Reuters - Armed with the world's fastest Internet
and an even stronger desire to learn English, South Koreans are
using the latest Web resources to master a language that is the
economic and emotional focus of their education.
CNET - It appears that nearly 2 million people in the United States downloaded Google's new Chrome Web browser in its first week of availability, Nielsen Online said Wednesday.
Reuters - Google Inc plans to
move ahead with Yahoo Inc in implementing its advertising
search deal and believes that rival Microsoft is behind plans
to derail the deal, top executives of the Internet search
leader said on Wednesday. -- read full article
AFP - Internet titan Google and technology colossus General Electric said Wednesday they are joining forces to promote a "smart" US electric power grid and clean energy.
CNET - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Despite increasing scrutiny from regulators, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt showed no signs of being deterred from its plan to put into effect its search-ad deal with Yahoo less than a month from now. -- read full article
Reuters - The first mobile phone to use Google
Inc's Android mobile operating software will cost $199, the
Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Wednesday.
Reuters - Fed up with an almost constant diet of
bad news about quality and safety problems, some Chinese are
taking out their frustrations with biting jokes on the Internet
about the seemingly never-ending scandals. -- read full article
Reuters - A dispute over U.S. enforcement
actions against European Union online gambling companies could
be headed to the World Trade Organization soon, an European
industry group said on Wednesday.
AP - Google Inc.'s chief executive said Wednesday the Internet search leader won't delay its proposed advertising partnership with rival Yahoo Inc. even if government regulators need more time to assess whether the alliance will diminish competition. -- read full article
AFP - Internet giants Google and Microsoft have pulled adverts for sex selection products and other services considered illegal in India after being threatened with legal action, activists said Thursday.
Reuters - Yahoo Inc is moving ahead
on Thursday with a radical redesign of its home page -- the
most heavily trafficked site on the Web -- making changes that
give users a personalized view of the wider Web.
AFP - The Internet got smarter this week with the release of a semantic map that teaches computers the meanings behind words -- and gives the machines a vocabulary far larger than that of a typical US college graduate.
AFP - An Australian company on Thursday launched a free tool it says offers web browsers a world-first opportunity to view the Internet in three dimensions.
AFP - YouTube is being flooded with mocking videos by Sarah Palin imitators, attracting millions of viewers and triggering stormy online debate between the aspiring vice president's fans and critics.
