2005-2014

Around 81 per cent of Internet users in India visit online shopping sites but only 55 per cent actually buy something, a recent survey has found. As many as 93 per cent of these users, however, are aware that they can shop online. This is in the backdrop of Rs 570 crore of e-commerce being conducted online in 2004-05, which is expected to grow by 300 per cent to Rs 2,300 crore by 2006-07. The...

NEW YORK: In his final column for The Washington Post on Sunday, with his five-year tenure as ombudsman up, Michael Getler took the opportunity to once again criticize the paper, and some others, for not being skeptical enough about Bush administration claims in the run-up to the Iraq war. Getler will soon serve as ombudsman at the Public Broadcasting System. He noted that, despite certain...

Bloggers are gaining a higher profile alongside traditional news sources with Yahoo including blogs in its expanding news search system. The decision could reignite the debate over what constitutes news reporting and whether blogs are as valuable a source of news as that from professional journalists. So-called citizen journalists are increasingly dominating the headlines. User-generated content...

NEW YORK - Look out: The blogs are coming to Yahoo! Some 750,000 blogs and other user-generated content will soon show up on Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) News search pages, presented right alongside news from mainstream media. But is Yahoo! taking another big step in the blurring of lines between professional media and grassroots journalism? The company is testing a new search tool that...

The US has got an image problem when it comes to the internet. It is seen as arrogant and determined to remain the sheriff of the world wide web, regardless of whatever the rest of the world may think. It has even lost the support of the European Union. It stands alone as the divisive battle over who runs the internet heads for a showdown at a key UN summit in Tunisia next month. The stakes are...

Some 750,000 blogs and other user-generated content will soon show up on Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) News search pages, presented right alongside news from mainstream media. But is Yahoo! taking another big step in the blurring of lines between professional media and grassroots journalism? The company is testing a new search tool that includes results from thousands of mainstream media...

The first metasearch engine to be powered by the efficient fuel of RSS technology, Gada.be, went live on Monday. Gada.be strips away the multiple layers necessary to search, which is particularly painful for those attempting to visit a Web site over a mobile device. Instead of plugging in a URL for a search engine, then visiting each page in search results, visitors can merely type in their search...

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 112 countries, condemns in the strongest possible terms the severe restrictions on press freedom included in the "Ordinance Amending some of the Nepal Act related to Media, 2062," promulgated by King Gyanendra on 9 October. The ordinance will strengthen the state's legislative...

ARTICLE 19 condemns the recent promulgation of an Ordinance by King Gyanendra, which ushers in further draconian measures against an already tightly controlled media. The new ordinance constitutes yet another move towards muzzling independent voices in the country, and granting the Monarchy absolute power, a process initiated in February when the King declared a state of emergency. The Ordinance...

KATHMANDU, Oct. 10: The Ordinance Amending Some Nepal Acts Related to Communication-2062 that has been promulgated by His Majesty the King is oriented towards curtailing monopoly of the media while letting it to abide by democratic norms and values. According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, the ordinance also prohibits dissemination and broadcast of any information that is...