A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Friday would create a national database of child pornography images — both real and “cartoon” — and require Internet service providers to monitor traffic and report such images to authorities. Under the bill, ISPs that find such images on their networks would have to make a detailed […]

New attacks against 3 of the 13 core “root servers” (backbone of the Internet) went on as long as 12 hours. But the attacks “passed largely unnoticed by most computer users.” Wired AP is also saying this is “one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.” As TechDirt tells us, “Nearly five […]

Vodafone customers in key European markets will get YouTube content directly from Vodafone live! on their mobile phones. The agreement states that YouTube will provide a selection of new videos on a daily basis especially for Vodafone customers. But that’s not the best part; users can upload their own videos from their mobile phones onto […]

Disney has seen its films downloaded over 1.3 million times since placing some of them for sale on Apple’s iTunes Store in October, chief executive Bob Iger said in an interview on FT.com, the website of the Financial Times. Other studios have been reluctant to follow, as retailers including Target have expressed concerns about the […]

Today at the DEMO 07 conference, TeleFlip introduced its technology that allows all mobile phones to receive e-mails, calendar alerts and online content feeds without any new software or application downloads. TeleFlip uses a patent-pending technology to allow all mobile phones to receive emails, calendar alerts, and online content such as news, weather, and sports. […]

The tech-savvy country of Sweden on Tuesday revealed plans to be the first country to open an embassy in the much talked about virtual world Second Life. “It will have answers to questions on all aspects of Sweden,” Olle Wastberg, general director of the Swedish Institute, an organization which promotes the country’s image abroad. The […]

Fifty-seven percent of U.S. teachers use Internet-based news in the classroom, while only 28% use daily newspapers, according to a survey conducted by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education. The fall 2006 survey of 1,262 teachers of grades 5-12 also noted that 31% of teachers are using national TV news, and […]

Two months after closing its $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, Google said on Thursday (January 24, 2007) that it plans to continue operating the popular video sharing site as a separate business, while also integrating it somewhat with its Google Video site. Beginning Thursday, users of Google Video will find search results that include YouTube […]

Napster announced on Thursday that its Napster Mobile music service has launched with au/KDDI, the second-largest wireless carrier in Japan with over 20 million subscribers. Subscribers will pay about $3 a month for the service, plus additional fees for over-the-air downloads of full-length songs and ringtones. Napster said its mobile service is now available to […]

Shares of Yahoo rose more than 7% on Wednesday after the Internet giant announced plans to launch new ad search technology that the company hopes will help it close its revenue gap with rival Google. The new system, code named Panama, will debut on Feb. 5. It will rank all of Yahoo’s search marketing ads […]

Baidu, the leading search engine in China, has won a license from the Chinese government to provide original news reports on its website, Reuters reported, citing government and industry sources. “A news license is a rare resource to Internet companies in China. So far only very few Web sites are allowed to report news legally […]

Global digital music sales nearly doubled in 2006, to $2 billion, and now account for 10% of the music market — but have not yet become the “holy grail” that will compensate the industry for slumping CD sales, according to a report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a record label trade […]

Ruckus Network, a provider of legal campus media download services, announced on Thursday an agreement with Merit Network, which provides broadband access in Michigan colleges, to offer the Ruckus service for free to Michigan college students. Virginia-based Ruckus provides its multimedia download service, which features a library of more than 2.1 million songs and videos, […]

The founders of Skype, who pioneered free voice over Internet phone calls using computers, are hoping to repeat the phenomenon with a broadband TV service. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis - who also established the music-sharing site Kazaa - came out of stealth mode Tuesday (Jan. 16) with what was formerly known as the ‘Venice […]

You can’t buy any Beatles songs on iTunes at the moment: they’re the last big band to hold out, mainly due to their Apple label’s lawsuit with, er, Apple. However, that could be about to change, with strong rumours that Apple may be planning a Beatley announcement at next month’s Superbowl. The Toronto Sun is […]