Posts Tagged with ‘reuters’

Today the New York Times announced that its TimesSelect Web service will no longer be a paid subscription. This move signals further migration by traditional media into Web 2.0 form. Now most of the Web site will be freely available to readers in what appears to be a move to gain more readers.  The TimesSelect [...]

There is so little positive news from China these days and this is particularly true with regard to Web news. Censorship, hacking, prostitution issues and a host of other maladies seem to be plaguing China and its Internet. Just today it was reported that a man dropped dead in a Chinese cyber café after playing some [...]

Sooner or later I will end up suing YouTube I just know it, but in the mean time pop star Prince is next in line. The music artist plans to sue YouTube and other major Web sites for copyright infringement for using his music. According to Prince YouTube cannot claim that they have no control over [...]

How many people online do you count as friends? Is your network on LinkedIn or Facebook extensive? As we become more and more connected perhaps we need to evaluate our digital self in relation to our physical one. Researchers are claiming that online ties, while often extensive, do not reflect any increase at all in people's [...]

Yesterday Microsoft began testing a new dashboard view for its Windows Live services. Windows users can now view new emails, blog postings; contact updates or use other Microsoft services including antivirus and spyware scans. Microsoft is attempting to further engage the over 300 million Windows Live users to compete with Google and Yahoo in the Internet [...]

Looks like a lawsuit against Google concerning the alleged encouragement of copyright infringement just became a group effort.
In addition to the two original plaintiffs in the case – England’s Premier League football organization and a music publisher by the name of Bourne & Co. - eight parties jumped onto the anti-GOOG bandwagon, stating that [...]

Apparently singles looking for matches are starting to want more mobility and freedom. According to M:Metrics, 3.6 million cell phone users in the United States made use of a mobile dating service in May 2007 alone, a number that is expected to continue to rise.
To meet this demand, online dating service Match.com is [...]

Here’s a piece of news so devoid of news yet so wonderful that we can’t help but give it a mention.
It has to do with the ongoing spat between Google and Viacom, and this time involves Google CEO Eric Schmidt. According to a Reuters report, the company’s top spokesman was having a session of Q&A [...]

Let me state right from the start that I am very, very skeptical about the veracity of the figure quoted by the organizers of this past weekend’s Live Earth event in counting the event’s audience – both online and offline. Why? Well, it’s hard to believe roughly 2 billion people visited the arenas, tuned [...]