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The Latest in Outsourcing: Crowdsourcing

Businesses using competitions for manpower

(Newser) - If you want something done right, have a bunch of strangers do it for you. That’s the ethos behind “crowdsourcing,” a trend that has companies turning to the masses for a host of jobs normally done in-house – from writing code to designing products to conducting market...

Nokia's New Portal Takes On Tech's Biggest

New Ovi.com platform will go head-to-head with likes of Google

(Newser) - Nokia has announced bold plans to move beyond mobile phones and compete head-on with big tech and Internet names like Apple, Google and Microsoft, PC World reports. Its Ovi.com site will act as a gateway to all of its music, photo-sharing and games services: "Ovi" is the Finnish...

No Charges in Cyberbullying Suicide Case

Prosecutor pressing for internet harassment laws

(Newser) - No charges will be filed in the cyberbullying case that led a young girl to commit suicide, Wired reports. A Missouri prosecutor found there was not enough evidence to prove criminal intent on the part of mother Lori Drew and others who launched an online bullying campaign against 13-year-old Megan...

The Trouble With Web Metrics
The Trouble With Web Metrics
Dec 1, 2007 4:00 PM CST

The Trouble With Web Metrics

Advertisers struggle to agree on criteria for judging sites

(Newser) - Worried about how many hits your blog is getting? Stop. Hits are so 90’s. These days, advertisers care about page views… or is that time spent? [User] sessions? Click-through? The web generates metrics like “a fire-hose shoots water,” a top web-measurement exec told the Economist, leaving advertisers...

Google Wants You! - to Help Stop Malicious Web Sites

Internet surfers can report sites online

(Newser) - Google is enlisting Web users in the hunt for sites hosting malicious code aimed at infecting visitors' computers. The internet giant has created an online form where Web surfers can report suspect sites, says PC World. Google searches that display sites the company believes are malicious show a warning, and...

Your Log-in Please, Sir?
Your Log-in Please, Sir?
Nov 29, 2007 10:49 PM CST

Your Log-in Please, Sir?

Social networking sites for the super-rich

(Newser) - The super-rich are joining the social networking craze, but they're certainly not going to mix with the masses on MySpace. Exclusive sites for millionaires using the same membership criteria as snooty country clubs are appearing on the Web, reports the Wall Street Journal. Invitation-only site aSmallWorld.net has proven popular—...

News Outlets Want More Control Over Search Engines

Voluntary rules update has no enemies yet

(Newser) - News outlets with online presences are looking to add controls over how search engines index and display their material, asserting an outdated status quo doesn’t allow them to set enough terms on how their sites get crawled. A new set of guidelines proposed today, called ACAP, would allow sites...

Google: Spammers Throwing in Virtual Towel

But others say number of junk messages increasing

(Newser) - Emailers have been hitting the “Delete” button for years, but spammers may be just now taking the hint, Google says. The tech giant isn’t releasing specifics, but it insists that the number of junk emails sent out has leveled off and could even be dropping for the first...

Missing Co-ed Starred in Porn Site
Missing Co-ed Starred in
Porn Site
Nov 29, 2007 4:42 AM CST

Missing Co-ed Starred in Porn Site

Police fear foul play in Kansas teen's disappearance

(Newser) - A missing Kansas college student apparently led a secret life as an internet porn star, according to police who suspect foul play in her disappearance. Emily Sander, 18, disappeared last week after leaving a bar outside Wichita with a man whose motel room was later found trashed and covered in...

Newspapers Look to Make Connections
Newspapers Look to Make Connections
Nov 28, 2007 10:26 AM CST

Newspapers Look to Make Connections

Trying to reach younger readers, more will link to Facebook and MySpace

(Newser) - Newspapers readers at an increasing pace are turning to Pluck, a media syndication company, to link their sites to social networks, like MySpace and Facebook, giving them access to 165 million users, Reuters reports. Pluck will use the Facebook programming interface and Google's OpenSocial system to share information between its...

Facebook Feud Heats Up
Facebook Feud Heats Up
Nov 27, 2007 8:59 AM CST

Facebook Feud Heats Up

Independent Harvard alumni magazine dishes the dirt on it

(Newser) - Three former Harvard students who are suing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their idea are finally about to get their day in court, reports the indy Harvard alumni magazine 02138. Forensic data experts are searching  Zuckerberg’s computer hard drives, searching for source code, which the company claims is...

Critics Blast Claims of Net Outages by 2010

Lambaste industry group behind study predicting failures

(Newser) - Ominous warnings earlier this week of a looming Internet disaster are highly misleading, suggest critics. "As we've stated previously, most warnings of capacity armageddon come from traffic shaping companies looking to sell hardware," the industry web site Broadband Reports writes about a recent Nemertes Research study, which was...

SEC Web Push Faces Hurdles
SEC Web Push Faces Hurdles
Nov 24, 2007 9:16 AM CST

SEC Web Push Faces Hurdles

Cox's tech crusade meets resistance from older shareholders, bureaucrats

(Newser) - SEC Chairman Christopher Cox's campaign to make corporate information available to investors electronically sounds like a no-brainer, but it's beset with resistance on multiple fronts. That's because such proposals as online shareholder forums and making corporate data interactive—which would allow investors to sort and compare information—could give an...

French Attack Internet Piracy
French Attack Internet Piracy
Nov 23, 2007 8:34 AM CST

French Attack Internet Piracy

Move to stem high-tech theft raises worries about civil liberties

(Newser) - French internet pirates, beware. Big Brother is watching. Or, he will be if a three-strikes-and-you’re-out industry proposal backed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy moves forward, the Financial Times reports. Under the plan, ISPs would forward data on users illegally sharing files to the government, which could terminate problem internet...

Firefox 3.0 Beta Unleashed
Firefox 3.0 Beta Unleashed
Nov 20, 2007 10:12 PM CST

Firefox 3.0 Beta Unleashed

Packed with new features and stepped-up security

(Newser) - Mozilla has rolled out a beta version of its Firefox 3.0 browser, PC World reports. The new version boasts added security and a host of new features - all of which it wants user feedback on while it's in beta, before the final release. The way Firefox manages browsing...

Now PayPal Is Everywhere MasterCard Is

New service aims to protect financial info, simplify shopping

(Newser) - PayPal is offering a new way for customers to pay on sites that don't normally accept the service. PayPal Secure Card creates a new MasterCard number for every transaction and retrieves members' payment information from their PayPal accounts. "From a merchant's perspective this looks like any other MasterCard transaction,...

MTV Banks on Vice Video
MTV Banks
on Vice Video
Nov 19, 2007 3:22 PM CST

MTV Banks on Vice Video

Online VBS.tv sticks with mag’s ‘raw’ aesthetic, is a training ground for TV content

(Newser) - MTV has put its hippest foot forward with VBS.tv, the online video channel run by Vice magazine’s editors. The web presence, originally pitched as “‘60 Minutes’ meets ‘Jackass,’” is a toehold in youth web programming, the Times reports. “Our aesthetic is raw,...

Computer Junkies Go to Rehab
Computer Junkies Go to Rehab
Nov 18, 2007 7:54 PM CST

Computer Junkies Go to Rehab

South Korean camp addresses growing Internet addiction problem

(Newser) - Internet addiction is such a big problem in the obsessively wired country of South Korea that the government has launched an “Internet Rescue” camp for young men, The New York Times reports. At the tuition-free Jump Up Internet Rescue School – which could be the first of its kind...

Take 2 and IM Him in the Morning
Take 2 and IM Him in the Morning
Nov 18, 2007 10:43 AM CST

Take 2 and IM Him in the Morning

Brooklyn general practitioner does much of his business in cyberspace

(Newser) - Eschewing traditional practice, a Brooklyn doctor is using the Internet to generate and conduct much of his business, Yahoo News reports. For $500, patients get three yearly examinations from Jay Parkinson, and can email or text him during the business day. "I'm not so much an online doctor,"...

Manhattan to Launch Free Wi-Fi
Manhattan
to Launch
Free Wi-Fi
Nov 18, 2007 5:38 AM CST

Manhattan to Launch Free Wi-Fi

Open access trial in 20-block midtown stretch

(Newser) - A big slice of the Big Apple will get free Wi-Fi at the end of the month, courtesy of the city and CBS. New Yorkers with Wi-Fi enabled technology will be able to access high-speed wireless service at no cost in a 20-block zone between Times Square and Central Park—...

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