Internet advertising - blogging blooms in China, firms aim to cash in (Reuters)Reuters

Internet advertising - blogging blooms in China, firms aim to cash in (Reuters)Reuters

As blogging blooms in China, firms aim to cash in (Reuters)
Reuters - Blogging is blooming in China as thecountry's vast pool of Web users clamor to make their markonline and ambitious local start-ups battle foreignheavyweights for a piece of the market.

What Can Google Learn From Netscape's Downfall? (PC World)
PC World - The search company should never underestimate the power of Microsoft, experts say.

Google Delays Book Scanning (washingtonpost.com)
washingtonpost.com - Google Inc. has suspended some of its project to place a vast selection of books online, bowing at least temporarily to concerns of publishers who fear scanning material into the world's most powerful search engine will lead to unauthorized use and duplication of copyrighted material.

Internet phone carriers still seeking 911 replies (Reuters)
Reuters - Some of the top U.S. Internet phoneproviders told U.S. regulators this week they are still tryingto obtain acknowledgments from customers that they know thelimitations of dialing 911 with their service.

Calif. man catalogs N.Korea's over-the-top rhetoric (Reuters)
Reuters - Few can denounce the"imperialistogre"or"kingpin of evil"as well as the writers at NorthKorea's official news agency, and a California graphic artistis now cataloging their rhetorical masterpieces on a Web site.

Google pauses on book search after copyright flap (Reuters)

Reuters - Google Inc., responding to anoutcry by publishers, has temporarily scaled back plans to makethe full text of copyrighted books in five of the world's greatlibraries searchable via the Internet.

Midnight Coders adds AJAX to rich Internet apps platform (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Midnight Coders  is shipping an upgrade to its rich Internet application platform, which now supports AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) on the client side and ColdFusion at the back end.

Yahoo Invests$1B in China's Alibaba (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) on Thursday confirmed it is investing US$1 billion in Alibaba, an e-commerce site based in China. Yahoo will offer Alibaba cash in exchange for a 40 percent stake and partial control of the online auction company.

Google Halts Scanning of Copyrighted Books (AP)
AP - Stung by a publishing industry backlash, Google Inc. has halted its efforts to scan copyrighted books from some of the nation's largest university libraries so the material can be indexed in its leading Internet search engine.