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Striking writers take cause to the Internet; talks resume today (Detroit Free Press)
Striking TV and movie writers kept up the pressure on studios by picketing and intensifying an Internet campaign that uses the very medium at issue in the contentious negotiations.
Bad Web Design Proves a Problem for Blind Internet Users (Deutsche Welle)
The combination of the Internet and computer screen reader software means blind people now have more access to written information than ever before. But bad web design is making accessibility difficult.
IDA to spend S$2.5m to get senior citizens connected to the internet (Channel NewsAsia)
The government plans to get three-quarters of all senior citizens aged 55 years and above to gain access to the internet within two years. And it is spending S$2.5 million to do so.
After suicide, city outlaws harassment via Internet (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
City officials unanimously passed a measure making online harassment a crime, days after learning that a 13-year-old girl killed herself last year after receiving cruel messages on the Internet. The six-member Board of Aldermen on Wednesday made Internet harassment a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $500 fine and 90 days in jail. Mayor Pam Fogarty said that the city had proposed the measure …
YouTube could kill internet by 2010 (PC Advisor)
Web could run out of capacity in three years A study from Nemertes Research Group suggests the increasing use of video services such as YouTube could see the internet reach breaking point in just three years? time.
New Directory of Internet-Based and Mobile Video Services Details over 240 Web Sites, Media Conglomerates, Content … (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance)
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c74872) has announced the addition of Directory of Internet-Based And Mobile Video Services to their offering.
Honeybees Might Prompt Faster Internet Server Technology - Slashdot
Honeybees Might Prompt Faster Internet Server TechnologySlashdot - 1 hour agoSuch swarm intelligence of these amazingly organized bees can also be used to improve the efficiency of Internet servers faced with similar challenges. …
How To Bypass Internet Censorship And Filters: A Guide To Circumvention Technologies And Anonymous Browsing (MasterNewMedia.org)
Bypassing internet filters , circumventing internet censorship blocks, sidestepping forced filtering by commercial internet filtering software are the key focus topics of this depth-guide to internet circumvention issues, tools and technologies. Photo-motage by Robin Good with images by: Erik Isselée (rat) , Doug Steven (censored sign) , Marc Dietrich (scissors) Whether you are …
Jamboree on the Air, Jamboree on the Internet (di-ve)
Over 25 million scouts from 225 Countries and territories participated in the 11th Jamboree on the Internet and 50th Jamboree on the Air, which took place on the weekend of the 20 and 21 October, 2007.
UN Internet forum focuses on fighting sex predators (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The second UN forum on governance of the Internet has closed with participants agreeing on the need to protect children from sexual predators using the web to lure victims.