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Less than two weeks have passed since Viacom demanded that YouTube take down 100,000 clips of its copyrighted content. Yet, the media giant is now providing Joost with basically the same content through an agreement announced Tuesday. Neither Joost nor Viacom is revealing financial details about the...
A Texas judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who allegedly was assaulted by a man she met through the social networking Web site MySpace. Part of the case was dismissed with prejudice, a decision that will likely be appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court, according to...
To outsiders, it may often seem that video gamers live in a world of their own. That perception will soon come closer to reality following the announcement Monday that Richard Branson's Virgin Games division has partnered with Game Domain International to form a new PC game download service, "A Worl...
What do liberal House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Christian Coalition have in common? No, it's not a penchant for government-funded jet rides -- it's a misguided belief about Net neutrality. The net neutrality debate is basically a question of whether or not broadband service providers can manage ...
Hackers on Tuesday launched a denial-of-service attack against at least three of the 13 root servers that maintain the Internet's domain name system. The attacks, which lasted for 12 hours, reportedly targeted the server that maintains the dot-org suffix, and the servers at the Department of Defense...
Vodafone has signed an exclusive partnership deal with social networking Web site MySpace, allowing its customers to access and update their MySpace pages from their mobile phones, according to the telecom giant. The deal is expected to help Vodafone, Europe's biggest mobile operator, boost mobile u...
If hours of prerecorded TV content aren't enough for TiVo subscribers, Amazon will offer a solution. The digital video recorder pioneer and the super-sized online retailer announced their new "Amazon Unbox on TiVo" service Wednesday. For Amazon, the joint venture provides a captive audience more tha...
As part of Safer Internet Day, which is being celebrated Tuesday in 40 countries around the world, a group of more than a dozen European mobile phone companies joined together in Brussels, Belgium, to sign an agreement to help make mobile phones safer for children. By signing the European Framework ...
The number of kids viewing online pornography is increasing, with one in four reporting they've at least caught a glimpse of X-rated material on the Internet, and two-thirds of those said the images were uninvited, according to a University of New Hampshire study published Monday. Forty-two percent ...
The idea of students entering a virtual classroom and holding electronic rather than face-to-face meetings has become quite accepted at the collegiate level. The model is now making its way into the K-12 market, mainly as a supplemental educational option. "The initial resistance to online education...
Overall holiday sales for 2006 -- including both online transactions and sales at brick-and-mortar stores -- showed an increase of 4.4 percent over 2005, according to the National Retail Federation. Quarterly growth in 2006 online sales ran in the double digits, and Internet sales are expected to co...
Most people have heard about the Nintendo Wii Remote, which some avid gamers have allowed to slip out of their sweaty hands and fly into their high-priced big-screen televisions, cracking glass and becoming the catalyst for news stories around the world. In addition to making the news with its Wii v...
The number of Internet users in China increased more than 23 percent in 2006, topping out at 137 million with an estimated 104 million of those having some level of access to a broadband connection. The China Internet Network Information Center, a government agency that has been tracking online usag...
Google is reportedly working on a platform to allow users to download the entire content of books in a format that they could read on their computers or maybe even mobile devices. Google officials confirm that the company is continuing to work on online access, but assert that they have not announce...
In the competitive world of digital music download services, Ruckus Network upped the ante by announcing it is offering free music downloads to any college student. The Herndon, Va.-based company gets its revenue from selling advertising instead of charging users to download files. Under the new sys...
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