Internet
Vint Cerf: "Father of the Internet" Still Looking Forward
July 09, 2009By Art Chimes Vint Cerf is often called the "Father of the Internet." He doesn't like the title much, saying there are others who deserve to share the credit. But he was there at the beginning, as a co-designer of the basic architecture of...
June 12, 2009By Dave DeForest According to several internet ratings agencies more and more people are viewing television programs on the internet. Some of them may be bypassing broadcast television altogether to watch their favorite shows. This trend was highlighted...
Russia Becomes the World Leader in the Production of Spam
February 04, 2009By Paul Goble Last year, the Russian Federation led the countries of the world as the source of spam messages that are filling up email boxes everywhere, just one of the ways in which computer operators in that country represent a threat to the...
US Internet advertising revenues grow more than 26 percent in first six months of year
October 05, 2007More than 26 percent growth to about $10 billion (7.09 billion EUR) was achieved by U.S. Internet advertising revenues in the first six months of the year. Keyword ads - such as those displayed alongside search results at Google Inc. and other search...
Police arrest 41 people in New Jersey child porn case
October 05, 2007More than three dozen people in New Jersey were arrested for sending child rape photos and videos over the Internet. The arrests cap a two-month investigation in which a state police technology investigations unit combed the Internet for New Jerseyans...
US court to try first case of copyright claims over music downloads on file-sharing networks
October 03, 2007The largest U.S. record companies will bring a suit against illegal downloads to court for the first time Tuesday. Jennifer Pariser, head of litigation and antipiracy at Sony BMG, portrayed the federal copyright trial as a fight for survival. ...
Gamer dies at Chinese Internet cafe
September 18, 2007A three-day Internet gaming binge turned tragedy in China when a man had died of exhaustion, state media said Monday. The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he'd been playing games online for...
TV has no wish to give unused airwaves to Internet
September 11, 2007Television broadcasters are fighting against proposal to transmit high-speed Internet service over unused airwaves. The National Association of Broadcasters, which is worried about possible interference with over-the-air TV programming, said TV...
Internet provider cuts service for overuse
September 07, 2007Internet providers have begun cutting off service for excessive downloading, which they say slows down the network for others. So far, only Comcast is known to have punished some transgressers for overusing the Internet, The Washington Post said. ...
Yahoo's business efforts bring no results to internet icon
July 19, 2007Even Yahoo's new CEO, co-founder Jerry Yang, acknowledged Tuesday there is still plenty of hard work to be done. "I am very aware of the challenges we face," Yang said in a conference call with analysts after the Sunnyvale, California-based...