A major online publisher says that ad sales are “very soft” at his shop and at his competitors’. He predicts that Q2 online sales at large online publishers will be “flat”. Last quarter we heard about pullbacks among financial and mortgage advertisers, as well as the auto sector. Now, the problem is the “scatter” market [...]

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The EU internet security agency ENISA is calling for all sorts of new laws to be put in place concerning social networks. It sounds like most of the proposed laws will take care of really minor “problems” that might occur at the expense of annoying everyone. For example, it wants laws to be put in [...]

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Copyright defence group Copiepresse, an organisation that protects the rights and interests of a number of Belgian news organisations and publications, is demanding damages totalling $77.2 million from search engine giant Google. The long-running court clash, which was first reported way back when, relates to Google’s reproduction of headlines and extracts from a number of [...]

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In a move that could change the Internet forever, a Singapore firm has sent out invoices to companies that use graphics to link to web sites, claiming that it owns the patent. Vuestar technologies has been busy sending out invoices all week under the claim that it owns the patent to technology used by almost [...]

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Mobile Web surfers in the U.S. spend more time on classified-ad site Craigslist than on any other Web site, and they spent nearly twice as much time browsing as their British counterparts in March. Those are among the findings from a study by mobile research company M:Metrics in which client software installed on participants’ smartphones [...]

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The UK government is indulging in fantasies of a massive database with details of every telephone call, text message, email and web visit made by everyone in Britain, according to The Times newspaper today. The government has run plans for the database by industry, even though they haven’t yet been shown to parliament or the [...]

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A total of 38 people have been indicted so far in a joint US-Romanian investigation into international phishing. The indictments are spread across US District Courts in California and Connecticut, and include two people who were indicted in both. The phishers have been charged with violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly [...]

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IBM today announced that using a large lens to concentrate the sun’s power, it captured a record 230 watts onto a centimeter square solar cell, in a technology known as concentrator photovoltaics or CPV. The IBM research team developed a system that achieved breakthrough results by coupling a commercial solar cell to an advanced IBM [...]

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Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a device that lets a standard digital camera take pictures with a resolution of 1-gigapixel (1,000-megapixels). The Gigapan is a robotic arm that takes multiple pictures of the same scene and blends them into a single image. The resulting picture can be expanded to show incredible detail. The [...]

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Nintendo has been ordered to pay $21 million to a Texas company in a suit involving patents used in technology behind the company’s Wii and GameCube systems, the Associated Press reported. Anascape, a Lufkin, Texas-based company, sued Nintendo in 2006. A federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled [...]

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