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While some critics contend that Western countries such as the U.S. use subtle measures to control and censor access to the Internet, such as filters in public libraries and schools […]

Online music cache-download subscription service FullAudio has signed a licensing deal with EMI Music Publishing, to go along with the one the company signed with BMG Music Publishing a few […]

These are Newsbytes' top stories today: Microsoft Warns Of Word Macro Vulnerability Dow Jones Cuts More Staff, Expenses Proposed German E-Commerce Legislation Ruffles Feathers Hacked EU Site Back Online, But […]

In this week's roundup of telecom stories: N.Y. Senate OKs Ban On Motorists' Cell-Phone Use The New York State Senate has given the green light to a bill that could […]

In this week's roundup of Internet news: Microsoft Shutting Down E-Mail List Service; Web Site Crackers Strike Microsoft Servers Again; 'Instant-Messaging Generation' Emerges - Survey; One In Five Teens Receive […]

These are the top security and hacker- related stories that Newsbytes has covered this week: Consumer Group's Blunder Reveals Credit Card Details Security Expert Publishes List of Attack Sites Web […]

In the ever-growing arena of broadband services, cable will edge out copper-wire-based digital subscriber lines (DSL), according to a new Allied Business Intelligence (ABI) study. Mark M. Fox, the report's […]

Coinstar Inc. [NASDAQ:CSTR] wants to buy back the outstanding shares of its marketing services company Meals.com subsidiary so it can sell the product lines and get out of the business [...]

What's in a name? For a magazine, and especially one that's been around for a hundred years - it can be quite a lot. So the Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]

The wireless content, broadband entertainment and tele-computing industries will balloon by an average 26 percent over the next five years, according to new research from Strategy Analytics. Combined, they will […]

The Internet Protocol (IP) private branch exchange (PBX) market is set to take off, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan, "North American IP PBX Markets." The report […]

In this week's roundup of legal and regulatory news: Online Casino Gambling Law Passes In Nevada The governor of Nevada has signed into law a measure to establish online gambling […]

According to a new digital TV report from Jupiter Media Metrix [NASDAQ:JMXI], interactive television (iTV) shopping will account for 44 percent of total US TV-based shopping by 2005. However, advertising […]

According to the new PricewaterhouseCoopers "Technology Barometer" report, technology business leaders are viewing their industry from completely different perspectives. Most are inward-focused, seeing their industry sector and businesses as shaped […]

This is a roundup of new and updated resources and services on the global Internet, including: Wildlife, National Parks At eNature.com; Android World; Saltwater Tropical Hobby Fish; Stellar Clusters; Abcteach […]

Broadband Internet access from the home - for so long considered a huge potential market - has received a slight shot in the arm today with the news that Intel […]

A number of leading companies in the digital subscriber line (DSL) industry say they are 'cooperating' in order to establish standards for Channelized Voice over DSL (CVoDSL). CVoDSL technology incorporates [...]

BellSouth [NYSE:BLS] has filed documents with the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) asking that it be allowed to provide long-distance service in the state. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 prohibits […]

Newsbytes PM E-Letter - These are this afternoon's Newsbytes news wire highlights: * Songwriters, Publishers Fight Web-Royalty Moratorium * Home Broadband Nearly Doubles In Six Months - SRI * Frogans […]

Newsbytes AM E-Letter - The highlights of this morning's Newsbytes news wire are: * FCC, FTC Heads Get Senate Commerce Nod * Commerce Department Urges ICANN To Add More New […]

It used to be that the only thing newborn babies had to worry about in the first few days after birth was how to open their eyes. Now they have […]

Stanford University's Law School has teamed up with personal digital assistant (PDA) vendor Palm Inc. [NASDAQ:PALM] and West Group, an online law database, in a test to see how well […]

Annual spending by U.S. small businesses on localized e-mail marketing will exceed $2.2 billion by 2005, a new Kelsey Group report indicates. The company's new white paper, "Hitting the Target: […]

Research firm Cahners In-Stat Group says that the worldwide annual value of digital media servers will top $1.2 billion during 2001, and reach over $$4.4 billion during 2005. Two key […]

Just a few years ago, almost everything found on the Web was in the English language. But that's all changing, and according to a new Aberdeen Group report, most multi-national […]

The application service provider (ASP) market is still very much in an evolutionary stage, and figures for the year 2000 from Gartner Dataquest [NYSE:IT] seem to verify that, despite revenue […]

Small and medium-sized companies continue to demand broadband access, with a resulting move towards fixed broadband wireless services, according to a new report from Insight Research. The "Fixed Broadband Wireless […]

SBC Communications [NYSE:SBC] has announced the next stage of its Project Pronto broadband initiative, intended to bring direct fiber connections to smaller business and residential customers. The company says it [...]

The old adage that it is not the miners that usually strike it rich in a gold rush but those selling them the tools, also continues to be true in […]

Investors holding shares of Internet directory Yahoo Inc. [NASDAQ:YAHOO] are nervously awaiting a late- afternoon announcement from the company, preceded by a halt in trading of the company's stock on [...]

Global technology infrastructure and services company Network Commerce Inc. [NASDAQ:NWKC], says it will cut 145 jobs, while at the same time close its ShopNow.com consumer shopping network during the first […]

Internet e-business company VerticalNet, Inc. [NASDAQ:VERT] plans to cut about 150 employees in an effort to reduce costs to help it reach profitability. The company said that the cuts will […]

AOL Time Warner Inc. [NYSE:AOL] and E-Trade Group Inc. [NASDAQ:EGRP] were among a number of companies to invest about $52 million in online-related company Yodlee this week. According to Reuters, […]

In an effort to ward off the possibility of individual states implementing their own Internet privacy rules, the American Electronics Association (AEA) high-tech trade group is set to endorse the […]

Ads belonging to Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] and Amazon.com [NASDAQ:AMZN] were removed from a Web site backed indirectly by the Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah. Reuters reported that the ads were on a [...]

During the holiday season in the US, about 36 million consumers purchased online and spent an average of $304 dollars on merchandise. That figure translated into $10.8 billion being spent […]

Alwaysi.com is planning to offer a film subscription service, delivering short and feature-length movies via its Web site. The Wall Street Journal reported that the subscription service will offer access [...]

E-learning company Click2learn.com, Inc. [NASDAQ:CLKS] said that it expects to report lower than anticipated results for the 2000 fourth quarter despite record revenues. Revenues for the quarter are expected to […]

Layoffs and facilities closures are continuing among dot-com companies intent on demonstrating their ability to attain profitability. In the latest batch of dot-com casualties, Kozmo.com, MVP.com and Advertising.com have all […]

Time Digital magazine, already with a reported 1 million subscribers, is going to relaunch with the March issue under the name "On." Owned by Time Warner Inc.'s [NYSE:TWX] Time Inc. […]