AP - Google Inc.'s announcement last year that it would give away software that could run cell phones was met by dizzy accolades from analysts who thought it would let the search engine company conquer the world of mobile advertising. -- read full article
Reuters - Not satisfied with regular updates of printed dictionaries compiled by professionals, a new website has thrown open the definition of words to all comers.
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 - An al Qaeda video marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks has appeared on the Internet more than a week late due to technical problems. -- read full article
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 - A Moroccan appeals court on Thursday canceled a two-year jail sentence given to a local blogger for disparaging King Mohammed and the royal family, court officials and lawyers said. -- 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. -- 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. -- read full article
Reuters - Cisco Systems Inc said on Friday it plans to buy privately held Jabber Inc, which specializes in instant messaging software, to bolster its own line of Internet-based communications products. -- read full article
CNET - Android, Google's highly anticipated mobile phone software set to launch Tuesday, and Apple's iPhone have often been mentioned in the same breath, for features they may--or may not--have in common. -- read full article
PC Magazine - srael-based Gogimon wants to change the way you search, with its new desktop app that combines results from all three major web-search engines—Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search. -- read full article
InfoWorld - The power of Web-based applications continues to burgeon as they take on the art of application building itself. In a number of online tools, the old compile-link-deploy loop disappears, and editing a Web application becomes as simple as editing a comment for Slashdot. (Notice I used the word "edit," not "program.") Just click a few times in the browser and your application is up and running. -- read full article
AP - The Washington Post is launching a new Web section linking readers to the best of political coverage — even scoops by rival newspapers. -- read full article
Reuters - Comcast Corp has provided
U.S. regulators details of how it plans to change the way it
manages Web traffic over its high speed Internet network
without blocking any applications or content.
Reuters - McAfee Inc , the world's No. 2
security software maker, said on Monday it plans to buy
Internet security company Secure Computing Corp for
$465 million in cash.
