InternetNews Staff

LOS ANGELES — The most famous babies on the planet, the latest spawn of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, made their world premiere on the Internet on Sunday, having outfoxed the paparazzi since they were born three weeks ago. People magazine posted the cover of its upcoming issue, featuring twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers are questioning the biggest U.S. Internet companies about whether they track their customers’ visits online and use the information to tailor Internet advertisements for them. Senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to broadband Internet providers and other online companies on Friday, asking whether they have “tailored, or […]

BEIJING — Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said on Monday. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced it was taking action to shut down the fraudsters, but the move came too late to help the victims […]

Sun Microsystems warned that declines in its U.S. sales will persist through at least the end of the year, sending its shares plunging 12 percent on concerns that the high-end business computer maker will continue to lag rivals. While Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) blamed its difficulties on weakness in the U.S. economy, its biggest market, the […]

Source: Yahoo SAN JOSE, Calif. — Yahoo tried to soothe angry investors at its annual meeting on Friday, insisting it had been serious about talks to sell itself to Microsoft and that it had good growth prospects in the next three years. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) Chairman Roy Bostock said the company’s board “called the shots” […]

Source: Reuters China’s blocking of Web sites has embarrassed the International Olympic Committee, but a computer security expert said on Thursday that visitors to Beijing also needed to protect their data from prying eyes. “People who are going to China should take a clean computer, one with no data at all,” said Phil Dunkelberger, chief […]

Yahoo’s annual investor meeting on Friday will be a magnet for discontent over the company’s failure to reach a merger deal with Microsoft and complaints about the company’s past performance. But any real action to reshape Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) course is likely to take place only after the meeting, once activist investor Carl Icahn and […]

Source: Reuters U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers’ laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday. Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security policies, such seizures may be carried out without suspicion of wrongdoing, the newspaper said, quoting […]

BEIJING — The media should have been told they would not have total Internet freedom before arriving for the Beijing Olympics, a senior IOC official said on Thursday, as rights groups piled criticism on both the IOC and host China. As the row over censorship continued, International Olympic Committee (IOC) press chief Kevan Gosper told […]

Intel Chairman Craig BarrettSource: Reuters LISBON — Intel, the world’s biggest microchip producer, expects no slowdown in global demand for personal computers despite economic problems in the United States and in other countries, its chairman, Craig Barrett, said on Wednesday. He also told reporters here in Lisbon, where he was to sign a draft deal […]

Comcast CEO Brian RobertsSource: Reuters Comcast, the largest U.S. cable service provider, posted a higher quarterly profit as it gained market share in Voice over IP (VoIP) phone and ISP customers while controlling expenses, sending shares up 6 percent. The company said free cash flow rose 216 percent rise to $1.163 billion — an increase […]

Source: Reuters Word-wise game players lost a popular online diversion on Tuesday as the creators of a knock-off of the game Scrabble cut off service in North America in the face of a lawsuit by game maker Hasbro. Scrabulous, an online version of the classic board game created by two brothers in India, cut off […]