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VeriSign to spend more than $300M on tech upgrades (AP)
AP - VeriSign Inc. — whose technology is key to allowing Internet users to access Web sites — says it plans to pour more than $300 million over the next decade into upgrading its infrastructure.
March 11, 2010 4:05 PM

OnLive Plans On-Demand Streaming of Video Games (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In a move to shake up the online gaming industry, OnLive has announced PC and Mac versions of its on-demand, instant-play games will roll out in June during the E3 2010 show. Here's the rub: Gamers don't have to buy a console, and they can get broadband speeds.
March 11, 2010 3:56 PM

Summary Box: Report on online censorship (AP)
AP - THE INTERNET'S `ENEMIES': A dozen countries were deemed by Reporters Without Borders to be the most repressive at censorship.
March 11, 2010 3:46 PM

Glance: Countries in Internet censorship report (AP)
AP - Reporters Without Borders issued its annual report on countries least tolerant of Internet freedoms:
March 11, 2010 3:27 PM

Rights group puts Australia on Internet watchlist (AFP)

Customers log onto the Internet in a cafe in Sydney in 2009. A top media rights watchdog listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report published Friday on countries that pose a threat of Internet censorship.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - A top media rights watchdog listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report published Friday on countries that pose a threat of Internet censorship.



March 11, 2010 3:23 PM

Report finds online censorship more sophisticated (AP)

A woman works online in her cubicle at an office in Beijing on February 4, 2010. China's homegrown social media sites like Weibo are booming thanks to their better knowledge of the world's largest Internet market, and the censorship stifling foreign rivals like Facebook, Twitter, and Google-owned YouTube.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AP - Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out Thursday.



March 11, 2010 3:21 PM

Google honours Iranian women bloggers (AFP)

An Iranian youth browses a political blog at an Internet cafe in the city of Hamadan, 360 kms southwest of Tehran in 2009. Internet giant Google on Thursday joined a top journalists' rights group in rewarding a collective of Iranian women bloggers for their reporting on last year's post-election unrest.(AFP/File/Nima Daymari)AFP - Internet giant Google on Thursday joined a top journalists' rights group in rewarding a collective of Iranian women bloggers for their reporting on last year's post-election unrest.



March 11, 2010 3:21 PM

OnLive taking videogames into the Internet "cloud" (AFP)

Gamers try out a boxing game at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles. California startup OnLive plans a June 17 launch for a service that streams video games over the Internet, meaning players can avoid buying expensive consoles or packaged software.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - California startup OnLive plans a June 17 launch for a service that streams videogames over the Internet, meaning players can avoid buying expensive consoles or packaged software.



March 11, 2010 2:02 PM

Google Tests New Blogger Layout Design Tool (PC World)
PC World - Google will begin on Thursday a public test of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers' ability to modify the look of their blogs.
March 11, 2010 12:20 PM

Pink Floyd wins UK court battle with EMI label (Reuters)
Reuters - British rock band Pink Floyd won its court battle with EMI on Thursday with a ruling that prevents the record company from selling single downloads on the Internet from the group's concept albums.
March 11, 2010 12:13 PM