Copyright (c) 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1212 Internet News en-us Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:14:23 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1212 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070901/wr_nm/thailand_youtube_dc nm/20070901/thailand_youtube_dc Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:14:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070901/wr_nm/thailand_youtube_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070901/2007_09_01t011054_450x364_uk_thailand_youtube.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=xzFagxO_EkomIpNcPPz3Ug--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="In this file photo Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej reviews a parade to mark his 79th birthday in Bangkok December 2, 2006. Thailand has lifted a five-month ban on the video-sharing Web site YouTube after it agreed to block any video clips deemed offensive to the nation's revered King . (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Thailand has lifted a five-month ban on the video-sharing Web site YouTube after it agreed to block any video clips deemed offensive to the nation&#39;s revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070901/wr_nm/thailand_youtube_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070901/2007_09_01t011054_450x364_uk_thailand_youtube.jpg?x=130&y=105&sig=xzFagxO_EkomIpNcPPz3Ug--" align="left" height="105" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this file photo Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej reviews a parade to mark his 79th birthday in Bangkok December 2, 2006. Thailand has lifted a five-month ban on the video-sharing Web site YouTube after it agreed to block any video clips deemed offensive to the nation's revered King . (Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070901/media_nm/generalatlantic_fund_dc nm/20070901/generalatlantic_fund_dc Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:45:03 GMT Reuters - General Atlantic said on Friday that two former high-flying Internet executives would advise the private equity firm&#39;s media and consumer unit on investments in the online sector. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/tc_afp/usmediaafpinternetgoogle afp/20070901/usmediaafpinternetgoogle Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:58:55 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/tc_afp/usmediaafpinternetgoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070901/capt.sge.pxk19.010907005850.photo00.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=XpLcH3C6Pq6fc_DRrkqNQQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="This file photo shows Google&#39;s headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google is giving readers of its Internet news service direct access to the original source of stories written by major world news agencies including AFP, the Internet search giant announced Friday.(AFP/GettyImages/File/David Paul Morris)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Google is giving readers of its Internet news service direct access to the original source of stories written by major world news agencies including AFP, the Internet search giant announced Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070901/tc_afp/usmediaafpinternetgoogle"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070901/capt.sge.pxk19.010907005850.photo00.photo.default-512x333.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=XpLcH3C6Pq6fc_DRrkqNQQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="This file photo shows Google&#39;s headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google is giving readers of its Internet news service direct access to the original source of stories written by major world news agencies including AFP, the Internet search giant announced Friday.(AFP/GettyImages/File/David Paul Morris)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070901/tc_cmp/201803596 cmp/20070901/201803596 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:10:00 GMT TechWeb - Jasper4Salesforce can create, manage, share and distribute reports directly from Salesforce.com. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070831/tc_infoworld/91493 infoworld/20070831/91493 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:46:21 GMT InfoWorld - NBC Universal&#39;s pullout from the iTunes online store is more of a loss for Apple and points to fierce resistance among media companies to potential Apple dominance of online video sales, an industry analyst said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_hi_te/nbc_itunes ap/20070831/nbc_itunes Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:55:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_hi_te/nbc_itunes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_31t022505_450x296_us_apple_nbc.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=sLWKoiCjiKWJTgWIP40TEQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A customer checks out Music Store (on a screen) with Apple iTunes at an Apple store in Tokyo in this August 25, 2006 file photo. NBC Universal has decided against renewing its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on Apple Inc's (Kiyoshi Ota/Files/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Apple Inc. escalated a dispute with NBC Universal over the pricing of television shows by announcing Friday it would not sell any of NBC's programs for this fall season on iTunes.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_hi_te/nbc_itunes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_31t022505_450x296_us_apple_nbc.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=sLWKoiCjiKWJTgWIP40TEQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A customer checks out Music Store (on a screen) with Apple iTunes at an Apple store in Tokyo in this August 25, 2006 file photo. NBC Universal has decided against renewing its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on Apple Inc's (Kiyoshi Ota/Files/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_hi_te/arkansas_internet_edits ap/20070831/arkansas_internet_edits Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:28:26 GMT AP - Internet criticism of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's involvement in the pardon of a castrated rapist and his heavy use of a state airplane disappeared with a mouse click. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_hi_te/google_news ap/20070831/google_news Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:22:25 GMT AP - Internet search leader Google Inc. on Friday began hosting material produced by The Associated Press and three other news services on its own Web site instead of only sending readers to other destinations. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wr_nm/apple_nbc_dc nm/20070831/apple_nbc_dc Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:51:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wr_nm/apple_nbc_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_31t022505_450x296_us_apple_nbc.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=sLWKoiCjiKWJTgWIP40TEQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="A customer checks out Music Store (on a screen) with Apple iTunes at an Apple store in Tokyo in this August 25, 2006 file photo. NBC Universal has decided against renewing its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on Apple Inc's (Kiyoshi Ota/Files/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - NBC Universal has decided not to renew its contract to sell television shows on iTunes, becoming the second major media company to challenge Apple Inc&#39;s dominance in digital entertainment.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wr_nm/apple_nbc_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_31t022505_450x296_us_apple_nbc.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=sLWKoiCjiKWJTgWIP40TEQ--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="A customer checks out Music Store (on a screen) with Apple iTunes at an Apple store in Tokyo in this August 25, 2006 file photo. NBC Universal has decided against renewing its contract to sell digital downloads of television shows on Apple Inc's (Kiyoshi Ota/Files/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_hi_te/monster_data_breach ap/20070831/monster_data_breach Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:27:39 GMT AP - By now, the perils of securing online data with little more than user names and passwords should be well known. Monster.com learned that lesson late and the hard way, prompting this week's disclosure that the Web jobs board will spend millions of dollars to improve its security. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070901/tc_cmp/201803545 cmp/20070901/201803545 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:10:00 GMT TechWeb - The rift was based on a doubling of the wholesale price Apple pays for each NBC TV episode. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wr_nm/school_online_net_dc nm/20070831/school_online_net_dc Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:50:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wr_nm/school_online_net_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_31t144643_450x360_us_school_online_net.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=AHEe5009jpTX3Zyu4X6pzQ--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="Tutor.com pictured in this handout, dated August 31, 2007. As children head back to school savvy teachers are looking for the best ways to help students maximize their learning potential. (handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - As children head back to school savvy teachers are looking for the best ways to help students maximize their learning potential.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wr_nm/school_online_net_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_31t144643_450x360_us_school_online_net.jpg?x=130&y=104&sig=AHEe5009jpTX3Zyu4X6pzQ--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="photo" title="Tutor.com pictured in this handout, dated August 31, 2007. As children head back to school savvy teachers are looking for the best ways to help students maximize their learning potential. (handout/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070831/tc_nf/55036 nf/20070831/55036 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:39:08 GMT NewsFactor - Big news in digital media this week. Nokia launched a music store, while Sony closed one. NBC nixed its TV shows on iTunes, while YouTube signed royalty deals with UK artists. And the headlines roll on. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/mediaweek/20070831/ad_bpimw/primetimemeteredmarketthursdayratingscbswinsnothingunusualonthistypicalsummerevening mediaweek/20070831/primetimemeteredmarketthursdayratingscbswinsnothingunusualonthistypicalsummerevening Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:32:06 GMT Mediaweek.com - -Ratings Breakdown: Mirroring all summer, CBS led Thursday care of Big Brother 8 (4.4 rating/9 share), a repeat of CSI (6.5/12), and a repeat of Without a Trace (#1: 6.9/12). All three shows ranked first in the overnights in every half-hour. As for Big Brother 8 (which I have not seen yet due to the late start on the East Coast), apparently evicted contestant Amber made some very controversial comments that CBS did not televise. For more information, click on http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/30/tv.bigbrother.ap/index.html. Needless to say, I am happy she is gone. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070831/tc_nf/55038 nf/20070831/55038 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:03:51 GMT NewsFactor - Unless the two sides come to the table, iTunes viewers soon will have to live without watching &quot;The Office&quot; and &quot;Heroes&quot; on their iPods. NBC Universal, the network that owns those shows, is pulling them off of Apple&#39;s digital download service, The New York Times reported Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/lifestyleestonia afp/20070831/lifestyleestonia Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:43:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/lifestyleestonia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.pvb60.310807162858.photo00.photo.default-288x205.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=NFW3drnZpx.oz0L9xnQLXw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Tech-savvy Baltic state Estonia is to open an embassy in the Internet fantasy world Second Life, joining the likes of Sweden and the Maldives, the foreign ministry said Friday.(Second Life)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Tech-savvy Baltic state Estonia is to open an embassy in the Internet fantasy world Second Life, joining the likes of Sweden and the Maldives, the foreign ministry said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/lifestyleestonia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.pvb60.310807162858.photo00.photo.default-288x205.jpg?x=130&y=92&sig=NFW3drnZpx.oz0L9xnQLXw--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="Tech-savvy Baltic state Estonia is to open an embassy in the Internet fantasy world Second Life, joining the likes of Sweden and the Maldives, the foreign ministry said Friday.(Second Life)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070831/tc_pcworld/136659 pcworld/20070831/136659 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:00:00 GMT PC World - Sony Corp.&#39;s three-year effort to beat Apple Inc.&#39;s iTunes Music Store is over. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/japantelecomtechnologycompanydocomo afp/20070831/japantelecomtechnologycompanydocomo Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:41:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/japantelecomtechnologycompanydocomo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.ptu16.310807142829.photo00.photo.default-350x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=Fh.HodIh2WjdnmDgL2rX1Q--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="An NTT DoCoMo employee displays the &quot;F1100&quot; mobile phone during a press conference in Tokyo. NTT DoCoMo says it will tie up with broadband provider ACCA Networks to introduce ultra-fast mobile WiMAX technology.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Leading Japanese mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Friday it will tie up with broadband provider ACCA Networks to introduce ultra-fast mobile WiMAX technology.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070831/tc_afp/japantelecomtechnologycompanydocomo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070831/capt.sge.ptu16.310807142829.photo00.photo.default-350x512.jpg?x=88&y=130&sig=Fh.HodIh2WjdnmDgL2rX1Q--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="An NTT DoCoMo employee displays the &quot;F1100&quot; mobile phone during a press conference in Tokyo. NTT DoCoMo says it will tie up with broadband provider ACCA Networks to introduce ultra-fast mobile WiMAX technology.(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/media_nm/bertelsmann_music_dc nm/20070831/bertelsmann_music_dc Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:36:18 GMT Reuters - Bertelsmann AG settled a lawsuit filed by the National Music Publishers&#39; Association that charged the media company&#39;s investment in file sharing service Napster encouraged the abuse of copyrighted content. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wr_nm/dutch_royals_wikipedia_dc nm/20070831/dutch_royals_wikipedia_dc Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:08:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wr_nm/dutch_royals_wikipedia_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_31t090654_450x352_us_dutch_royals_wikipedia.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=oPIeBBpT6tC0YwvYOjL_Bw--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="Dutch Prince Johan Friso and his fiancee Mabel Wisse Smit leave Nieuwe Kerk in Delft after the funeral of Johan's grandmother Princess Juliana, March 30, 2004. Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands and his wife Princess Mabel edited information about her past in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the royal family said on Friday. (Guido Benschop AS/ACM/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands and his wife Princess Mabel edited information about her past in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the royal family said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070831/wr_nm/dutch_royals_wikipedia_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070831/2007_08_31t090654_450x352_us_dutch_royals_wikipedia.jpg?x=130&y=101&sig=oPIeBBpT6tC0YwvYOjL_Bw--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="Dutch Prince Johan Friso and his fiancee Mabel Wisse Smit leave Nieuwe Kerk in Delft after the funeral of Johan's grandmother Princess Juliana, March 30, 2004. Prince Johan Friso of the Netherlands and his wife Princess Mabel edited information about her past in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the royal family said on Friday. (Guido Benschop AS/ACM/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)