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China's Skype service censoring messages
News University of Toronto researchers say they uncovered "targeted surveillance" of TOM-Skype users in China. Text chats are blocked if they contain certain words.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Privacy, Skype Technologies S.A., Security, Report, E-mail Message, Server, New York Times Co., Canada, professor
Facebook members hit by another phishing scam
News Hackers break into accounts and send e-mail messages to Facebook friends, urging them to log on to fake Facebook sites and unwittingly give away their passwords.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Hacking, Phishing, Security, Password, e-mail, Facebook, New York Times Co., spokesman, Thomson Reuters Corp.
Researcher warns of Android browser vulnerability
News According to reports, a security researcher has identified a flaw in Google's Android platform that could allow keystrokes in the browser to be recorded.
Tags: Browser, Open source, Mobile, Web Browser, Google Inc., Vulnerability, Spokesperson, Flaw, software, T-Mobile
Online ads: Will fewer, but bigger, be better?
News Several large Web publishers are adopting new display-ad formats with hopes they will engage readers--and boost revenues.
Tags: Internet advertising, Online Advertising, online publisher, Advertisement, New York Times Co., network, ad network, industry, brand, agency
Reports: Google, US govt talked about Book Search
News The U.S. Justice Department has held talks with Google about its book-search project, according to published reports. Are antitrust concerns getting more serious?
Tags: Search, Legal, Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, Class Action, antitrust, Harvard University, New York Times Co.
Ballmer and Bostock break bread
News The New York Times confirms a Valleywag report that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock met earlier this week in New York.
Tags: Search, Best strategies, Employee communications, Mergers, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., New York, chairman, CEO
Online newspaper readership climbs 16 percent
News Top 10 online newspapers post double-digit increase in December Web traffic, offering the newspaper industry encouragement amid bleak times, according to a new report.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Web 2.0, Increase, Washington Post Co., New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Bankruptcy, USA Today, research director
Google seeks more time in Book Search case
News Google wants 60 more days to find authors and let them choose to opt in or out of a proposed class-action settlement involving Google Book Search.
Tags: Copyright, Author, Google Inc., Settlement, Advertisement, intellectual property, general counsel, credit card company, USA Today, New York Times Co.
Google's Schmidt nixes idea of buying newspaper
News CEO Eric Schmidt confirms to the Financial Times that Google had considered acquiring a paper, but has since ruled it out as being too expensive and fraught with liabilities.
Tags: Mergers, Search, Online Advertising, Google Inc., Washington Post Co., Bankruptcy, CEO, New York Times Co., Financial Times, Eric Schmidt
China to Google: No porn, or else
News Google confirmed the government rapped its knuckles over auto-suggested salacious search terms, yet still won't confirm China ordered similar measures for Tiananmen.
Tags: Search, Government, Web sites, Security, Google Inc., New York Times Co., monitoring, search bar, Search Technology, China
Report: Google near book search deal with French library
News After opposing Google's efforts to digitize the world's books, the national library of France is near a deal with the search giant to obtain access to its archives, according to a report.
Tags: New York Times Co., U.S., strategy, France, Google Book Search
Challenge to Google Books settlement focuses on class actions
News Lawyer plans to file a new objection to Google's settlement with book rights holders claiming that class action lawsuits were not intended to strike licensing deals.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Legal, Settlement, Class Action, RAM, copyright law, New York Times Co., U.S.
Wikipedia to add editing safeguard for the living
News New feature to be deployed soon on a test wiki assigns an experienced editor to sign off on changes to articles on those who are alive and well.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Data Management, Wiki, Wikipedia, Server, New York Times Co., job, spokesman, Web 2.0
Italian antitrust group examining Google News
News Several Italian publishers claim Google threatened to exclude them from search results pages in retaliation for withholding their content from Google News.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Content management, antitrust, Search Result, New York Times Co., Google News, Italy, blog, Web Site
Google makes concessions to European publishers
News As hearings on Google's digitization project kick off in Europe, the company says European books still listed as commercially available will not be included in its online registry.
Tags: Data Management, E-commerce, European Union, Europe, Settlement, New York Times Co., Internet, board, France, E-commerce
