|
|
|
|
www.securityfocus.com
--
How did a mediagenic hacker like Adrian Lamo get himself bumped last week from a scheduled appearance on the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw?
Perhaps with his impromptu on-camera intrusion into the peacock network's own computers.
The vagabond hack..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
Video advertising has started on the YouTube website, its owner - internet giant Google - has confirmed.
Google said it had designed the way the adverts work on the video-sharing website to be as unobtrusive and undisruptive as possible.
The adverts..
Read More
|
|
|
Los Angeles Times
--
A 32-year-old Bonita man pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to posting a threat against San Diego State University students on his website. The threat was posted in the wake of the killings at Virginia Tech.
Cristobal Fernando Gonzalez said the..
Read More
|
|
|
Los Angeles Times
--
Google Inc. won the dismissal of a website's lawsuit that accused the company of securing a monopoly and defamation.
The lawsuit was the second effort by KinderStart.com, a Norwalk-based directory of links to child care products and services, to sue Go..
Read More
|
|
|
Los Angeles Times
--
LAST WEEK, I joined a team of attorneys suing Google over the YouTube video-sharing website it owns. The decision to join the fight was a tough one for me because, like many people, I am excited by the promise of user-generated video. I like the idea of a..
Read More
|
|
|
CNET
--
The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned...
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube, the web's most popular video sharing website, owned by Google.
Three YouTube channels - one for news and two for entertainment - will showcase short clips of BBC content.
The BBC hopes that the deal wi..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US.
Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
Advertising will appear on the BBC News website for users outside the UK, the corporation's commercial arm says.
BBC Worldwide says advertising will generate new income for the BBC, which needs to plug a �2bn budget shortfall.
The BBC argues that..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
In Rainbows, the seventh studio album by alternative rock group Radiohead, has become available for download from their official website.
The band have let fans decide what to pay for the 10 MP3 files - from nothing to �100.
But they have refused..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
The future of a website which details all the mobile phone masts in the UK is in doubt following a row over divulging "commercially sensitive" information.
The Sitefinder website is maintained by media regulator Ofcom, following a request from the gove..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm.
A computer program was used to access the employers' section of the website using stolen log-in credentials...
Read More
|
|
|
Los Angeles Times
--
Warner Music Group Corp. said Thursday that it had settled its copyright infringement lawsuit against the social-networking website Imeem by agreeing to license its music and video content to the site for a slice of its ad revenue.
Financial details of..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
Jerry Yang has made his first move as chief executive of Yahoo, buying the college sports website Rivals.com for an undisclosed sum.
Mr Yang took over Yahoo this week after the abrupt exit of predecessor Terry Semel, raising question marks over the int..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
Amnesty International has warned that the internet "could change beyond all recognition" unless action is taken against the erosion of online freedoms.
The warning comes ahead of a conference organised by Amnesty, where victims of repression will outli..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
The BBC News website has picked up two awards at the internet's most glamorous night of the year.
The site won Webbys for Best News Website and the People's Choice Award for online news sites for the third year running.
The BBC's Radio 1 website als..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
Social music site Last.fm has been bought by US media giant CBS Corporation for $280m (£140m), the largest-ever UK Web 2.0 acquisition.
The online network was founded in the UK five years ago and it now has more than 15 million active users.
It all..
Read More
|
|
|
BBC News
--
Social networking website MySpace has agreed to provide police with information about convicted US sex offenders, removed from its service.
The site's owner - News Corp - had previously been criticised for refusing a request from eight US states to div..
Read More
|
|
|
Los Angeles Times
--
LAST WEEK, I joined a team of attorneys suing Google over the YouTube video-sharing website it owns. The decision to join the fight was a tough one for me because, like many people, I am excited by the promise of user-generated video. I like the idea of a..
Read More
|
|
|
Yahoo News
--
A Turkish court ordered access to YouTube's Web site blocked on Wednesday, after a prosecutor recommended the ban because of videos allegedly insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Paul Doany, head of Turk Telekom, Turkey's larg..
Read More
|
|
