Sentenced in eBay Fencing Scam (Ziff Davis)Ziff Davis (Internet advertising) - Two

Sentenced in eBay Fencing Scam (Ziff Davis)Ziff Davis (Internet advertising) - Two

Three Sentenced in eBay Fencing Scam (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - Two men and one woman are sentenced to prison terms after pleading guilty to defrauding Home Depot and Lowe's of more than$200,000 by selling improperly obtained store cards and merchandise on eBay.

Japanese spend more time browsing the Net than reading newspapers (AFP)
AFP - People in Japan are spending more time browsing the Internet than reading newspapers.

Apple Upgrades IPod and ITunes (AP)
AP - Apple Computer Inc. released new software Tuesday designed to make it easier for users to listen to the increasingly popular, but largely unstructured podcast offerings.

Pakistan waits for ship to repair submarine telecom cable (AFP)
AFP - Pakistan was waiting for a ship to sail from Dubai and fix its main undersea telecommunications link, as some businesses said the Internet and phone breakdown was a virtual death sentence for them.

Google testing tailored search (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - The quest for the Holy Grail of Web searching -- the ability to offer search results tailored to each person's interests -- may have taken an important leap forward Tuesday.

Pakistan Internet link repairs to take three days (Reuters)
Reuters - Pakistan's data and Internet linkswith the outside world will be hampered until at least theweekend while a faulty undersea fibre-optic cable is repaired,telecommunications officials said on Wednesday.

Use of IP telephony surged in Sweden in 2004 (Reuters)
Reuters - The number of people making phonecalls via the Internet more than doubled in Sweden in 2004, thecountry's telecoms regulator said on Wednesday.

Sanofi-Aventis Sued Over Web Site Threat (AP)
AP - The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued Sanofi-Aventis Group because the French pharmaceutical giant threatened a medical news Web site that reports on one of its drugs.

File-sharing beat goes on (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Digital copies of songs and movies flowed freely across the Internet on Tuesday, a day after the Supreme Court ruled that online file-sharing services can be held liable when their users pirate music and video.