How Private Is Private Data Going to Be After the Viacom-Google Lawsuit?
Judge Louis Stanton ordered Google to hand over the user log data of its YouTube website to Viacom, in a lawsuit that the entertainment company has filed against the search giant asking $1 billion for infringed intellectual property.Viacom declared that YouTube hosts a lot of its copyrighted shows, and that users can see them for free,...

How Private Is Private Data Going to Be After the Viacom-Google Lawsuit?

Comcast Faces Sanctions for Its Traffic Management Practices
The Federal Communications Commission might sanction Comcast for blocking traffic in what is supposed to be an arbitrary manner. The complaint was filed to the commission at the end of 2007 by the consumer group Free Press, which said that the internet service provider was blocking some users’ access to some peer2peer applications among...

Comcast Faces Sanctions for Its Traffic Management Practices

Me.dium’s New Approach to Social Search
Wednesday night, in-browser social network Me.dium took the next step in developing its service as it launched a new social search tool. The new system, called Crowd Rank, combines regular Yahoo results with separately obtained social ones, taken from Me.dium users. According to David Mandell, Me.dium founder, the novelty of Wednesday’s...

Me.dium’s New Approach to Social Search

Google Goes Lively
On Tuesday, Google launched the beta version of its online tool called Lively. The application can be used for creating personalized 3D social spaces on various websites. According to Niniane Wang, Engineering Manager at Google, Lively enables users to put together their very own characters (avatars) and to create rooms, that can later...

Google Goes Lively

MobileMe Is One Day Away
The new service from Apple, called MobileMe, is set to be launched this week, right before the Friday release of the 3G iPhone. This means .Mac subscribers won’t be able to access the service for six hours on Wednesday, July 9, as the company will be making the transition.www.mac.com will become unavailable between 6 pm and 12 am PDT;...

MobileMe Is One Day Away

Digg Launches Recommendation Engine
The social news website Digg has finally announced it would be rolling out its Recommendation Engine later on this week.Digg.com has become a very important web site because of its goal and means: every user is allowed to submit news stories, which can then be promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. It started out...

Digg Launches Recommendation Engine

Google And "Family Guy" Creator Work On New Animated Series Project
According to The New York Times, Google is working alongside Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, in order to produce a new animated series that would be distributed online through the former’s advertising system (AdSense).AdSense is to be used for syndicating the program (Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy) to numerous...

Google And "Family Guy" Creator Work On New Animated Series Project

DBC Goes Into WiMax
On Monday, Alvarion Ltd., the largest WiMax and wireless broadband solutions provider in the world, announced the official commercial release of the Mobile WiMax Internet service by DigitalBridge Communications (DBC). The network is already operational in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area. As the region is highly attractive to tourists all...

DBC Goes Into WiMax

Chrysler To Add In-Car Wi-Fi Internet Access
As the Internet has become accessible pretty much anywhere nowadays and surfing the web inside a coffee shop for instance, is now part of everyday life, Chrysler is getting ready to take things to the next level. As if listening to music, watching DVDs and talking on the phone wasn’t distracting enough, the company is planning to...

Chrysler To Add In-Car Wi-Fi Internet Access

T-Mobile Launches T-Mobile@Home
On Wednesday, T-Mobile USA, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany, announced its plans to launch a new phone service it calls T-Mobile@Home later on this month. Subscribers will be given the chance to try out the Internet-based service for a monthly fee of $10. However, in order to gain access to T-Mobile@Home,...

T-Mobile Launches T-Mobile@Home
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