Internet & Online News

BBC - Jul. 19, 2008, 10:58 PM

Just a click away: Online 'killers' boast a professional serviceMexican police are investigating a number of classified ads on the internet which purport to be from hitmen offering the services.The ads can be found alongside ones for private tuition or ...

Forbes.com - Jul. 19, 2008, 6:31 PM

Mini USA, the American branch of BMW's Mini Cooper line, tracks everything being said about its brand everywhere online--in blogs, discussion groups, forums, MySpace pages and much more--then uses what it learns to guide advertising campaigns. At ...

Telegraph - Jul. 19, 2008, 5:23 PM

From January 2009, short-term visitors will only be granted entry to the US once they have registered on the website of the Electronic System Travel Authorization. This replaces the current procedure of filling out a green form handed out during the ...

BBC - Jul. 19, 2008, 4:06 PM

As Apple's new iPhone is launched, Dan Simmons tests some of its features and investigates how it and its rivals are changing our mobile habits.Touch screens are changing the way people use mobiles Although smartphones were common before the iPhone ...

New York Times - Jul. 19, 2008, 11:41 AM

Federal regulators are prepared to take action against sellers of Internet access that want to restrict what their customers can do online. Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the , said Friday that Comcast, the nations largest cable company, should be ...

ABC News - Jul. 19, 2008, 7:44 AM

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City police are investigating classified advertisements posted on the Internet by people offering their services as hired killers for as little as $6,000, police said on Friday. One post on the Web site, which hosts free ...

MSNBC - Jul. 19, 2008, 6:54 AM

Wired News - Jul. 19, 2008, 6:22 AM

PMCategories: iPhone, Notebooks, Phones, Wired Podcasts In this week's Wired Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso talk about the iPhone launch – what else? In particular, they focus on the global scale of the event, Apple ...

New York Times - Jul. 19, 2008, 6:22 AM

A week after Google and Viacom both said they to make YouTube viewing data anonymous before Google hands the information to Viacom, no agreement has been signed. Neither company would discuss whats holding things up. But in a statement late Friday, ...

CNET News.com - Jul. 19, 2008, 2:52 AM

Over at Plagiarism Today, Jonathan Bailey notes: raised a very interesting question about Flickr and its API, namely whether or not Flickr was policing its API well enough and doing an adequate job protecting the rights of photographers and artists that ...