The U.S. Federal Communications Commission launched a broadband test service to help consumers clock the speed of their Internet. Located at the site www.broadband.gov, the test is aimed at allowing consumers to compare their actual speeds with the speeds advertised by their providers.
The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury's verdict that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i. The verdict, which the appeals court first affirmed in December, required Microsoft to pay more than $240 million in damages and forced it to remove a feature in versions of Microsoft Word 2007 starting in January.
Pink Floyd tracks may be removed from digital music services like iTunes after a High Court ruling. Their latest record deal, signed with EMI before legal downloads came along, said individual songs must not be sold without the band's permission.
Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks. The company will route all links submitted to the site through a filter created to catch links that lead to malware, the company said.
The European Parliament took aim at a secret intellectual property treaty that has been criticized for possibly giving copyright holders more power to pull the plug on peer-to-peer users. By a remarkable vote of 633 to 13, the Parliament rebuked European negotiators who have been drafting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in a series of confidential meetings around the globe.
Ever since the disputed victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June elections led to wide-scale protests, Iran's leaders have been cracking down on the tech-savvy opposition movement with the Revolutionary Guard and police blocking millions of foreign and domestic Web sites, including some Google services, CNN and the BBC. Iran's leaders say these measures are necessary to counter efforts by the United States and other Western countries.
Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said. "I'm going to use the word 'soon', which I will not define otherwise," Schmidt told journalists at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit.
A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a ".xxx" domain name as an online red-light district where porn sites can set up shop away from the wandering eyes of children and teenagers. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the allocation of Internet addresses globally, may revive ICM Registry's bid yet again as ICANN meets this week in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
California lawmakers hunting for revenue are eyeing one source that could prove costly to millions of California consumers: Amazon.com. California is one of several cash-strapped states exploring a novel legal strategy that could force Amazon and others like it, including Overstock.com, to start collecting tax from their customers.
Google said it had reached agreement with the Italian culture ministry to scan up to a million books housed in the national libraries of Rome and Florence. "Google will cover the costs of scanning all these works and will set up a scanning centre in Italy," making them available on its Google Books website, the company said in a statement.
Rock band Pink Floyd launched a High Court action against EMI in a dispute over the calculation of online royalty payments and marketing of their music. Robert Howe QC, appearing for the group, said it partly concerned EMI's "entitlement to sell individual tracks, or indeed any tracks, otherwise than in the original configuration of the Pink Floyd albums."
A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen. But during the past decade, it has evolved into a powerful distraction.
Plans to suspend the Internet accounts of people who download music illegally are unfair, according to the head of Britain's biggest telecoms firm. British Telecom's chief executive, Ian Livingston, says illegal file-sharers should be fined rather than have their Internet accounts cut off.
The United States is studying whether it can legally challenge Chinese Internet restrictions that hurt Google and other U.S. companies operating in China, but direct talks with Beijing might yield faster results, the top U.S. trade official said. "We are still dialoguing not just with Google, but with other Internet providers, to make sure we fully understand what is happening in China," U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in remarks at the National Press Club.
Sex.com, often touted as one of the most valuable Internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block. DOM Partners LLC, a New Jersey lender that backed a 2006 purchase of the domain name for a reported $14 million, is foreclosing on the Internet property, and is due to auction it on March 18 at New York law firm Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP, according to legal notices.
Amazon.com Inc. pulled the plug on its marketing affiliates in Colorado after the state enacted a law that imposes new sales-tax regulations on online retailers. Amazon sent an email to members of its associates program, who earn a fee for providing links to the online retailer on their own Web sites.
A criminal court in Thailand has approved the extradition to the U.S. of a Malaysian man suspected of participating in credit card thefts of more than $152 million, according to a local news report. Gooi Kokseng, 44, was arrested on January 30 after being accused of causing more than 5 billion baht, or $152.9 million, in damage by accessing credit card information in the U.S. and Southeast Asia, according to The Bangkok Post.
Software that can be downloaded for use with the Energizer Duo USB battery charger contains a backdoor that could allow an attacker to remotely take control of a Windows-based PC, Energizer and US-CERT is warning.
Four of every five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right, and more than half believe it should never be regulated, according to a new survey. In a BBC World Service poll of 27,000 adults in 26 countries, 78 percent of Internet users believed the Internet is a fundamental right -- with particularly strong response in South Korea and China.
Seeking to exploit the Internet’s potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba and Sudan, a senior administration official said. He said the Treasury Department will issue a general license for the export of free personal Internet services and software geared toward the populations in all three countries, allowing Microsoft, Yahoo and other providers to get around strict export restrictions.
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