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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 1:58 PM

Report finds online censorship more sophisticated (AP)
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 1:55 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 video games over the Internet, meaning players can avoid buying expensive consoles or packaged software.



March 11, 2010 1:16 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

British Conservatives promise superfast Internet (Reuters)
Reuters - Investing in a high-speed Internet network would open up a new global trade route for Britain, boosting economic recovery and creating thousands of jobs, the opposition Conservative party said on Thursday.
March 11, 2010 12:12 PM

Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales (AP)

FILE This is a Saturday July 2, 2005 file photo of Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmore, left, and Roger Waters as they  perform at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park,  London  In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday March 11, 2010 ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original records. The rock group sued the music label, saying its contract prohibited selling the tracks 'unbundled' from their original album setting.  (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)AP - Album lovers may rejoice a little at last: a British court says Pink Floyd, purveyor of iTunes-unfriendly concept records, cannot be unbundled.



March 11, 2010 12:06 PM

Faraway Iditarod fans feed race habit online (AP)

Hugh Neff gets a kiss form Geronimo at the Takotna, Alaska, checkpoint on Wednesday March 10, 2010 during the 2010 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Geronimo was born of Annie, Neff's main leader. A number of Annies offspring are on his team, which he calls 'Annie's Army.' (AP Photo/Bob Hallinen, Anchorage Daily News)AP - Cathleen Griffin usually feeds her passion for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race through the Internet, but next week she'll travel to Alaska for the first time to see the winner cross the finish line in the old gold rush town of Nome.



March 11, 2010 11:02 AM

China lawmakers test out microblogging (AFP)

Mao Xinyu, grandson of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, talks to the media outside the Great Hall of the People after the opening session of the annual National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 5. The 40-year-old senior colonel is now one of the star users of AFP - Mao Zedong may have used paintbrush and ink to write classic poems in calligraphy, but his grandson is firmly in the 21st century -- micro-blogging by laptop from China's annual session of parliament.



March 11, 2010 11:01 AM

Google says talks with China ongoing (AFP)

A Chinese flag flies outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing. Google said Thursday that it was in talks with China on the future of the US Internet giant in the Asian nation, after the firm threatened to leave over cyberattacks and state web censorship.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - Google said Thursday that it was in talks with China on the future of the US Internet giant in the Asian nation, after the firm threatened to leave over cyberattacks and state web censorship.



March 11, 2010 10:33 AM

Summary Box: Huge 'botnet' only slowed by takedown (AP)
AP - BOTNET AMPUTATED: An Internet provider thought to be helping spread malicious software was taken down, apparently cutting criminals off from millions of personal computers under their control.
March 11, 2010 9:26 AM