2005-2014

Google has suggested it may consider setting up an online book store. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that this would depend on permission from copyright holders. The web giant has been electronically scanning thousands of volumes and has put some online. But its plans to create an index to all the world's books have run into opposition from...

Security attacks over instant-messaging networks became more prevalent in 2005, according to a new study. Microsoft's MSN network experienced the largest number of IM security incidents in both 2004 and 2005, while year-on-year incident growth rates were largest on AOL's AIM network, according to the report, published Monday by IM security vendor FaceTime Communications. In 2005, MSN had a 57...

Bear Stearns maintained an "outperform" rating on Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) after industry data indicated that the Internet search giant increased its overseas lead on rivals Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) unit MSN. Citing data culled by comScore, Bear Stearns said Google's international market share in November rose to 71.3% from...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. has received about $300 million in promotion credits from Google Inc. as part of its previously announced deal, a top executive said on Tuesday. "Google has given us promotional dollar credits to drive traffic to the tune of about $300 million," Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner chief operating officer, told investors on Tuesday at an investors conference. AOL can...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced outrage at an abduction attempt and attack on December 29 last on Juan Manuel Otero, the son of Daniel Otero, co-producer of the Azul TV programme 'Puntodoc,' whose family, especially his son, has repeatedly been the target of violence since he exposed school canteen food shortages in the Buenos Aires suburb of Florencio Varela in September 2004. "This

COMPANIES FROM GENERAL MOTORS TO Google have corporate blogs these days, but corporations that give bloggers license to completely speak their minds remain rarities. For that reason, when Microsoft's resident blogger Robert Scoble penned a scathing critique of his boss last week for pulling the plug on a controversial Chinese Web log, the blogosphere took notice. In a post last Tuesday, Scoble...

(Thai Press Reports Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Section: General News - Fired 'Bangkok Post' editor says cousin of top TRT figure fed him information; sues for Bt13m damages and return of job, The Nation reports. A former Bangkok Post news editor on December 20 named a cousin of a government figure as the anonymous source who had told him in August about dangerous cracks in the runways at...

Jill Carroll, a freelance writer currently on assignment for The Christian Science Monitor, was abducted in western Baghdad on Saturday morning, local time. Her Iraqi interpreter was fatally wounded in the kidnapping. Her Iraqi driver escaped unharmed. At this point, no one has claimed responsibility. Jill, 28, is an established journalist who has been reporting from the Middle East for Jordanian...

After the pounding from nature the world took in 2005, our hearts were ripe for the "miners miracle" in West Virginia. We wanted to believe it. And there seemed to be ample reason to do so. Before I went to bed Tuesday night, I heard on the 11 o'clock news that 12 of the 13 miners were alive; their loved ones were euphoric. My heart went out to the family of the man who had not survived, but I...

Sometimes, even journalists want to believe in miracles. We are, after all, unfailingly human, which might help explain why we got it so wrong last week. In hindsight, there appears to be no professional excuse for the lapse in reporting that led so many television stations and newspapers to run stories declaring that 12 of the 13 men trapped in a West Virginia coal mine had been found alive. A...