Writers push for laws to maintain Internet freedom Fresno Bee | WASHINGTON (AP) During the recent writers strike that virtually paralyzed television production for three months, Patric Verrone learned the value of the Internet. | It was his job as president of the Writers Guild of America, West, to keep his members unified during the highly public, 100-day str...
Writers push for laws to maintain Internet freedom The Press Democrat | By JOHN DUNBAR | Associated Press Writer | During the recent writers strike that virtually paralyzed television production for three months, Patric Verrone learned the value of the Internet. | It was his job as president of the Writers Guild of America, West, to keep his members unified during the...
US 'cyber-bully' mother indicted BBC News | A Missouri woman who allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to bully a girl who later committed suicide has been indicted by a federal Grand Jury. | Lori Drew, 49, allegedly posed as a boy on the website to befriend Megan Meier, 13, who hanged herse...
Carl Icahn targets Yahoo's board Seattle Post-Intelligence | A takeover bid by Microsoft Corp. recently averted, Yahoo Inc. found itself back in the cross hairs Thursday after billionaire investor Carl Icahn took aim at replacing the Web portal's board with a new slate of directors in the wake of what he cal...
Mom indicted in 'cyber-bullying' case USA Today Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | By William M. Welch, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors have charged a Missouri woman over a MySpace hoax they say led to the suicide of a 13-year-old girl who believed she'd bee...
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Yahoo investor ire not seen triggering proxy fight San Diego SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo investors who wanted to accept a Microsoft buyout are not seen as likely to try to oust the board, and instead seem to be channeling their ire through lawsuit...
Fighting the agents of organized cybercrime CNN By Cherise Fong for CNN | HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Back in the good old days of the Internet, the hacker was a teen delinquent geek motivated by high-tech pranks and bragging righ...
Time to recognize Web addiction as illness Canada Dot Com | Compulsive emailing and text messaging could soon become classified an official brain illness. | An editorial in this month's issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry says Int...
FBI withdraws secret Internet Archive probe Infowars | The FBI has withdrawn a secret order that used new anti-terrorism powers to demand information about a user of the Internet Archive without a court order after attorneys challeng...
Online auctioneer says Internet bulletin board tried to dilute its stake Canada Dot Com Published: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | LOS ANGELES -- EBay Inc., the world's largest online auctioneer, sued Craigslist, a competitor in which it holds an ownership stake, in a dispute over whether the Internet bulletin board tried to blunt EBay's c...
NY sex offenders required to register online screen names Syracuse | ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York officials are sending letters to the state's 25,000 registered sex offenders telling them to disclose their Internet screen names in an effort to keep them from secretly contacting juveniles on social networking Web sit...
New law aims to keep kids safe on the Web Syracuse | Gov. David Paterson signed into law a bill today that aims to keep kids safe from online predators on social networking sites, according to a news release. | Under New York state's Sex Offender Registration Act, the state maintains a computer regis...
DNA database may expand to disorderly persons offenders Asbury Park Press | TRENTON — It's possible that people found guilty of shoplifting or removing a traffic sign may wind up alongside murderers and sex offenders in New Jersey's DNA database. | That's the scenario posed in a bill unanimously approved Thursday by the Senate Law and Public Safety Committee that would expand the state's DNA database to include peo...
Reversing trend, cable modems win over DSL Syracuse | NEW YORK (AP) - Cable companies attracted more Internet subscribers than phone companies did in the first quarter, reversing a 3 1/2-year trend, according to a research report Thursday. | The 19 largest cable companies in the U.S. added 1.19 million broadband subscribers in the January-to-March period, according to a tally by Leichtman Research G...
