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Apple loses battle to find leaks
Court rules that bloggers don't have to reveal sources 17 July 2006 15:16 GMT
Apple has given up trying to force bloggers to reveal their tipsters after losing an appeal in the US.

The company won the first round of a legal battle over leaked photographs of an audio breakout box, called Asteroid, that appeared on Apple Insider and Power...
ScooptWords lets bloggers sell their articles to mainstream publications
The service is designed to simplify the process of publication for both editors and bloggers 27 June 2006 15:22 GMT
Serious bloggers can now add to their revenue by signing up to ScooptWords, a syndication service that sells blog editorials to publishers.

When a blogger signs up to ScooptWors, he or she can add a ScooptWords button to the blog that says, "Buy this content"....
Nokia launches mobile-to-blog service in the Philippines
Content is tranferred directly to the web without the need for a PC 20 June 2006 13:06 GMT
Nokia has teamed up with a company in the Philippines to launch a new mobile-to-blog service.

Globe Telecom customers can upload their photos, video clips, and text from their Nseries device straight to G-Blogs, Globe's mobile blogging service.

The...
eBay launches Wiki and Blogs to expand its online community
eBay Wiki and eBay Blogs set to expand the eBay community 15 June 2006 12:25 GMT
Hot on the heels of the news the eBay is rolling out a new service incorporating Skype into the site comes another set of launches from the auctioneers.

EBay has released a beta version of Wiki, a space to host user-generated, fact-based articles, as well as...
Survey finds blogs are the least trusted source for news
Television most trusted source 4 May 2006 11:43 GMT
Internet blogs are the least trusted source for getting news with one in two unable to say whether they trusted them according to a new survey conducted by the BBC, Reuters, and The Media Center.

The survey questioned whether people trust the media over the...
Google blog taken over by student
Thousands of fans of the Google Blog awoke this morning to see the latest post on the site was one titled " Google, fix your blog pleeasssee!" 28 March 2006 9:58 GMT
Thousands of fans of the Google Blog awoke this morning to see the latest post on the site was one titled " Google, fix your blog pleeasssee!"

But rather than a disgruntled employee upset with the search engine it transpired that Google had accidentally deleted...
Google starts Wi-Fi hotspot experiment
Free hotspots in San Francisco 21 September 2005 15:55 GMT
Google has launched a limited test of a free wireless internet service called Google Wi-Fi in two locations close to its San Francisco headquarters.

The current test is limited to the heart of Silicon Valley, but the ramifications if the service was to go nationwide,...
Blogger.com launches Word plug-in
Blog straight from Microsoft Word 17 August 2005 9:40 GMT
Blogger.com, the blogging division of Google, has launched a free Microsoft Word toolbar that allows you to post to your blogger.com blog with just a few clicks, and without even opening up a browser.

The new software adds three buttons that appear in your...
New report shows blog created every second
Blog more popular than ever 3 August 2005 17:49 GMT
Ten years ago, people wanting to write their thoughts down turned to a diary, now those same people are turning to the web and sharing those thoughts with the world. Technorati, a blog tracking service in America, has released figures that show a new blog is born every second...
Blogging sites may give you virus
Blogging turns nasty 15 April 2005 18:45 GMT
Blogging sites that fail to check software stored by users could be a breading ground for hackers storing Trojan software and other malicious code.

According to Websense, a web monitoring company based in America, it has discovered hundreds of instances of blogs...
INTERVIEW: Blogging all over the world
Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines 12 February 2005 2:59 GMT
With Ask Jeeves finally buying Bloglines.com this week, we spoke to Daniel Read, vice president of product management to see what the new acquisition will mean for both parties.

The story starts six months ago when Ask Jeeves first started talking to Bloglines...
America embraces the blog in 2004
3 January 2005 14:56 GMT
It appears Americans were mostly reading blogs in the US last year following a report published by American research company; Pew Internet & American Life Project.

The report suggested that blog readership was up 58% to 27% in 2004 even though 62% of American...