NBC to Stream Olympics Live on Web

"NEW YORK Olympics fans will have a bevy of opportunities to get content from NBC Universal next month -- 2,200 hours of live online coverage, live events on their mobile phone and even a way to download coverage...

Yahoo Music Offers Refunds for Taking Music

Well, it looks like those people who bought and use Yahoo's online music service won't be completely screwed - Yahoo is offering a refund. While this doesn't quite answer the question of what will happen to legally-owned music they've already paid for on the service and want...

Rogers Customers Get Ad-Laden 404 Sites

If you're a rogers customer and you misspell the website you're looking for, you'll be sent to a page with advertisements instead of the normal '404 Not found' error. This has got plenty of customers upset, as...

To RSS or not to RSS? That is the Beijing 2008 online content question

"With so many websites - including this one - out to capitalize on the spike of global interest surrounding the Olympic Games an interesting divide has developed in the way publishers are approaching the RSS feed. Do RSS feeds promote a site across the web, or do they provide...

Chinese YouTube 56.com Returns To Living

This is something that lots of people will be watching closely as the Olympics get closer."Either 56.com cleared up its "system maintenance" issue or the Chinese government decided not to crush it completely. As promised just yesterday, the site is back online, following a...

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Viewzi Visual Search Engine come online

Viewzi is a new visual search engine that attempts to deliver a fun and interactive way to find online content. Recently out of beta (although the Web site still displays the beta tag), Viewzi focuses on the user experience by offering different "views" to organize the...

High School Hackers Face Serious Jail Time

Yes, Ferris Bueller did it first, but that doesn't make it right. Meanwhile, anyone entrusted with easily-accessible sensitive info shoudl be changing password info with some regularity." Omar Khan, 18, a student...

AP to Charge for 5 Word Quotations

I woke up this morning thinking about the AP's move to establish "quotation guidelines" for bloggers, but came into the office only to discover that it's already happened! And, if you can wrap your mind around...

Man: You can't leave - There's Housework Left!

" ROME (Reuters) - An Italian man was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from a pub, taking her home and forcing her to iron his clothes and wash the dishes, police said...

'Internet Metering' Might Hit Major US Providers

Internet metering - that is, throttling of users based on what kind of data someone downloads or how much of it - might become a normal part of internet life, says a column in the New York Times. Comcast, AT&T...

Bollywood gone too far?

"Is the new era of Bollywood films (Indian cinema) now going to far with the way it portrays scenes of an intimate and sexual nature? Many films seem to be veering towards the Hollywood approach of sexual content....

Net providers say no to child porn sites

Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable have all agreed to block access to Internet bulletin boards and Web sites across America that have any dealings with child pornography.I think this is a great idea, and hope...

Coal plant: Rainbow Warrior ‘dumped sewage in Tayabas Bay’

" An official of Team Energy’s (TE) coal-fired power plant in Pagbilao town has accused the international environment organization Greenpeace of dumping sewage with high coliform content into Tayabas Bay during its three-day protest there last month.But Greenpeace quickly...

Canada becoming cut off from world culture

I grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era.   During that time there was a cultural boycott of goods entering the country.  In other words, any cultural product that wasn't produced in South...

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