Game Trends: Expect to Log On (PC World)

PC World - All around the world, the focus of games has been moving from video games to arcade games and further towards online games. Currently, the online game market is growing steadily with an increasing number of users due to higher provision rates of broadband, enhanced console network functions, diversification of online game genres and an expansion of casual MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game).

Key milestones in the development of Internet (AP)

AP - Key milestones in the development and growth of the Internet:

As Internet turns 40, barriers threaten its growth (AP)

AP - Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.

Apple Admits Spotify Streaming Music To the App Store (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - In what may be a move to appear like less of a walled garden, Apple approved the Spotify steaming-music application for the iPhone this week. Spotify announced the news Friday with gratitude for the iPhone maker.

Skype Wiretapping Trojan Publicly Released (PC World)

PC World - The Swiss creator of a Skype Trojan that can intercept calls made using the VoIP program has released the Trojan’s source code online in an attempt to allow for its widespread detection.

Broadband Requests Far Exceed Amount Available (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Businesses, nonprofits, libraries, hospitals and state and local governments have applied for more than $28 billion in funds for broadband projects from the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service.

Sharp to Launch Ultramobile Device With Arm Chip (PC World)

PC World - Sharp Electronics this week introduced a netbook-like mobile device with a 5-inch touch screen that is designed to run Internet-based applications.

Internet Age re-inventing music business: Bandwidth (AFP)

AFP - Music and Internet worlds merged on San Francisco’s posh Nob Hill as insiders brainstormed about industry rocking Web 2.0 trends from social networking to smart phones with cameras.

Wikipedia dabbles with way to thwart vandals (AFP)

AFP - Wikipedia is testing plans to thwart pranksters and vandals by stalling edits to English articles about living people until the online encyclopedia verifies new information.

Why Do Teens Shun Twitter? (PC World)

PC World - It’s conventional wisdom that teenagers are early adopters of tech innovations, including Web-based social networks like Facebook and MySpace. But that apparently isn’t the case with micro-blogging site Twitter, which is largely shunned by the adolescent crowd.

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