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Newspapers' circulation drops 4.6 percent
Submitted by Benton Foundation on October 27, 2008 - 7:58pmLast updated: October 27, 2008 - 7:58pm
The nation's daily newspapers, already finding advertising revenue fall sharply because of the weak economy, saw circulation decline more steeply than last year in the latest reporting period, an auditing agency said today.
Liquidation unlikely for struggling newspaper companies
Submitted by Benton Foundation on October 19, 2008 - 6:51pmLast updated: October 20, 2008 - 7:05pm
Newspaper companies have been skipping loan payments, missing financial targets in debt agreements and accepting higher interest rates in exchange for more flexibility — and they're not even directly feeling the impact of the credit crisis yet.
Project to rebuild Internet gets $12M, bandwidth
Submitted by Benton Foundation on July 31, 2008 - 7:15amLast updated: July 31, 2008 - 7:15am
A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations.
US Internet companies expand worldwide
Submitted by Benton Foundation on July 27, 2008 - 6:48pmLast updated: July 27, 2008 - 6:48pm
As major U.S. Internet companies stake their ground abroad in anticipation of the next billion people coming online — and the advertising revenue they might generate — the flags they are planting aren't the Stars and Stripes.
YouTube, Viacom agree to mask viewer data
Submitted by Benton Foundation on July 16, 2008 - 7:38amLast updated: July 16, 2008 - 7:38am
In a nod to privacy complaints, Viacom won't be told the identities of individuals who watch video clips on the popular video-sharing site YouTube. Viacom and other copyright holders have agreed to let YouTube mask user IDs and Internet addresses when Google's online video site hands over viewership records in a $1 billion lawsuit accusing YouTube of enabling copyright infringement.
'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights
Submitted by Benton Foundation on July 6, 2008 - 8:34pm(7/6) Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative. Say it on the Internet, and you'll find that free speech and other constitutional rights are anything but guaranteed.
Study says many dial-up users don't want broadband
Submitted by Benton Foundation on July 6, 2008 - 8:33pm(7/3) A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don't have high-speed Internet access.
Coalition seeks federal nudge for universal broadband
Submitted by Benton Foundation on June 24, 2008 - 8:57pmLast updated: June 25, 2008 - 7:36am
Vint Cerf and Federal Communications Commission member Jonathan Adelstein joined forces Tuesday in renewing calls for the U.S. government to more actively expand broadband service. They and other members of a new coalition promised hearings across the country and set up a Web site at InternetForEveryone.org to outline principles such as universal broadband access and competition to ensure lower prices and faster Internet connection speeds.
Study shatters myths on personal Net use at work
Submitted by Benton Foundation on June 19, 2008 - 9:48amIt's no secret that people sneak in some personal e-mail and Web surfing when they're supposed to be working. A new study attempts to shatter perceptions that these Web surfers are just slackers trying to avoid work.
Internet domain name for China surpasses
Submitted by Benton Foundation on June 19, 2008 - 9:47amRegistrations for Internet addresses ending in China's ".cn" have surpassed those for the global ".net," showing the continued rapid rise in Internet use in the communist nation. A study by VeriSign Inc., which runs the ".net" databases and other core directories for helping computers find Web sites and route e-mail, found that ".cn" overtook ".net" sometime in the first quarter of 2008.
