CNET - Google co-founder Sergey Brin launched his personal blog on Thursday with some sobering news: he carries a particular genetic mutation that means he's much more likely than average to get Parkinson's disease.
AFP - A non-profit Internet rights group on Thursday filed a lawsuit against President George W. Bush and others in his administration for the "massively illegal" surveillance of emails and telephone calls without court warrants.
Reuters - Amid the week's financial-sector chaos
in the United States and wildly gyrating stock prices, a
Canadian chartered bank has started an Internet version to
gather new deposits outside its traditional business area. -- read full article
Reuters - Google Inc extended an already
wide lead in the U.S. Web search to 63.0 percent share of the
market in August, its biggest monthly gain in five months, a
report said on Thursday.
Reuters - Lionsgate has set up
shop on YouTube. The studio quietly introduced a new branded
channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/LionsgateShop) on the
popular video site this week, with dozens of clips from its
library linked to DVD and download-to-own film opportunities.
The site is an outgrowth of an ad revenue deal signed by
Lionsgate and YouTube's Google parent in July. -- read full article
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.
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.
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.
CNET - Clarification at 8 a.m. PDT: The Amazon.com Web services blog posting was not written by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels. He wrote a related blog on the subject. -- read full article
Reuters - A Moroccan appeals court on Thursday
cancelled a two-year jail sentence given to a local blogger for
disparaging King Mohammed and the royal family, court officials
and lawyers said.
AFP - A regional video game expo opened Thursday here on a positive note despite global financial turmoil, with industry players predicting online titles will generate robust growth in coming years.
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.
