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From InfoWorld: Google is contemplating various improvements to its popular Blogger Web logging service, including native image uploading and deeper integration with the company’s Gmail Web-mail service, according to a Google executive. Google is also considering the creation of an enterprise Blogger version, as well as letting users limit access to their blogs by creating …
From USA Today: An investigation over the sourcing and accuracy of roughly 160 news stories by a freelance journalist at a leading Internet news site concluded that the existence of more than 40 people quoted in the articles could not be confirmed. Wired News, which publishes some articles from Wired magazine, disclosed results late Monday …
From TechRepublic: Taiwan’s Via Technologies plans to promote PCs that will sell for close to $250 this fall in an attempt to gain ground in the consumer market. The Terra PC is a reference design created by Via that will be licensed to PC makers around the world. The company will show off prototypes at …
From MSNBC: Earlier this year, researchers at Symantec Corp. wanted to see just how bad the spyware epidemic had become. So they took a brand new PC out of the box, connected it to the Internet without any standard protection software and browsed. An hour later, they dissected the machine. The autopsy results weren’t pretty. …
From CNN Money: Red Hat is getting a $99.5 million boost from Michael S. Dell, billionaire founder and chairman of Dell Inc., according a regulatory filing. Through his private investment firm, MSD, Dell bought the largest share of $600 million in debentures offered by the software developer in January 2004, a Securities Exchange Commission filing …
From USA Today: Al Gore may have been lampooned for taking credit in the Internet’s development, but organizers of the Webby Awards for online achievements don’t find it funny at all. In part to “set the record straight,” they will give Gore a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet, said …
From NYT (registration required): A few years ago, a buzz began spreading about Internet telephony, a technology allowing telephone conversations to be made across the Internet rather than exclusively over regular phone lines. Such calls, made at little or no expense to the caller, were portrayed as a threat to the established phone companies. But …
From CNet: Once Britons wanting to vent their political spleen either had to write to the newspaper or take their soapbox to Speakers Corner in London’s Hyde Park for a rant. Now they can blog. The campaign for the May 5 election has witnessed an explosion of blogs from candidates to journalists and political snipers …
From Yahoo! News: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is now offering customized music CDs for its online customers. The world’s largest retailer launched the new service Tuesday. Like other companies, the Bentonville-based Wal-Mart already offers customers music they can download at their home computers for a fee. Customers with the proper technology can burn those songs to …
From MSNBC: A federal magistrate has ruled that two North Carolina universities do not have to reveal the identities of two students accused of sharing copyrighted music on the Internet. The music industry trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America, filed subpoenas in November 2003 asking for help identifying a North Carolina State University …