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China Moves to Restrict Online Video Sites

Jan 3, 2008 3:01 PM CST

China Moves to Restrict Online Video Sites

Impact of laws, slated to take effect Jan. 31, remains unclear

(Newser) - China appears set to clamp down on online video sites with a new set of regulations that restricts content and organization, the Wall Street Journal reports. The regulations, to take effect Jan. 31, require sites broadcasting online video to be owned or controlled by the state, and to censor and...

NetFlix Box Will Bring Web Movies to TV

Jan 3, 2008 4:24 AM CST

NetFlix Box Will Bring Web Movies to TV

DVD firm teams up with LG Electronics to make stream-to-set device

(Newser) - DVD rental company NetFlix is teaming up with LG Electronics to make a set-top box that will let customers stream movies from the web straight onto their TVs, Reuters reports. NetFlix hopes to have the device ready later this year. The deal looks set to make the crowded web video...

Dem Donations Hit Record High

Jan 1, 2008 3:48 PM CST

Dem Donations Hit Record High

Clinton, Obama 2007 totals top $100M

(Newser) - The race for the presidency is crowded, but that isn't stopping candidates from raising huge sums of money, the Washington Post reports. The power of the internet to raise cash from both grassroots supporters and wealthy donors is credited with helping Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama raise over $100 million...

Survey: Minneapolis the Most Literate US City

Dec 29, 2007 6:25 AM CST

Survey: Minneapolis the Most Literate US City

Researchers looked at 69 major metropolitan areas

(Newser) - New York may be the US city with the most literary pretensions, but the nation's most literate city it's not, a new survey finds. Minneapolis takes the honors as most literate large metropolitan area in a Central Connecticut State University survey reported in LiveScience. The nine runners-up are, in order:...

NJ Curbs Web Use for Sex Offenders

Dec 28, 2007 7:56 PM CST

NJ Curbs Web Use for Sex Offenders

Law include full ban for convicts who used computers to aid crimes

(Newser) - Acting New Jersey Gov. Richard Codey yesterday approved legislation limiting access to computers and the internet for convicted sex offenders—even if they didn't use them for their crimes, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. Sex offenders on parole must now alert the state parole board regarding their access to computers, as...

AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Browser

Dec 28, 2007 7:14 PM CST

AOL Pulls Plug on Netscape Browser

Service provider throwing weight behind Mozilla, Firefox

(Newser) - AOL today announced that it will discontinue support and development of its Netscape Navigator browser, a program that first introduced many to the Internet when it launched 13 years ago. But, CNET's Stephen Shankland writes, Microsoft's Internet Explorer ate into market share for Netscape, which was bought by AOL—which...

'US Americans' Love Videos

Dec 27, 2007 2:54 PM CST

'US Americans' Love Videos

Internet phenomenon scores big in 2007

(Newser) - With small-screen stars ranging from ditzy beauty queens to potty-mouthed pint-sized landlords, Americans increasingly gathered around the YouTube watercooler in 2007. They racked up 100 billion views on various video sites, ABC News reports. Cultural commentators liken the phenomenon to cavemen swapping tall tales around campfires, but 78% of us...

New Cisco Unit First Based Abroad

Dec 26, 2007 10:10 PM CST

New Cisco Unit First Based Abroad

Will aim to wire entire cities in Middle East, China, India from Bangalore HQ

(Newser) - Dozens of new cities are to be built in China, India, and the Middle East in the coming decade and Cisco Systems wants to network them top-to-bottom, the Financial Times reports. The networking equipment giant is setting up a new business center in Bangalore, India, as part of its push...

Volunteers Put PCs
to Work for Science

Dec 25, 2007 2:44 PM CST

Volunteers Put PCs to Work for Science

'Volunteer Computing' creates quick – and cheap – supercomputers for science

(Newser) - While you sleep, your home PC can forge new worlds in science. More researchers across the nation are embracing the concept of volunteer computing—in which they harness the power of otherwise sleeping computers to speed up the mathematical grunt work of their projects, the Chicago Tribune reports. The concept...

E-Cards Spread Holiday Cheer, Viruses

Dec 24, 2007 7:44 PM CST

E-Cards Spread Holiday Cheer, Viruses

Online greeting cards rising in popularity; paper still preferred

(Newser) - Online greeting cards are all the rage this holiday season. They're mostly free, and can feature funny, interactive subjects ranging from elf tossing to reindeer arm wrestling. E-cards are also delivered instantly, an advantage for the forgetful around Christmas. But traditional cards are still the preferred way to spread holiday...

Dating Site Blasts Rival in Ads

Dec 24, 2007 12:46 PM CST

Dating Site Blasts Rival in Ads

Chemistry.com slams eHarmony over lack of gay matching services

(Newser) - Dating site Chemistry.com is again blasting rival eHarmony in an ad campaign, this time for its lack of gay matching services and links to evangelical Christian values, the New York Times reports. The ads show “eHarmony is out of sync with what is happening in America,” Chemistry....

Airplane WiFi Poses Sticky Situation

Dec 24, 2007 12:26 PM CST

Airplane WiFi Poses Sticky Situation

Crammed together passengers may not like neighbor's browsing material

(Newser) - Airlines getting ready to offer Internet access are grappling with how to enforce netiquette at 33K feet. "We think decency and good sense and normal behavior will prevail," said the CEO of one service. If it's not porn or violent images, its annoying ringtones and loud conversations that...

TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

Dec 24, 2007 9:47 AM CST

TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

NBC hopes made-for-web show can defy so-so traffic numbers

(Newser) - YouTube buzz is tough to manufacture, and so far NBC’s “Quarterlife,” the network's experiment in TV-quality production for the web, hasn’t managed. The last dozen episodes have each drawn around 100,000 views between MySpace and YouTube combined, which isn’t many eyeballs in the TV...

Aussies Censor Internet

Dec 23, 2007 11:20 PM CST

Aussies Censor Internet

New ratings system Down Under

(Newser) - Australian Internet users are getting wary about new regulations meant to keep minors away from mature content, Ars Technica reports. A stringent new ratings system to be introduced in January is meant to stop kids from accessing adult-oriented content, but critics say it will be child's play to get around,...

Standardization Stifling Change: Web Designers

Dec 20, 2007 11:56 PM CST

Standardization Stifling Change: Web Designers

W3C brokered 'browser wars' but now seen as roadblock to change

(Newser) - The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been the Web's governing body since the "Wild West" days of the mid-90s. It helped end the Netscape/Explorer "browser wars", but Web designers today are worried that the body's standards management process has slowed the pace of change down to dial-up...

Teenagers
Still Addicted
to POTS

Dec 20, 2007 7:39 PM CST

Teenagers Still Addicted to POTS

Net-loving teens use plain old telephone service the most

(Newser) - Internet use among teenagers continues to rise—93% of teens have some sort of access, and 64% contribute some kind of content on a regular basis. But, despite the proliferation of cell phones and a myriad of bleeding-edge choices, the No.1 communications tool for teens remains the land line,...

Net Makes Star of MIT Eccentric

Dec 19, 2007 8:11 PM CST

Net Makes Star of MIT Eccentric

Physics professor creates rainbows, has Net-happy acolytes in India and China

(Newser) - The latest Net sensation doesn’t defend Britney Spears or mimic the history of dance; instead he explains electrostatics, pendulums, and the conservation of energy. Walter Lewin, a 71-year-old MIT physics professor, is one of the first academic superstars of the Internet, bringing educational showmanship—say, demonstrating rockets by riding...

Feds Lag on Internet Protocol Upgrade

Dec 17, 2007 3:48 PM CST

Feds Lag on Internet Protocol Upgrade

Agencies must support IPv6, but most aren't switching

(Newser) - A deadline for US federal agencies to support an upgrade to the current Internet communications protocol, which would provide much-needed new IP addresses, is likely to come and go without much changing. Agencies' networks must be capable of running IPv6 within 6 months, but observers estimate most won't actually make...

To Thine Own Self Be Googled

Dec 17, 2007 5:23 AM CST

To Thine Own Self Be Googled

Number of adults searching themselves online doubles in three years

(Newser) - More Americans are Googling themselves, friends and dates. A Pew study found that 47% of US adult Internet users have looked up themselves using the search engine, compared with 22% in 2002. The study found 53% Googled neighbors, colleagues, or dates—often checking bankruptcy and divorce proceedings, and other public...

Yahoo VPs Dropping
Like Flies

OPINION

Dec 14, 2007 5:18 PM CST

Yahoo VPs Dropping Like Flies

And that's a good thing, argues Kara Swisher on All Things Digital

(Newser) - "This slimming down is a good idea, given Yahoo’s VP obesity," writes Kara Swisher in All Things Digital. She says it's not clear who's behind the departures of numerous execs from the notoriously top-heavy company, nor who jumped and who was pushed out. But a source called...