PARIS (AFP) - Machinimas, animation films that use characters pulled from video games, are popping up all over the Internet, highlighting the creativity of gamers and bringing together the worlds of film and video-games.
TAIPEI (AFP) - A Taiwanese man has been arrested for allegedly distributing obscene photographs of Hong Kong celebrities that have attracted 140,000 Internet viewers, police here said Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
LOS ANGELES - Members of the Directors Guild of America voted to ratify a new contract that increases compensation for projects distributed on the Internet and other digital media, the union said Wednesday.
San Francisco - Microsoft is pushing ahead with plans to expand its enterprise and Internet search offerings even as its quest to purchase Yahoo remains uncertain and could get uglier.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd unveiled on Wednesday new online services for their video game consoles to showcase games by independent developers, part of a push by the companies to tap enthusiasm for so-called casual games.
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will make Xbox 360 video games developed by players available for download through the console's online service.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace, the top social networking site owned by News Corp, is in talks to create an online music joint venture with the four biggest record companies, sources familiar with the discussion said on Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES - News Corp. has approached the four major record labels to discuss launching an online music service through its popular MySpace social networking site, music company executives familiar with the talks say.
San Francisco - Lawrence Lessig, the cyberlaw author and advocate for free software and online civil liberties, is considering a run for the U.S. Congress, he announced on his blog Wednesday.
Free-speech and privacy advocates are up in arms after a U.S. judge shut down Wikileaks.org. The Web site that let whistle-blowers publish sensitive information launched last December and had more than 1.2 million documents posted anonymously.
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's hugely popular online social networking site Mixi said Wednesday it planned to expand into China, whose growing number of Internet users are already being courted by Rupert Murdoch's MySpace.
CUPERTINO, Calif. - "American Idol" fans will be able to download their favorite performances thanks to a new agreement between the Fox talent show and Apple Inc.
San Francisco - Efforts by countries such as China to restrict the exchange of information on the Internet are ultimately doomed to failure, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told an audience of Stanford University students Tuesday.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's most popular online networking site, Mixi Inc, said on Wednesday it plans to establish a subsidiary in Shanghai to tap China's fast-growing Internet market.
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC Universal said Tuesday it will stream full episodes of old TV shows, including "The A-Team" and "Kojak," on its Web sites.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia goes to the polls next month and this time the campaign is going online, as opposition parties turn to blogs, SMS and YouTube to dodge a virtual blackout on mainstream media.
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will authorize a proxy battle for Yahoo Inc this week to convince the Web company's shareholders to agree on a takeover deal that the Yahoo board so far has rejected, the New York Times' DealBook blog said on Tuesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet content delivery company Limelight Networks Inc on Tuesday gave a weaker-than-expected financial outlook and blamed the Hollywood writers' strike, dragging its shares down 15 percent in after-hours trade.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet content delivery company Limelight Networks Inc said on Tuesday that the Hollywood writers' strike will cost the company $1 million this quarter, and a few million in the remainder of the year.
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has set off a free speech tempest after shutting down a U.S. Web site for posting internal documents accusing a Cayman Islands' bank branch of money laundering and tax evasion schemes.
San Francisco - The WordPress.com blog-hosting service suffered a DoS (denial-of-service) attack that began Saturday and was still preventing users from logging in or posting to their blogs on Tuesday.
San Francisco - The world's top PC vendor, Hewlett-Packard, beat competitors Dell, Lenovo, and Apple to provide the best online customer support, according to a survey released on Tuesday by The Customer Respect Group.
NEW YORK - What do you do when you've bolted a computer onto a remote-controlled car, hooked it up with Internet access, a wireless router and a camera but you don't have anyone to show it off to?
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley's purveyors of start-up capital are often quick to back new ideas, but a Web site that lets entrepreneurs rate and review venture capital firms anonymously has been a harder sell.
NEW YORK - What do you do when you've bolted a computer onto a remote-controlled car, hooked it up with Internet access, a wireless router and a camera but you don't have anyone to show it off to?
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Silicon Valley's purveyors of start-up capital are often quick to back new ideas, but a Web site that lets entrepreneurs rate and review venture capital firms anonymously has been a harder sell.
Whistle-blowers have taken a blow. On Friday, a Web site that let tattletales publish sensitive information was closed on orders of a federal judge. The site, Wikileaks.org, launched last December and had more than 1.2 million documents posted anonymously.
WASHINGTON - Motivated by mounting medical costs, lawmakers and executives are urging doctors to embrace a seemingly simple way to save billions of dollars a year: prescribe medications online.
PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi expects its new Internet music, ringtone and video games provider Zaoza to attract 500,000 subscribers by the end of the year, the French telecoms and media group said on Tuesday.
HONG KONG - China's top Internet search engine, Baidu.com, has been censured by a government-sponsored watchdog for allegedly helping spread sexually explicit photos that appear to feature several Hong Kong stars.
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