Posts Tagged with ‘reuters’

Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, and Jimmy Wales has operated the multilingual virtual encyclopedia for??6 years without the first ad. If you think about this for a minute the significance of operating one of the world’s most popular web sites without a scrap of adverting for [...]

Reports out of Beijing blame the Internet for youth crime in China. Police spokesmen cited the negative influences of online pornography and violent content as a causal element in youth crime there. According to Wu Heping a spokesman for police in Beijing, recent cases involving youths show a disproportionate number to have been corrupted by [...]

Time Warner’s AOL is poised to announce production deals for new Web programming today. The new partnership will include deals with Mark Burnett (survivor), Dreamworks Animation, Madison Road, Telepictures and others. According to the story via Reuters/Yahoo! the deals will feature games based on “Shrek”, trivia games from Burnett’s “Gold Rush” and a link with the [...]

Yahoo! China just launched a new blogging and networking aspect in their continued efforts to diversify. The effort, termed "Yahoo Space" includes blogging, networking, a photo gallery and other interactive services.
In actuality Yahoo! has always been more diverse that Google, but got passed because of several factors including Google's superior search and raking capability back [...]

G-men descended on Second Life's gambling casinos at the request of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab. The FBI has not made a determination about the legality of the site's virtual gambling and the agents probably felt pretty naked without their guns and badges too. Second Life has requested review of this issue several times [...]

YouTube may be irresistible to many, but there sure is a lot of resistance to their content lately. Now Thailand's military government has blocked access to YouTube after Google refused to withdraw a video clip mocking the nation's King. In Thailand, defacing images of the King is a crime. This is not a matter for judgemental indignation [...]

Google Inc. just made a deal with U.S. TV satellite company EchoStar in an attempt to enter the TV advertising business. On Monday EchoStar and Google said they will partner to create an automated system for buying, selling, delivering and measuring TV ads on EchoStar's 125 channel Dish Network.
Google pay-per-click advertising has transformed the Internet [...]

News today from Time Inc. notes the passing of yet another icon of print media. A story from Reuters via Yahoo! News announced Life magazine will no longer grace newsstands with its photography.
We talk a good deal about traditional media coming to Web 2.0, and it is usually really good news for those of [...]

Amazon and TiVo running to grab some of the Internet video download market.
Today Amazon.com announced the launch of a new service that allows users to watch video purchased online via their TiVo set-top boxes. Announced last month as "Amazon Unbox in Tivo", this service provides the Unbox downloads to 1.5 million TiVo subscribers. Just [...]