Web (Internet advertising) Site Flaw Allowed Record Access (AP)AP - Verizon Wireless

Web (Internet advertising) Site Flaw Allowed Record Access (AP)AP - Verizon Wireless

Verizon Web Site Flaw Allowed Record Access (AP)
AP - Verizon Wireless customers who signed up for online billing services were able to peek at some details of others'accounts due to a Web site programming error that was caught by a customer and fixed this week, a company spokesman said Thursday.

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.

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.

Big satellite launch helps boost Loral (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - Loral Space& Communications got another big boost in its liftoff from bankruptcy when a massive broadband-communications satellite built by its Palo Alto subsidiary for Asia rocketed into space Thursday.

Google puts on hold effort to scan world's literary works (AFP)

AFP - US search Goliath Google has put on hold its internationally criticized plan to amass an online library of the world's books, the company website indicated.

Shutterfly Launches PhotoShow DVD Service (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - The online photo site allows users to create customized slideshows on DVD.

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.

Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Technology levels (and changes) the media playing field (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Welcome to the Communication Age, where the"new media"has the"old media"concerned and confused. As well they should be. Web sites let any yokel have a worldwide voice. Online stores have chewed into brick-and-mortar profits. MP3s changed the music industry. Blogs are doing the jobs of journalists. Podcasts may be altering the radio landscape.

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.