Microsoft Gives Up Digitizing of Libraries

After digitizing 750,000 books and indexing 80 million journal articles, Microsoft announced that scanning libraries and making its contents searchable is not anymore within its company's plan for search. The company will take down two separate sites for ... continue

Member of Apocalypse Production Crew Convicted of Conspiracy

Barry Gitarts, a member of the Internet music piracy group Apocalypse Production Crew (APC), was convicted by a jury in the Eastern District of Virginia for conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. He faces up to ... continue

Floyd Mayweather Jr. Knocks Down Unauthorize Website

Floyd Mayweather Jr. carries a knockout punch. That's why his professional boxing record stands at 39-0 with 25 knockouts. He has won six world boxing championships in five weight classes. With that, why would you bother ... continue

Yahoo! Postpones Annual Meeting, Again

Embattled Yahoo is reported to be postponing its shareholder meeting from July 3 to the end of the month, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It is clear that Carl Icahn's proposed board ... continue

Cuba Blames U.S. for Lack of Widespread Internet Connectivity

Cuba is open to the possibility of loosening Internet restrictions just like what it did for ownership of mobile phones and home computers, the AP reports. Raul Castro's government is not afraid of Cubans connecting from their homes, ... continue

Friendster Now in Vietnamese

Friendster, yes they are still around and huge in Asia, announced that its service is now available in Vietnamese. The 18 million Internet users in Vietnam and Vietnamese around the world can now join and use Friendster ... continue

Yahoo! Forges Strategic Partnership with WPP

Embattled Yahoo! Inc. and advertising services provider WPP announced a strategic partnership that will enable WPP agencies to buy digital display advertising across the Internet more efficiently. The partnership will initially involve a collaboration between Yahoo! and ... continue

Conde Nast Acquires Ars Technica

Conde Nast, the mother-company of Wired, has acquired technology blog Ars Technica (Latin for the art of technology) reportedly for $25 million, according to Mike Arrington of Techcrunch. The report added that founders Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes ... continue

U.S. Senators Take On Child Pornography With $1 Billion Warchest

Child pornography is one reality that's part of the dark side of the Internet. If you're going to ask me, people who take advantage of kids, especially for the purpose of pornography, deserves some form of lethal ... continue

Microsoft to Offer Windows to One Laptop Per Child

When Microsoft started in 1975 they had a vision of a computer on every desk and in every home. Today, aside from continuing on that vision, and more, Microsoft announced that they have reached an agreement with ... continue

What The F@#*! Are You Doing?

Veteran news anchor Sue Simmons is known here in the Tri-State area for daily news on TV. I'm sure she is known as well nationwide. She delivers the news at 6pm and again at 11pm with another ... continue

Vatican Website Adds Latin

Keeping its ancient tradition has spilled over to the web as the Vatican added a section in Latin to its website. Church documents like the Bible, papal speeches, are now available in Latin in the section called ... continue