AFP - Malaysian authorities have arrested a second blogger, this time for displaying an upside down national flag on his website, according to a report Thursday.
AFP - An appeals court in southern Morocco annulled Thursday a two-year jail sentence against blogger Mohamed Erraji, accused of lacking respect for King Mohammed VI in his Internet writings.
AFP - The Finnish government said Thursday it would offer high-speed broadband connections to nearly all Finns by the end of 2015 in a bid to boost productivity, paying up to a third of the cost.
InfoWorld - Extensibility is a key focus for Microsoft in the planned "Visual Studio 10" upgrade to the company's software development environment, a blog post revealed this week. -- read full article
PC Magazine - The personal e-mail account of Republican vice presidential hopeful Gov. Sarah Palin was hacked this week by an activist group known as 'anonymous', according to a Web site that publishes leaked documents alleging government and corporate misconduct. -- read full article
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