -- but was Facebook just sour over an offer gone bad? -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:11:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
CNET - Yahoo on Friday released a copy of its controversial search advertising partnership agreement with Google, marking the first time details of the deal have been made publicly available. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:08:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Mediaweek.com - Disney will re-brand its Toon Disney television network and online platforms into Disney XD, which will be targeted more towards boys and “the fundamental values of accomplishment, learning, discovery and growth.” Disney XD will feature Disney-branded live action movies, animation and original programming developed with ESPN. ... -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:48:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AFP - A US military computer science professor has warned that a trend to push software into the "clouds" exacerbates privacy risks as people trust information to the Internet.
Reuters - This fall, the Independent Film
Channel will be running more music-related programming --
on-air and online -- than at any time in its 14-year history. -- read full article
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:45:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Japanese police took action against over
300 child pornography cases in the first half of 2008, up 17
percent from the same period last year, police said, a sign
both awareness and Internet sexual exploitation are rising. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:39:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Google Inc's 5 percent
stake in Time Warner Inc's AOL unit may be worth less
than the $1 billion the Web company paid for it in 2006, Google
warned in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
AP - In an assessment that could lead to a substantial charge against its future profits, Google Inc. believes its $1 billion investment in advertising partner AOL is souring.
CNET - Although NBC is holding back online video of the opening ceremonies until its TV broadcast tonight, some other sites have started posting unofficial videos. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:54:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
