Archives: 2011 May
Napa Valley blends wine and Internet for charity (AFP)
May 28th, 2011, No Comments
Napa Valley blends wine and Internet for charity SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Internet technology will blend with coveted vintages next week to open a premier Napa Valley wine country charity auction to the world. Oenophiles from anywhere on the globe will be able to bid in real-time against rivals at the Auction Napa Valley site [...]
Amazon Challenges Apple With New Mac App Store (NewsFactor)
May 28th, 2011, No Comments
Even before a court decides whether Amazon.com can sell apps for Android devices and call it an app store, the biggest U.S. online retailer opened a second front this week by offering downloadable software for Apple's Macintosh computers. That's a direct challenge to Apple's own Mac App Store, first announced in October at the company's [...]
Skype says some users had problems signing in (AP)
May 28th, 2011, No Comments
FILE – In this May 10, 2011 file photo, see Skype's offices in Palo Alto, California, is the exterior presented. Internet telephony service Skype, said on Friday NEW YORK – Internet telephone service Skype, said a small percentage of its 170 million users could not connect to its service, an issue he plans to fix [...]
Thailand arrests American for alleged king insult (AP)
May 28th, 2011, No Comments
Bhumibol Adulyadej BANGKOK – Thai authorities said Friday they arrested an American citizen on charges he insulted the country’s monarchy, in part by posting a link on his blog four years ago to a banned book about the Southeast Asian nation’s ailing king. The man is also suspected of translating, from English into Thai, portions [...]
First-Quarter Online Ad Revenues Set a New Record (NewsFactor)
May 28th, 2011, No Comments
Let Google rejoice and Bing and Yahoo Search hope for the best. Online advertising revenues in the U.S. alone hit $7.3 billion in the first quarter. That's a 23 percent increase over the year-ago period, according to new figures from the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. And here's something else for search engines to celebrate: [...]
Google Adds Flight Schedules to Search Results (PC Magazine)
May 28th, 2011, No Comments
It can be a little late for a Memorial Day outing, but Google has begun adding schedules for the search results. How useful is this? Without information on pricing, the number of flights that depart from a particular airport is not too informative. And that's what the new results give the number of flights departing [...]
Tunisian court orders pornographic website ban (AFP)
May 28th, 2011, No Comments
Tunisia court orders prohibiting pornographic website TUNIS (AFP) – A Tunisian court has for the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) to all pornographic websites, which was blocking the Internet for the abolition of censorship in January, told reporters on Friday. The court ordered the censorship of the X-rated sites according to a lawsuit filed last week [...]
Apple’s ‘iCloud’ Music Service Will Mirror Users’ iTunes Libraries (PC Magazine)
May 27th, 2011, No Comments
Apple cloud music service rumor has the ability to scan the user's iTunes library and a "mirror" in the cloud, says a report in BusinessWeek. It could also tell of a single song is of poor quality and instead replace it with a "better quality "track. The functions are not surprising because they are very [...]
China ‘setting up military cyber-warfare team’ (AFP)
May 27th, 2011, No Comments
China 'setting up military cyber-warfare team' BEIJING (AFP) – China's military has set up an elite Internet security task force tasked with fending off cyberattacks, state media reported on Friday, denying that the initiative is intended to create a "hacker army". The People's Liberation Army has reportedly invested tens of millions of yuan (millions of [...]
Analysis: S.Korea’s smartphone love affair lures foreign suitors (Reuters)
May 27th, 2011, No Comments
Models pose with Samsung Electronics' new smartphone Galaxy S II at the company's headquarters in Seoul SEOUL (Reuters) – The proliferation of smartphones in South Korea is transforming this former "walled garden" ruled by local players into one of Asia's most promising destinations for global Internet and social networking firms. A solid, wireless broadband infrastructure, [...]
