InternetSpectrum Proposal Draws T-Mobile's Fire

Carrier wants band testing and further review of proposed airwave auction.

InternetWhy Apple and China are Simply Incompatible

The pristine new Apple store in Beijing masks the very messy reality of a company like Apple trying to do business in a country like China.

InternetSoftware Assoc. Goes to War on Piracy

Lawsuits planned as industry association looks to sellers on sites other than eBay.

InternetMicrosoft Challenges Google's PageRank Technology (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Microsoft engineers, in collaboration with researchers at several Asian institutions, have proposed a new method for improving upon the Web page rankings produced by today's search engine requests. Called BrowseRank, the new approach adds a human factor to the process by weighing how people actually use the Internet, the collaborators reported in a paper recently presented before the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval.

InternetMicrosoft's Answer To Google's PageRank Algorithm: Less Privacy? (TechWeb)

TechWeb - InformationWeek - BrowseRank, Microsoft claims, can deliver better search results by measuring user behavior, including where users go and the amount of time they remain at those pages.

InternetItaly prepares to charge Google execs: sources (Reuters)

Reuters - Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges against four current or former Google Inc executives over a 2006 video on the Internet provider's Italian-language site, court sources said on Friday.

InternetYahoo To Reimburse Customers Of DRM-Protected Music (TechWeb)

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company said its digital rights management servers would be taken down, severely limiting the use of the files.

InternetSoftware Group Contemplates Suing eBay (TechWeb)

TechWeb - InformationWeek - The SIIA is frustrated with eBay because so much pirated software is sold on the site that the group can't identify all the offenders.

InternetScreen Actors board backs negotiators on new media (Reuters)

Reuters - The board of the major union for U.S. film and television actors has backed its negotiators' demands to cover Internet-related work, signaling that contract talks with Hollywood's studios may remain stalled for weeks.

InternetFCC poised to punish Comcast over Web blocking (AP)

AP - A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.