AFP - Malaysia is considering establishing a “cyber court” to deal with the increasing number of crimes related to the Internet and blogging, a report said Tuesday.

Source:Malaysia mulls 'cyber court' to handle Internet crimes
(AFP)

AFP - AsianWeek, a 30-year-old newspaper for Asian-Americans based in San Francisco, has announced plans to drop its print edition and go online only.

Source:AsianWeek to go online only
(AFP)

PC World - The conflict raging in Gaza between Israel and Palestine has spilled over to the Internet.
Source:With Gaza Conflict, Cyberattacks Come Too
(PC World)

InfoWorld - Rich Internet application (RIA) development didn’t used to be a heavyweight competition.
Source:Not your father's Web: The year in RIAs
(InfoWorld)

AP - Before he steps down as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin still hopes to win approval for his plan to auction off a slice of the airwaves for a free nationwide wireless broadband network.
Source:FCC head drops filtering from free broadband plan
(AP)

PC World - Microsoft’s less-than-popular Zune MP3 players are dying in droves all across the world, according to several reports on the Internet and forum complaints. The 30GB Zune players stop, reboot themselves, and when the start-up status bar reaches 100 percent, they freeze.
Source:Some Zunes Expire Along with 2008
(PC World)

NewsFactor - The small image of a padlock in the corner of your browser may not accurately indicate that a Web-site connection is secure, according to new research. A team of U.S. and European researchers used a computing grid of more than 200 Sony PlayStation 3 video-game machines to create fake certificates and fool a [...]

PC Magazine - Verizon last week was awarded a $33.15 million judgment in a cybersquatting case against San Francisco-based OnlineNIC.
Source:Verizon Awarded Over $33M in Cybersquatting Case
(PC Magazine)

AFP - Internet startup UrbanBaby.com was very successful in its infancy.

Source:UrbanBaby.com, a cautionary tale
(AFP)

Reuters - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc on Friday reported its best holiday sales season yet, even as sales and traffic at U.S. store chains were the weakest in decades, sending its shares up nearly 4 percent.

Source:Amazon claims record holiday orders in '08 season
(Reuters)

CNET - It’s been about 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web on the back of the Internet. For more than a billion people on the planet, the Web today is an alternate, digital universe that is gradually overtaking the analog, physical world as a source of information and connections.
Source:Print [...]

CNET - Here I am using my two unread newspapers as a thick place mat for my Christmas Eve Chinese lunch, and what should cross my desk: a new Pew study showing that the Internet has surpassed newspapers as Americans’ main source for national and international news. How appropriate. (Albeit a little sad for [...]

AFP - The Australian government said Tuesday it would begin testing a pilot system next month to filter harmful information from the Internet, amid criticism that any such plan would be a technical failure.

Source:Australia to test Internet filter next month
(AFP)

AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. and Cogent Communications Group Inc. have reached a deal ending their dispute on exchanging Internet traffic, the companies said Monday.
Source:Sprint and Cogent settle Internet traffic fight
(AP)

AFP - More than half a million people responded to an online survey asking for feedback on what Barack Obama should do now that he has been elected president, Obama’s campaign manager said Friday.

Source:Obama campaign survey gets half million replies
(AFP)

PC Magazine - European telecommunications providers reported Friday that three out of the four telecommunication cables connecting Internet traffic between the Middle East and Europe had been cut.
Source:Mideast 'Net Access Damaged as Cables Cut
(PC Magazine)

Reuters - The Recording Industry Association of America said on Friday it had abandoned mass lawsuits against Internet users who steal music, and instead would work with Internet service providers to discourage piracy.

Source:Music industry ends mass piracy lawsuits
(Reuters)

PC World - I’m not really writing this story from Westcliffe, Colorado. I’m only there digitally, through the magic of Google Maps Street View.
Source:Home, Home on the Web
(PC World)

PC World - Security experts say that Web surfers should immediately install a new bug-fix for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, released Wednesday morning.
Source:With Web Attacks Increasing, Microsoft Fixes IE Bug
(PC World)

PC World - Microsoft will issue an emergency security patch Wednesday for all versions of Internet Explorer. The patch is considered a critical fix for the security flaw currently plaguing the IE browser. So far, more than 2 million computers are believed to have been infected.
Source:Microsoft Issues Emergency Security Patch For IE
[...]

Reuters - Palm Inc on Monday moved to replace its finance chief as the company struggles to regain a foothold in the ultra-competitive smartphone market.
Source:Palm replaces CFO with eBay veteran
(Reuters)

Reuters - It’s been more than five years since Apple’s iTunes store changed music retail by introducing single-track digital downloads. But it wasn’t until 2008 that most musicians and labels started to wonder out loud whether selling music by the track is good for their bottom lines.

Source:Music stars' digital strategies still in flux
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