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Internet News
http://news.yahoo.com/i/1212 Reuters - Toy maker Hasbro Inc said on Thursday
it filed a suit against the creators of the online game
Scrabulous, saying it infringes Hasbro's Scrabble intellectual
property rights.
Read more... PC World - China reasserted itself as the world's largest Internet market, with 253 million total users by the end of June.
Read more... AP - Embarq Corp. has revealed more details about its exploration of a program that tracked Internet subscribers' Web-surfing habits for advertising purposes, telling Congress that it performed the test on 26,000 customers in a Kansas town.
Read more... Reuters - A British businessman won a libel case
and 22,000 pounds in damages at London's High Court on Thursday
after false claims about him were posted on the hugely popular
social networking Web site Facebook.
Read more...  AP - Amazon.com Inc. shares leaped 13 percent Thursday after the Internet retailer showed that it doesn't seem to be bothered by the sputtering U.S. economy.
Read more...CNET - As of Wednesday, an exploit code allowing someone to attack the domain name system (DNS) was available in various places on the Internet.
Read more...  AFP - Britain's biggest Internet providers have signed an agreement with the country's recording industry to clamp down on illegal downloading, in a move announced by the government Thursday.
Read more... Reuters - Britain's music and film industries
launched a fight back against online piracy on Thursday,
persuading the six biggest Internet providers to send warning
letters to those suspected of illegal file-sharing.
Read more... Reuters - Batman fans inspired by his latest
box office hit can bam and kapow alongside the Caped Crusader
and other superheroes with the launch of the world's first
licensed massively multiplayer online comic book game.
Read more...USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - At a conference for developers in Portland, Ore., Zimbra, a Yahoo company, is set to release a beta version of Yahoo Zimbra Desktop, an e-mail program that organizes Yahoo Mail, AOL, Google's Gmail and work and business e-mail accounts in one place - and lets you read, compose and organize messages off-line.
Read more... AP - A judge's ruling has brought the organization that hosts the Academy Awards a step closer to discovering how tickets to this year's show got online.
Read more...  AFP - Britain's six biggest internet providers have backed a government plan to clamp down on rampant music and film piracy, it was reported Thursday .
Read more...PC World - Attack code has been released for a major flaw in the Internet's DNS software.
Read more...  AP - Facebook Inc. is introducing more tools to help the software applications fueling the online hangout's popularity and is promising to intensify its efforts to weed out programs that violate its rules for protecting users' privacy.
Read more... AFP - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg painted a vision of an Internet future with the website in its soul to a faithful throng of software developers at the Internet firm's annual "F8" conference..
Read more...AP - With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own online bookstore.
Read more... PC World - Microsoft has built its massive software business by watching other companies take the lead in emerging technology markets and...
Read more... PC World - Facebook showed off a new service that lets people apply their Facebook profile to other Web sites.
Read more... AP - Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said Kevin Johnson, the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations and an instrumental player in the company's failed $47.5 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc., is leaving the company.
Read more... PC World - Baidu, China's most popular search engine, saw year-on-year profit for the second quarter of 2008 grow by almost 87 percent.
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