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There are some 31 million households in the United States without Internet access, and almost half them don't care a jot about it. Twenty-nine percent of U.S. households don't have Internet access and don't plan to get it in the next 12 months, according to a study released this week by Parks Associ...
President George Bush cited the observations of two Iraqi bloggers who have been making positive posts about the changing situation in Baghdad as evidence that U.S. activities there are finally having the intended effect. "Displaced families are returning home, marketplaces are seeing more activity,...
Microsoft unveiled a new mobile Web browser designed to make navigating the Internet on wireless devices as easy and clear as surfing on a PC. The new browser, dubbed Deepfish, is the latest entry in the growing mobile browser wars designed for delivering content such as Web pages to Windows Mobile ...
Seattle-based start-up ZenZui, which is funded by Microsoft's technology research arm IP Ventures, has started licensing a new "zoomable user interface" aimed at improving Web access via mobile devices. When running on a mobile phone screen, ZenZui displays Web content as tiles, initially showing on...
Last week Apple TV launched, and it appears Apple is following a similar script to what made the iPod a success -- but will it work this time? With the U.S. primaries coming up, and the incredibly well done remake of the famous 1984 Apple Ad playing a big role, I thought it would be good to remind y...
The industry-rocking news that NBC and News Corp. plan to start their own video broadcasting Internet site -- which will include partnerships with AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo, not to mention Fox, which is owned by News Corp. -- has the potential to radically reshape the online video world. The yet-t...
The popularity of social networking sites like MySpace and user-generated content sites like YouTube are inducing traditional news organizations to rethink their approach to the Web. Outfits like Fox News, CNN, USA Today and MSNBC have begun to incorporate social networking tools into their sites, a...
Telecommunications giant AT&T is betting $4.6 billion that there is a big future in selling video services over the Internet. The San Antonio-based company will offer its own version of cable television and high-speed Internet services under its "U-verse" brand. U-verse OnTheGo is a premium serv...
Roughly two weeks and 2 million viewings since the controversial "Hillary 1984" video was posted on YouTube, its maker has stepped forward: It's Phil de Vellis, an Internet professional, and he's "proud of it." In a post on the Huffington Post Web site on Wednesday afternoon, de Vellis -- a strategi...
Vowing to play a "powerful role" in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, MySpace.com has introduced a portal featuring candidate-created profiles as well as voter-registration tools, job listings, videos, "friends" pages and other political content. MySpace expects the new portal, dubbed "The Impact...
After promising to maintain a civilized tone, Sen. Barack Obama has sent a shot across the bow of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign in an advertisement for his 2008 bid for the presidency now appearing on YouTube. Or did he? The video -- a biting commentary on Clinton's presumed frontrunner status for...
Delivery of television programming over computer networks using Internet protocols showed signs of a maturing market this week when nine major players supporting the technology announced the formation of a consortium to develop important standards for it. AT&T, Ericsson, France Telecom, Panasoni...
A pair of hackers has threatened to engage in a self-described "attention-seeking ploy" next month by exposing security holes in social networking Web site MySpace. The duo, who call themselves "Mondo Armando" and "Mustachio," say they will launch attacks against the popular Web site each day in the...
Making good on its promises to expand Flickr into other languages, Yahoo said Friday that it plans to launch a Chinese language version of the photo-sharing service later this year. The site will initially target Hong Kong users, according to reports, extending to Taiwan after that. It will reported...
As Web access becomes more streamlined and efficient, the Internet -- free-floating and nonrestrictive by nature -- may gradually render the traditional office obsolete. Bye-bye cubicles and water coolers. The big mama of Internet connectivity, Google enables searches of the entire globe. It joins m...
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