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Malaysian news portals get political boost
News Country's political upheaval has helped local blogs and news portals climb up ranks of most popular sites and generate new advertising revenue.
Tags: Web logs, Web sites, Politics, News Portal, Google Inc., Site, News Site, Yahoo! Inc., Portal, Stock
Malaysian govt defends action in Web censorship
News Ministry says MCMC has been "transparent, fair and balanced" and condemns allegations multimedia commission acted like Nazi police "Gestapo".
Tags: Local Government, Politics, Regulations, Web sites, Commission, multimedia, Web sites, Information And Communication Technology, Video, Malaysia
Net community mourns former Philippine leader
News Filipinos turn to social networks and blogs, including Facebook "virtual wake", to pay last respects to former president Corazon Aquino who died Aug. 1.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Twitter, Philippines, Video, social networking, Facebook, network, leader, Joel D. Pinaroc
News sites stay up during Jackson memorial
News News sites manage to stay up during Michael Jackson's memorial service, which brought in record numbers of traffic to both written content and streaming video.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers, Twitter, CBS Corp., Site, Asia, News Site, Akamai Technologies Inc., Streaming Video, Video
Report: Countries prepping for cyber war
News U.S., Israel, Russia, China, and France are gearing up for cyber offensives, according to a new McAfee report.
Tags: Security, International governments, Defense/military, ARPAnet, U.S., network, Georgia, South Korea, denial of service, McAfee Inc.
Hollywood hunts The Pirate Bay; site down again
News Sources say lawyers in Sweden working for copyright owners are tracking down whoever provides bandwidth to The Pirate Bay and then forcing them to cut off service.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Digital rights management (DRM), Site, Web 2.0, Web sites, BitTorrent, Blackout, attorney, Ukraine
Microsoft fixing Bing bug that aided spammers
News Company works to fix a bug, discovered earlier this week by Webroot researchers, that let spammers piggyback onto Bing redirects and get through spam filters.
Tags: Network security, Security Management, Search, MySpace, RSS, Security, Web Page, Microsoft Corp., Spam, Spammer
In Philippines, free ads site tops them all
Blogs Last September, just after typhoon Ketsana (locally known as "Ondoy") razed the Philippines, veteran IT chronicler Jim A...
Philippine SMS tax 'burden' and 'dangerous'
News Country's lobbyist groups and carriers strongly oppose government-proposed tax on SMS messages, saying it will increase communications cost.
Tags: Legal, Mobile platforms/communications, Taxes, Philippines, income tax, mobile company, telecommunications company, U.S. Congress, tax, Income
M'sia probe over Web content raises global ire
News International media watchdogs and human rights groups call for Malaysian government to stop "harassment" of local political news site, Malaysiakini.
Tags: Local Government, Politics, Regulations, Web sites, Bangkok, Censorship, Video, Portal, Government, Internet
Pirate Bay trial coming to a close
News Defense attorneys make their final argments, after prosecutors call for jail timefor defendants.
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Piracy, BitTorrent, EMI Group Plc., Google Inc., prosecutor, attorney, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox
Biggest-ever Internet piracy bust claimed in Sweden
News Server seized south of Stockholm contained 65 terabytes of digital data consisting of films, TV series, computer programs and the music equivalent of 16,000 movies.
Tags: Music, Bust, Internet piracy, computer software, computer, Pirate Bay, Server, antipiracy, Sweden, File-sharing
Apple deletes Mac antivirus suggestion
News Apple removes statement to customers urging them to use antivirus software, saying that Macs are safe "out of the box".
Tags: Antivirus software, Mac OS, Apple Inc., Malware, Security, Antivirus Software, Apple Macintosh, operating system, antivirus, Knowledgebase
Bloggers in the news
Blogs Blogging is supposed to be a medium which ordinary folks can use to publish anything they want, be it a personal ramblin...
Wall Street Journal, AP take aim at Google
News Editor of the Journal says sites that aggregate news are "parasites" and says legal challenges are coming.
Tags: Copyright, Google Inc., Search Engine, Associated Press, CEO, Wall Street Journal, U.S., Web Site, agreement, spokesman
