Monthly Archives: February 2009

Internet providers defend traffic management

By Kim Dixon
WASHINGTON - Internet service providers like AT&T are making greater efforts to manage traffic on their networks as they seek ways to avoid congestion caused by bandwidth-hogging services like video, industry officials said on Thursday.

Facebook Plays Nice

By Taylor Buley
The social network reaches out to members to help create a privacy policy.
After receiving enormous criticism for changing its terms of service policy recently, Facebook is reaching out to members to help it run the company.

Using a Crowd to Troubleshoot the Web

By Robert McMillan
IDG News Service — It happened to Gmail users on Tuesday morning; it happens to everyone: You try to visit a Web site and get an error message. Why? Are you the only one who can’t get through?

South Koreans want their sub-TV

By John M. Glionna
Reporting from Seoul — Lee Suk-hee can stomach much of the belt-tightening that South Korea’s gasping economy has asked of her, including fewer shopping sprees and more nights eating dinner at home.

Yahoo offers tools to help marketers

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo introduced several tools on Tuesday that it says will help marketers target their ads more efficiently at a time when many of them are cutting advertising spending drastically.

Google Joins Europe Case Against Microsoft

By MIGUEL HELFT
SAN FRANCISCO — Accusing Microsoft of unfairly sidelining competitors, Google said on Tuesday that it would apply to join a European Union antitrust case against Microsoft over the company’s Web browser.

3G netbooks: Are they the cell phones of the future?

By Brian Nadel
February 25, 2009 (Computerworld) Sometimes it seems that netbooks are everywhere. I’ve spotted them at airports, coffee shops and on commuter trains. No wonder that ABI Research forecasts sales of 35 million netbooks this year, more than double the 15 million systems sold in 2008.

China’s Answer to a Crime Includes Amateur Sleuths

By ANDREW JACOBS
BEIJING — As they awaited their fates in holding cell No. 9 of the Puning County jail, Li Qiaoming and a half-dozen fellow inmates played “elude the cat,” a Chinese hide-and-seek that might be better described as Marco Polo without the pool.

Cable companies want a way to win with online TV

By Deborah Yao, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — HBO on your PC? It could happen sooner than you think. Wary of the growing number of consumers watching TV shows online for free — and yet reluctant to upset viewers by yanking shows from the Internet — the nation’s largest cable operators are in talks with media conglomerates [...]