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...
INDIANAPOLIS Bloggers would "probably not" be considered journalists under the proposed federal shield law, the bill's co-sponsor, U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar (R.-Ind.), told the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) Monday afternoon. Lugar emphasized, however, that debate is not yet closed on how to define a journalist under the proposed law. "As to who is a reporter, this will be a subject of...
Bruised by earlier failures to embrace new technologies, big media companies are rushing into the two-year-old field of podcasting -- audio programs for downloading onto computers or portable music players. The high-stakes goal: grab young listeners, even at the risk of cannibalizing existing audiences or wasting time and money on a technology that may never go mainstream. Radio giant Clear...
Yahoo has formally made its entry into the online content space in India. The Internet giant has launched its cricket channel on Yahoo India with cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar so far being the sole columnist providing original content. In a country where cricket is nothing short of a religion, many online experts are seeing it as a late entry. More so, since Yahoo already has a cricket...
PHOENIX--It could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt predicted on Saturday at the Association of National Advertisers annual conference here. "We did a math exercise and the answer was 300 years," Schmidt said in response to an audience question asking for a projection of how long the company's mission will take. "The...
Google launched a test version of a new service on Friday that gathers reports from syndicated news sites and blogs across the Web. The program, called Google Reader, aggregates news and updates from selected sites. It lets users subscribe to material from the sites and create a reading list that they can sort and organize. Users can post news items to their blogs or send them to friends via e...
TOKYO, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Using newspaper articles on the Internet without permission is against the law, or so a Japanese court officially ruled Thursday. That finding may well have long-term consequences on how the news is distributed on the World Wide Web. The case against Digital Alliance, a small Web provider, was brought forward by the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's most widely-read newspaper, which...
Urban Indian net users are increasingly using digital means of entertainment and aspiring to upgrade to a lifestyle that is digitally driven. Not without reason, for consumers now do not buy products or brands � they buy lifestyles, asserts a report of Internet users in the country's urban areas. The digital way of life is increasingly dominating Net users’ choice of spending time at home. Net...
