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The International Olympic Committee reportedly has ruled that competing athletes will be allowed to blog from the Beijing Olympic Games this summer. This is certainly a positive step, but not enough, according to experts who insist that blogging has a rightful place at any major political or sportin...
It's not exactly Amazon.com's business model, but Borders Group appears to be at least borrowing a page from the Web-based book and music retailer by offering digital downloads. Borders, the second-largest book retailer in the U.S., on Wednesday, announced it is opening the first of 14 new concept s...
The battle for the hearts and minds of social networkers goes on. Facebook fired the latest shot Thursday with the launch of a Spanish-language version of its site. It plans to launch French and German versions by April. Chief rival MySpace, which is much larger than Facebook, already is available i...
If you haven't already heard, the U.S. government is going digital. Exhibit A: President Bush submitted his 2009 budget proposal to Congress electronically, and he held up a tablet PC for the photogs to illustrate just how tech-savvy he is. Whoa! Slow down there, you tech-savvier-than-thou leader of...
As repair work gets under way, rumors are flying thick and fast about the cause of a series of undersea cable cuts in the Middle East in recent days. The latest is that a fifth undersea cable has been cut -- or it could be a second cut to Flag Telecom's FALCON cable near the Egyptian port of Alexand...
Millions of protesters against the outlaw Colombian group FARC gathered in more than 140 cities around the world to protest its brutal tactics and to call for the release of the estimated 3,000 hostages the group still holds. What prompted this outpouring was not a shift in the group's tactics or ev...
After Microsoft made its move to acquire Yahoo, the blog chatter started almost immediately. Initial postings hit the Web with notes of surprise before the more thoughtful ruminations started to hit, not to mention the tongue-in-cheek name-crunching that produced hypothetical monikers like -- "Micro...
Severe Internet and phone service outages hit Egypt and India Wednesday after two submarine cable communication lines were severed. Submarine cable lines are the main connection lines for Internet service providers and telephony companies. The two lines that connect Egypt sit just off the coast of A...
On Feb. 5, the MySpace Developer Platform will go live, the social networking site announced Wednesday. Software developers interested in bringing their applications to the social networking site can preregister on MySpace. "The MySpace Developer Platform will be the world's sandbox, allowing develo...
Common threads often create a trust that is virtually unbreakable. Whether based on race, sex, alumni group, hometown or affliction, the more specific these ties are, the stronger the bonds between people often become. In a sea of news sites casting wide nets to capture as many viewers as possible, ...
On Feb. 2, leading presidential candidates will have one last chance to make their pitches to young voters before Super Tuesday with the final installment of "Closing Arguments: A Presidential Super Dialogue," a presidential candidate discussion hosted by MySpace and MTV. Democratic contender Hillar...
As the television-watching world continues to suffer through re-runs and a new crop of hastily concocted reality shows, Hollywood screenwriters and producers continue their standoff. The writers say they deserve additional payments for their work. The producers say they can't afford to make those pa...
MySpace has introduced aggressive new measures to protect users -- particularly children and adolescents -- against sexual predators. Up until now, the social networking site has made incremental changes to its policies, usually in response to parental or congressional outcry. This latest set of ste...
A government Web site meant to aid travelers in removing their names from the Do Not Fly list inadvertently exposed thousands of personal data files to malicious hackers, according to a congressional report released on Friday. While the committee takes the TSA to task for failing to comply with gove...
The Internet has become a key place to get news about the upcoming presidential elections, with almost a quarter of Americans now learning about the campaigns online on a regular basis. That's one finding from a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Inte...
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