Peer-to-peer charges net prison term

10-28-2006 • AP

A network administrator for a peer-to-peer Internet file-sharing system has been sentenced to five months in prison for copyright infringement.

U.S. control of Internet remains touchy

10-28-2006 • AP

ATHENS, Greece - An international dispute over U.S. control of the Internet appears unlikely to be resolved even as state envoys, regulators and technology experts convene next week to discuss the network's future.

Must-Have Browser Upgrades

10-28-2006 • By Rob Pegoraro - Washington Post

Your view of the Web is in for a change -- in some cases, whether you like it or not.

A Tale of Two Web Browsers

10-26-2006 • Wired

In the last 2 years, the web has gone through a truly vibrant period of innovation. We've seen advancements in file sharing, social networks and rich media presentation, as well as the proliferation of Ajax and full-fledged applicatioins that ru

China moves toward compelled "real name system" for blogs

10-24-2006 • Reuters

The Internet Society of China has recommended to the government that bloggers be required to use their real names when they register blogs, state media said, in the latest attempt to regulate free-wheeling Web content.

Court refuses to protect spam from filters

10-21-2006 • Raw Story

A judge has ruled in favor of The Spamhaus Project, a spam-tracking website that an e-mail marketing company was trying to take offline, National Journal's 'Technology Daily' reports.

Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules

10-19-2006 • London Times (kudos Charles H.)

Fear the directive would hit amateur “video bloggers” who post material on their own sites. Personal websites would have to be licensed as a “television-like service”. Purpose is to set standards on advertising, hate speech and protect children.

Web could be terror training camp: Chertoff

10-17-2006 • Reuters

Disaffected people living in the US may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major US security threat, US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said.

Port Security equals Internet Gambling?

10-15-2006 • AFP

Bush signed a law designed to bolster security at US ports and prevent terrorists from smuggling in nuclear weapons. The law also included an unrelated provision inserted by lawmakers in Congress to severely restrict internet gambling,

Facial recognition photo search engine web site

10-10-2006 • LiveScience.com

Polar Rose is a new search engine now being tested that will allow you to find anyone in any photo on any site. Type in the name of a person you know, and find pictures of that person all over the web, on sites like MySpace or blog pages using face-r

Will Google Pay for YouTube Infringements?

10-11-2006 • PC magazine

It's no secret that YouTube is chock full of copyright infringements and has exerted some effort to deal with the issue. But now the problem is all Google's. "Now those same content owners' lawyers will take aim at Google's cash.

Google gobbles up YouTube

10-09-2006 • Chad Hurley, 29, right, and Steven Chen, 27

The deal combines two of the most popular internet brands: Google, synonymous with web search and rapid innovation, and YouTube, a Silicon Valley upstart that has spearheaded the video-sharing craze.

Courts are asked to crack down on bloggers, websites

10-4-2006 • USA Today

Rafe Banks, a lawyer in Georgia, got involved in a nasty dispute with a client over how to defend him on a drunken-driving charge. The client, David Milum, fired Banks and demanded that the lawyer refund a $3,000 fee. Banks refused.

Online gaming in crisis over U.S. ban

10-3-2006 • Reuters

Online gambling firms faced their biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress passed legislation to end Internet gaming there, threatening jobs and wiping 3.5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) off company values.

Internet freedom reigns in Amsterdam

10-3-2006 • Reuters

Amsterdam has the world's busiest Internet exchange, thanks to nuclear physicists and mathematicians who in the 1980s connected their network needs with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be free.