AFP - The EU's new Europeana digital library, an online digest of Europe's cultural heritage, was forced to close temporarily on its launch Thursday after it was swamped by Internet users, a spokesman said.
AFP - Germany's family minister Ursula von der Leyen announced plans to crack down on Internet child pornography by enlisting online service providers to block offensive sites, in an interview published Thursday.
NewsFactor - Yahoo has won another wireless carrier for its mobile Internet search tool. The company joined T-Mobile in announcing Thursday that oneSearch will be the search utility for T-Mobile's web2go service. -- read full article
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:46:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
CNET - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion to the mega-popular online game, sold 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours last week, setting what its publisher said is an all-time record for PC games. -- read full article
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:08:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - Despite the bad economy, U.S. Internet advertising revenue rose in the third quarter, according to an analysis released Thursday. -- read full article
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:09:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - Shareholders of telecommunications company Clearwire Corp. have approved a plan to merge with Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless broadband network. -- read full article
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:30:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
CNET - Extended certificate validation for Web sites has boosted online confidence in 2008, according to a statement released Thursday by the Authentication and Online Trust Alliance (AOTA). -- read full article
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:30:37 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AFP - Google has bought a 75 hectare (185 acre) property in the north of Austria to erect a new European server farm within two years, the US Internet search engine giant said Thursday.
AFP - A new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, a newspaper report and users said Wednesday.
InfoWorld - Concentrating on rich Internet applications, Zend Technologies is backing Adobe's Action Message Format (AMF) in Zend Framework 1.7. -- read full article
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - Baidu.com has been the star of China's Internet world. But now the search engine dubbed "China's Google" is scrambling to rescue its reputation after state TV accused it of letting unlicensed suppliers of medical products pay for higher rankings on its results page — without alerting users. -- read full article
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:20:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AFP - PC Magazine, which has documented the explosive growth of the personal computer since 1982, is dropping its print edition next year and going online.
AFP - Japan's top carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. aims to launch next year a cellphone developed with Internet search giant Google, an official said Wednesday, a move that could counter Apple's iconic iPhone.
AFP - Global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has accused the Thai government of using strict laws protecting the monarchy from insults to suppress dissenting voices on the Internet.
