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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc, the world’s Web search leader, told U.S. Senate lawmakers on Thursday the company is pursuing new technologies to protect the privacy of Internet users as it seeks to acquire advertising company DoubleClick Inc.
Google’s chief legal officer, David Drummond, testified that the company was looking at the Internet display advertising business […]

eBay was hit with a serious security crisis this morning. Hackers posted to the Trust & Safety forum on eBay.com personal account information of 1,200 users, including phone numbers and apparent credit information.
eBay verified that the account information was accurate and said that the posts were made to appear as if they originated from the […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co said on Monday it will end its paid TimesSelect Web service and make most of its Web site available for free in the hopes of attracting more readers and higher advertising revenue.
TimesSelect will shut down on Wednesday, two years after the Times launched it, which charges […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program.
The changes may violate Wikipedia’s conflict-of-interest guidelines, a spokeswoman for the site said on Thursday. The program, WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith […]

Kamkar created what is considered the first Web 2.0 worm–a virulent bug that no firewall could block, and which ultimately forced MySpace.com to temporarily shut down. The Samy worm (named after Kamkar) was among the more prominent of a new generation of Web attacks that some security experts fear may slow the fast-evolving collaborative model […]

Google Maps now offers a 360-degree view of many streets in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Las Vegas, Denver and Miami, with other cities to roll out later, John Hanke, director of Google Maps and Google Earth, said in a session at the Where 2.0 Conference here.

If the street-level view feature is available, […]

Interestingly enough, Facebook says it will not charge partners or mandate any revenue sharing from any ads or products sold through its website, which makes this a truly open-ended development deal. Already large companies like Amazon.com, Microsoft and Forbes have signed up.
Facebook will also let basically anyone develop small programs that could let users […]

Microsoft has announced that Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to MSN Hotmail, has launched globally in 36 languages.
This is the first major update to the service, which was once the only name in web-based email, since its launch in 1996. It marks another step towards what appears to be Microsoft’s move away from the MSN […]

Google Inc. has revamped Google Analytics, improving and expanding the data reporting capabilities of the Web site usage monitoring service. Products such as Google Analytics continue to rise in importance as companies strive to understand how people arrive at their Web sites and what they do once they are there. Knowing that helps webmasters make […]

On Friday, the Football Association Premier League, England’s most prestigious soccer organization, filed suit in New York against the massively popular video-sharing site, accusing it of enabling users to violate copyright law. On the same day, in California, NBC Universal and Viacom filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of journalist Bob Tur, who in a […]