Archive for April 12th, 2009

Bild publisher wants websites to pay for news (Financial Times)

One of Europe’s largest newspaper publishers has lent its voice to the call for internet news aggregators such as Google to pay for using copyright material.

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Real-time updates open frontier for websites (Financial Times)

Online social networking services are attracting millions of new users seeking faster “real-time” functionality – in a trend that is leaving established players, such as Google and Microsoft , behind.

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

New chapter begins for book downloads (Financial Times)

A small Oxford-based company is preparing for a full “iTunes-style” service to download digital books in the summer in preparation to take on US internet leaders Amazon and Google.

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Strange News, Politics, Sport, and Celebrity on the Anorak (Anorak)

Only a loon would not think it good news that missing persons were found, preferably alive and well. But why these two? Does the Bishop write his sermon on Google News in mind?

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Making a PBX ‘botnet’ out of Skype or Google Voice? (Macworld UK)

Flaws in popular Internet-based telephony systems could be exploited to create a network of hacked phone accounts, somewhat like the botnets that have been wreaking havoc with PCs for the past few years.

Sunday, April 12th, 2009