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Nov 29, 2007 4:42 AM CST

Missing Co-ed Starred in Porn Site

Police fear foul play in Kansas teen's disappearance

(Newser) - A missing Kansas college student apparently led a secret life as an internet porn star, according to police who suspect foul play in her disappearance. Emily Sander, 18, disappeared last week after leaving a bar outside Wichita with a man whose motel room was later found trashed and covered in...

Newspapers Look to Make Connections

Nov 28, 2007 10:26 AM CST

Newspapers Look to Make Connections

Trying to reach younger readers, more will link to Facebook and MySpace

(Newser) - Newspapers readers at an increasing pace are turning to Pluck, a media syndication company, to link their sites to social networks, like MySpace and Facebook, giving them access to 165 million users, Reuters reports. Pluck will use the Facebook programming interface and Google's OpenSocial system to share information between its...

Facebook Feud Heats Up

Nov 27, 2007 8:59 AM CST

Facebook Feud Heats Up

Independent Harvard alumni magazine dishes the dirt on it

(Newser) - Three former Harvard students who are suing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their idea are finally about to get their day in court, reports the indy Harvard alumni magazine 02138. Forensic data experts are searching Zuckerberg’s computer hard drives, searching for source code, which the company claims is...

Critics Blast Claims of Net Outages by 2010

Nov 25, 2007 3:39 PM CST

Critics Blast Claims of Net Outages by 2010

Lambaste industry group behind study predicting failures

(Newser) - Ominous warnings earlier this week of a looming Internet disaster are highly misleading, suggest critics. "As we've stated previously, most warnings of capacity armageddon come from traffic shaping companies looking to sell hardware," the industry web site Broadband Reports writes about a recent Nemertes Research study, which was...

SEC Web Push Faces Hurdles

Nov 24, 2007 9:16 AM CST

SEC Web Push Faces Hurdles

Cox's tech crusade meets resistance from older shareholders, bureaucrats

(Newser) - SEC Chairman Christopher Cox's campaign to make corporate information available to investors electronically sounds like a no-brainer, but it's beset with resistance on multiple fronts. That's because such proposals as online shareholder forums and making corporate data interactive—which would allow investors to sort and compare information—could give an...

French Attack Internet Piracy

Nov 23, 2007 8:34 AM CST

French Attack Internet Piracy

Move to stem high-tech theft raises worries about civil liberties

(Newser) - French internet pirates, beware. Big Brother is watching. Or, he will be if a three-strikes-and-you’re-out industry proposal backed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy moves forward, the Financial Times reports. Under the plan, ISPs would forward data on users illegally sharing files to the government, which could terminate problem internet...

Firefox 3.0 Beta Unleashed

Nov 20, 2007 10:12 PM CST

Firefox 3.0 Beta Unleashed

Packed with new features and stepped-up security

(Newser) - Mozilla has rolled out a beta version of its Firefox 3.0 browser, PC World reports. The new version boasts added security and a host of new features - all of which it wants user feedback on while it's in beta, before the final release. The way Firefox manages browsing...

Now PayPal Is Everywhere MasterCard Is

Nov 20, 2007 10:16 AM CST

Now PayPal Is Everywhere MasterCard Is

New service aims to protect financial info, simplify shopping

(Newser) - PayPal is offering a new way for customers to pay on sites that don't normally accept the service. PayPal Secure Card creates a new MasterCard number for every transaction and retrieves members' payment information from their PayPal accounts. "From a merchant's perspective this looks like any other MasterCard transaction,...

MTV Banks
on Vice Video

Nov 19, 2007 3:22 PM CST

MTV Banks on Vice Video

Online VBS.tv sticks with mag’s ‘raw’ aesthetic, is a training ground for TV content

(Newser) - MTV has put its hippest foot forward with VBS.tv, the online video channel run by Vice magazine’s editors. The web presence, originally pitched as “‘60 Minutes’ meets ‘Jackass,’” is a toehold in youth web programming, the Times reports. “Our aesthetic is raw,...

Computer Junkies Go to Rehab

Nov 18, 2007 7:54 PM CST

Computer Junkies Go to Rehab

South Korean camp addresses growing Internet addiction problem

(Newser) - Internet addiction is such a big problem in the obsessively wired country of South Korea that the government has launched an “Internet Rescue” camp for young men, The New York Times reports. At the tuition-free Jump Up Internet Rescue School – which could be the first of its kind...

Take 2 and IM Him in the Morning

Nov 18, 2007 10:43 AM CST

Take 2 and IM Him in the Morning

Brooklyn general practitioner does much of his business in cyberspace

(Newser) - Eschewing traditional practice, a Brooklyn doctor is using the Internet to generate and conduct much of his business, Yahoo News reports. For $500, patients get three yearly examinations from Jay Parkinson, and can email or text him during the business day. "I'm not so much an online doctor,"...

Manhattan
to Launch
Free Wi-Fi

Nov 18, 2007 5:38 AM CST

Manhattan to Launch Free Wi-Fi

Open access trial in 20-block midtown stretch

(Newser) - A big slice of the Big Apple will get free Wi-Fi at the end of the month, courtesy of the city and CBS. New Yorkers with Wi-Fi enabled technology will be able to access high-speed wireless service at no cost in a 20-block zone between Times Square and Central Park—...

Program Tracks Web's CO2 Emissions

Nov 16, 2007 5:43 PM CST

Program Tracks Web's CO2 Emissions

Raising consciousness of how the Internet impacts climate change

(Newser) - If you're reading this, you're contributing to climate change. That's the message of two PhD students who have created a widget to calculate how much carbon dioxide Web sites generate. Operators can download and install the free program on their sites and then buy an equivalent amount of carbon offsets,...

Foreign Domain Names Coming to Net

Nov 15, 2007 3:45 PM CST

Foreign Domain Names Coming to Net

After years of complaints, ICANN fast tracks non-Latin web addresses

(Newser) - Soon, Chinese domain names can at long last be in Chinese. Addressing one of international critics’ longest-standing complaints, ICANN, the independent non-profit that regulates the Internet, is putting internationalized domain names on the fast track, ZDNet reports. Studies are already underway on how to integrate domains with non-Latin characters into...

Dutch Teen Busted for Virtual Theft

Nov 15, 2007 5:01 AM CST

Dutch Teen Busted for Virtual Theft

He ripped off Habbo game 'furniture' that cost players $6K: cops

(Newser) - In what's believed to be the first arrest ever for theft of virtual property, a Dutch teenager has been busted for stealing "furniture" from an online game. He allegedly stole login information from gamers playing "Habbo Hotel," a Sims-like operation in which players create guests and furnish...

New Media Player Centralizes Web Viewing

Nov 14, 2007 2:10 PM CST

New Media Player Centralizes Web Viewing

Miro 'solves a problem you didn't know you had'

(Newser) - A media player publicly released today organizes Internet video programs and translates their feeds, centralizing your online viewing experience. Miro handily “solves a problem you didn’t know you had,” says Fortune’s Josh Quittner. Not only can you subscribe to channels or programs from any video portal—...

Marvel Takes Superheros Online

Nov 14, 2007 5:50 AM CST

Marvel Takes Superheros Online

Hit hard by Internet, comic business hopes fans pay to subscribe

(Newser) - Comic giant Marvel will soon launch a website where fans can access thousands of new and vintage titles featuring Spider Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, and other iconic superheroes. The Internet has dealt a heavy blow to newsstand comic sales, and Marvel hopes to recoup some of the loss with...

Writers March on Wall Street

Nov 14, 2007 2:49 AM CST

Writers March on Wall Street

Picketing Hollywood's money machine

(Newser) - Striking writers waving banners marched on Wall Street to complain that the nation's media giants aren't sharing the wealth from online content. The Writers Guild of America targeted CBS, Disney, Viacom Inc., which owns Comedy Central and MTV; News Corp., owner of the Fox TV and film studios, and others

US Control Over Domain Names Is Focus of UN Internet Forum

Nov 13, 2007 3:45 PM CST

US Control Over Domain Names Is Focus of UN Internet Forum

Critics say agency limits non-English suffixes

(Newser) - US control over assigning Internet domain names was a focus of discussions at the second annual Internet Governance Forum today, the AP reports. "The Internet is transnational. It can't be under the authority of one country," said Brazil's culture minister. Many argue that US sway over the Internet...

Microsoft Offers 'Cool Prizes' to Search Users

Nov 8, 2007 9:54 PM CST

Microsoft Offers 'Cool Prizes' to Search Users

In quest for traffic, will give away t-shirts and games for using its site

(Newser) - Google this or Google that, the website that’s also a verb dominates the search engine market, but Microsoft is trying to increase its foothold in the search market with its “Live Search Trial Program”—which rewards users every time they use the MS engine. MarketWatch reports 4,...