Mainstream Media
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Techies sidestep Malaysian govt
News Tech-savvy protesters in Malaysia bypassed government-imposed media blackout, turning to new media platforms for news on rally.
Tags: Government, Web logs, Web 2.0, Web sites
Popular Malaysian blogger turns politician
News Noting that blogs can play a key role in politics, Jeff Ooi sets up a new site and becomes a member of the country's opposition party.
Tags: Web logs, Politics, Regulations
"Headline News" takes a page from the Web
News With an anchor desk surrounded by windows of data, AOL Time Warner's new "CNN Headline News" cable program may serve as a prototype for interactive television.
Apple pushes to unmask product leaker
News Company pushes in court to unmask product leaker, and Mac sales "pause" as users await Intel systems.
Tags: Mac OS, Corporate law, Lawsuits
Open source comes of age
Insight A succession of high-profile patent cases do the open-source movement no harm at all by pushing the issue of software ownership into the mainstream.
Tags: Operating systems, Open source, Software licensing
How should bloggers be classified?
Blogs According to a report in Malaysian national news agency Bernama, Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin wants to classify...
What's a blogger?
Blogs Is someone who happens to use a blog engine or publishes some of his content via a blog engine, a blogger? Many peopl...
Citizen Cane: How bloggers have become social watchdogs
Blogs Journalists are some of the most cynical people around. They're skeptical as hell, and it'll take you double the time to...
Tags: Web sites, Web logs, Digital media, Privacy
Should ISPs be accountable for overall Internet security?
Techguide Jonathan Yarden recently read an article about the role that Internet service providers (ISPs) play in making sure the Web stays secure. As an employee of a local ISP, he felt that the article failed to represent the ISP's side of things. Find out why he says ISPs shouldn't bear all of the responsibility for Internet security.
US network TV bigwigs rail against bloggers
Insight US news anchors slam online attacks against Dan Rather after his "60 Minutes" report about President Bush's National Guard service.
Tags: Web logs
Terror and technology
News The bombings in London have shocked us all. Resilience is the order of the day.
Tags: IT Management, Infrastructure/architecture management, Mobile
Yahoo unveils blog search tool
News Move follows launch of similar feature by rival Google last month.
Tags: Search
Yahoo Australia poses porn for profit
News Yahoo Australia & NZ has admitted to using pornography on its online search engine as "one of the many" revenue drivers to stay afloat in this struggling Internet climate.
Mobile content faces respite
News Industry players observe that one-size-fits-all content and varying handset interfaces are hindering take-up rate of mobile content.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile/Wireless
Hide and seek on the Web
News Web site operators and corporations are playing game of I spy, you spy with covert cloaking trick.
Tags: Web services
