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News sites popular but few click on ads or will pay (AFP)

The NYTimes.com Web site is displayed on a laptop in January in New York City. The New York Times Co. announced it will begin charging readers of its online content at the start of 2011.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AFP - The good news for traditional US news organizations? Their websites are popular. The bad news? Few news consumers click on ads and hardly any are prepared to pay for news online.



March 14, 2010 11:30 PM

U.S. to roll out major broadband policy (Reuters)

A screen shows Internet services available through an broadband-connected TiVo digital video recorder at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 5, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Steve MarcusReuters - U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.



March 14, 2010 7:34 PM

Amazon reacts to new Colo tax, costing affiliates (AP)

In this photograph taken on Friday, March 12, 2010, Kristie McNealy, second from left, works on her laptop computer while her children, from left, 4-year-old Camden, 1-month-old Maverick, 7-year-old Riley and 2-year-old Sawyer join her at the dining room table in the family's home in the east Denver suburb of Aurora, Colo. Kristie McNealy, like other bloggers and web site coordinators in Colorado, lost a chunk of their business when Amazon.com announced that it was cutting ties with local affiliates because of a new Colorado law requiring the firm to collect state sales tax for online sales. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - Kristie McNealy blogs from her suburban Denver home about raising four children and health issues. Her husband, Rob, a floor installer, runs another Web site offering product reviews and advice on hardwood floors.



March 14, 2010 7:02 PM

Bloggers battle corruption in Russia (AFP)

Russian blogger Alexander Malyutin as he speaks in his office in Moscow in 2009. While the docile, state-dominated media looks the other way, a small but determined group of Russian bloggers is challenging corrupt bureaucrats, rallying public opinion and goading prosecutors into action.(AFP/File/Oxana Onipko)AFP - It started with a golden bed and African drummers and led to Russia's latest, surprising, political duel pitting tenacious bloggers against bureaucrats whose excesses went a step too far.



March 14, 2010 5:01 PM

Venezuelan Web site rejects Chavez's allegations (AP)
AP - A Venezuelan Web site that was accused by President Hugo Chavez of spreading false reports of killings said Sunday the government is trying to restrict criticism, but announced it had banned the visitors who posted the inaccurate rumors.
March 14, 2010 3:13 PM

Australia defends mandatory Internet filter (AFP)

Australia Sunday defended its plan to block some Internet content, such as that featuring child sex abuse or advocating terrorism, after a media rights watchdog warned it may hurt free speech.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Australia Sunday defended its plan to block some Internet content, such as that featuring child sex abuse or advocating terrorism, after a media rights watchdog warned it may hurt free speech.



March 14, 2010 1:22 AM

Venezuela's Chavez calls for internet controls (Reuters)

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe waves to journalists after casting his vote during legislative elections, in Bogota. The Uribe administration is the top regional US ally in the fight against drug trafficking and attempts to contain the influence of leftist-populist President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.(AFP/Rodrigo Arangua)Reuters - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.



March 13, 2010 9:34 PM

SXSW: Cuban, Boxee Clash at Web TV Debate (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - On the opening night of SXSW Interactive, HDNet founder Mark Cuban and Boxee founder Avner Ronan traded verbal barbs and a few well-reasoned arguments trying to answer the simple question: will Internet TV take over?
March 13, 2010 6:35 AM

Google "99.9 pct" sure to shut China search engine: report (Reuters)
Reuters - Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.
March 13, 2010 4:34 AM

FCC to propose 10-year Internet expansion: report (Reuters)
Reuters - The Federal Communications Commission will submit a 10-year plan to Congress on Tuesday that would establish high-speed Internet as the country's dominant means of communication, The New York Times reported in Saturday editions.
March 13, 2010 1:13 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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